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Poet Sharon Israel hosts the monthly radio show: Planet Poet - Words in Space on WIOX Community Radio, 91.3 broadcasting live from Roxbury in the Catskill Mountains of New York and streaming live on WIOXradio.com. These archived interviews feature poets and writers from the Catskills, the Hudson Valley and around the U.S reading their work and discussing their obsessions with poetry.

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Planet Poet - Words in Space

Lee Slonimsky, Poet and Carol Goodman, Novelist -A Trip to Greece!

October 30, 2025 • Sharon Israel • Season 8 • Episode 1

Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired September 23rd, 2025) featuring returning guests, award-winning poet Lee Slonimsky and award-winning novelist Carol Goodman. Lee and Carol will discuss and read from their new books - Lee’s latest bilingual poetry collection Pythagoras in Exile, which is published in Greece and translated by Katerina Mardakioupi, and Carol’s latest Literary Mystery - Writers and Liars, set on a Greek Island. We’ll also hear about their life together as mutual literary muses, and their fascination with the ancient world.

Lee Slonimsky has published twenty books of poetry around the world, ten in the U. S. and ten others in countries ranging from Greece to Italy to Israel to India. His work has been anthologized several times, including in Everyman Library’s Buzz Words. His latest book, a bilingual edition of Pythagoras in Exile, was published by Enipnio Press in Athens, Greece this past May. Visit: Enipnio Press and Mod.Lunar - The River

Carol Goodman’s rich and prolific career includes novels such as The Widow’s House and The Night Visitor, winners of the 2018 and 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Awards. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Vallley. Visit: carolgoodman.com

Praise for Lee Slonimsky

“If Pythagoras and Sappho had ever met, they might have written soulful poems like these to each other.” – Anne Carson

“The sonnet turns out to be the perfect—maybe even the Platonic—form for Lee Slonimsky’s Pythagorean meditations…These variations on themes serve as an entrance into the philosopher’s mind, as if we are thinking and discovering along with him.” -- A. E. Stallings (2011 winner of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Prize”:

Praise for Carol Goodman

“An excellent riff on And Then There Were None unfolds within a setting steeped in sinister mythology.... An absolutely perfect vacation read.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Goodman’s latest delivers a mash-up of Greek mythology and Agatha Christie’s classic mysteries, to delightful effect.”
—Library Journal (starred review)