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Version 1Life as a poet and finding inspiration in everyday life with Poet James MoreheadJames Morehead is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has published several poetry collections, including "The Plague Doctor." “Tethered” was transformed into an award-winning animated short film, “Twilight in the Sculpture Forest” won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Poetry Film Festival, and “gallery” was set to music for baritone and piano. He has been published in the Ignatian, Beyond Words, Citron Review, Ekphrastic Review, Loud Coffee Press, Havik, and others. James has performed in Patagonia's Poet Laureate Celebration, NPR’s Poetically Yours, and as Guest Poet at the 20th Annual Haiku Festival...
2026-01-131h 03
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastRickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW]Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize. Laurentiis is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, BOMB, and poets.org. A 2018 Whiting Award winner, she lives in New Orleans. Below are excerpts from the interview with James Morehead on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.
2025-10-0646 min
CatalyzeWhy you shouldn’t miss the 2025 Alumni Forum, with co-chairs James Dean ’89 and Madhu Vulimiri ’14Join co-chairs Madhu Vulimiri ’14 and James Dean ’89 as they share what will make the 2025 Alumni Forum this fall an unmissable event! This invigorating weekend is a chance to reconnect, learn, and grow with alumni from around the world. The Alumni Forum will take place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from October 17 to 19. Learn more and secure your spot on the Morehead-Cain Network. How to listenOn your mobile device, you can listen and subscribe to Catalyze on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For any other podcast app, you can find the show using ou...
2025-06-1001 min
What We Aim To DoWhat Poet & Podcaster James Morehead Aims To DoSend us a text In this episode, James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, shares his journey from writing poetry in high school to self-publishing collections like canvas, portraits of red and gray, and The Plague Doctor. James also talks about hosting the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and how he balances his career in tech with his creative passions. The conversation touches on the power of putting your work out there, self-publishing versus traditional routes, and how to embrace the vulnerability that comes with sharing poetry."About the guest:James Morehead i...
2024-09-221h 07
PodceteraThe Art of Poetry With James Morehead, the Poet Laureate of Dublin, CaliforniaPoetry has long been a powerful medium for capturing human experience, and in this episode of Podcetera, we explore its timeless art with James Morehead, former Poet Laureate of Dublin, California.
James illuminates the evolution of poetry from its ancient roots to modern expressions, sharing his insights into this rich tradition. He reads several of his evocative poems, including one inspired by San Francisco, and delves into his unique creative process. Discover his journey to becoming a published poet, the sources of his inspiration, and the profound depth of his craft. James also examines the therapeutic power...
2024-07-3054 minPodceteraThe Art of Poetry With James Morehead, the Poet Laureate of Dublin, CaliforniaPoetry has long been a powerful medium for capturing human experience, and in this episode of Podcetera, we explore its timeless art with James Morehead, former Poet Laureate of Dublin, California.
James illuminates the evolution of poetry from its ancient roots to modern expressions, sharing his insights into this rich tradition. He reads several of his evocative poems, including one inspired by San Francisco, and delves into his unique creative process. Discover his journey to becoming a published poet, the sources of his inspiration, and the profound depth of his craft. James also examines the therapeutic power...
2024-07-3054 min
Multifaith MattersKelly James Clark on the Raging Fire of Love in the Abrahamic ReligionsIn this podcast Kelly James Clark discusses his book Raging Fire of Love, a book on Muslim, Christian and Jewish love, and shares what he learned about how love of neighbor and even enemy. He discusses compassion in the Abrahamic traditions and what he learned from Christians (his spiritual home), second, Jews, and third, Muslims.
Kelly James Clark, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. Kelly has held previous positions at Grand Valley State University, Calvin University and Gordon College and visiting appointments at Oxford University, the University of S...
2024-07-271h 00
Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-FeltonBookable Space with James MoreheadHosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, in this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by James Morehead. James reads from The Plague Doctor.About the writerJames Morehead is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, author of three collections of poetry, and host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. James' poem "tethered" was transformed into an award-winning animated short and "gallery" was set to music (baritone and piano). His poems have appeared in multiple publications.About The Plague DoctorThe Plague Doctor is both accessible and layered with meaning, a visual...
2024-04-2321 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastHeather Bourbeau's "Monarch" Writes Forgotten Histories of Western States in Poetry [INTERVIEW]Heather Bourbeau’s award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin (Ireland). Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has...
2024-01-3042 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastA poem for Autumn to Welcome Thanksgiving - "Falling" by James MoreheadJames Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California) recites his poem "Falling" from his first book "Canvas".
Falling
With a damp chill and shortening days,
I drive past Dorset at autumn’s peak.
High above, white clouds stroll puffed in promenade,
held delicate together by slender contrails,
and morning sun softly warms a crisp early breeze,
sending lake shimmered ripples—a cumulus mirror.
I step into a forest, maples rooted firm in Canadian shield,
feet meandering in s...
2023-11-2206 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastA Poetic Journey by Cable Car (from Exploring San Francisco)This week's episode features a special excerpt from the Exploring San Francisco podcast by San Francisco Travel. Award-winning host and travel writer Aaron Millar welcomes Viewless Wings founder and City of Dublin Poet Laureate James Morehead to recite his poem "nine point five miles per hour", recorded while riding a cable car. James' poem was inspired by the San Francisco Cable Car Museum.
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2023-08-0809 min
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast"sisters" by James Morehead + Summer HiatusViewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead recites his poem "sisters" (from "canvas") to welcome a summer hiatus. The podcast will return with more interviews and submitted poetry episodes in September. Have a wonderful summer!
