Welcome to a little shot of Lit for Christmas for Christmas Podcast Day!
For this special episode, Marty shares some shots of Christmas poems about Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that he's written over the years! Merry Christmas Podcast Day!
BONUS POINTS: If you already have your Christmas tree up, take three extra shots of whatever's open in the liquor cabinet.
Lit for Christmas Party Host:
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, alsoon Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this bonus episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
This episode's Christmas lit:
Achatz, Martin. "Fezziwigging," "Ghosts of Christmas Past"
