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Of Poetry PodcastE.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Field Notes(River River Books, 2025)E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including The Abandoned Playground, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her most recent chapbook, Oranges for Venus, was selected as the 2023 1br/3bath...2025-07-2850 min

Of Poetry PodcastChristen Noel Kauffman (Of Appalachian Poetics, American Evangelicalism, and Writing About Subjects We're Not Supposed to Speak Of)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Faith Test" at The Florida Review OnlinePurchase: The Science of Things We Can Believe (Ghost Peach Press, 2024)Christen Noel Kauffmanis author of The Science of Things We Can Believe which won the Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry chosen by Tiana Clark (2024) and the chapbook Notes to a Mother God (2021), which was a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Chapbook Series. She is a 2022 National Poetry Series Finalist and her work can be found...2025-07-1758 min

Of Poetry PodcastSara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley's Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner (Lynx House Press, 2024)Read: “Annie Oakley’s Bullet Inventory” Jet Fuel ReviewSara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize, 2022), and of two chapbooks. She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series...2025-06-2751 min

The Lazy & Entitled PodcastPride is a RIOT with Dr Han VanderHartThis week, we're talking about protests. We're for them! Chris is joined by Dr. Han VanderHart, who, among other things, is in the midst of publishing a Summer Riot-themed issue of Moist Poetry Journal. Later, we salute the service workers who have to put up with irritating questions about gender-neutral bathrooms. Support your neighbors, support your communities, support each other. Don't forget about the first ever Lazy & Entitled Reading, happening this Monday, June 16, at Rivers & Roads Cafe in Rogers Park. Bob Sykora, Adrian Sobol, Sandra Marchetti, and Micah Mabey will be reading poems, as will Chris. Brendan is providing music...2025-06-1246 min

Of Poetry PodcastRachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others', and Having It Out With Melancholy)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Practice Elegy" at Copper NickelPurchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021)Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021); The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, the 2014 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award; and No Silence in the Fields, a chapbook from Blue Hour...2025-06-101h 10

Of Poetry PodcastHan VanderHart (Of Larks, Genealogy and Truth as a Poetics, and the Line) with Guest Host Amorak HueyToday's episode of Of Poetry is hosted by Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack), the author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021).--Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025)Read: "Larks" at Poetry DailyHan VanderHartis a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), was selected by Chanda Feldman as winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Han is also the author of the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) and has essays and poetry p...2025-05-1853 min

Of Poetry PodcastKarl Knights (Of Directness, the Music of Ordinary Language, and Writing Disability Poetics While Existing All Year)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine)Purchase: Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022)Karl Knights’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Kin, (2022) was published by The Poetry Business. Knights is a Zoeglossia fellow and won a 2021 New Poets Prize. He lives in Suffolk, England.Recommended ReadingBr...2025-05-131h 10

Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush PileEpisode 137: Collective EffervescenceEpisode 137: Collective Effervescence Don’t be jelly, but we’re having a blast with three poems from the poet Han VanderHart in this episode! You can join in on the fizzing of our collective effervescence by just tuning in. We find the conversation naturally turning towards John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, taking in the pipe as a fairly recent newcomer as a punctuation mark in poetry, and the concept of absolute zero, alongside much, much more. Poetic themes of truth, love, and the power of “No” sit at the center of our conversation. Oh, and Marion...2025-04-1752 min

Of Poetry PodcastDanika Stegeman (Of Relentlessness, Gendered Maximalism, and Harryette Mullen and the Mirrored Cinquain)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Ablation (11:11 Press) Read: "Relentless" (at cloak.wtf, the relentless reading experience) Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press November 1st, 2023. Her first book, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s a 2023 recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her video poem, “Then Betelgeuse Reappears” was an official selection for the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. She’s an assistant editor for Conduit and does light bookkeeping for Fonograf Editions. Along with Jace Brittain, she...2025-04-151h 09

Of Poetry Podcastupfromsumdirt (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020)Read: poems from "Fayre Gabbro Suite" (Ice Floe Press)upfromsumdirt is a speculative poet & visual artist dreaming of romanticisms and revolutionary coups. he is the author of 3 chapbooks and 3 full-length collections of poetry, Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), and The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023); a fourth...2025-03-041h 31

Of Poetry PodcastSarah Carey (Of Sandhill Cranes, the Pleasure of Fresh Words, and Writing after Loss)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: The Grief Committee Minutes by Sarah Carey (Saint Julian Press, 2024)Read: "What We Read About Ukraine Makes Us Dream of Burning" by Sarah Carey (Gulf Coast)Sarah Carey is an award-winning veterinary public relations specialist, science writer and Pushcart-nominated poet. She holds a master’s degree in English with a creative writing concentration from Florida State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including Gulf Coast, Sugar House Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Grist, Five Po...2025-02-181h 06