2023-08-0103 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCaitlin Conlon's "The Surrender Theory" Burrows Into the Depths of Human Emotion [INTERVIEW]Caitlin Conlon is a poet and avid reader from Upstate New York. She holds a BA in English and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University at Buffalo and, while there, was chosen for the Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, and the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her debut poetry collection, The Surrender Theory, was released in 2022 with Central Avenue Publishing. You can find her online almost anywhere @cgcpoems. Below are excerpts from the interview with James Morehead on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.
A trigger warning for listeners: the book being discussed c...
2023-07-1845 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastKatie Farris Battles Cancer and Insurrections with Poetic Humor and Hope in "Standing in the Forest of Being Alive" [INTERVIEW]Katie Farris’s work has been commissioned by MoMA and appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, McSweeneys, The Nation, and Poetry. She is the author of the chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, which won the 2020 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal, and boysgirls, a hybrid-form book, as well as co-translator of many books of poetry. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Brown University. She is currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (Alice James Books, 2023) is her first book of po...
2023-05-0947 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastBay Area Book Festival - Viewless Wings Poets Laureate Celebration PreviewJoin Viewless Wings for an extraordinary day of poetry readings and book signings by celebrated current and former SF Bay Area Poets Laureate at the 2023 Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, May 7 (11 am - 5 pm) in the Viewless Wings booth (#96). James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA and host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast), Sarah Kobrinsky (former Poet Laureate - Emeryville, CA), Kathleen Moore (former Poet Laureate - San Ramon, CA), and Kimi Sugioka (Poet Laureate - Alameda, CA) will be on hand, including the debut of Morehead's newly released book, "The Plague Doctor."
2023-05-0216 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastDana Gioia on Exploring Lyrical Forms in "Meet Me at the Lighthouse" [INTERVIEW]Dana Gioia is the former Poet Laureate of California. An internationally recognized poet and critic, he is the author of seven collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), which won the Poets’ Prize for the best new poetry volume of the year. His critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, and Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life (2022). His poems have been set to music by numerous composers, including Morten Lauridsen, Ned Rorem, Lori Laitman, and Dave...
2023-03-281h 05Multifaith MattersJames Keenan on Moral Theology, the New Testament and Multifaith EncountersMoral theology provides a helpful but often neglected avenue for multifaith engagement beyond Christian emphasis upon evangelism and apologetics. James Keenan discusses the New Testament's teaching on virtue ethics, particularly humility and love, and how these can be practiced in multifaith contexts. Keenan is Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Canisius Professor, Director of The Jesuit Institute at Boston College. He is the author of several books, including one related to this conversation, Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology, which he co-authored with Daniel Harrington.
James Keenan: https://www.bc.e...
2023-02-2637 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSix Poets Recite (Maddy Robinson, George Yatchisin, Mara Scrupe, Karin Krieger, Yael Valencia Aldana, Rachel Richmond)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Lisa Marie Simmons and more.
Poets featured in this episode:
light// [verb] by Maddy Robinson
Gathering Light at a Ferry Stop, Jesolo, Italy by George Yatchisin
a brief history of birds of prey she said by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
MET by Karin Falcone Krieger
Hammer...
2023-02-2120 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastTupelo Press Editor-in-Chief Kristina Marie Darling on A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle [INTERVIEW]Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-six books. Her work has been recognized with multiple residencies, fellowships, and grants, including an an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; six residencies at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence position with the Andorran Ministry of Culture. She was recognized with the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions, among many other awards and honors. Kristina serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press & Tupelo Quarterly. Kristina’s latest book, “Look to your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle” was rec...
2023-02-0738 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastA poem to close Season 2: "Among the scattered ribbons and crumpled paper"As 2022, and our second season, comes to a close Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead shares his Christmas-themed poem "Among the scattered ribbons and crumpled paper" which first appeared on NPR’s Poetically Yours earlier this month.
W’d like to thank all of the wonderful poets profiled this year with in-depth interviews, and the poets that 89 for inclusion in our monthly submitted poetry episodes.
We’ll be back in 2023 with more interviews and opportunities for poets to have their work featured on our podcast.
Until then have a wonderful holiday season and Ne...
2022-12-2703 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSix Poets Recite (Linda Eve Diamond, Alex Stanley, Angela Sucich, Cynthia Dorfman, Ipsheeta Furtado, Rosanne Ehrlich)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast December submitted poems episode features seven wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more.
Poets featured in this episode:
The Twittering Machine and A Question of Hope by Linda Eve Diamond
Ruin, Canyon de Chelly by Alex Stanley
A Pelican Feeding Her Young by Angela Sucich
Dangling Woman by Cynthia Dorfman
Dulce de...
2022-12-0616 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastThree Poets Bring Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" to Life with "Chalk Song"On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast we interview not one, but three wonderful poets about their collaboration to create Chalk Song.
Susan Berger-Jones is an architect and poet. Her written and visual work has appeared in Drunken Boat, No Exit, and two anthologies of ekphrastic poems published by Off the Park Press.
Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge. Her work has been published Tupelo Quarterly, This Rough Beast, Colorado Review, SpoKe4, and in the poetry anthologies New Smoke (2009) and Triumph of Poverty (2011).
Judson Evans is a poet whose work has fo...
2022-11-2939 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastStelios Mormoris on Elevating Humanity through the Poetry of The Oculus [INTERVIEW]Stelios Mormoris is a resident of Boston and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and formerly lived in Paris most of his life, working as an executive in the beauty industry. Stelios is currently Chief Executive Officer of Scent Beauty, Inc. He studied architecture at Princeton University, where he received his BA, and he received his MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has held positions on the boards of the French Cultural Center of Boston, ACT-UP, Historic New England, and The Fragrance Foundation.
