AUDIO
FEATURED AUDIO
Wren House
A.F. Moritz reads “Wren House” from Rest on the Flight Into Egypt, Brick Books, 1999.
ALBUMS
Coda: The Blues
September, 2024
“Coda: The Blues”, music by D.D. Jackson, featuring Dan Bowman, words by A.F. Moritz, from the Album, Poetry Project,
by D.D. Jackson, Bandcamp.
Marigold
October, 2023
“Marigold”, music by James Rolfe, words by A.F. Moritz, vocals by Alex Samaras, piano by Lara Dodds-Eden, from the Album, Wound Turned to Light, James Rolfe, Redshift Records, Bandcamp.
PODCASTS & RADIO
Finding a Voice
CFRC 101.9
Host: Bruce Kauffman
Episode: Poets at Kingston ArtFest Summer 2025
Airdate: September 12, 2025
Meetings in the Mystery
Meeting the Mystery
Host: Jordan Weir
Episode 15: Poetry as Medicine for Our World with Al Moritz
Airdate: July 17, 2025.
Eh Poetry Podcast
Substack
Host: Jason E. Coombs
Episode: #55 As Far As You Know, by A.F. Moritz
Airdate: July 25 2022
Poem of the Day
Poetry Foundation
Host: Michael Stuhlbarg
Episode: “The Jar,” by A.F. Moritz, from The Sentinel
Airdates: February 2014; April 2022
HERE & NOW
CBC
Host: Gill Deacon [Julianne Hazelwood]
Episode: Introducing The Lost Launches
Airdate: March 29, 2022
Ideas
CBC
Host: Nahlah Ayed
Episode: No Feeling is Final, The Wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke
Airdate: May 13, 2021
Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters
Spotify
Hosts: Alex & Richard
Episode: A Talk with Al Moritz
Airdate: February 11, 2021
Emotion Put into Measure: Poetry Matters
Spotify
Hosts: Alex & Richard
Episode: Al Moritz, Sweet, Relaxing, Dramatic Early Poems
Airdate: February 5, 2021
HOWL
CIUT.FM
Host: Valentina Assenza
Episode: A.F. Moritz [Last 30 Minutes]
Airdate: August 4, 2020
#ONPOLI
TVO
Hosts: Steve Paikin & John Michael McGrath
Episode: Gord Downie and the Search for Ontario’s New Provincial Poet
Airdate: May 2020
CBC Q
CBC
Host: Tom Power
Episode: A.F. Moritz, “Thoughts in Time of Plague,”
Airdate: April 28, 2020
Metro Morning
CBC
Host: Interim Guest Hosts
Episode: Margaret Atwood, For Distraction We Often Read Murder Mysteries [Moritz Mentioned ~ 5 Minute Mark]
Airdate: April 14, 2020
All in a Day
CBC
Host: Alan Neal
Episode: Book Panel, [Sean Wilson Recommends and reads A.F. Moritz ~7 Minute Mark]
Airdate: April 28, 2020
As it Happens
CBC
Hosts: Carol Off & Jeff Douglas
Excerpt: “The Current of Sugar,” from Northern Plights
Airdate: May 24, 2019
METRO MORNING
CBC
Host: Matt Galloway
Episode: Introducing Toronto’s New Poet Laureate
Airdate: March 8, 2019
MAINSTREET PEI
CBC
Host: Karen Mair
Episode: A.F. Moritz, Griffin Poetry Prize
Airdate: October 1, 2018
Words & Music [Excerpt]
PRX (WMNR)
Host: Will Duchon
Excerpt: Poetry About Nostalgia,
“Better Days,”
from The Sentinel
Airdate: May 2015
Words & Music [Full]
PRX (WMNR)
Host: Will Duchon
Episode: Poetry About Nostalgia,
“Better Days,”
from The Sentinel
Airdate: May 2015
Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC
Host: Leonard Lopate
Episode: Poetry off the Shelf: A.F. Moritz, “Busman’s Honeymoon”
Airdate: April 28, 2006
A.F. Moritz Reads
Brick Books
Poems from Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1999
Poems from Mahoning, Brick Books, 1994
Poems from Song of Fear, Brick Books, 1992
Poetry & Healing
The Healer is Dead
A.F. Moritz reads “The Healer is Dead” for Poetry and Healing, a League of Canadian Poets event in support of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. The reading is both introduced and followed by a guided meditation by poet Kate Marshall Flaherty, with music by Cathy Nosaty, on April 21, 2020.
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