RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E11): Celebrating America's Poets

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E15) Our guests are Daniel Weinberg, owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago and authority on authentic autographs, and Richard Minsky, founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City. Our cafe regular, West Virginia artist Mary Kay Watson, considers what some have called the original hillbilly horror movie. Plus, California bookseller David Hess sends along the most recent episode of his feature Things Found In Old Books. We are simulcast on YouTube and Facebook. Please SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite platform, share Rare Book Cafe with your book-loving friends, and LIKE us. it’s 90 minutes in the Book Lovers’ Rendezvous. Time well spent.

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E14) Our guest is Eddy Nix, owner of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wisconsin, who is beginning a new monthly series on Rare Book Cafe –– 20th Century Oddities and Hidden Gems. Our associate producer, Lin Thompson, raises a question of significance of book collectors everywhere. Lee Linn has a feature on cartoonists of the 1970s, Plus, David Hess has more discoveries in his feature Things Found In Old Books and Jerry Morris shares a heartfelt tribute to his friend and mentor longtime Florida bookman Lee J. Harrer, who passed away recently. We are simulcast on YouTube and Facebook. We're also available as a podcast on most popular podcast platforms. Please SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite platform, share Rare Book Cafe with your book-loving friends, and LIKE us. it’s 90 fabulous minutes in the Book Lovers’ Rendezvous.

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E13) Our guests are Jen Johnson, who is spearheading the first virtual Western States Book & Paper Fair next week and Ohio bookseller and collector Larry Rakow, whose lifetime of collecting children’s books provides valuable insights for collectors,  Lee Linn is back to complete her survey the arrival of the wildflowers of spring and offer a poem on wildflowers.  Mary Kay Watson has part two of her report on painter John James Audubon. Plus, David Hess has more discoveries in his feature Things Found In Old Books. It’s 90 fabulous minutes in the Book Lovers’ Rendezvous. The original video version of this program was simulcast on YouTube and Facebook. Please SUBSCRIBE to our show on your favorite platform, share Rare Book Cafe with your book-loving friends, and LIKE us. Gaslamp Funworks Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E12) Our guest is bookstagrammer Gilion Dumas of Portland, Oregon, whose posts in the Rose City Reader blog and @giliondumas on Instagram are a testament to her love affair with books. We learn the how and why of what she does. Our own Mary Kay Watson offers a unique inspirational perspective on American naturalist John James Audubon. Lee Linn is back from a Disney adventure with news of the arrival of the wildflowers of spring. Plus, Gigi Best takes a look at anthologies in literature. David Hess has more discoveries in his feature Things Found In Old Books, and we continue to celebrate American poets in National Poetry Month with some additional selections of great works sure to please poetry lovers everywhere. It’s 90 minutes of book-loving fun unparalleled in the known universe. We are simulcast on YouTube and Facebook. Please share Rare Book Cafe with your book-loving friends.

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E11) Our guest is artist, writer, and bookbinder Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder in San Antonio, Texas. She is the artist in residence at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University. Keri shares her work, her insights, and her future. We’re also celebrating National Poetry Month with a pause to consider some of our favorite American poets. Included are the audio portions of videos originally published on YouTube. There are too many poets, of course, and we can’t include them all. So our choices may seem arbitrary and capricious. So be it. We’d love for you to share  your favorite poets with us in the comments.  We are simulcast on YouTube and Facebook.

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E10) Our guest is Richard Oates of Blind Horse Books in DeLand, Florida. We were also to have Jen Johnson of Johnson Rare Books and Manuscripts. They are the catalysts for virtual book fairs serving their regions of the country. Unfortunately, Time Zone Confusion delayed Jen's appearance. She will join us on a later episode. We also feature Mary Kay Watson on American printer and lithographer Louis Prang, David Hess on Things Found in Old Books. Plus, Kurt Zimmerman and Jerry Morris on the legacy of Larry McMurtry. We are simulcast on YouTube and Facebook

🔴 RARE BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E9) Our guest is Andrew Stauffer, author, Rare  Book School faculty member, and founder of the Book Traces Project.  We  also feature Lin Thompson on children’s illustrator Randolph Caldecott, and  David Hess on Things Found in Old Books. Plus, cafe denizen Lee  Linn. The host for Rare Book Cafe is Ed Markewicz. the executive producer is T. Allan Smith. This is the mostly unedited audio soundtrack from the live streamed program. You can watch the video version on YouTube or Facebook.

🔴 RARE  BOOK CAFE 6.0 (S6 E8) Our guests are internationally known book  conservator Sherif Afifi (LIVE from Alexandria, Egypt) on the science  that helps researchers find hidden secrets in ancient documents, and  American author Larry Baker (LIVE from Iowa City, Iowa) on how Southern  writer Flannery O’Conner was different from other writers. Plus, Mary  Kay Watson on James Barrie, creator of Peter Pan. Also, Lin Thompson on  children’s illustrator Kate Greenaway, creator and David Hess on Things  Found in Old Books. Portions of this program are prerecorded. We are  simulcast on YouTube and Facebook.And, as you can hear, we're now a podcast. Enjoy!

🔴 THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT. This is the soundtrack for Rare Book Cafe, the book lovers' rendezvous, a video program that is live streamed on Facebook and YouTube every Saturday at 12:30 p.m. ET. This is Season 6, Episode 7 of the show. Our guests are paper marbler Iris Nevins (whom you'll hear at the beginning with host Ed Markiewicz), papyrus scholar Eman Aly Salim of Cairo, two brilliant women working in paper. We also welcome virtual book fair producer Marvin Getman.  Plus, we’re featuring Lin Thompson on the man who created Doctor Dolittle, and David Hess on Things Found In Old Books. And we also hear from our Rare Book Cafe regulars Lee Linn of The Ridge Books in Calhoun, Georgia, and Victorian ephemera dealer Barbara Loe, of Osprey, Florida.