Bread & Poetry

On this episode, we break bread with poet and girl-dad Joshua Burton and talk about Hawaiian rolls, giving grace, and Hayan Charara. 

Guest: Joshua Burton, IG: @joshuaburton23, Twitter: @joshuaburton23, Website: www.joshuaburtonpoet.com

Bio: Joshua Burton is a poet and educator from Houston, TX and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. He is a 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar and is a 2019 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellowship finalist. His work can be found in Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Conduit, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Grist, and Indiana Review. His first chapbook is currently out with Ethel Press and his debut poetry collection is forthcoming in the spring of 2023 with the University of Wisconsin Press. 

Poem(s) discussed: "Mother and Daughter" by Hayan Charara and "Giving Laura Grace" by Joshua Burton

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with 7th Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine: Maya Williams. We talk about oat bread, suicide prevention awareness, and Raych Jackson.

Guest: Maya Williams, IG: @emmdubb16, Twitter: @emmdubb16, Website: www.mayawilliamspoet.com

Bio: Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently the seventh poet laureate of Portland, Maine. Ey has published poems in venues such as The Portland Press Herald, The Cortland Review, FreezeRay, Indianapolis Review, glitterMOB, and more. Their first poetry collection Judas & Suicide will be released via Game Over Books May 30th 2023; their second poetry collection Refused a Second Date will be released via Harbor Editions October 5th, 2023. Maya was one of three artists of color selected to represent Maine in The Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America series in 2020, and was listed as one of The Advocate’s Champions of Pride in 2022. Follow more of her work, and invite her to read or facilitate a workshop, at mayawilliamspoet.com.

Poems discussed: "Jonah Was Trapped Before He Met the Fish" by Raych Jackson and "Jonah, Suicide, & GOD Doesn’t Give You ANY More Than YOU CAN HANDLE" by Maya Williams

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with two very special poet friends: Jess Rizkallah and John-Francis Quiñonez. We talk about tortillas, tarot, and traveling in other people's dreams. 

Guest # 1: Jess Rizkallah, Book: the magic my body becomes, IG: @jessriz.art, Twitter: @jessriz, Website: www.jessrizkallah.com

Bio:Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer and illustrator. Her book the magic my body becomes was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award and won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize as awarded by the Radius of Arab-American Writers and University of Arkansas Press. She is a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow.

Guest #2: John-Francis Quiñonez, Book: Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems after Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and others), IG: @q_buckaroo, Twitter: @q_buckaroo, Website: www.johnfrancisquinonez.com

Bio: John-Francis Quiñonez or Q (They/Them) is a Desert Flower & Current Resident of Providence, RI/a Queer Writer & Multimedia Artist/ Maker of ice creams & tamales/House Manager of the Columbus Theatre/Current Resident of the Queer.Archive.Work. project/has a Forthcoming collection of Poems with Write Bloody Publishing (‘22) entitled Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems After Kate Bush’s "Hounds of Love" & Others). You can find their work in Pigeon Pages, Ours Poetica, Voicemail Poems, Slamfind, Counterclock, Maps for Teeth, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and as part of a playing card deck with Game Over Books.

Poems discussed: "qtine thoughts (w/ a line from Psych lol)" by Jessica Rizkallah and "Re: Waking the Witch" by John-Francis Quiñonez

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with two very special poet friends: Jess Rizkallah and John-Francis Quiñonez. We talk about tortillas, tarot, and traveling in other people's dreams. 

Guest # 1: Jess Rizkallah, Book: the magic my body becomes, IG: @jessriz.art, Twitter: @jessriz, Website: www.jessrizkallah.com

Bio:Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer and illustrator. Her book the magic my body becomes was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award and won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize as awarded by the Radius of Arab-American Writers and University of Arkansas Press. She is a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow.

Guest #2: John-Francis Quiñonez, Book: Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems after Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and others), IG: @q_buckaroo, Twitter: @q_buckaroo, Website: www.johnfrancisquinonez.com

Bio: John-Francis Quiñonez or Q (They/Them) is a Desert Flower & Current Resident of Providence, RI/a Queer Writer & Multimedia Artist/ Maker of ice creams & tamales/House Manager of the Columbus Theatre/Current Resident of the Queer.Archive.Work. project/has a Forthcoming collection of Poems with Write Bloody Publishing (‘22) entitled Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems After Kate Bush’s "Hounds of Love" & Others). You can find their work in Pigeon Pages, Ours Poetica, Voicemail Poems, Slamfind, Counterclock, Maps for Teeth, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and as part of a playing card deck with Game Over Books.

