Farnaz Fatemi talks to Hive members Billy Butler and Dion O’Reilly about poetry in the seeming end times. Listen in to conversation about wildfires, the 2020 election, hair product, facing uncertainty, friendship, and more.
Billy Butler read from his essay, the Finer Points of Being an Anxious Person When Bad Things Happen, https://thebolditalic.com/what-you-have-when-you-may-lose-everything-2efa304c827c
Dion O’Reilly read a poem soon to appear in Anti-Heroin Chic,
Poets/Poems mentioned in the show
William Bronk https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-bronk
Francine J Harris https://poets.org/poet/francine-j-harris
Keith Wilson Ode to the Police https://aprweb.org/poems/ode-to-the-police4
Pamela Hart American Mother https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2020/05/15/385-american-mother?fbclid=IwAR05La9QntqdGs2f0585kk20c3zhrk7oxZ3s5DUmyTzLLudGUZZyoRvo4Qs
