AMERICAN ROUTES AT MONTANA FOLK FESTIVAL
It’s a time of year when music festivals have returned. The Montana Folk Festival in Butte was hotly anticipated after two years of Covid cancellation.…
We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.