SpokenHard with Christopher Kain and Susan Dobbe Chase

Christopher Kain first wrote poetry at the Haymarket Cafe in Northampton, MA in 1992 as a junior majoring in English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and also an English major, and found poetry as a short way of telling a story. I read at open folk mics, selling myself as a songwriter without a guitar, both in West Hartford, CT. and Cincinnati, OH. In Washington, DC, I had my first feature with the Federal Poets, and was included in various anthologies. I first started performing poetry at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, MA, in 2002, where I met the brilliant Ryk McIntyre, (Okay, you could cut that out. ;) ) where I wrote a new poem every week, and released two books, "homefront," with poems arranged by every half hour of a day, and "Twentieth Century Limited," with poems for every year of the twentieth century. I'm currently working on a book called "salvage," which will be a town of poems, with recurring places and characters. This is the first time I've ever been on radio.