This month's guest on Poet Ray'd Yo is Alan Gilbert. Alan is a poet and art critic who has just published the latest installment of an epic poem titled, The Everyday Life of Design. Alan teaches at Columbia University and is the Web Editor at BOMB magazine. 

Blending words and sounds, bringing to the airwaves live performances as well as field and studio recordings by writers the host has crossed paths with over the course of a quarter century.

music credit (at beginning of show): Alice Coltrane, “Journey in Satchidananda.”