New Letters On the Air John Ciardi: Save America's Treasures Selection




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Summary: This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection. There's no better poet to hear around Memorial Day than the late John Ciardi (1916-1986), a WWII gunner for the Army Air Force.  The author of more than 35 books, Ciardi was also the long-time poetry editor of The Saturday Review and host of National Public Radio's "A Word in Your Ear," but he got his start at the University of Kansas C...