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Dang, I missed it. And it doesn't look like I will be able to listen to it after the fact. Why can't I get a podcast of Talk of the Nation?

Sure you can: go to foetry.com/bb and I've linked to the audio . . .

The Talk of the Nation link above also has the audio.

Thanks for the links. I just finished listening to it. It is kind of surreal to hear somebody I know talking on the radio. Good job Foetry!

Is there any place I can get the video?

The audio is available on NPR. I don't think they do video on radio - that would be a neat trick, but we'd then have to call it something like TV.

Actually - the piece was kind of superficial. Alan sounded giddy, something which I find distasteful for all the discord he has brought to the art of poetry.

It is amazing how much credit and attention he has been give considering he is not even a poet.

If he is a poet than what he has done either advances or retards his ascent/descent on the greasy pole so goes the reasoning. And whatever he does is tempered by his poetic production which can be assessed by his peers and readers. A question of his authenticity or in this case, literalness.
Whether he is a poet or not is irrelevant to the foetry enterprise- which is about, depending on the context: coteries, identity failure, selling-out, co-option, recognition, fame, honor, and what words mean. The woodcutter doesn't have to be a forester.

"Whether he is a poet or not is irrelevant to the foetry enterprise," perhaps, but not without value in assessing the sincerety of a mission to enhance the poetry community, or simply run an enterprising blog.