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Poetry For AllEpisode 92: Dorianne Laux, SingerIn this episode, we read and discuss "Singer," a narrative poem that celebrates the poetic speaker's mother in all of her complexity.
Dorianne Laux is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Life on Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a new craft book titled Finger Exercises for Poets.
“Singer” appears in LIFE ON EARTH by Dorianne Laux. Copyright © 2024 by Dorianne Laux. Used by permission of W...2025-05-0825 min
Living on EarthPope Francis and the Climate, Fighting PFAS, and “Evening” Poem by Dorianne Laux.As the world remembers the legacy of Pope Francis we return to his groundbreaking writings on climate and environment that called for a fundamental shift in our economic system, and a rethinking of our relationship with God's creation: the natural world.
Also, a 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient was repeatedly told there was nothing to worry about when it came to PFAS “forever chemicals” linked to illnesses in her community. But she did not back down, and her persistence paid off.
And as Poetry Month ends, we turn to poet Dorianne Laux, whose latest collection is titled Life on Earth. Her poem...2025-04-2552 min
Living on EarthPope Francis and the Climate, Fighting PFAS, and “Evening” Poem by Dorianne Laux.As the world remembers the legacy of Pope Francis we return to his groundbreaking writings on climate and environment that called for a fundamental shift in our economic system, and a rethinking of our relationship with God's creation: the natural world.
Also, a 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient was repeatedly told there was nothing to worry about when it came to PFAS “forever chemicals” linked to illnesses in her community. But she did not back down, and her persistence paid off.
And as Poetry Month ends, we turn to poet Dorianne Laux, whose latest collection is titl...2025-04-2552 min
Poking AroundGod is a GirlFeatured poem: Dust by Dorianna Laux. Featured topics: childhood freedom, social norms, dream states, old friends, charging gems, and an original song by Hannah.
Dorianne Laux, “Dust” from What We Carry. Copyright © 1994 by Dorianne Laux. Reprinted by permission of BOA Editions, Ltd.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch2024-10-2259 min
The Poetry of ScienceEpisode 272: The Forge of the SeaThis episode explores new research, which has found that the long-range transport of dust enhances oceanic life.
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Poems for CompanyPoems for Company - September 23rd, 2024“Desk Jobs”: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began? Why did you do that? The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift. The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. Dorianne Laux, “What I Wouldn’t Do,” from What We Carry (BOA Editions, 1994), and used with the kind permission of the author. Deborah Garrison, “Superior,” from A Working Girl Can’t Win (Random House, 1998), and used with kind permission of the author. Stephen Dunn, “The Last Hours,” from Different 2024-09-2328 min
Poems & WhiskeyMorning Finds You Still Warm and BreathingRegister to vote!--> We've got work to do! 2024-09-191h 11
Vibe CheckHigh, Low, Fast, and SlowOn this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed and Zach talk about Trump and Vance’s false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Then, they answer a listener’s advice question about sex. Plus, a few recommendations to keep your vibe right.------------------------------------------------------Voter registration linkPrevious episode discussing allegations against DiddyRecommendations:SAM: Florida Wata - Swamp Session from Doechii SAEED: “In Any Event” by Dorianne Laux ZACH: Dawn Richard’s “Quiet In A World Full of Noise” out on October 4th
You can find...2024-09-1855 min
The Daily PoemDorianne Laux's "I Dare You"The author of several collections of poetry–most recently Life on Earth–Dorianne Laux was the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award for her book Facts About the Moon. She has also authored several works of non-fiction including The Poet’s Companion and Finger Exercises For Poets. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe2024-09-0908 min
Rattle Poetryep. 261 - Dorianne LauxDorianne Laux first appeared on episode 44. She published two new books in 2024: Life on Earth, a collection of poems, and Finger Excersizes, a book of essays on craft. She is author of seven books, including Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and The Book of Men, which won The Paterson Prize.
For more, visit:
https://www.doriannelaux.com
As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show...2024-09-092h 02
Heart of Compassion Zen SanghaHOC - August 23, 2024 - "Love Letter to Earth 3" - Jaune Evans, Wendy Johnson, and SanghaReferencesPrimary study text: Love Letter to the Earth, Thich Nat HangArticle: The San Francisco Standard, August 22, 2024 -"Redwood forest with Sonoma County's most famous tree is now protected forever"Poets: Pattiann Rogers, Dorianne Laux, Khalil Gibran2024-08-2458 min
The Hive Poetry CollectiveS6:E24 Jessica Cuello Chats with Dion O'ReillyJessica Cuello reads from her latest book. Jessica and Dion also read the poem "Running Home I Saw the Planets" from Aracelis Girmay's book Kingdom Animalia.