Of Poetry PodcastCorrie Williamson (Of Wilderness, Animal Bodies, and Ecotones of Harm)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025)Read: "You're Hoarding Guns, I'm Growing Herbs" (Kenyon Review)Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Your Mother’s Bear Gun, which is newly out from River River Books. Her other books are The River Where You Forgot My Name, in the Crab Orchard Series, which was named a 2019 Montana Book Award Honor Book by the Montana Li...2025-02-0656 min

Of Poetry PodcastJoe Wilkins (Of Pastoral, Tender Models of Masculinity, and the Sonnet-Haunted Prairies)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Pastoral, 1994 (River River Books, 2025)Read: "Limp" at The Missouri ReviewJoe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of the novels Fall Back Down When I Die (2019) and The Entire Sky (2024), both published by Little, Brown and Company. A finalist for the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and the Pacific...2025-01-281h 00

Of Poetry PodcastAbbie Kiefer (Of the Minor, a Poet's Work Vs. Productivity, and the Poem's Record-Keeping of Ordinary Life)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) Read: "A BRIEF HISTORY OF YANKEE THRIFT, YANKEE INGENUITY, AND YANKEE WORK ETHIC" in Sixth FinchAbbie Kieferis the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other places. She lives in New Hampshire. Find her online at abbiekieferpoet.com.Reading Recommendations:...2025-01-1453 min

Of Poetry PodcastCarolyn Oliver (Of Alcestis, Space and Star Trek, and What Would You Give Up For Love?)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Space Age" in Menagerie MagazinePurchase: The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024)Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Image, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Moist Poetry Journal, Consequence, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio, she now lives in Massachusetts. 2025-01-0159 min

Of Poetry PodcastRiver River Books (Of Writing the Rural, New Book News, and the CAHABA River)Preorder Corrie Williamson's Your Mother's Bear Gun and Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994River River Bookswas founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, at River River Books, two poetry editors join together to publish (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year. By limiting our press catalog, we commit to supporting our authors and their books with focused attention and joy. Submissions (fee optional) open to full-length poetry manuscripts May 1-June 30.Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack) is author of four books of poems...2024-12-1956 min

Of Poetry PodcastVioleta Garcia-Mendoza (Of Midwinter Poems, Rewilding, and Tercets)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Midwinter" in The DodgePurchase: Songs for the Land-Bound (June Road Press, 2024)Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, teacher, and suburban wildlife photographer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2022, she received a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops at Carlow University. Violeta lives with her husband, children, and pack of rescue dogs on a small certified wildlife habitat in western Pennsylvania...2024-12-091h 20

Of Poetry PodcastDana Delibovi and Molly Peacock (Of Literary Afterlives, Emotion and Color, and Material Connections in Women's Writing Across Time)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2024) trans. Dana Delibovi and The Widow's Crayon Box (Penguin, 2024) by Molly PeacockDana Delibovi is a poet, essayist, and translator. She began translating the poetry of St. Teresa of Ávila in 2019, after retiring from a hybrid career as an advertising copywriter and adjunct instructor of philosophy. Her translations of Teresa's poetry and her essays on Teresa’s legacy have appeared in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, The Cath...2024-11-111h 07

Of Poetry PodcastJunious 'Jay' Ward (Of the Field, the Mythic Perception of the South, and the Vulnerable Document)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Inheritance" and "Homecoming, Rich Square, NC" (Fourway Review)Purchase: Composition (Button Poetry, 2023)Junious 'Jay' Ward is a poet and teaching artist from Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Jay currently serves as Charlotte's inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole and Tin...2024-10-3046 min

Of Poetry PodcastEmilie Menzel (Of Invocations, Fables, and Narrative Leaps as Neurodivergent Play)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "I Pull My Leaf Leg Stockings Off My Body" (The Boiler Journal)Purchase: The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (HCP, 2024)Emilie Menzel, writer and librarian of hybridities, is the author of the book-length lyric The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024). Their gently haunted writing features in Copper Nickel, Bennington Review, and The Offing, amongst others, and has garnered such honors as the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry, and the C...2024-10-1657 min