2022-11-1546 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Donald Platt Explores Beauty, Dark Matter, and the Love of Family in Swansdown [INTERVIEW]Donald Platt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, his most recent is Swansdown (Grid Books, 2022). His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Yale Review, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize.
2022-11-011h 05
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastTess Taylor Explores Northern California through Poetry in "Rift Zone" [INTERVIEW]Tess Taylor, who Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed as “the poet for our moment” resides in El Cerrito, California. Her poems have received wide national and international acclaim. Taylor’s chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook competition. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, The Forage House, (an exploration of hidden family histories through archive and shard) “stunning,” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award.
2022-10-1849 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSeven Poets Recite (Rebekah Bartlett, RA Pavoldi, Rose Oliver, Rosanne Ehrlich, Simon Constam, Mon Malanovich-Gallagher, Marie Chambers)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more.
Featured in this episode:
The Execution of Maximillian by Rebekah Bartlett
Old Money by R.A. Pavoldi
The Magician by Rose Oliver
Three Ways of Looking at a Druid by Rosanne Ehrlich
Yerushalmi by Simon Constam
Deliver...
2022-10-1124 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoets Take the Mic at Dublin's Splatter Festival 2022This episode features eleven points, nine finalists (eight of whom performed live at the City of Dublin's Splatter Festival on Saturday September 10, 2022) and two honorable mentions. All have wonderful poetic focus covering a diversion range of topics.
Finalists
Kate McCarroll Moore
Cara Sennott
Ida Marie Beck
Marie-Anne Poudret
Rowena
Tho Nguyen
Carissa Maddox
Inge Sorensen
Sarah Abbett
Honorable Mentions
Ileia Thomas AKA Black Latina Lyrics
Sterling Nguyen
2022-10-0558 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastYanyi's "Dream of the Divided Field" Explores the Separation of Self [INTERVIEW]Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space, and he is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Poets House. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University. He was most recently poetry editor at Foundry. Currently, he teaches creative writing at large and gives creative advice at The...
2022-09-2742 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPamela Wax Explores the Healing Power of Poetry in "Walking the Labyrinth"Pamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received awards from Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Her publication credits include Barrow Street, Pensive, Connecticut River Review, Heron Tree, Glimpse, Mudfish, Pedestal, Pangyrus, Reed Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Sixfold, Solstice, and Passengers Journal, among others. Pam is an ordained rabbi who facilitates spiritual poetry writing workshops and walks labyrinths in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts—or wherever she can find them. Her forthcoming website is...
2022-09-1344 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastBehind the Scenes of a Local Bookseller with Tricia Huebner, Phoenix BooksThis week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast takes you behind the scenes of an independent bookstore courtesy of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont. As writers and poets we have all spent many hours - and dollars - in bookstores. No online experience can replace walking down an aisle of bookshelves, searching for the poetry section, and being distracted by an intriguing book cover.
Tricia Huebner is the co-owner of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont which opened in 2015. She grew up outside of New York City, has bachelor’s degrees in English and History, and moved to...
2022-08-3024 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastFive Poets Recite (Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis, David Holper, Connor Simons, Norma DaCrema, Linda Drattell)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more.
Featured in this episode:
Saint Matthew’s Rectus Femoris by Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis
Aubergine by David Holper
The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia by Connor Simons
Open Sesame by Norma DaCrema
Paddington Park by Linda Drattell
2022-08-2320 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSarah Kobrinsky Shares Poetry from "Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything"Sarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry, Red Light Lit, Eleven Eleven, Monkeybicycle, *82 Review, 100 Word Story, Fjords Review, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada, raised in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in California.
2022-08-1637 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCynthia Good Explores Mortality Through Poetry in "What We Do with Our Hands"Cynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She has launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Free State Review, Main Street Rag and Terminus Magazine. Cynthia’s new chapbook What We Do with Our Hands from Finishing Line Press will be published this summer. Cynthia is also a frequent speaker and global women’s advocate.
2022-08-0928 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastTina Cane (Poet Laureate, RI) on Capturing "Year of the Murder Hornet" in VerseBorn in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and raised in the Village, Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. Her poems
and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Spinning Jenny, Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat, and The Common. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane has established her state's first youth poetry ambassador program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book, and has brought the Poetry-in-Motion program from the New York City Transit System to Rhode Island's state-wide busses.
Cane...
2022-08-0245 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSafia Elhillo on Crafting the Poetry of "Girls That Never Die"Poet and author Safia Elhillo discusses her new book Girls That Never Die with Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA, and author of canvas and portraits of red and gray).
Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children and Home Is Not a Country and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave...
2022-07-2653 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSix Poets Recite (Durell Carter / Sarah Bitter / David Radavich / Mary Amato / Jai-Michelle Louissen / Nicole Farmer)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured.
The submitted poems, read by the authors, in this episode include:
Midnight Velvetto by Durell Carter
Dear Creature and Before the Pool, there was a Saltwater Lagoon by Sarah Bitter
Self-Portrait by David Radavich
You Will Know Us By Our Art by Mary Amato
a gathering by Jai-Michelle Louissen
Honest Sonnets by Nicole Farmer
2022-07-1922 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPatagonia Poet Laureate Celebration Part 2 featuring Kimi Sugioka, Cynthia Patton, and Tongo Eisen-MartinPatagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances.