Jessica Cuello’s most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award, and a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two...2024-08-061h 00
EntertainologyPoetry Pour: Dorianne LauxIn this Poetry Pour, host Ava Jordyn reads a poem from Dorianne Laux titled “Dust”. Check out Ava at https://linktr.ee/avajordyn Check out Entertainology at https://linktr.ee/entertainology2024-07-1301 min
Write, Publish, and Shine#98 Summer Reading for WritersWe are playing summer reading bingo these next few months, with 24 squares representing categories of books you can read. And you are invited. Grab your card to play along with us, then choose a row, column, or diagonal line, or complete the card.Why are we, a writing community and I, an instructor of writing courses, doing this book bingo? I answer this question in the episode. Listen as I dig into some of our summer book categories, why we chose them, and how reading books in these categories will improve your writing.2024-05-1626 min
Radio Aula MundiBridging The Gap # 23: Question for Dorianne Laux, a multiple award-winning American poet…Bridging The Gap # 23: Question for Dorianne Laux, a multiple award-winning American poet… ••• Jim Bachor, a graphic designer and mosaic artist based in Chicago, Illinois, has a question for Dorianne Laux, a multiple award-winning American poet, based in Richmond, California…••• Dorianne Laux is a multiple award-winning American poet. She has recently retired from her teaching position at North Carolina State University's creative writing program. Now she lives in Richmond, California. ••• https://www.doriannelaux.net/ https://poets.org/poet/dorianne-laux https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dorianne-laux ••• Jim Bachor is a graphic designer and mosaic artist based in C...2024-05-0503 min
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne LauxToday’s poem is Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Poems buttress me against the hurt and the harm and the uncertainty of life itself. I fear that the global conflicts we’re witnessing are negatively impacting the health and mental wellbeing of people who are susceptible to the frailty of this moment. I read poetry profusely during times like these.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp2024-05-0106 min
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne LauxToday’s poem is Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Poems buttress me against the hurt and the harm and the uncertainty of life itself. I fear that the global conflicts we’re witnessing are negatively impacting the health and mental wellbeing of people who are susceptible to the frailty of this moment. I read poetry profusely during times like these.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp2024-05-0106 min
Blue Medicine Journal : A Jungian PodcastHélène Cardona: Poetry in the Kairos- Medicine for the Soul in Dark TimesJoin me in welcoming Hélène Cardona, poet, actor, translator, dream analyst, and linguist. Today's episode is a conversation and a beautiful reading from her Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” as John Ashbery, tells us. Cardona is author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), described by David Mason as “liminal, mystical and other-worldly,” adding, “this is a poet who writes in a rare light.” Hailed as visionary by Richard Wilbur, Cardona’s luminous poetry explores consciousness, the power of place,and ancestral roots. It is poetry of alchemy and healing, a gateway...2024-04-171h 02
There's a Poem in ThatBONUS MICRO-EPISODE: Dorianne Laux is at your serviceSend us a textSome of America’s most celebrated poets are standing by to write poems for you on commission. Together, they form The International Bureau of Custom Poetry. More about the Bureau here.In this special introductory episode, Bureau agent Dorianne Laux recounts her path from gas station attendant to Pulitzer Prize finalist, including a cameo of her mother at the sewing machine in Dorianne’s poem, “Singer.”Do you have a loved one you’d like memorialized in a poem? Or a precious memory you’d like preserved for the ages? Dorian...2024-04-0112 min
The Hive Poetry CollectiveS6:E8 Dorianne Laux Chats with Dion O'ReillyDorianne Laux’s sixth collection,Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated tex...2024-03-1158 min
The Hive Poetry CollectiveS6 E7: Elizabeth Vignali Chats with Dion O'ReillyBellingham poet Elizabeth Vignali buzzes in to read from her newest book and also to read and discuss Dorianne Laux's poem "Facts about the Moon.
Elizabeth Vignali is the author of the poetry collection House of the Silverfish (Unsolicited Press 2021) and three chapbooks, the most recent of which is Endangered [Animal] (Floating Bridge Press 2019). Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Mid-American Review, Tinderbox, The Literary Review, and others. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she works as an optician, produces the Bellingham Kitchen Session reading series, and se...2024-03-0458 min
Charlotte Readers PodcastNew Poetry from AE Hines Finds Meaning in the EverydayIn this episode 379, we feature Adam in the Garden, the second collection from acclaimed local poet AE Hines. These poems touch on everything from current events and climate change to sexuality and relationships to the beauty of small moments in one’s own home or backyard. Pulitzer finalist Dorianne Laux calls Hines “a poet willing to risk sentimentality without collapsing into sentiment. A seeker willing to risk blasphemy in his personal search for truth.”
