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 described as “rewrit[ing] 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 of American Cycle features Beckett performing “U. S. Rivers: Highway 1” in a recording studio in 2011. The episode is introduced by Dr. Simon Warner, author of  ...