Show B4 — The Herald Journal Logan' Utah Monday January 27 2003 SHERMANS LAGOON A pxsfi (? tiBa© tfadlii® SPOKANE Wash (APJ — It was 7:50 on a ' Monday morning Fog hung over the city and a drowsy voice sounding like a sleepy Winnie the Pooh crawled from the radio It was poet Scott Poole reading his latest CATHY en for a woman’s or a child’s It’s a cuddly teddy bear kind of voice “Scott’s radio voice is unlike any voice in public radio” Demarest said “It’s disconcerting enough to know it is not “Morning Edi- tion” you are hearing” work Poole is aware that his puckish voice is dis“I wasal a bus stop ‘‘and suddenly wanted love tinctive and he calls it a blessing ' V “But there was only me “Everyone is trying to find their voice in “and the bus kiosk” the poem began poetry” he said “I was forced into mine from the beginning” Poole is heard every Monday morning on Poole who was influenced by thejmagistic Spokane Public Radio and he may be the nation’s only regularly scheduled radio poet poetry of Richard Hugo William Stafford and His poems are a sideways look at everyday life James Wright and by Eastern European poets — odes to garage door openers naps and the was drawn into writing poetiy while trying to meet women as an undeigraduate at WashinMarvin Gardens square on Monopoly His recitation is aired during a break in “Morning gton State University Edition"Impressed by one coed he took a piece of “As long as they'll have me I'll keep doing paper and burned the edges then mounted it on the black construction paper and “wrote a really 32 of Poole said associate director them" terrible poem called ‘Chambers of My Mind”’ Eastern Washington University Press in nearby Poole gave it to the young woman in the school Cheney Poole's poems have drawn strong reaction library and she read if “She burst into tears and gave me a big hug from listeners said said it was wonderful" he said “It worked and “At first we got only compliments" out really well because she ended up marrying KPBX producer Marty Demurest "But we’ve me had a decent share of complaints The fact that He began writing short stories but found we regularly get commentary regarding poetiy is a success" But the commonplace nature of they kept getting shorter until they evolved into his topics is the reason Poole will continue to poetry When he went for his master’s of fine time drive at EWU he decided to concentrate on minutes arts of morning get nearly two said Demurest every Monday poetry A native of Vancouver Wash Poole moved “He doesn't reference deities or philosoto Spokane from Portland in 1996 to attend the phers or codes of belief" Demaresl said “It creative writing program at EWU After getting references garages and lawnmowers and everye I his master's he became the only when I his poems even day life love most of Press which the EWU of don’t understand them" publishes employee six books a year He also teaches some poetiy Poole also wrote a couple of special poems courses to be read during public radio pledge drives Now he is on a mission to popularize poetry Demarest said marking perhaps the first time He a new poem each week to 500 peo“poetry made money for public radio” lithave who because His poems air on Monday registered on his Web site He is ple “very creator of an annual literary festival in downtle happens in the news on Monday” Demarest town Spokane called “Get Lit’’ said “Monday is the wasteland of the radio" But not generally a home for the likes of “Spokane is becoming a poetry town" he said “The Waste Land” by TS Eliot Radio is a His latest book “Hiding From Salesmen" rare venue for poetiy even though the two was each other be made for to forms would seem recently printed in hardback unusual for a The only other poets Poole hears on the radio poetry book His fust hook was called “The arc cowboy poet Baxter Black who does comCheap Scats" It was Poole's weekly poems that came to mentaries on NPR and poets who appear the attention of Demarest who decided to Writer’s Almanac" a show hosted by make him a regular fixture in August 2001 Garrison Keillor Poetry magazine in Chicago Poole records eight to 10 poems each time he’s the radio on had no comment poets topic of in the studio One of the most interesting aspects of the “It's a nice experience" he said show is Poole’s voice which could be mistak - 7 SW T SIZE " 5 VI DROPPED TMEwT DUMPED TMEM ! 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