Of Poetry PodcastNicholas Molbert (Of Nostalgia and Work, Southern Boyhood, and Storm Season on the Gulf Coast)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Men Working Above: demolition" and "Parable of Baiting" (UCity Review)Purchase: Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024)Nicholas Molbert Born and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of Spine and Fraction(Northwestern University Press, 2024) and two poetry chapbooks from Foundlings Press: Goodness Gracious (2019) and Cocodrie Elegy (2024). You can find his work in places like The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, and Missouri Review among ot...2024-10-0256 min

Of Poetry PodcastSebastián H. Páramo (Of Apocalypse Literature, Writing Semi-Autobiography, and Hunting Pixelated Ducks)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Everyone Said Nature Was Healing" (Poetry Northwest)Purchase: Portrait of Us Burning(Curbstone Books, 2023)Sebastián H. Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. His poems have recently appeared or will appear in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, The Arkansas International, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Dobie Pai...2024-09-061h 05

Of Poetry PodcastEmily Kramer (Of Intimacy, Archive, and Saskia Hamilton)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: Emily's poem "The Meat of the Plum" in Moist Poetry JournalEmily Kramer is a poet and editor living in Boston, MA. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and her PhD from Boston University’s Editorial Institute. Her critical edition of Arthur Henry Hallam’s collected poems is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Recommended Reading:Saskia HamiltonArthur Henry HallamAlfred, Lord Tennyson's In MemoriamRobe...2024-08-171h 06

Of Poetry PodcastMolly Spencer (Of Invitation, Bridges and Water, and How Should We Live?)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Invitatory" at Poetry DailyPurchase: Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024)Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, editor, and writing instructor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge (SIU Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, won the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Invitatory, her forthcoming third collection, won the 2022 New Measure Poetry Prize and will be published in 2024 by Free Ve...2024-07-2359 min

Of Poetry PodcastKyla Houbolt (Of Frogs, Radicalism, and "Going to the Root”)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Dawn's Fool" (author's website), also "[your mind that beautiful country]" at Malarkey BooksPurchase: But Then I Thought by Kyla Houbolt (above/ground press, 2023)Kyla Houbolt writes poems and occasional reviews, and takes care of two goats, 11 chickens, and 8 ducks. Chapbooks But Then I Thought available from above/ground press, Tuned available from CCCP Chapbooks, Surviving Death available from The Broken Spine, and a re-issue of Dawn’s Fool(a micro chap) also available from above/ground pr...2024-07-0848 min

The Line Breakdo you end up at home?Summer is here, so why not read poems? This month, Bob reads "Time Is Filled with Beginners" by Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chris reads "This is the Barbecue We Had Last Night" by Han VanderHart, and then the guys recap and re-cope the NBA Finals.2024-06-251h 06

Of Poetry PodcastAe Hee Lee (Of Footnotes, Pineapple Slices, and Wonder)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Disambiguation" at Poetry Daily Purchase: Asterism by Ae Hee Lee (Tupelo Press, 2024)Ae Hee Lee--born in South Korea and raised in Peru--is the author of ASTERISM, which was selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press 2017), Dear bear, (Platypus Press 2021), and Connotary (Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner – Bull City Press 2021). Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar, recipient of the James Olney Awar...2024-06-2559 min

Of Poetry PodcastBeth Gilstrap and Lee Potts (Of Desire, Film, and "the Dark Side of Longing for Community")Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap's There is News Along the Ohio River (Cincinnati Review), and Lee Potts' "A Time of Splinters" (Moist Poetry Journal)Purchase: Deadheading & Other Stories (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Beth Gilstrap and We Will Miss the Stars in the Morningby Lee PottsBeth Gilstrap is the author of Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), Winner of the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, short-listed for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Boo...2024-06-111h 11

Of Poetry PodcastJared Beloff and Mitchell Nobis (Of Dad Poetics, Care Work, and NAWP)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "I'd Rather Be" by Mitchell Nobis and "After the Last" by Jared Beloff, both published in Moist Poetry JournalPurchase: Who Will Cradle Your Head by Jared Beloff (and be on the lookout for Mitch Nobel's Beginning to Sense, forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2025)Jared Beloff is the author of the Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). Jared is currently a poetry editor at The Weight Journal and Poets of Queens. His poetry can be found...2024-05-241h 10

Of Poetry PodcastErin Hoover (Of Fierce Narrative Poetry, Queer Community, and Writing Without a Map)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" (The Sun)Purchase: No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Sun. Hoover lives in Tennessee and teaches...2024-05-141h 00

Of Poetry Podcastrob mclennan (Of the fragment, linguistic collision, and world's end)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Dream, with an interior" in Moist Poetry JournalPurchase: World's End (ARP Books, 2023) and groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023)Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the...2024-05-071h 02

