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Gather PoetsThe Making of SET THE BONE | Jillian Stacia + Jo Krieg at the Publishing Table | Gather PoetsHosted by Hannah Levy (@hnnhlvy)In this engaging conversation, Hannah Levy speaks with Jillian Stacia and Jo Krieg about the journey of publishing Jillian's poetry collection, "Set the Bone." Jillian shares her initial inspiration for writing poetry, which stemmed from a desire for creative expression rather than a goal of publishing a book. As she developed her craft and joined the Gather community, she found herself inspired to compile her poems into a collection, particularly after a pivotal moment involving a poem that encapsulated generational trauma. Jo, as the publisher, recounts her excitement upon receiving Jillian's manuscript and highlights...
2026-01-2958 min
Gather PoetsPoetry & Activism | Amiel Katz at the Poetry Table | Gather PoetsAmiel Katz (she/her) is a Salvadoran poet from Houston, Texas. She roots her writing in historical research and (re)imagines just futures for migrants and marginalized identities. Her work is featured in Nowhere Girl Collective and is forthcoming in Horizon Review and Bat City Review. You can find her on Substack @philomath4. Gatherpoets.com@gatherpoets on Instagram
2026-01-2721 min
ReformatioDas Wunder von Weihnachten (#359)In dieser besinnlichen Lesung nimmt euch Katharina Rühle mit in Lukas 1,26–38 und lässt den vertrauten Weihnachtstext neu aufleuchten. Der Beitrag zeigt, warum Weihnachten trotz aller Gewöhnung immer noch ein echtes Wunder bleibt – voll Staunen über Gottes unergründliche Gnade.Highlights aus dem Artikel:Gott wählt in seiner Gnade die unscheinbare Maria aus einem unbedeutenden Nazareth – ein Bild seiner unverdienten Erwählung, die auch uns gilt.Das Kind, das Maria empfängt, ist zugleich wahrer Mensch (Sohn Davids) und wahrer Gott (Sohn des Höchsten) – sein ewiges Reich erfüllt alle alttestamentlichen...
2026-01-2130 min
Gather PoetsPoetry & Gratitude | Kelly Green at the Poetry Table | Gather PoetsKelly Green writes an average of twelvepoems a day, most between the hoursof one and fi ve a.m. She used to writeessays but now can’t stop writing poetry.She has written a miniature memoir onfood and class; she prays to god it will bepublished before she dies. She loves dogsmore than anything on this sweet earthand loves being lost. Best day ever: lostfor hours, continually running into dogs.gatherpoets.com@gatherpoets on Instagram
2026-01-2024 min
Gather PoetsThe Prose Poem as a Container | Dré Pontbriand at the Poetry Table | Gather PoetsThis podcast episode features a conversation with Dré, who shares a powerful poem exploring themes of generational trauma, religion, and personal empowerment. The discussion delves into the creative process behind the poem and the transformative power of poetry as a means to confront and release inherited burdens.Dré is a queer Mexican-French Canadian poet, alchemist, and herbal bruja who loves wildlife, moon-bathing, and dismantling oppressive systems. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in SWWIM, PRISM international, Gnashing Teeth, wildscape.lit, Gather Literary Magazine, and Arte y Literatura Hispanocanadiense Anthology. She is currently working on her debut poetry co...
2026-01-1319 min
Gather PoetsThe Poetics of Connection | Hannah Rosenberg on Gather PoetsHannah Rosenberg is a poet whose work has been shared widely online, and she has been featured in publications serving women and parents like Darling and In Kind. She lives in the greater Philadelphia area with her husband and daughter, who often find themselves as the subjects of her poems. You can find her work on Instagram @hannahrowrites.Order Same: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/same-9781250393807/
2025-10-2049 min
Gather PoetsVisual Art & Poetry | Helen Billett on Gather PoetsHelen Billett is a writer and artist who finds inspiration perched above the Scarborough Bluffs in Toronto’s ravine-filled east end. She shares her home with her husband, two children, and their wonderfully complicated dog, Chewbacca. Her debut poetry collection, Cliffs and Cathedrals, explores unraveling trauma and reclaiming joy through art.Gatherpoets.com
2025-09-081h 01
Gather PoetsThe mystery of poetry | Carlos Fernando on Gather PoetsCarlos Fernando Bravo Meneses is an emerging Mexican poet and psychologist that yearns to find community through poetry. You can find him on Instagram @flordeyermo. He promises he will answer.Gatherpoets.com
2025-08-251h 00
Gather PoetsBuilding trust as a poet | Daniel de Kock on Gather Poets30-year-old teacher by day, poet at heart from South Africa now based in Cyprus. Writing has always been a part of my life, starting off with short stories until I found my passion in poetry.There is something cathartic about putting ‘big emotions’ into as little space as possible that helps me realise it’s not that big after all - and it’s not just me feeling it. That’s why I write, to make it make sense and to remind me that this is all just part of being human. I have never been good at small talk, so I...
2025-08-1851 min
Gather PoetsWriting the body | Sukriti Patny on Gather PoetsSukriti Patny is a writer and poet based in India who’s turned to the words in a flailing attempt to stay sane. She spends her time overthinking everything, writing confessional poems on the gorgeous mess we find in our insides, and exploring the many ways in which nature, unresolved feelings and everyday ordinary things leave her awestruck. You can find her poetry and personal essays on Instagram @wordsbysu and on Substack: Soul GazingGatherpoets.com
2025-08-0446 min
Gather PoetsWriting Grief | Annalise Parady on Gather PoetsAnnalise Parady is a poet and a social worker. She was born and rooted in Wyoming, but currently lives, writes, and grieves in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Her work has been published in Sonora Review and Corporeal Lit Mag. Annalise is available to tell you about the creatures and plants of the desert on Instagram @annalisewrites and on Substack: Third Place Poetry. She also runs a poetry community for people processing grief and loss called Grief House.Gatherpoets.com
2025-07-2150 min
Gather PoetsWriting as architecture | Mary Geschwindt on Gather PoetsMary Geschwindt (she/her) loves bicycles, sheep, clouds, and the color purple, in that order. With a background in architecture and urban planning, she can’t escape the metaphor of construction in poetry and poetry in construction. A transportation planner by day, poet by night, Mary is always looking for poetry in the movement of the city. She currently writes and bikes around NYC. Her poems have been published in the Harvard Urban Review and Rookie Mag.
2025-07-141h 02
Gather PoetsWriting as noticing | Mary Davini on Gather PoetsMary is a poet, mother, sister, daughter, friend, and novice (but enthusiastic) birder. She is continuously inspired by the natural world and loathes being indoors. She self-published her first collection of nature-focused poetry, "This Wild Heart Inside Me," in the summer of 2024. You can find her on Instagram along with a link to purchase her book—@wordsinwaiting.Gatherpoets.com
2025-07-0739 min
Gather PoetsThe Cycle of Creativity | Hannah Levy on Gather PoetsHannah Levy is a poet and editor living in Northern California. She has been published in Variant Literature, Sunday Mornings at the River, Indie Earth Publishing, Rhizo Magazine, and elsewhere. She's also the founder of The Rebis, an annual tarot-themed print anthology. When she’s not typing little words on a screen, she’s horseback riding, walking in the redwoods, making art, and playing extensive make-believe games with her daughter. You can read her writing at hannaheve.substack.comGatherPoets.com
2025-06-3052 min
Gather PoetsNot-writing as a form of writing | ali cat on Gather Poetsali cat is a New Jersey-based writer, artist, and community organizer. They are a contributingpoetry editor for The Selkie, and their most recent work can be found in SURviving Scandoval, aVanderpump Rules-themed poetry anthology published by Pink Plastic Press. When not writingon company time, they’re yapping about gender, imagining a better world with their friends, andhaving staring contests with their pet rabbit.gatherpoets.com
2025-06-2342 min
Gather PoetsCollecting lines at a red light | Alina Kalontarov on Gather PoetsAlina Kalontarov is a teacher of English literature and Humanities in New York City. Whether in the classroom or through her poetry and photography, she hopes to inspire people to find their unique voice and vision in the increasingly myopic noise machine of the world. Her poems have found homes in various literary journals and anthologies including Sky Island Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Sand Hills, Prosetrics, Last Leaves, Wild Roof, boats against the current, Querencia Press and others. You can check out more about her relationship to writing in this Scribeworth interview and find some of her work on her inst...
2025-06-0959 min
Gather PoetsOptimizing for joy? | Tanja Lau on Gather PoetsTanja Lau and I dive into what it means to truly "optimize" for what you desire, both in poetry journey, but also in life. Tanja Lau believes life should have more plot twists, fewer alarms, and at least one epic soundtrack moment per day. She studied Comparative Literature before venturing into entrepreneurship. With German-Italian roots, Tanja now calls Switzerland home (three words: mountains, cheese, chocolate...). As a mother of two, she finds joy in crafting stories for children and eagerly anticipates the release of her first children’s book in 2026. Most of her poetry takes shape on her runs as...
