: Poet to Poet (Cable TV show)
Leigh worked for many years as part of the staff of "Poet To Poet (with Robert Dunn)," hosted by Robert Dunn, and directed by Thomas M. Catterson. It was one of the earliest poetry programs on television, As Assistant Video Technician, working alongside Chief Video Technician Anthony Scarpantonio, she helped with camera work, cables, and lighting. Leigh also occasionally did make-up for various guests on the show, and sometimes hosted when Robert was unavailable.

Poet To Poet (P2P) was videotaped in numerous locations in and around NYC, as well as in New Jersey, in Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island, and in Connecticut. As the years went by, they videotaped poets along the East Coast, including shows taped in upstate NY, in Baltimore, MD, and Mass, VA, and PA..

The program aired from 1993 to 2005, on MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network), which was P2P's flagship affiliate. In addition to Manhattan Cable, P2P aired in numerous small towns and cities around Hartford, CT, Ossining, NY, and Rockford, IL. By 2004, they were in negotiations to air around Sacramento, CA.

Unfortunately, the deaths of both the director’s mother, and Leigh’s mom, within a week of each other in 2001, led the staff to drastically cut back on videotaping new shows. And then, the
passing of Tom Catterson (affectionately known to all as “Pepper”) in 2005 spelled the end for Poet To Poet at that time, since the remaining staff members – Robert, Anthony, and Leigh – felt Poet To Poet owed so much to Tom’s vision that continuing would be futile.

In 2008, Robert Dunn passed away, and the remaining staff members, along with Bob Perfetto (whose original music can be heard on the opening and closing credits of most of the shows) decided to work together to prepare the original VHS masters for uploading to YouTube. In this, Bob’s work has been invaluable; his video expertise included digitizing, re-mastering, and editing the half-hour shows into two (approximately) 15 minute segments, each of which showcased one of the two featured poets or musicians. Additionally, Bob and Leigh decided to add a screen credit that honored Tom and Robert.

The work of transcribing the Poet To Poet shows began in 2010, and – at this point – over 100 episodes are available for viewing on YouTube. The shows are an important artifact regarding the state of poetry in the US in the late 20th and early 21st Century. Interestingly, years before Bill Moyers did his notable series on the state of poetry in America, Poet To Poet had been documenting weekly the dynamic, living state of poetry in America.
Stanley H. Barkan 1995
Eddie Bell
Tone Bellizzi
Cliff Bleidner
Padma Chakranarayan
Jay Chollick
Adam Merton Cooper
Victoria Crosby
George Dickerson 1997
Alice Didier
DiJait
Pete Dolack
Or go directly to "Poet to Poet " guests featured on YouTube:
Paul DeCoster
Vivina Ciolli
Stanley H. Barkan (1999 / Pt. 1)
Andrew Clark
Nelson Alexander
Kenneth Churchill
Kyle Colonna
Bob Bartel
Harry Ellison
Cynthia Andrews
Ad Augieri
Ed Alkalay
Dominika Bednarska
Stanley H. Barkan (1999 / Pt. 2)
George Dickerson 1999
Enid Dame & Donald Lev (Pt. 1)
Enid Dame & Donald Lev (Pt. 2)
Monty Delaney
Acoustic Poets (Pt. 1)
Karen Alkalay-Gut
Acoustic Poets (Pt. 2)
Marc Desmond
Bill Duke
Lucy Angeleri
Tom Catterson
Lila Wheeler Duckett
Earl Maxwell Coleman
Joseph DeRoche
Tom D'Angelo
Tom Conlon
Madeline Artenberg
Dr. Alfred Dorn
Robert Dunn
Evie Ivy
Gabor Gyukics
Lynn Gerber
Connie Goodman
Leigh Harrison
Steve Hartman
Kam Holifield
David Huberman
X. J. Kennedy (Pt. 1)
X. J. Kennedy (Pt. 2)
Saro Liotta
Beverly Matherne
Carol McCarthy
Judith Morley
Joshua Meander
Rhina Espaillat (Pt. 1)
Rhina Espaillat (Pt. 2)
Chuck Joy
Kate Light
Larry Mallory
ICE (Gayle Johnson)
Kato
Diana Manister
Robert McDonald
Michael Graves
Vladimir Levchev
Keith Kelly
D.H. Melhem (Pt.2)
D.H. Melhem (Pt. 1)
Charlene Babb Knadle
Annette Feldman
Frank Ferrara
Daniela Gioseffi
Denis Gray
Simon Gribben
Gerard Hanley
Penelope Maguffin
Melpomene
Robert Kramer
Richard Fein
Len Krisak
G. A. Lee
Jamie Manning
Marilyn Mohr
Brenda Morrisse
Brigid Murnaghan
Ms. Clawdy (Pt. 1)
Jane Lawliss Murphy
New Middle Class
Tom Oleszczuk
Tony Paterniti
Bob Perfetto
Su Polo (Pt. 1)
Orna Rav-Hon
S. A. M.
Sheryl Simler
Ella Smith
Adam Szyper
Bruce Weber
Anthony Scarpantonio
Roz Rabin
David Mark Speer
Francine Witte
Anna Wrobel
Elaine Poon
Marion Palm
Chocolate Waters
Su Polo (Pt. 2)
Edmund Pennant
John Taylor
Iris Schwartz
Bob Quatrone
Ms. Clawdy (Pt. 2)
Mark Nichols
Hal Sirowitz
Daniel Weissbrot
Betty Oliver
Susan Scutti
Michael T. Young
Kathy Taler
The Rift Poets
Larissa Shmailo
Ellen Steier
Reese Thompson
Mark Neider
Paul Polansky
Howard Prescott
Ron Price
Len Roberts
Ruth Rosen
Susan Sourby
Judith Werner
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