Show discussion highlights:
● How Hines found common threads in topics ranging from climate change to relationships and sexuality to health and aging
● ...2024-02-2042 min
SoniareadsAntilamentation by Dorianne LauxAnother Reddit find2023-12-2901 min
The Daily PoemDorianne Laux's "Family Stories"Dorianne Laux is the author of several collections of poetry, including What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoke (2000); Facts about the Moon (2005), chosen by the poet Ai as winner of the Oregon Book Award and also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Book of Men (2011), which was awarded the Paterson Prize; and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected (2019). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a Pushcart Prize winner. Laux’s free-verse poems are sensual and gro...2023-12-2709 min
The Poetry Space_ep. 44 - Diving DeepAfter last week's discussion about the need for more poetry criticism, we tried to practice what we preach, taking a careful look at contemporary poems. What is it that makes a good poem great? Katie, Tim and friends discuss, and read four poems in the process: Dick Westheimer's "In Kherson …," Maggie Smith's "Good Bones," Dorianne Laux's "Moon Ghazal," and Noor Hindi's "F- Your Lecture on Craft …." 2023-12-151h 00
There's a Poem in ThatBONUS MICRO-EPISODE: Sasha LaPointe is at your serviceSend us a textSome of America’s most celebrated poets are standing by to write poems for you on commission. Together, they form The International Bureau of Custom Poetry. More about the Bureau here.In our second micro-episode, Bureau agent Sasha LaPointe shares her writing process, the breadth of her essays, and her focus on personal and shared experiences, all aimed at trying to 'make sense of the madness' in the world. It culminates in Sasha's poem, “S.O.T.D.”Do you have a loved one you’d like memorialized in a poem...2023-12-0111 min
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The Chills at Will PodcastEpisode 195 with Jessica Cuello, Keen Observer of the Connections Between Classical and the Modern, and Painter of Resonant Imagery in the Poetry Collection Yours, CreatureNotes and Links to Jessica Cuello’s Work
In Episode 195, Pete welcomes Jessica Cuello, and the two discuss, among other topics, her deep love for poetry and the French language, the power of libraries, transformational work by Jamaica Kincaid, the history of Mary Shelley, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the chaotic and amazon lives led by the family members, ideas of guilt, trauma, misogyny, feminist power, death, doomed love, and identity.
Jessica Cuello’s most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 20...2023-07-2858 min
THE POETRY QUESTION: TPQ20S6EP12: DORIANNE LAUXJoin Chris in conversation with Dorianne Laux, author of Only as the Day is Long (Norton), about passions, process, pitfalls, and Poetry!
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much poetry muchnessSunday Radio, by Dorianne Laux2023-06-2700 min
Poem-a-DayDorianne Laux: "I Dare You"Recorded by Dorianne Laux for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 4, 2023. www.poets.org2023-04-0404 minRadio Aula MundiQuestion for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive…Bridging the gap #2: Question for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive… Dorianne
Laux, an award-winning poet based in Richmond, California, has a
question for Mike Vinopal, a Chicago musician, songwriter, and
co-founder of the band Local Motive… Local Motive’s
self-declared goal is to play lyrical funk that rhythmically rocks and
triggers contemplation. The new Local Motive full-length album “Slice of
Life,” was released in late December 2022. --- https://localmotiveband.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I88xnUFX23k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0J3i2twgA ...2023-04-0104 minRadio Aula MundiQuestion for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive…Bridging the gap #2: Question for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive… Dorianne
Laux, an award-winning poet based in Richmond, California, has a
question for Mike Vinopal, a Chicago musician, songwriter, and
co-founder of the band Local Motive… Local Motive’s
self-declared goal is to play lyrical funk that rhythmically rocks and
triggers contemplation. The new Local Motive full-length album “Slice of
Life,” was released in late December 2022. --- https://localmotiveband.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I88xnUFX23k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0J3i2twgA ...2023-04-0103 min
Write, Publish, and Shine#68 Craft Book Club Conversation—The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne LauxIn this episode it is my pleasure to introduce you to two members of our Writerly Love Community and bring you in to our book club conversation. We’ve been doing our close craft-book readings for a couple of years now. So, I love bringing you, dear listeners who are not members of the Writerly Love community—yet, into this conversation! (You can always learn more about the community and sign up at rachelthompson.co/join.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-03-1438 min
Write, Publish, and ShineCraft Book Club Conversation—The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux
In this episode it is my pleasure to introduce you to two members of our Writerly Love Community, Jennifer Robinson and Candace Webb, and bring you into our book club conversation. We’ve been doing our close craft-book readings for a couple of years now. So, I love bringing you, dear listeners who are not members of the Writerly Love community—yet, into this conversation! (You can always learn more about the community and sign up at rachelthompson.co/join.)
If you want a round-up of all we read before the book we’ll discuss today, check...2023-03-1438 min
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastPop PoetsPop off, queen! If poets could be covered by musicians (instead of musicians covering poems), you'd get...POP POETSBuy STOP LYING, Aaron Smith's new book of poems, just out from the Pitt Poetry Series. Aaron will be signing copies of the book at AWP on Thursday, March 9 from 12:00-12:30 at the University of Pittsburgh Press (Booths 303, 301).Buy ROMANTIC COMEDY, James's new book of poems, which will be released on March 15. James will be signing copies of the book at AWP on Saturday, March 11 from 10:30-11:30 at the Four Way Books Booth # 803.Watch...2023-02-2726 min