Kimi Sugioka (Poet Laureate – Alameda)
Cynthia Patton (Poet Laureate – Livermore)
Tongo Eisen-Martin (Poet Laureate – San Francisco)
2022-07-1239 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPatagonia Poet Laureate Celebration Part 1 featuring Amy Glynn, James Morehead, and Sarah KobrinskyPatagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances.
Amy Glynn (Poet Laureate – Orinda & Moraga)
Sarah Kobrinsky (Poet Laureate – Emeryville)
James Morehead (Poet Laureate – Dublin)
2022-07-0542 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCutter Streeby on Exploring the Intersection of Visual Arts and PoetryCutter Streeby holds an MFA from the University of East Anglia and an MA in Literature from King's College, London. He has delivered many lectures on poetics, translation, and translation theory, including "Navigating Lèse- Majesté: Translating the Poetry of Zakariya Amataya" at universities across Thailand and Malaysia while teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Publications, translations, and anthologies include The White Review, Anthology of South East Asian Poets (Vagabond Press), Chicago Quarterly Review, Chestnut Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cincinnati Review and World Literature Today among others. He successfully exited his first marketing startup in 2020.
website: cu...
2022-06-2835 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Beth McDermott on Displacing Silence in Her New Collection “Figure 1”Beth McDermott is the author of Figure 1 (Pine Row Press) and a chapbook titled How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press). Her poetry appears in Pine Row, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, and Memorious. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, an Illinois Speaks Micro-Grant, and first place in the Regional Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest.
website: bethmcdermott.com
2022-06-2130 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoets at the Mic with James Morehead, Jessica Sabo, & Rachel AbramowitzPoets James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA), Jessica Sabo (author of Body of Impulse), and Rachel Abramowitz (author of The Birthday of the Dead) present a live mix of poetry readings and discussion. The event, recorded live, features a unique format: three poets, reading three poems, and after each performance a discussion of the poem. A round robin of readings and discussion.
James is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, author of canvas and portraits of red and gray, and he hosts the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. James' poem tethered was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn...
2022-06-141h 02
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSix Poems / Five Poets (Richard Evans / Dana Kinsey / Jeff Bien / Eliza Sible / Erika B. Girard)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off June with six wonderful poems contributed and read by five poets:
Shout and The Flag by Richard Evans
Pillow Talk by Dana Kinsey
Eros unwritten by Jeff Bien
The Life of a Pretty Girl by Eliza Sible
A Villanelle for the Ones Who Know by Erika B. Girard
Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings to be considered for a future podcast episode.
2022-06-0718 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastMaggie Queeney on Imagining the World of "Settler"Maggie Queeney is the author of “Settler” (Tupelo Press). Recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Ruth Stone Scholarship, and a 2019 Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago, her most recent work is found or forthcoming in The New Republic, Guernica, The Missouri Review, and The American Poetry Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, and reads and writes in Chicago.
Website: maggiequeeney.com
2022-05-3139 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCarmine Di Biase on Creating the Poetry of American RondeauViewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead interviews poet Carmine Di Biase about his upcoming chapbook American Rondeau (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Carmine writes about English and Italian literature, and his poems have appeared in various journals. Last year his English translations of thirteen poems by Cesare Pavese appeared in L’anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature. Occasionally he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement. He has recently retired as Distinguished Professor of English at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
2022-05-2456 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Rachel Abramowitz on How She Created "The Birthday of the Dead"On this episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast I’m excited to welcome Rachel Abramowitz, author of the recently released collection of poems, “The Birthday of the Dead”.
Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Oxford. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Wave Composition, an intern at the Paris Review, a stock analyst (for three months), and has taught English Literature at The University of Iowa, the University of Oxford, and most recently at Barnard College in New York. She is the author of The Birthday of the De...
2022-05-1733 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastWriting Publisher-Ready Poetry with James Morehead and Morgan LiphartWriting publisher-ready poetry by James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California, and author of "canvas" and "portraits of red and gray") and Morgan Liphart (author of "Barefoot & Running").
James Morehead is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California. James has published two collections of poetry: "canvas” and "portraits of red and gray". James' poem "tethered" was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn animated short film, "gallery" was set to music for baritone and piano, and his poems have appeared in Beyond Words, Wingless Dreamer, Prometheus Dreaming and Prompt Press. He also hosts the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast which features in...
2022-05-101h 01
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSeven Poems / Seven Poets (Olive Dwan / Crystal Mayo / Airea Johnson / Inge Sorensen / Linda McQuarrie-Bowerman / Ivy Raff / Finbar Lennon)The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off May with seven wonderful poems contributed and read by seven poets. Seven different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more.
Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast reader and then read each below:
Opening by Olive Dwan
Running Into Time by Crystal Mayo
Hope in Halos by Airea Johnson
Love in the House on Woodland Road by Inge...
2022-05-0323 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastUnlocking Memories by Writing Poetry Featuring James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA)James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, demonstrates how writing poetry can unlock memories and connect readers with universal truths. James shares memoir poems from his first two books, “canvas” and “portraits of red and gray”, and discusses how unlocked details from years or even decades ago through the poetic writing process. James also shares how to introduce “turns” into poems, to go beyond just capturing personal memories.
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: .
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2022-04-2631 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Nick Courtright Takes Readers to "The Forgotten World"Nick Courtright is author of The Forgotten World, Let There Be Light, and Punchline, and he serves as the Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, and Southern Review, among dozens of others. His essays and other prose have been published in Huffington Post, Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and SPIN Magazine. With a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Texas, Nick lives in Austin with the poet Lisa Mottolo and their children. Nick shares his story on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, including reading...
2022-04-1930 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCity of Dublin Poetry Walk Read by the Poets Part 2For National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk. Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com. This is the second of two episodes.