Of Poetry PodcastEmilia Phillips (Of Queering Eve, Stanzaic Shape, and Intimate Community)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve"Purchase: Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024)Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (forthcoming February 2024) and Embouchure (2021), and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, 2015 StoryQuarterly Nonfiction Prize, and the 2012 The Journal Poetry Prize, Phillips’s poems, lyric essays, and book reviews ap...2024-03-2948 min

The Line BreakThe Line Break / Of Poetry Crossover EventGather round, damas y caballeros, children of all ages, have we got a treat for you! It's the first but probably not last crossover episode between The Line Break and Of Poetry! That's right, Han VanderHart joins Bob Sykora and Chris Corlew, and the three of them read not merely other people's poetry, but reach into the depths of their notebooks to holler some of their own art-words your way. Han reads their poem "last night I was sexting and reading June Jordan," and "Bottoms" by Jenny Johnson. Bob reads his poem "Utopians In Love" and "What Kids Don't Know"...2024-03-261h 29

Of Poetry PodcastThe Line Break / Of Poetry Crossover with Chris Corlew and Bob Sykora and Han VanderHartChris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cotton Xenomorph, Whisk(e)y Tit, Kicking Your Ass, Cracked.com, and elsewhere. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is ½ of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels. You can find more Chris on Bluesky @thecorlew, a storiesfromvine.com, or at shipwreckedsailor.substack.com.Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016) and the forthcoming collection Utopians in Love (Gam...2024-03-261h 29

Of Poetry PodcastAmorak Huey and Han VanderHart (River River Books): Of Choosing Abundance, Creating a Small Press Community, and Weathering Manuscript RejectionsRead: Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's "Larks"(Up the Staircase Quarterly)Purchase: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021)Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021), Huey teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His previous books are Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), Seducing th...2024-03-181h 24

Of Poetry PodcastCarla Sofia Ferreira (Of Elegiac Odes, Semicolons, and Witness)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey MagPurchase: A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024)Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press, 2019) and debut poetry book A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024), her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize...2024-02-2658 min

Of Poetry PodcastCatherine Rockwood (Of Pirates, the Event of the Image, and Angelic Sex)Read: "A Poem for Retired Lighthouses," Little Blue MarblePurchase: And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (Ethel Zine Press, 2023)Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Their poetry chapbooks, And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (2023) and Endeavors To Obtain Perpetual Motion (2022) are available from the Ethel Zine Press.Recommended Reading:Our Flag Means Death: A Brief Excursus on Tailors and Tailoring by Ca...2024-02-161h 05

Of Poetry PodcastTom Snarsky (Of Minisons, Math, and More About Long Poems)Read: Neutral Spaces, for more of Tom Snarsky's poetryPurchase: Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023)Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats. You can find him @tomsnarsky on Twitter, Instagram, & Bluesky, and you can find the reading series he coordinates @night_light_poems_ on Instagram and @nightlightpoems on Twitter. If you're a poet, he would love...2024-02-051h 05

Of Poetry PodcastCarolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen's Alphabet, and Writing Disaster)Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024)Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and other publications. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans and serves as the poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. R...2024-01-191h 11

Of Poetry PodcastRachel Edelman (Of Memphis, Geology, and Water)Read: "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.orgPurchase: Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023)Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Dear Memphis, their debut collection of poems, will be published by River River Books in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and many other journals. They have received material support from City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, the Academy of American Poets, Mineral School, Crosstown Arts, and Tin House and finalist commendations from the Adrienne Rich Award, the Pink...2024-01-081h 19

Of Poetry PodcastErin Malone (Of Bears, Memory, and Doors)Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature.Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023)Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Disappearance, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concrete Wolf, 2008). Her recent honors include the Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry and the Robert Creeley Memorial Prize from Marsh Hawk Press. Erin has received grants and fellowships from Washington State Artist Trust, 4Culture, Jack Straw, and the Colorado Coun...2023-12-271h 00

Of Poetry PodcastSteven Leyva (Of Anti-Confession, Zydeco, and Clarity)Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in ScalawagPurchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020).Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an...2023-12-121h 09

Of Poetry PodcastAnna V.Q. Ross (Of Self-Portraits, Foxes, and Leaving For Good)Read: "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn QuarterlyPurchase: Flutter, Kick by Anna V. Q. Ross (Red Hen Press, 2022)Anna V.Q. Ross's previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press); and Hawk Weather (winner the New Women’s Voices Prize from Finishing Line Press and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Society). A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fulbright Foundation, Virginia Cen...2023-11-291h 11

