Season 4, Episode 6: Poetry of MDI
Guest: Carl Little
Air Date: April 6, 2023
Host: Jenna Jandreau
In honor of National Poetry Month, host (and poet) Jenna Jandreau invites special guest (and poet) Carl Little to curate a selection of place-based poetry of MDI from a variety of poets, including (but not limited) to poems by Christian Barter, Weslea Sidon, Hortense Flexner, Ruth Moore, Carl Little, and more.
About Our Guest
Carl Little is the author of Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2006). His poetry has been published recently in The Café Review, Republican Journal, The Lowell Review, and Maine Arts Journal and was featured in the Poets Corner’s “Love Letters” reading in February. His poems have also been appeared in Maine Sunday Telegram’s “Deep Water” series and read on “Poems from Here” on Maine Public Radio.
Chebacco articles by Carl Little:
- This Island is a Gift (1998)
- Review - The Story of Mount Desert Island (2001-2002)
- A Russian in Retrospect: Lev Vladimir Goriansky (2004)
- Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect: A Life Revived (2005)
- August Heckscher: A Man about the World – and Mount Desert Island (2006-2007)
- Island Poets and Poems (2009)
- Elinor Wylie’s Mount Desert Retreat (2012)
- Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor (2017)
- Marguerite Yourcenar: Piranesi at Petite Plaisance (2018)
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances
- No. 17, Carl Little - “Marguerite Yourcenar: Piranesi at Petite Plaisance”