In a world where walkmans and i-pods hug ears daily, the thirst for sonic stimulation is evident. Poetry, as both an aural and oral tradition, is a significant quencher. Radio Poetique, Ink. is the on-going creation of a modern poetry archive.
Recording poets in the environments that inform their work creates an audio experience that textures a listener’s experience. Listeners are welcomed into their everyday environment with the crafted consciousness of the poet.
Beginning in November 2003, Radio Poetique has conducted over 80 interviews with individual artists and recordings of live readings and poetry related events. Interviews include poets Dennis Nurkse, Arielle Greenberg, Steve Dalachinsky, Daniel Nester, Wanda Phipps, Edmund Berrigan, Vijay Seshadri, Patrick Donnelly and Renato Resaldo, among many other of today’s groundbreaking artists, flavored by the ambient enviro-sounds of parks, diners, traffic, backyards, birds, crowds, and passers-by, both humans and dogs.
Special poetry events documented by Radio Poetique include: the annual Haiku Festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the AWP conference & book fair, a poetry marathon fund-raiser held concurrently in 3 Brooklyn bookstores, the reading series Waxpoetic (Williamsburg),
Pete’s Big Salmon (Williamsburg), Poets Who Read Prose (DUMBO), Café Moda (Park Slope), and Barbes Poetry Reading (Park Slope).
Last year, Radio Poetique productions aired as the show, Poetic Brooklyn, on-line at
www.brooklynheightsradio.com, a community-based on-line radio station. Shows are produced and hosted by Susan Brennan.
Excerpts from shows can be heard on-line at the PennSound project, at
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Poetic-Brooklyn.html 