Of Poetry PodcastLauren Camp (Of Mystery, Agnes Martin, and Silence as Bounty)Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry DailyPurchase: An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023)Lauren Mukamal Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate, is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2023). She was awarded a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Other honors include a Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. In 2022, she was...2023-11-0752 min

Of Poetry PodcastJennifer A Sutherland (Of Fashion, Negative Capability, and Octopuses)Read: "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion Review.Purchase: Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023)Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or will appear in Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, I-70 Review, Cagibi, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere.Reading Recommendation:Hart Crane, Linda Hull, Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know 2023-09-151h 01

Of Poetry PodcastMoira J. Saucer and Catherine Rockwood (Of Interruption, Griefwork, Raspberries and Drift Roses)Purchase: Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine RockwoodMoira J Saucer is a disabled poet living in the Alabama Wiregrass. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her worked has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada including Black Bough Poetry Freedom- Rapture anthology, Visual Verse, Fly on the Wall Press, Ice Floe Press, Mooky Chick, Floodlight Editions, and Fevers of the Mind Poets of 2020.Catherine Rockwood is a staff member...2023-09-051h 23

Of Poetry PodcastJason Myers (Of Taste, Music, and Coming to Our Senses)Read: Read "Eucharist" in DiagramPurchase: Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point PressJason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & (Belle Point Press, 2023) and A Place for the Genuine (Eerdmans, 2024). Myers is a National Poetry Series finalist and has published poetry and essays in The Believer, Image, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Paris Review, and numerous other magazines. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best New Poets and was introduced by Campbell McGrath as part of American Poet's Emerging Poets feature. He is co-Executive Director of EcoTheo...2023-08-141h 13

Of Poetry PodcastDestiny Hemphill (Of Ritual, Tenderness, and Speculative Nonfiction)Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock)Purchase: motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023)Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop, she is the author of the poetry chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press, 2018), and her debut Motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Actionbooks, 2023). More reading recommended from this episode:2023-07-2658 min

Poems & WhiskeyPoetry is a Horse, it Makes Sense all Put-together with Alejandro ShowDemining the UkraineLegacy of War Foundation988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline orText 988With a pen in one hand and a riding crop in the other, Alejandro and I discuss communities, how our places within them creates the templet of ourselves, and how they inform the work. How important it is too, that your community be one that has your best interests at heart. Wanting to be known is not a sin.Be aware, we discuss mental health and suicidal ideation, please keep yourselves safe.2023-07-191h 43

Of Poetry PodcastLen Lawson (Of Asylums, Poetic Histories, and Rest)Read: "Psychology for Black Folk" at Jasper ProjectPurchase: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023)Len Lawson is author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021) and Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017). South Carolina Humanities awarded him a 2022 Governor's Award for Fresh Voices in the Humanities. He has received fellowships f...2023-05-171h 05

Of Poetry PodcastCaelan Ernest (Of Cyborgs and Parties, Publicity, and Transcending Binaries)Read: “put ur phone down for a sec” from night mode in Blush LitPurchase: night mode (Everybody Press, 2023)Caelan Ernest is a poet and a performer. They are the author of two forthcoming collections: night mode and ICONOCLAST, being published in 2023 and 2024 respectively by Everybody Press. They received their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. They are Publicist at Graywolf Press. They live in Brooklyn with their cat named Salad.More reading and viewing recommendations from this episode:Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto Bladerunnerr. er...2023-03-161h 08

Of Poetry PodcastStephanie Burt (Of Mermaids, Punctuation, and Queer Community Formation)Read: "Whale Watch" at TurbinePurchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022)Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). In addition to poetry things, she writes about trans stuff and pop music and comic book superheroes for Comicsxf.com, the New Yorker and other fun venues. Her podcast about tabletop role-playing games is Team-Up Moves (teamupmoves.com). 2023-01-271h 10

Of Poetry PodcastSara Lefsyk (Of Escapism, Writing Residencies, and Ethel Zine)Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City, and Tinderbox among others.Read: "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird," at TinderboxPurchase: We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and the Ethel Zine!Read Also:Leonora Carrington's short storiesMargaret Cavendish's The Blazing-World 2023-01-1653 min

Of Poetry PodcastK. Iver (Of Queer Narrative, Negation, and Southern Elegy)Read: "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The CommonPurchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023)K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Iver is the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Fellow for Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Fl...2023-01-0955 min

Of Poetry PodcastLaura Jaramillo (Of River Culture, Sequences, and War Machines)Read: "War Machine" at The Tiny MagPurchase: Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022)Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.Read More:Lyn Hejinian: My Life and My Life in the NinetiesMina Loy: Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose (Part I)2022-12-121h 06