Poets featured in this episode include:
Jennifer deBie - "Dublin"
Monique Rardin Richardson - "Out Fool the Hands of Time"
Patricia Boyle - "Wild Geese on a Gray Morning"
Shannon Lise - "Body in...
2022-04-1236 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCity of Dublin Poetry Walk Read by the Poets Part 1For National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk. Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com. This is the first of two episodes.
Poets featured in this episode include:
James Morehead - "At the crossroads"
Morgan Liphart - "The Current Scene of my Childhood Home"
Laura Amsel - "Collecting Feathers, February Mornings"
Constant Hanstedt - "Lessons"
Ab...
2022-04-0537 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastLexicographer Philip David Morehead on dictionaries and the evolution of languageA veteran of over thirty years as pianist and conductor at the renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philip Morehead has extensive experience in the operatic repertory. He has conducted a widely varied list of concert works and contemporary music and performed in as varied a repertory of chamber music. A consummate musician, he has coached singers in operatic and concert repertory and given master classes in vocal and chamber music interpretation and performance. Philip is interviewed by his son, and host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, James Morehead.
Philip Morehead on the web: https://philipmorehead.com/
2022-03-2931 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Tyler Mills discusses her new book "City Scattered: Cabaret for Four Voices"Tyler Mills is the author of City Scattered (winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award), as well as Hawk Parable (winner of the Akron Poetry Prize), Tongue Lyre (winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award), and Low Budget Movie (co-authored with Kendra DeColo and winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet, is a Fo...
2022-03-2229 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPublishing Poetry with poets James Morehead and Morgan LiphartPoet Laureate of Dublin, California and Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead and poet and author Morgan Liphart have a conversation about what they've learned publishing poetry. This event was originally a live (virtual) event that included audience questions.
Morgan Liphart's debut book Barefoot & Running is on-sale now.
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Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2022-03-1559 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastImages of Love: original poems by Lisa Delan / Griffin Epstein / K.T. Reid / David Radavich / Lawrence BridgesLove poems on greeting cards give poetry a bad name. There are so many beautiful and challenging poems anchored on the theme of "love" that avoid greeting card clichés. The latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features images of love-inspired poetry from five wonderful poets.
Lisa Delan - The morning after
Griffin Epstein - Poem for our tin anniversary and Evening, after James Schuyler
K.T. Reid - California Dreamin’
David Radavich - When You Went Missing
Lawrence Bridges - The Switch
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now...
2022-03-0813 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPulitzer Prize Finalist A.E. Stallings Interviewed for the Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastAlicia (A. E.) Stallings is an American poet and translator who has lived in Greece since 1999. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently LIKE (FSG), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. Her most recent book of verse translation is the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (illustrated!) with Paul Dry Books.
She has a Selected poems forthcoming shortly from FSG, and FSG is also reissuing her first collection, Archaic Smile. She has received fellowships from the USA Artists, Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
A.E. Stallings is interviewed and recites several...
2022-03-0132 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastDesigner Zoe Norvell on Creating Impeccable Book Covers and InteriorsZoe Norvell has been designing book covers professionally since 2011, and has designed nearly 700 covers to date. Zoe started her career in New York City as an in-house designer at Simon & Schuster and then moved over to Penguin Random House. In 2015, she began freelancing full-time. Today, Zoe is based in her hometown of Washington, DC, and when not global pandemic times, loves to travel and will occasionally bring work with her on the road.
Zoe recently launched “INeedaBookInterior.com”, which she describes as “a small company that does one thing really well: creating impeccable book interiors, while making the pr...
2022-02-2232 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Sean Singer Breaks Down his New Book "Today in the Taxi"Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022). He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com.
Twitter: @SeanSingerPoet
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2022-02-1529 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Corey Van Landingham discusses "Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens"Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo Press, 2022). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2014 and 2020, Boston Review, The New Yorker, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Ashland, Oregon, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.
Corey's website: coreyvanlandingham.com
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2022-02-0838 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastNew Beginnings-Inspired Poetry Featuring Sarah Bricault, Nikita Jayaprakash, Patricia Cannon and Colleen CharletteOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature poetry inspired by new beginnings from four wonderful poets:
Sarah Bricault - when I close my eyes and think apple
Nikita Jayaprakash - Trio of poems: Grim Reaper, Counting on the Porch, and Swings, Church and Shoes
Patricia Cannon - Inspiration
Colleen Charlette - Two-Word Flip
The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads The moment before totality (duet for...
2022-02-0115 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastAngie Trudell Vasquez - an interview with the Poet Laureate of Madison, WIAngie Trudell Vasquez is a Mexican-American writer and the current poet laureate of Madison. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published the first half of her MFA thesis, In Light, Always Light, in 2019, and will publish the second half, My People Redux, in 2022. She became a Macondista in 2021.
Angie's website: angietrudellvasquez.com
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2022-01-2537 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Jessica Sabo discusses her chapbook "A Body of Impulse"Jessica Sabo is a former classical ballet dancer and writer whose work focuses on the intersection between eating disorders, trauma, and sexuality. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications by 805 Lit + Art, Inklette Magazine, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among others. Her work has been anthologized with ChannelMarker Literary Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Damaged Goods Press, and is forthcoming with Quillkeepers Press. Jessica was selected as a finalist for the Adelaide Literary Award in Poetry in 2020 and is also the author of a chapbook, A Body of Impulse, (dancing girl press & studio, 2021). A west-coast transplant...
