Roger Reeves, Franny Choi, and Derrick Brown with The Helio Sequence Live Wire with Luke Burbank

To celebrate National Poetry Month, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello share listener-penned haikus and invite three poets to the House Party; Roger Reeves tells us why poetry is the harbinger of the future; Franny Choi discusses how she incorporated Google Translate and the Turing Test into her latest collection “Soft Science;” and Derrick C. Brown teams up with indie band The Helio Sequence for a rhythmically-moving poetry performance.