"Stand-up Poet" Jack McCarthy

Jack McCarthy calls himself a "stand-up" poet. He's something of a legend in the Boston open-mic scene, where he got his start late in life. His poems are marked with blunt, straightforward language, and they're likely to make his audience both laugh and cry. He lives in Washington now, but he was on the East Coast last Fall for a series of readings. He joined us on the Front Porch to talk about his work and to share some of it with us.

***This interview originally aired October 12th, 2006***