2022-01-1827 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastMoon-inspired poetry featuring John Peter Beck, Carmine Di Biase, Nancy Cook, and Beatriz SeelaenderOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature moon-inspired poetry from four wonderful poets:
Nancy Cook - Moonwater
John Peter Beck - Moon
Carmine Di Biase - Midsummer Nut Brown Ale
Beatriz Seelaender - Be Wolf
The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads The moment before totality (duet for Sun and Moon).
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
2022-01-1117 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastFour Summers in Florida (82-83-84-85) read by James MoreheadTo close out the first season of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, host James Morehead reads a prose poem from his upcoming book of memoir poems, which is currently in design.
The poem, “Four Summers in Florida (82-83-84-85)", is based on his experiences living alone and working as a computer programmer in Florida for four summers, starting at the age of 15.
We encourage you to explore more of our first season, which includes interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist and curiosity communicator Kari Byron, poet-musician Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many mo...
2021-12-2112 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastThree poets and three poems: Nicole Farmer, Jerome Berglund, and Patricia CannonOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature three upcoming poets performing their poetry.
Nicole Farmer - Why the girl? and Animals
Jerome Berglund - Paint Chips Haiku
Patricia Cannon - Solitary Song
The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads shadow's play from his book canvas: poems.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-12-1412 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastThe importance of editors and copyeditors: an interview with Brittany SmailBrittany Smail is a copyeditor and writer who helps major book publishers, corporate clients, and indie authors polish a wide range of writing, from full-length book manuscripts and poetry chapbooks to ad copy and client presentations. She holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from San Francisco State University and a professional certificate in editing from UC Berkeley Extension. James Morehead spoke with Brittany in the latest episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.
Brittany's website : brittanysmail.com
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2021-12-0717 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastThe value of poetry workshops: nine poets recite original poemsIn this weeks Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast nine poets who workshop and critique poetry recite their work. Each poem is also published on ViewlessWings.com.
Featured poets:
Dear Jack Kerouac by Constance Hanstedt
Thirteen Stripes by Marie-Anne Poudret
Release by Ryan McRee
Frozen by Monique Rardin Richardson
Old Man by Linda Drattell
Salt Lick by Eunhee Soh
First Night by Patricia J. Boyle
Two Haiku and a Tanka by Marilyn J. Dykstra
dissolving in the gallery by James Morehead
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-11-3039 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastTranslating Poetry - Two Poems in English and Italian: limano and torta di risoThis episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast will take you on a trip to Italy, featuring two Italy-themed poems by James Morehead, each translated into Italian by Chiara Garioni. "limano" is inspired by Limano, Italy, the hometown of James' father-in-law. "torta di riso" is inspired by the delicious rice tart created every Easter by James' mother-in-law. The English version of each poem is read by James Morehead, and the Italian translation is read by James' wife Mary (first generation Italian).
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-11-2306 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastSuccessfully launching and marketing your book: Interview with AuthorImprints founder David WogahnDavid Wogahn, founder of AuthorImprints, discusses the challenges of launching and marketing a self-published book, with a focus on first-time authors.
AuthorImprints is an award-winning, professional self-publishing services company assisting clients worldwide. They have helped more than 100 authors, businesses and other organizations launch self-publishing imprints which, in turn, has resulted in the successful publication of more than 300 books, and counting.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-11-1628 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastA trio of poems by Kelly Showker, Lawrence Bridges and James MoreheadThree poems introduced and read by the poets are featured on this episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. The poems can also be read online:
Kiboko Boy by Kelly Showker: https://viewlesswingspress.com/kiboko-boy-by-kelly-showker/
You’ll find yourself who? by Lawrence Bridges: https://viewlesswingspress.com/youll-find-yourself-who-by-lawrence-bridges/
the green line by James Morehead: https://viewlesswingspress.com/the-green-line-by-james-morehead/
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-11-0811 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastRuchi Acharya, Founder of Wingless Dreamer, on Creating a Community of Poets and ArtistsRuchi Acharya is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wingless Dreamer, a global platform for those passionate about writing, art, and design; a space where authors and artists are free to express themselves.
Ruchi is an Oxford University summer graduate in English Literature. She has been a contributor to multiple journals The Pangolin Review, Muddy River Poetry, Borderless Journal, and Mulberry Literary review among 50 others.
In this episode Ruchi discusses the creation of Wingless Dreamer, her poetry and reads two of her poems:
https://borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/14/o-mother-o-father/
https://chasingshadowsmag.wixsite.com/magazine/post/my-dream-lighthouse
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2021-11-0221 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastComposer Deon Nielsen Price on Creating the Music for "gallery"Poet James Morehead and composer Deon Nielsen Price discuss how they collaborated to create "gallery", a piece for baritone and piano based on Morehead's poem of the same name. The piece will be premiered in The Presidio Chapel, as part of a free series of concerts, in San Francisco on November 14, 2021. Dr. Price also talks about how she discovered a passion for performing and composition, and her approach to creating music.
Read more about Don Nielsen Price: culvercrest.com/deonprice/bio.html
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
2021-10-2629 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastViewless Wings Scary Poetry Contest Winners Read by the PoetsThis special episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features the winners of the Viewless Wings Scary Poetry Contest reading their selected poems. Each poem is unique. The poems are on display Oct 14-31 at the F.CO. Art Gallery for the Scary Art Show in Dublin, California.
These poems will haunt you, each eerie, beautiful and timeless. Visit viewlesswings.com to learn more about these wonderful poets, and to submit your poetry for possible inclusion in a future Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast episode. The four winning poets featured in this podcast:
- First Place: "...
