So, the current edition of Cup Of Poetry (one of the podcasts featured in Penguin’s Radio Room) features Poets and Poetry inspired by the city of New York.
And that (flat? nervous?) voice you hear reading the first poem–Walt Whitman’s One Hour To Madness & Joy–is mine. 
Title – Feel the Fire: Meet Sensual Writers of Zane’s PURPLE PANTIES
Date – 6/25/2009
Time – 7:00 PM
PURPLE PANTIES not only boasts one of the most seductive covers of any erotic collection of stories on bookshelves today, but it also serves up beautifully crafted, sizzling, and intoxicating lesbian fiction by the industry’s top erotic writers. Escape with host/writer Claudia Moss as she welcomes an unforgettable cast of intelligent, smoldering authors.
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I’ll be on the show talking about The Next Girl.
Hear editor Jolie du Pre talk about my inclusion in Swing! Adventures in Swinging.
Here’s the audio from the show and a couple of notes:
1) From the Lesbian Life section of about.com: Kiki is a term that was used in the lesbian bar culture of the 1950s and 1960s to describe someone who was neither butch nor femme. At that time, the bar culture was very much into roles and most women were pressured to choose either butch or femme. (In the 90′s, older lesbians in Baltimore were still using the term “kiki” that’s how I learned about it.)
2)The book I mentioned near the end is Unclutter: Cleanse Your Spirit & Claim Your Stuff by Kevin E. Taylor
You can listen to the show here or download it via iTunes:
