Of Poetry Podcast
Episodes
Jennifer A Sutherland (Of Greek Myth as Muse, Building a Bearable Myth, and Silence as Agency)
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Alcestis as the Dead Woman’s Auto-Roman à Clef" and "Alcestis as Pe...
Beth Gilstrap (Of Genre as a Place to Leave & a Place to Come Back to, Finding the River's Flow, and Grief & Healing in Writing)
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Four excerpts from There Is News Along the Ohio River at Heavy Feather ReviewPurchase: There Is News Along the Ohio River(River River Books, 202...
Zoë Ryder White (Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Listen to Yourself" (Sixth Finch)Purchase: The Visible Field (River Ri...
J.D. Ho (Of Mystery and Empathy, Cover Design, and Foraging in Winter)
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: the title essay "Backyard Alchemy" (The Common)Purchase: Backyard Alche...
Elizabeth Sylvia (Of Gardens, Marie Antoinette, and Loving What is Flawed)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "On Learning that Kim Kardashian Exceeded her Water Allowance by 232,00...
Majda Gama (Of Arabic Oral Tradition, the Sonics of the Ghazal, and the Western Luxury of Telling the Truth in Your Poems)
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Ghazal: Morning" (The Offing)Purchase: In the House of Modern Upbringi...
Frances Klein (Of the Alaskan Rural, the Quantifying Work That Poets Do Best, and the Emotional Intensity of Writing Labor)
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: Three Poems by Frances Klein at Cultural DailyPurchase: Another Life (R...
Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Mother Water Ash" (Poets.org)Purchase: MOTHER WATER ASH(Louisiana Stat...
Natalie Solmer (Of Genealogies of Water, the Great Lakes and Diane Seuss, and the Working Class, Rural Lyric)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Water Castle by Natalie Solmer (Kelsay Books, 2024)Read: "I Am a G...
Sarah Green (Of Dictionaries, Salvage and Destruction, and the Longing to Make Something Good)
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize)Sarah Green is...
Donna Vorreyer (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025)Read: "Dysmorphia (Autumn)" ...
Jameela F. Dallis (Of Oysters, Ekphrasis, and Filtering Emotion through The Beasts of the Sea)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Encounters for the Living and the Dead (River River Books, 2025)Jam...
E.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 So...
Christen Noel Kauffman (Of Appalachian Poetics, American Evangelicalism, and Writing About Subjects We're Not Supposed to Speak Of)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Faith Test" at The Florida Review OnlinePurchase: The Science of Thing...
Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley's Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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: “...
Rachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others', and Having It Out With Melancholy)
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Practice Elegy" at Copper NickelPurchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editi...
Han VanderHart (Of Larks, Genealogy and Truth as a Poetics, and the Line) with Guest Host Amorak Huey
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today'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)...
Karl Knights (Of Directness, the Music of Ordinary Language, and Writing Disability Poetics While Existing All Year)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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)Purch...
Danika Stegeman (Of Relentlessness, Gendered Maximalism, and Harryette Mullen and the Mirrored Cinquain)
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Ablation (11:11 Press) Read: "Relentless" (at cloak.wtf, the rele...
upfromsumdirt (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture)
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Sarah Carey (Of Sandhill Cranes, the Pleasure of Fresh Words, and Writing after Loss)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: The Grief Committee Minutes by Sarah Carey (Saint Julian Press, 202...
Corrie Williamson (Of Wilderness, Animal Bodies, and Ecotones of Harm)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Hoard...
Joe Wilkins (Of Pastoral, Tender Models of Masculinity, and the Sonnet-Haunted Prairies)
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Purchase: Pastoral, 1994 (River River Books, 2025)Read: "Limp" at The Missour...
Abbie Kiefer (Of the Minor, a Poet's Work Vs. Productivity, and the Poem's Record-Keeping of Ordinary Life)
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Y...
Carolyn Oliver (Of Alcestis, Space and Star Trek, and What Would You Give Up For Love?)
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Space Age" in Menagerie MagazinePurchase: The Alcestis Machine (Acre B...
