Cross-cultural poetics

Via The Nonist, a link to the University of Pennsylvania's Cross-Cultural Poetics radio show. Hear tons of audiofiles of poets from around the world: San Francisco's Michael Palmer, on the dilemma of poetry in the Age of Bush; Egyptian poets Mohamed Metwalli and Maged Zaher with Chinese poet Zhang Er on poetry and dissent; Malaysian poet Eddin Khoo on, among other topics, the minority Hindu population in Muslim Malaysia; and big names like Alice Notley, C.D Wright, Wang Ping, Russell Banks, and Robert Creeley.