2021-10-1510 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastWriting an ekphrastic poem including examples by James MoreheadJames Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, discusses using art as an inspiration for poetry (known as ekphrastic Poetry). James reads and discusses two of his poems, "landscape (after bert weir)" (published by Wingless Dreamer in their Spring Anthology) and "carved" (published in James' debut book "canvas: poems").
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-10-1208 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastThat time I was left for dead downstageJames Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, reads and discusses his poem "That time I was left for dead downstage" (Read the poem Prometheus Dreaming: https://www.prometheusdreaming.com/that-time-i-was-left-for-dead-downstage).
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-10-0505 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet and Musician Lisa Marie Simmons on the Intersection of Poetry and SongLisa Marie Simmons is a Boulder Colorado native, singer/songwriter, essayist, and published poet currently based in Italy. She recently joined the Grammy award-winning artists signed to the American label Ropeadope Records who released her poetic/musical album NoteSpeak in March 2020, which received a four-star review from the iconic Downbeat magazine.
The American debut of NoteSpeak was at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder Colorado in September 2017. She was invited to be a speaker and performer at the 70th Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado in April 2018. In November 2019, she presented NoteSpeak in...
2021-09-2831 min
The Big Leap Podcast5 minutes with James Morehead, CMO of AcornsWe recently had James Morehead on for a full episode of CleverTap Engage. "5 minutes with" is a quick peak into the lives of marketing leaders via a few more personal questions.
What we ask:
When your grandparents ask what you do, what do you say?
Favorite work moment of all time?
What’s the best recent example of customer engagement you personally experienced?
Is any CMO ever really, truly, completely satisfied with their logo?
What is the most important thing a CMO can do?
How do...
2021-09-2306 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPoet Bianca Amira Zanella on Virtual Open Mics and the Healing Power of PoetryBianca Amira Zanella is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland and host of an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. In 2020, Bianca founded The Paper Poet, now offering healing poetic experiences to anyone experiencing suffering and continues to perform around the United States and, virtually, abroad.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-09-2128 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastRyan McRee (Writer, Director, Dramaturg, Poet) on the Art of Reciting PoetryRyan McRee is a writer, dramaturg, and theatre director based in San Jose and Los Angeles. He graduated from USC in 2017 with a double major in Theatre and Narrative Studies, and while his focus is primarily in drama, he continues to explore screenwriting and poetry writing. He works for the Critical Studies department at the USC School of Dramatic Arts as a Course Assistant and prides himself as an educator as well as a working artist.
Ryan discusses the art and technique of reciting poetry.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https...
2021-09-1427 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastCopyeditors and Perfecting Your Book's ManuscriptThis episode breaks down the critical importance and value of hiring a copyeditor to review your manuscript. The difference between a copyeditor and an editor is summarized.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com.
Brittany Smail, the copyeditor (editor, writer) mentioned in this episode, can be reached at: https://www.brittanysmail.com/.
2021-09-0705 min
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast"today?" Read and Discussed by James MoreheadThe poem "today?” from James Morehead's book canvas is featured. James reads the poem and then goes behind the scenes on how the poem was created and inspired.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-09-0404 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastRegina Harris Baiocchi: Poet, Author, Composer on Creating with Words and MusicRegina Harris Baiocchi is an author, poet and educator. Her music has been performed by Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony, US Army Band, Seattle Philharmonic, Southeast Symphony orchestras and other internationally-acclaimed artists. Regina has written orchestral music, libretto and one-act opera, hand drum concerto, marimba concerto, ballet, chamber music, liturgical and secular music, vocal and instrumental music. Her poetry and prose appear in Chicago Tribune Magazine, AIM Magazine, ESI Anthology, Technology News and Gwendolyn Brooks and Working Writers.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-08-3121 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastOlivia Gatwood: Poet, Performer and Author of "Life of the Party"Olivia Gatwood is an internationally recognized poet and author of “Life of the Party” and “New American Best Friend”. Her poetry performances and workshops held at over two-hundred schools and universities, and videos online, have reached millions of viewers. Olivia has also worked as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery.
Olivia discusses how she crafted a collection of poems into a complex, multi-threaded narrative in her book "Life of the Party", how she developed the skills to command a stage, how she approaches the craft of writing poetry and how poetic devices are infu...
2021-08-2425 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastPublishing Your First Book: Storyboarding the ManuscriptOn this episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast I continue the journey I took to self-publish my first book "canvas". In this episode I discuss the importance of a manuscript and the role of storyboarding your manuscript early in the process.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-08-2104 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastMorgan Liphart: Poet and Author of "Barefoot & Running"Morgan Liphart is an accomplished poet and author of "Barefoot & Running". Morgan discusses how she approaches poems that are rich in imagery and very personal, how she manages the inevitable rejections as a writer on the road to successful publishing, and her experience as a self-published author. Morgan also reads the poem "The Current Scene of my Childhood Home" from her book and discusses the backstory of the poem.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-08-1718 min
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast"stages" Read and Discussed by James MoreheadThe poem "stages” from James Morehead's book canvas is featured. James reads the poem and then goes behind the scenes on how the poem was created and inspired. "stages" is from James Morehead's debut book, on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-08-1405 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastKari Byron on Creating Black Powder Art for "canvas" and EXPLR for StudentsOn this episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast I have a very special guest, none other than Mythbusters and Crash Test World star Kari Byron. Kari is also an incredible artist and sculptor who has mastered the explosive technique of black powder to create her paintings. I spoke with Kari about the black powder technique, how she approached creating the cover art for my book “canvas” using black powder, and the cool project she’s been working on recently.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
You can see Ka...