River River Books (Of Writing the Rural, New Book News, and the CAHABA River)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Preorder Corrie Williamson's Your Mother's Bear Gun and Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994River River Bookswas founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in M...
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza (Of Midwinter Poems, Rewilding, and Tercets)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 P...
Dana Delibovi and Molly Peacock (Of Literary Afterlives, Emotion and Color, and Material Connections in Women's Writing Across Time)
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Junious 'Jay' Ward (Of the Field, the Mythic Perception of the South, and the Vulnerable Document)
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Inheritance" and "Homecoming, Rich Square, NC" (Fourway Review)Purchas...
Emilie Menzel (Of Invocations, Fables, and Narrative Leaps as Neurodivergent Play)
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Nicholas Molbert (Of Nostalgia and Work, Southern Boyhood, and Storm Season on the Gulf Coast)
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Men Working Above: demolition" and "Parable of Baiting" (UCity Review)...
Sebastián H. Páramo (Of Apocalypse Literature, Writing Semi-Autobiography, and Hunting Pixelated Ducks)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Everyone Said Nature Was Healing" (Poetry Northwest)Purchase: Portrait...
Emily Kramer (Of Intimacy, Archive, and Saskia Hamilton)
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Molly Spencer (Of Invitation, Bridges and Water, and How Should We Live?)
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Invitatory" at Poetry DailyPurchase: Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024)Mo...
Kyla Houbolt (Of Frogs, Radicalism, and "Going to the Root”)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 count...
Ae Hee Lee (Of Footnotes, Pineapple Slices, and Wonder)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Disambiguation" at Poetry Daily Purchase: Asterism by Ae Hee Lee (Tup...
Beth Gilstrap and Lee Potts (Of Desire, Film, and "the Dark Side of Longing for Community")
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 (Cincin...
Jared Beloff and Mitchell Nobis (Of Dad Poetics, Care Work, and NAWP)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Erin Hoover (Of Fierce Narrative Poetry, Queer Community, and Writing Without a Map)
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sp...
rob mclennan (Of the fragment, linguistic collision, and world's end)
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Emilia Phillips (Of Queering Eve, Stanzaic Shape, and Intimate Community)
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Line Break / Of Poetry Crossover with Chris Corlew and Bob Sykora and Han VanderHart
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris 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 ...
Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart (River River Books): Of Choosing Abundance, Creating a Small Press Community, and Weathering Manuscript Rejections
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's "Larks"(Up the Staircase Quarterly)Purchase: Dad Jokes from Late in the P...
Carla Sofia Ferreira (Of Elegiac Odes, Semicolons, and Witness)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
Catherine Rockwood (Of Pirates, the Event of the Image, and Angelic Sex)
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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)...
Tom Snarsky (Of Minisons, Math, and More About Long Poems)
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Neutral Spaces, for more of Tom Snarsky's poetryPurchase: Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023)Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Th...
Carolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen's Alphabet, and Writing Disaster)
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024)Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from ...
Rachel Edelman (Of Memphis, Geology, and Water)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.orgPurchase: Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023)Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose...
Erin Malone (Of Bears, Memory, and Doors)
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature.Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023)Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Dis...
Steven Leyva (Of Anti-Confession, Zydeco, and Clarity)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Anna V.Q. Ross (Of Self-Portraits, Foxes, and Leaving For Good)
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn QuarterlyPurchase: Flutter, ...
Lauren Camp (Of Mystery, Agnes Martin, and Silence as Bounty)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry DailyPurchase: An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023)Lau...
Jennifer A Sutherland (Of Fashion, Negative Capability, and Octopuses)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion Review.Purchase: Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023)Jennifer A Suther...
Moira J. Saucer and Catherine Rockwood (Of Interruption, Griefwork, Raspberries and Drift Roses)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Purchase: Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine RockwoodMoira J Saucer is a disabled poet...
Jason Myers (Of Taste, Music, and Coming to Our Senses)
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Read "Eucharist" in DiagramPurchase: Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point PressJason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & (Belle Point P...
Destiny Hemphill (Of Ritual, Tenderness, and Speculative Nonfiction)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock)Purchase: motherworld: a devot...
