Producer's Notes: Touch of a Poet Cable TV Series (1996 - 1998) was a series of poetry readings video recorded at the University Art Museum in Berkeley. Each edited half hour television program included a featured reader and several open mike readers. Fifty-four of the over sixty programs recorded in the museum's basement were produced for Berkeley's Public Access Television Channel BTV 25 (now Channel 28) and were broadcast Friday nights at eight o'clock. Program 1 July 18, 1996 Richard “Dixi” Cohn Tracy O’kates Marianne Roberson, Richard Atwater Garrett Murphy, Mike Miller Program 2 July 25, 1996 Mia Stageberg Mark States Ken Rich, Joan Gatten Robert Gibral-Tarik Program 3  August 15, 1996 Lee Gerstmann Randy Fingland Jessie Beagle, Tom Lynch, Mikael Tree Planter Program 4 August 1, 1996 Diane Wang Deborah Ruth Edwin Massey Jr., Walter Liggett, Carol Elliot, Lina Encalada Program 5 August 22, 1996 Ann Kyle Brown Seth Basen Thomas Murray Claudia Misner Program 6 August 9, 1996 H. D. Moe Richard Moore Margaret Motheral, Padma Rubiales, Judy Wells, Randy Fingland Program 7 Sept. 5, 1996 Lee Williams Barbara Michelman Program 8 Sept. 26, 1996 Ishmael Reed & Tennessee Reed Adrian Alvarez, Allen Fleming, Uchechi Kalu Program 9 Oct 3, 1996 Vernon Small Gerelee Golten Edward Nason Lydia Daniller