2021-08-0913 minViewless Wings Poetry Podcast"routine" Read and Discussed by poet James MoreheadThe poem "routine” from James Morehead's book canvas is featured. James reads the poem and then goes behind the scenes on how the poem was created and inspired.
"routine" is from James Morehead's debut book, on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
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2021-08-0206 min
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastTurning Poetry into Traditional Animation - An Interview with Animator-Director Gaia AlariThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast takes you behind-the-scenes with animator-director Gaia Alari, discussing how she turned the poem "tethered” from James Morehead's book canvas into a traditional, hand drawn animated short film. James reads the poem and then interviews Gaia Alari.
"routine" is from James Morehead's debut book, on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Learn more about animator Gaia Alari here: http://www.gaiaalari.com/. The animated short film for "tethered" can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/n4l6vTDK4yE.
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2021-07-2722 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastSelf-Publishing Your First BookViewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead starts a series of episodes on the journey he took to self-publish his first book canvas. Self-publishing can be overwhelming at first. Hopefully this series helps make your journey a bit easier.
James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon.
Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com.
2021-07-2605 min
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast"by the ocean" Read and Discussed by poet James MoreheadThis episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features a reading of the poem "by the ocean" and analysis of the poem by the author.
"The pandemic inspired the first section of my book and this poem captured most acutely the heightened level of stress I was experiencing in the spring of 2020. At the time I was struggling to find a full night's sleep, obsessed with the news coverage and the extraordinary uncertainty of the time." - James Morehead
canvas is the title poem from James Morehead's debut book, on sale now: https://tinyurl.com...
2021-07-2005 minViewless Wings Poetry Podcast"canvas" Read and Discussed by poet James MoreheadChapter 1 of The Viewless Wings Podcast features a reading of the poem "canvas" and analysis of the poem by the author.
"Unlike most of my poems, canvas fell out of me 80 percent complete in a stream of conscience one morning last year. I woke up with the idea, grabbed my phone, and just started writing. It felt like a good baseball swing - effortless - I wasn't thinking, just swinging words into Google Docs. That has only happened one other time - a poem from years ago I'll get to in a future episode." - James Morehead
2021-07-0309 minViewless Wings Poetry PodcastIntroducing The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast Hosted by James MoreheadJames Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California and author of canvas, introduces The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.
Where does a poem come from? How does an image, a sound, an emotion, an experience, the spark of an idea become a poem? The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast will explore the art of poetry and business of self-publishing, in short bursts, each episode less than ten minutes. I'll explore the origin story of poems from my debut book "canvas", share my experience in the complex world of self-publishing, and interview fellow poets. Subscribe to The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast...
2021-07-0300 min2021-07-0200 min
CatalyzeMorehead-Cain Mentoring Pair: Tom Thriveni ’10, comedy writer for The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS, and guest co-host Lauren Gornto ’21Our first guest for this episode is Tom Thriveni ’10, a comedy writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. As a Morehead-Cain Scholar, he interned with Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, an opportunity offered by Jon Benson ’06 (Jon produced field segments on the show at the time). Following his graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tom began pursuing a career in investment banking. As he shared in a Virtual SEVEN Speaker Series event this past spring, it took a traumatic brain surgery to help him realize that he...
2020-11-1024 min
Search For TruthEpisode 001 with Paul Morehead Jr.In this first interview of the show, we invited Paul Morehead Jr. He's an animator, meditator, and professor at MIU and indeed was teaching the podcast course that inspired the show. He's lived a really interesting life and has gained a lot of wisdom. We get to hear a little bit about his journey and gain some of that wisdom for ourselves.
2020-09-2256 min
CatalyzeOnline events, kudos, other news from Morehead-Cain. Also: an update from Corrie White Conrad ’02 of SephoraThese are strange times to be living in, but it’s also a very busy time for Morehead-Cain, so we wanted to get everyone up to speed.Last Thursday, we announced the Morehead-Cain Class of 2024. We want to wish a warm welcome to the 70 new scholars who are joining the Carolina community.This week, we’re launching our Virtual Morehead-Cain SEVEN Speaker Series, starting with Shilpi Somaya Gowda ’92. The bestselling author will offer advice and encouragement about getting started as a writer. Her talk begins at 7:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 29.Next Wednes...
2020-04-2813 min
The Oracles with James TysonQuantum Bigfoot and the Sierra Sounds with Ron MoreheadJames is joined by Author/Adventurist Ron Morehead, producer of the Sierra Sounds. Ron has been known for decades for his world-wide research into the Bigfoot/Sasquatch phenomenon. To date, he comes closer than any other researcher to having a complete body of evidence. The Sierra Sounds are the only Bigfoot recordings that have been scientifically studied, time-tested, and accredited as genuine.
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The Oracles with James TysonQuantum Bigfoot and the Sierra Sounds with Ron MoreheadJames is joined by Author/Adventurist Ron Morehead, producer of the Sierra Sounds a recording of Bigfoot vocalizations. Ron has been known for decades for his world-wide research into the Bigfoot/Sasquatch phenomenon. To date, he comes closer than any other researcher to having a complete body of evidence. The Sierra Sounds are the only Bigfoot recordings that have been scientifically studied, time-tested, and accredited as genuine. Ron has documented his personal interactions with these giant beings and produced his story on a CD and also in a book, “Voices in the Wilderness.”So how does quantum physics relat...
2020-01-281h 26
Anderson University SOT chapel sermonsProf. James Morehead, AU Professor of Communication and Pastor at Pasadena Heights Church of God, Luke 16:19-31Prof. James Morehead, AU Professor of Communication and Pastor at Pasadena Heights Church of God, Luke 16:19-31
2010-09-2800 min