Of Poetry PodcastLaura Minor (Of Heart, Authors' Prayers, and Ripening)Listen: On the web, or at your favorite player (Google, Apple, Spotify)Read: "Flowers as Mind Control" at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Purchase: Flowers as Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021)Laura Minor’s critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Laura won the I.L.A.’s Rita Dove Poetry Award (chosen by Marilyn Nelson) and the Emerging Writers Spotlight Award (chosen by poet D.A. Powell). She teaches poetry at Oklahoma State University.Also pleas...2022-11-091h 07

Of Poetry PodcastBronwen Tate (Of Lexicons, Milk, and Description)Read: "Moon Without Possible Approach" at Tin Fish Press.Purchase: The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Books, 2021)Bronwen Tate teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore and a contributor to the collaborative book-length poem Midwinter Constellation. Bronwen’s poems and essays have appeared in Bennington Review, CV2, Grain, The Rumpus, Journal of Modern Literature, and Contemporary Literature. Her substack newsletter Ok, But How? goes deep on process and includes snacks. 2022-09-191h 01

Of Poetry PodcastShelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)Read: Shelley Wong's poem "To Yellow," which she reads on Episode 24.Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.Purchase: As She Appears(YesYes Books, 2022). 2022-05-241h 02

Of Poetry Podcastjason b. crawford (Of Queer Black Language, Phantom Safety, and Debt)Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLipjason b. crawford (They/Them) is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is out from Paper Nautilus Press. Their third chapbook, Good Boi, is out from Neon Hemlock press. Their debut Full Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 from Sundress Publications. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University...2022-04-251h 01

Of Poetry PodcastMarlanda Dekine (Of Coming Home, Staying in the Body, and Gullah-Geechee Pronouns)Read: "Hurricane Family," published at Moist Poetry Journal.Marlanda Dekine’s debut full-length poetry collection, Thresh & Hold, is the winner of Hub City Press's 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in March 2022.MARLANDA DEKINE’S WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED OR IS FORTHCOMING IN OXFORD AMERICAN, POETRY, EMERGENCE MAGAZINE, BEESTUNG, ANNULET, SHUDDHASHAR MAGAZINE, AND ELSEWHERE. THEY ARE THE 2021-2022 CASTLE OF OUR SKINS SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS CREATIVE-IN-RESIDENCE, A RECIPIENT OF THE 2022 PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL LANGSTON HUGHES FELLOWSHIP, A 2021 TIN HOUSE SCHOLAR, AND A WATERING HOLE FELLOW. CURRENTLY, MARLANDA SERVES AS HEALING JUSTICE FELL...2022-03-211h 00

Of Poetry PodcastLenard D. Moore (Of Jazz, Haiku, and Community)Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google, and moreRead: a selection of haiku by Lenard D. Moore at the North Carolina Haiku SocietyLenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His literary works have been published in more than sixteen countries and translated into more than twelve languages.His poems, essays, short stories and book reviews have appeared in more than 400 publications. His poems have appeared in more than 100 anthologies. He has taught Creative Writing and African American Literature. He is a U.S. Army Veteran. Moore is the author of Lon...2022-02-2857 min

Of Poetry PodcastAmanda Moore (Of Bee Keeping, California Light, and Haibun)Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere. Read: Amanda Moore's poem "Labor as an Exotic Vacation," which she reads on Episode 20.Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZZYZVA, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is the recip...2022-02-141h 13

Of Poetry PodcastDonna Vorreyer (Of Love, Ritual, and Ordinary Joy)Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she serves as an associate editor for Rhino Poetry and hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.Purchase: To Everything There Is (Sundress Publications, 2020) and Donna's other full-lengths at Sundress Publications.Also Donna's visually collaborative chapbook Encantado...2022-01-311h 12

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and SpiritualityArt, Ecology, and Spirit: Jason Myers of EcoTheo Collective | Ep. 46 In this episode Forrest talks with Jason Myers, Executive Director of the EcoTheo Collective—a virtual community of people devoted to exploring the possibilities at the intersection of art, spirituality, and ecology. He is also Editor of the EcoTheo Review, a journal that publishes work exploring themes ranging from creation care to creativity, and earth justice to social justice. Got ideas for future guests? Leave a voice mail at www.circlewood.online/earthkeepers or email us at earthkeepers@circlewood.online Guest: Jason Myers - Executive Director of EcoTheo Collective Editor in Chief of E...2022-01-1736 min

