There may be no better time to celebrate poetry than during the ephemeral season of spring. As April comes to a close and the temperature begins to heat up, WUGA’s Martin Matheny sat down with David Oates, a local poet and the host of WUGA’s Wordland, to discuss his latest work, only thunder, a family journey.
When poetry goes clunk: local poet discusses prose’s delicate cousin
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David A. Oates