February 20, 2022
Ginny Wiehardt

Poet Ginny Wiehardt joins me on the airwaves to get Texan. We discuss our mutual fondness for the Lone Star State (in spite of recent legislative developments) and, becuase she’s a poet and we live in these times, we talk about children, money, sex, and death. I like this mix particularly because of it’s strong focus on artists who got their start late in life or avoided fame (or died young in boating accidents in the tropics heroically saving their children).


Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

  1. Bonita, Jarabe De Palo
  2. God, Amy Leach
  3. I Believe in Bugs, Ivor Cutler
  4. Annie Jade, Hillary Powell
  5. Good Fortune, PJ Harvey
  6. Bird Boy, Cyro Baptista
  7. Typing with Oswaldo De Andrade, Cyro Baptista
  8. Take this Waltz, Leonard Cohen
  9. My My Metrocard, Le Tigre
  10. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side, The Magnetic Fields
  11. Wed 21, Juana Molina
  12. Ahora, Juana Molina
  13. Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond
  14. Nothing But Heartache, Toni Price
  15. Beaumont Rag, Doc Watson
  16. Texas Top Hand, Don Walser
  17. One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash
  18. Walkin’ After Midnight, Patsy Cline
  19. In These Shoes?, Kristy MacColl
  20. Fairytale of New York, The Pogues & Kristy MacColl
  21. Can the Circle Be Unbroken, The Carter Family
  22. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
  23. On the Road Again, Willie Nelson

Ginny Wiehardt is the author of Migration, winner of the Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in over 20 journals and magazines including Bellingham Review, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, PN Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Springs and in the anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity. Tracy Marchini at BookEnds Literary represents her children’s fiction. She works for the National MS Society, and lives in New York City with her family.