Of Poetry PodcastTwila Newey and Natalie Solmer (Of Water, Gardens, and Caretaking)Twila Newey has an M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa. Her poems were finalists for the 2019 Coniston Prize at Radar Poetry and won honorable mention in the 2019 JuxtaProse Poetry Contest. You can read recent work at Interim Poetics, Sugarhouse Review, Green Mountains Review, and Moist Poetry journal. Twila lives in Northern California at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.Read: Twila's poems "honeycomb" and "Theories of Heaven" at Green Mountain Review.Natalie Solmer is the founder and Editor In Chief of The Indianapolis Review, and is an Assistant Professor...2022-01-032h 14

Of Poetry PodcastKasey Jueds (Of Animals, Silence, and Folk Tales)Read: Kasey Jueds' poem "Kittatinny," which she reads on the episode.Kasey Jueds a poet living in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Kasey poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Provincetown Arts, River Styx, Salamander, The Southampton Review, Tinderbox, and Waxwing.Kasey has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, and the Ucross Foundation; and a visiting poet at the University of Pennsylvania, LaSalle College...2021-12-011h 02

a child walks in the darkEp 3: Han VanderHart - the field moves towards youOn this episode, "the field moves towards you", Darren and Han VanderHart get a chance to discuss the idea of children, their inheritance, understanding, and growth. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the field moves towards you" from the a child walks in the dark collection (due to be published by Harbor Editions in December 2021) that inspired the theme for this episode.2021-11-2639 min

Of Poetry PodcastChloe Martinez (Of Mandalas, Bad Poets, and Claiming Identity)Read: "Mandala of the Soapy Water," that Chloe reads on the episodeChloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. Purchase: Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021)2021-11-231h 07

Of Poetry PodcastAngie Mazakis (Of Prizes, Phonelessness, and Itinerancy)Read: Angie Mazakis's poem "Oh, My Kidneys," which she reads on the episode, and Han’s review of I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First.Angie Mazakis's first book of poetry, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for the 2020 Miller Williams Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Press in March 2020. The book was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series and was named by The Boston Globe as one of the Best Books of 2020. Her poems have appeared in Th...2021-11-151h 20

Of Poetry PodcastAlina Stefanescu (Of Longing, Teleology, and Labor)Listen: On Apple, Google, Spotify, and elsewhere.Read: Alina's poem "Apologia," which she reads on Episode 14.Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek...2021-11-0857 min

Of Poetry PodcastChristian J. Collier (Of Chattanooga, Names, and Horror)Read: Christian's poem "when my days fill with ghosts" at Hayden's Ferry Review, which Christian reads on the episode.Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review,The Michigan Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Grist Journal, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 2019-2020 Seven Hills Review Poetry Contest.Pre-order Christian's chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade (Bull City Press, 2022)2021-11-021h 02

Of Poetry PodcastAmorak Huey (Of Dads, Odysseus, and American Myth)Read: Amorak Huey's poem "CHILDHOOD GOES KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, GUN" at American Poetry ReviewAmorak Huey is a poet and professor, a writer and sometime journalist, a decent dad and a mediocre slow-pitch softball player. He pronounces his first name uh-MOR-ack.Amorak is author of four poetry collections: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021); Boom Box (Sundress Publications, 2019); Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank Books, 2018), winner of the Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize; and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress Publications, 2015), as well as as two poetry chapbooks: The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl...2021-10-251h 06

Of Poetry PodcastLyd Havens (Of Form, Similes, and Saints)Read: Lyd Havens' poem "I only mis-gender myself when Fleetwood Mac comes on" (flypaper lit), which they read on Episode 11Lyd Havens is a reader and writer currently living in Boise, Idaho. Their work has previously been published in Ploughshares, The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Foglifter, among others. They are the author of the chapbook I Gave Birth to All the Ghosts Here (Nostrovia! Press, 2018), the winner of the 2018 ellipsis… Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2019 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Their chapbook Chokecherry was published by Game Over Bo...2021-10-1850 min

Of Poetry PodcastAnuja Ghimire and Burgi Zenhaeusern (Of Place, Dreams, and Borders)Read: Anuja Ghimire's poem "Orlando" and Burgi Zenhaeusern's "Self-Portrait as Granatöpfel"Anuja Ghimire is a Nepal-born writer of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of Kathmandu (Unsolicited Press, 2020), fable-weavers (Ethelzine, 2022), and two poetry books in Nepali. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Anuja works as a senior publisher in an online learning company. She reads poetry for Up the Staircase Quarterly and enjoys teaching poetry to children in summer camps. Most recently, her work found home in Bending Genres, Chestnut Review, and Moist Poetry Journal. Anuja lives near Dallas, Texas wit...2021-10-1155 min