Len Lawson (Of Asylums, Poetic Histories, and Rest)
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Psychology for Black Folk" at Jasper ProjectPurchase: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023)Len Lawson is author of Negro ...
Caelan Ernest (Of Cyborgs and Parties, Publicity, and Transcending Binaries)
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 performe...
Stephanie Burt (Of Mermaids, Punctuation, and Queer Community Formation)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Whale Watch" at TurbinePurchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022)Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of seve...
Sara Lefsyk (Of Escapism, Writing Residencies, and Ethel Zine)
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pre...
K. Iver (Of Queer Narrative, Negation, and Southern Elegy)
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The CommonPurchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023)K. Iver is a nonbin...
Laura Jaramillo (Of River Culture, Sequences, and War Machines)
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "War Machine" at The Tiny MagPurchase: Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022)Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durha...
Laura Minor (Of Heart, Authors' Prayers, and Ripening)
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Bronwen Tate (Of Lexicons, Milk, and Description)
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Moon Without Possible Approach" at Tin Fish Press.Purchase: The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Books, 2021)Bronwen Tate teaches poetry, creati...
Shelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
jason b. crawford (Of Queer Black Language, Phantom Safety, and Debt)
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLipjason b. crawford (They/Them) is a write...
Marlanda Dekine (Of Coming Home, Staying in the Body, and Gullah-Geechee Pronouns)
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Hurricane Family," published at Moist Poetry Journal.Marlanda Dekine’s debut full-length poetry collection, Thresh & Hold, is the winner ...
Lenard D. Moore (Of Jazz, Haiku, and Community)
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 inte...
Amanda Moore (Of Bee Keeping, California Light, and Haibun)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Donna Vorreyer (Of Love, Ritual, and Ordinary Joy)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Twila Newey and Natalie Solmer (Of Water, Gardens, and Caretaking)
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Kasey Jueds (Of Animals, Silence, and Folk Tales)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Chloe Martinez (Of Mandalas, Bad Poets, and Claiming Identity)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Angie Mazakis (Of Prizes, Phonelessness, and Itinerancy)
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Alina Stefanescu (Of Longing, Teleology, and Labor)
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Christian J. Collier (Of Chattanooga, Names, and Horror)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Amorak Huey (Of Dads, Odysseus, and American Myth)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Amorak Huey's poem "CHILDHOOD GOES KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, GUN" at American Poetry ReviewAmorak Huey is a poet and professor, ...
Lyd Havens (Of Form, Similes, and Saints)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Anuja Ghimire and Burgi Zenhaeusern (Of Place, Dreams, and Borders)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Anuja Ghimire's poem "Orlando" and Burgi Zenhaeusern's "Self-Portrait as Granatöpfel"Anuja Ghimire is a Nepal-born writer of poetry, flash fict...
Esteban Rodríguez (Of Recuerdo, Recovery, and The Valley)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Several poems from The Valley.Esteban Rodríguez is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Valley (Sundress Publications 2021)...
Laura Wetherington (Of After Poems, Translation, and Birds)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read: "Dear Hannah," and other poemsLaura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscom...
Jessica Q. Stark (Of Archive, Documentary Play, and Hunger)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Jessica's poem "The Ballad of the Red Wisteria"Jessica Q. Stark is a California-native, Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that live...
C.T. Salazar (of Souths, Sonnets, and Nonbinary Poetics)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kelly Cressio-Moeller (Of Bees, Ekphrasis, and First Books)
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Carla Sofia Ferreira (Of Newark, Eurydice, and Cherry Blossoms)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read: Carla’s Chapbook Ironbound Fados and her craft chap Eat a PersimmonCarla Sofia Ferreira is a Portuguese-American poet from Newark, New Jersey ...
Tom Snarsky (Of Games, Francis Bacons, and Ducks, Newburyport)
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Christopher Kempf (Of Epigraphs, Paradise Lost, and Faulknerian Time)
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Conversation with Christopher Kempf, author of What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU Press, 2021).
Jessica Cuello (Of Mothers, Brothers, and Philomel)
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read one of the poems Jessica reads on Episode 1: “The Androgynous Christ.”Jessica Cuello’s manuscript, Liar, has been selected by Dorianne Laux...