Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 10, 2004
Walter Ong, S.J., A tribute. Jack Foley hosts.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
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A celebration of the art of poetry. A well-known poet himself, Jack Foley’s considerable historical knowledge and his awareness of the current “scene” are incorporated into his radio shows and have made them a kaleidoscopic, always stimulating attraction for anyone interested in poetry.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – March 3, 2004
Beat Haiku. Jack Foley reads a talk he gave at the convention of The Haiku Society of American in December, 2003. The talk deals with ways in which the Beat Generation, particularly, Jack Kerouac, made use of the poetic form, haiku.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 25, 2004
On Communism: Toby Cole and The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse, edited by Alan Bold. Host Jack Foley and his guest, the noted authority on the Federal Theater and socialism, discuss revolutionary dreams.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 18, 2004
On Communism: Richard Stites and Paul du Quenoy take sides on the subject. Host Jack Foley investigates both men’s writings, including excerpts from Stites’ Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 11, 2004
Tribute to poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Host Jack Foley discusses her late work and plays recordings of Plath reading.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – February 4, 2004
Myronn Hardy, author of Approaching the Center: Poems. Jack Foley hosts.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 21, 2004
Myronn Hardy, Approaching the Center. A native of Michigan, Hardy spent 1998 in Soweto while researching apartheid and post- apartheid South Africa. His poetry has appeared in African- American Review, Callaloo, Many Mountains Moving, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Part One of two. Jack Foley hosts.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 14, 2004
American Literature, a speech delivered by Jack Foley at the University of Damascus, Syria (winter, 2003).
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – January 7, 2004
Syria, Syria. A moving account of host Jack Foley’s recent trip to see his son in the Middle East.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – December 31, 2003
George Cohan, titan of the American theater. Conclusion, today, of a tribute to this creator of the 1906 musical 45 Minutes from Broadway, which was restaged in 1959, starring Tammy Grimes, Larry Blyden, and Russell Nype. Host Jack Foley plays excerpts.