Of Poetry PodcastEsteban Rodríguez (Of Recuerdo, Recovery, and The Valley)Read: Several poems from The Valley.Esteban Rodríguez is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Valley (Sundress Publications 2021), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press 2021). He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review, Senior Book Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and Associate Poetry Editor for AGNI. He currently lives in central Texas.Purchase: The Valley and Before the Earth Devours Us.2021-10-0449 min

Of Poetry PodcastLaura Wetherington (Of After Poems, Translation, and Birds)Read: "Dear Hannah," and other poemsLaura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. The Brooklyn Rail called the book “humble, folksy, romantic, tough, inventive, and not over-programmed.” Her second book, Parallel Resting Places, was chosen by Peter Gizzi for the New Measure Prize, was released with Free Verse Editions in January 2021. She has published three chapbooks: Dick Erasures (Red Ceilings Press 2011), the collaboratively written at the intersection of 3 (Dancing Girl Press 2014), and Grief Is the Only Thing That Flies (Bateau Press 2018), which A...2021-09-201h 12

Of Poetry PodcastJessica Q. Stark (Of Archive, Documentary Play, and Hunger)Read: Jessica's poem "The Ballad of the Red Wisteria"Jessica Q. Stark is a California-native, Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and dual MA Degrees in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. She received her PhD in English from Duke University. She has published scholarly articles on poetry and comics studies and teaches writing at the University of North Florida.Her poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Society of America, Pleiades, Up the St...2021-09-1349 min

Of Poetry PodcastC.T. Salazar (of Souths, Sonnets, and Nonbinary Poetics)Read: Four of C.T.’s American Cavewall SonnetsC.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is forthcoming in 2022 from Acre Books. He’s the author of three chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press, 2021). He’s the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. His poems have appeared in The Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, 32 Poems, RHINO, and elsewhere.Purchase C.T. Salazar’s American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press, 2021).2021-09-0646 min

Of Poetry PodcastKelly Cressio-Moeller (Of Bees, Ekphrasis, and First Books)Read: An interview with Kelly Cressio-Moeller at ZYZZYVA.Kelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, Best of the Net and have appeared widely in journals and at literary websites including Gargoyle, North American Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Water~Stone Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She is an associate editor at Glass Lyre Press. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two sons, and their basset hound. Shade of Blue Trees is her first poetry collection, the finalist...2021-08-301h 01

Of Poetry PodcastCarla Sofia Ferreira (Of Newark, Eurydice, and Cherry Blossoms)Read: Carla’s Chapbook Ironbound Fados and her craft chap Eat a PersimmonCarla Sofia Ferreira is a Portuguese-American poet from Newark, New Jersey who teaches high school English in Newark today. She’s received fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and DreamYard Radical Poetry Consortium. Her micro-chap Ironbound Fados was published in 2019 by Ghost City Press and in 2020, she self-published a poetry prompt chapbook for high school students and their teachers, Eat A Persimmon. She believes in community gardens, semicolons, and that ICE must be permanently abolished.2021-08-231h 07

Of Poetry PodcastTom Snarsky (Of Games, Francis Bacons, and Ducks, Newburyport)Read: Tom’s poem Gospel of Thomas, which he reads on Episode 3.Tom Snarsky is a math teacher who writes poetry. He is a former Robert Noyce Teaching Fellow at Tufts University and a Senior Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative. He is the author of two books forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2022: Speaking Roles, a collection of poetry interviews, and Complete Sentences, a pamphlet of poems about teaching. He is also the author of the chapbook Threshold, published in 2018 by Another New Calligraphy. In addition to his work in print, several of Tom’s chapbooks and pamp...2021-08-161h 05

Of Poetry PodcastChristopher Kempf (Of Epigraphs, Paradise Lost, and Faulknerian Time)Conversation with Christopher Kempf, author of What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU Press, 2021).2021-08-0954 min

Of Poetry PodcastJessica Cuello (Of Mothers, Brothers, and Philomel)Read one of the poems Jessica reads on Episode 1: “The Androgynous Christ.”Jessica Cuello’s manuscript, Liar, has been selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, forthcoming in October 2021. She is also the author of Pricking (Tiger Bark Press 2016), winner of the 2017 CNY Book Award, and Hunt (The Word Works 2017), winner of the 2016 Washington Prize. In addition, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). Cuello was the recipient of The 2018 New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, The 2013 New Letters Poetry Prize, and a 2015 Saltonstall Writing Fellowship. In 2014 she was awarded...2021-08-0739 min