Cast those pods!

Good for Kankakee Public Library!  I started out by listening to the Junior High Poetry Slam and was impressed by the level of engagement that the moderator got from participants and audience alike.  Junor high kids?  Not an easy audience, but what warmth, thoughtfulness and energy when you do manage to make the connection.

Some of us are old enough to remember predictions of the death of radio.  So much for that, right?  Radio changed, certainly, not necessarily for the better in every instance, but it's very much with us, isn't it?  We are human beings, whose very humanity has been forged from the dawn of our species in the crucible of spoken language.  Podcasting, it seems to me, can tap into the power of that ancient connection the way radio does.  I wonder, are our patrons interested in spoken poetry?  Storytelling?  How about performances of local musicians such as Encore or the Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band?  Or maybe, lively but civil debates during political campaigns?