This is "American Cycle," a podcast featuring Larry Beckett’s live performances of his poetry. Beckett’s poems have been collected in the book American Cycle, which Jonah Raskin says “takes readers into the past and rewrites our national epic for the twenty-first century.” Inspired by our folklore and past, American Cycle is available now from Running Wild Press. This episode features Beckett performing excerpts from each of the ten long poems that comprise American Cycle