2025-05-2654 minGather PoetsWriting to conserve Mother Earth | Alex Dawson on Gather PoetsAlex Dawson is a writer, wildlife photographer and adult ESL teacher from Toronto. She published a photo-poetry book entitled “All these Living Things” last year, which landed at #2 in nature poetry on Amazon’s Bestseller List. She has been published by Queen’s Quarterly, The Bombay Literary Magazine and Humana Obscurara. More of her writing can be found on Instagram and Substack @alexdawcreates.Join the Gather community: gatherpoets.com
2025-05-0854 minGather PoetsCan motherhood make you a better poet? | Jillian Stacia on Gather PoetsWe welcome Jillian Stacia to the Gather Poets Pod to discuss motherhood and creativity, creative entrepreneurship, and how to stay motivated as a poet.Jillian Stacia wants to live in a world where the coffee is bottomless and the sweatpants are mandatory. She spends her days crafting creative copy for clients in numerous industries and is best known for her work in Children's Programming. Her poetry and creative nonfiction essays have been featured in Querencia Press, Plentitude Journal, Coffee & Crumbs, and Voicemail Poems. When she's not writing, Jillian can be found snuggling with her two adorable children and cheering...
2025-04-281h 12Gather PoetsHow to an "after" poem the right way | Isabelle Correa on Gather PoetsWe welcome Isabelle Correa to our inaugural episode of Gather Poets Pod to discuss her forthcoming collection Good Girl And Other Yearnings, coming April 18th with Write Bloody Publishing.Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize with Write Bloody Publishing, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus. Her work has appeared in Pank, Third Point Press, The Rebis, and more. Find her on...
2025-04-281h 21
Viewless Wings Poetry PodcastMaria Giesbrecht on Poetry as a Tool for Healing and Building Community [INTERVIEW]Maria Giesbrecht is a Canadian poet whose writings explore her Mexican and Mennonite roots. Her work has previously been published in Contemporary Verse 2, Talon Review, and is forthcoming in Queen's Quarterly. She is the runner-up for the 2022 Eden Mills Poetry Contest and a graduate of the post-graduate Creative Writing program at Humber College. Maria is the founder and host of the writing table, Gather, and spends her days nurturing creative folks to write urgently and unafraid.
2024-08-2037 min
Poking AroundPhone Time TogetherFeatured poem: To write a good poem, sometimes I have to starve by Maria Giesbrecht. Featured topics: the importance of shame, tortured artists, voyeurism, subway etiquette, password protection, and our best tips on keeping your screen time down.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
2024-08-201h 00
The Inspired Educator PodcastEpisode 10 Nina Pak Lui in conversation with preservice teachers Rebecca and MariaOn today's episode, we present a conversation between Professor Nina Pak Lui and two of her students, Rebecca Tazumi and Maria Giesbrecht. Their conversation centers around understanding curriculum philosophies and ideologies. Also, they discuss how Understanding by Design (UbD) can help with curricular and pedagogical planning.
2022-11-1133 min
Before the TourEp. 07 with Poet & Author, Maria GiesbrechtOn Episode 7, I sit down with poet, Maria Giesbrecht, who just released her first collection of poems titled, ‘peeling oranges’. We discuss the process of writing the collection, where she finds inspiration, the challenges in promoting your writing as an independent artist, finding a publisher, and how she managed to make her debut collection a Canadian bestseller on Amazon.com. In this episode we discuss: The process of writing a collection of poems. How to find an editor that works for you.How to have your original writing published. Tools she has used to grow her social...
2022-09-051h 13
House Of WordsPetrichor (Episode 3)The Host Shreeya Prasoon( Insta: @rewrite_ink ), is a writer, student and quite a thinker. She's host to Petrichor on House of Words and today, she's set out to read 4 muses in the third episode of Petrichor. She has hand selected some finest works today on the occasion of Halloween. She reads: L.P @my_little_poemy at (1:07)• Teodre @twistedprusti at (2:21)• Maria Giesbrecht @theguelphpoet at (3:13)• Megan @makeloveyourmottopoet at (4:00)• ◆Surprise Segment at (5:30)◆ •Hope you enjoy the journey• House of words is a podcast by The Writeristic Hut. We are open to suggestions and collaboration. You can contact us on Instagram @thewriteristichutofficial or by mailing on...
2021-10-3107 min
House Of WordsSilhouettes of Second Thoughts - Episode 01The host, Ajulea (@ajulea_rm), is a writer who has lived most of her life in a metropolitan city where it's often hard to see stars at night. Poetry helps her paint constellations on her night sky.
Episode 01 features works by:
Radhika Darshetkar (@yourlittlehappysun.flower) - 2:31
Maria Giesbrecht (@theguelphpoet) - 5:17
Shagnik (@shagnik) - 7:06
Claire Carson (@moonmakeout) - 11:06
House of Words is a podcast by The Writeristic Hut. We are open to suggestions and collaboration. Contact us via:
Instagram: @houseofwords.official /@thewriteristichutofficial
Email: thewriteristichutofficial2020@gmail.com
We celebrate writers and help them grow in...
2021-09-1516 min