This month, “The John Sinclair Radio Show” will feature, “Love is the Flame“, two hours of poetry, and a conversation with New Orleans poet Don Paul and poet, author, and bandleader John Sinclair, and investigate his new album Meld #1 with a variety of musical ensembles, interspersed with segments of a long conversation between Paul and Sinclair that will continue into a second episode, “Just One Big Heart“. Following the conversation, Paul will read several of Sinclair’s poems alternating with recorded examples of the same.

“They’re beautifully edited, I think,” says Paul. “It’s great to hear John’s voice and rippling creek of a chuckle… We talk about how the tracks came to be and about the ‘tree-mendous’ players on them… We also get to talk about he came to be such a wide and vital embrace ad expression of American culture over the course of 60 plus years.”

Don Paul has written more than 20 books and led or produced more than 20 albums. He’s the youngest winner of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University in 1971. he’s co-founded the organizations Housing Is a Human Right, Rebuild Green, and Restore Wesley United. He was Operations Director for Common Ground Relief in New Orleans for seven months of 2006. He and his wife Maryse Déjean now co-direct Sticking Up For Children in Haiti and New Orleans.

As program director for Radio Free Amsterdam, John Sinclair produces and posts original programming each day from his own productions and contributions from fellow independent producers. Sinclair produces a new episode of “The John Sinclair Radio Show” every Monday from locations all over the world, with a home base at the 420 Cafe in Amsterdam

“The John Sinclaire Radio Show” is hosted by Radio Free Amsterdam, along with a selection of other radio shows that can be accessed for free.