Welcome to You're the Poet, the poetry podcast featuring you! In this twenty-third episode hosts Matt & Phil Burgio welcome back guest A. Benedict to You're the Poet and share Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Christmas in the Heart", Matthew Burgio's "Snow Snakes", and Phil Burgio's "To Grandmother's House" and "A New Game". A. Benedict shares his poem on Christmas spirit, "Winter Evanescence", and "Happy Traveling". We hope you enjoy the poetry shared here, and we welcome you to join us for future episodes.
Check out the videos of A. Benedict's work on his YouTube channel at youtube.com/@abenedict.
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This episode's intro poem recited by Steve Wheeler.
The poem "Snow Snakes" by Matthew Burgio was recently published as part of the Wheelsong Poetry Anthology 5, an anthology of poets whose proceeds go to Feed the Children.
You can find the anthology here:
https://www.amazon.com/Wheelsong-Poetry-Anthology-Steve-Wheeler-ebook/dp/B0DK3ZNF4H/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GPCI7PKM6EW5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bzsyxs2RCniqn0ALfH0APEg1_sIGq_rFKF3VV39rpWrCZpkkY7vXmj8iA2ljT0d7rh3kvNZx9pjb_kFosaUwEfZJTyneMBT7R2YnSrXNkAU-Fzk-Eb6RUN4iqpOoyrMe0_VqYIk0pbCyimcCZ3qu3Q.1ciN7qpgN3rReWKhydoSWjMCJMn1YJy0GPFqhnchmXo&dib_tag=se&keywords=wheelsong+poetry+anthology+5&qid=1734699206&sprefix=wheelsong+poetry+an%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1
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