Ep. 23: Perie Longo Posted on April 14, 2011September 25, 2015 by admin Host Fred Klein celebrated National Poetry Month by interviewing former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Perie Longo. Perie read one of her poems and talked about her experience as a therapist using poetry to help her patients. Literary Gumbo: Perie Longo from Literary Gumbo on Vimeo.