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with writer and educator Jake Baver, and talk about sourdough, nature "keeping the score," and Natasha Rao.

Guest: Jake Baver

Bio: Jake Baver operates a Writing Center for Oyster River High School. He is an unpublished writer of unfinished projects and he likes turtles.  

Poems discussed: "Earth Memory" by Natasha Rao and "For Poppy Pops" by Jake Baver

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with poet and crafty sad girl Lauren WB Vermette and talk about "good. bread.", mental illness, and Shira Erlichman. 

Guest: Lauren WB Vermette, Book: And the Form Falls Away, IG: @wbvermette

Bio: Lauren WB Vermette is an ink-slinger who makes her home in Dover, NH. Her work has appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Covid Spring Anthology, Edge, Global Poemic, Good Fat Zine, Hole in the Head Review, Lunation: An Anthology of Women Poets, Sledgehammer, Rat’s Ass Review Journal, and The Poets’ Touchstone. Her first collection of poetry, And The Form Falls Away (2018), was published by Bee Monk Press.

Poems discussed: "Odes to Lithium #140: Natural" by Shira Erlichman and "Umbilicus" by Lauren WB Vermette

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth Mike Nelson and talk about garlic bread, love, and Li Young Lee. 

Guest: Mike Nelson, IG: space.bee_, Website: www.hivepoetry.com

Bio: Mike grew up in New Hampshire and has been hanging around the poetry scene of Portsmouth and the Seacoast for the last twenty years. He has been participating in Beat Night for eighteen of its twenty three years and hosting and organizing it for the last eight. Mike has three collections of poetry and is working on a fourth. Mike was the 11th poet laureate of Portsmouth from 2017 to 2019 and is currently the chair of the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. He is also on the board of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, the founder of Hive Poetry Project, Bee Monk Press, and Space Bee Studio.

Poems discussed: "Trading for Heaven" by Li Young Lee and "In the Doorway" by Mike Nelson

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with poet and performer Myles Burr and talk about pumpernickel, cheese danish, and Raymond Carver. (Listen all the way til the end for some bloopers!)

Guest: Myles Burr, IG: @mylesburr, Website: www.mylesburr.com

Bio: Myles Burr is an artist based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Specializing in freeform poetry, he takes readers through an abstract overview of his personal life. Burr hosts various readings and beat poetry events in the Seacoast Area. He is an administrator/board member of The Portland Poets Society (based in Portland, Maine.) He is the author of Therapy Is Expensive So I Wrote This Book Instead,  and has been published in three anthologies, You, Me, & The End of The World, The Best F-ing Poets You’ve Never Heard Of,  and UWA Poetry Review Issue 1. All four titles were released by the publishing house Underground Writers Association, based out of Portland, ME. Burr has also self-published five underground chapbooks: Convolutions Of An Unkempt Mind,  It’s Fine. I’m Fine., Ataraxia Volume 1, Sea Breezes, and most recently, A Buffoon In Pantomime. Growing up in the Greater Seacoast Area has allowed him to find inspiration in the drastic change of seasons both visually and viscerally. There is beauty in every corner of the world, but what fascinates Myles Burr most of all is people and the human experience.

Poems discussed: "The Old Days" by Raymond Carver and "54" by Myles Burr

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

Host Diannely Antigua breaks bread with Kathy and Larry of Portsmouth Community Radio at WSCA 10.61 FM recorded on May 26, 2022, for their show Seacoast Currents. We talk about the genesis of the podcast Bread & Poetry, hear a few poems, and even get a little political. 

Bio: Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship; and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program, and was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and chosen for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She resides in Portsmouth, NH, where she is the Poet Laureate.

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

Poems read: "Alabanza," "Re-Education," "Training," and "Anniversary" by Diannely Antigua 

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation. 

On this episode, we break bread with poet Johnathan Riley and talk about baguettes, cheesy bread, and of course, John Ashbery. 

Guest: Johnathan Riley, Instagram @j.j.riley, Twitter @j_j_riley

Bio: Johnathan Riley is from the coast of Maine. When he’s not performing his duties as an ordained minister, and local bartender, he is teaching and writing poetry at the University of New Hampshire, where he is completing his MFA and is the Poetry Editor for Barnstorm Literary Journal. In 2018 Riley was the recipient of Florida State University's Poetry Literati Award and, most recently, was awarded the Dick Shea Memorial Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Kudzu Review, Vellichor Magazine, and Barnstorm but if you want to read anything more than that, you'll have to email his mother. He currently lives in Dover, NH. 

Poems discussed: "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery and "Long Look Back" by Johnathan Riley

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here. 

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13. 

This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate. 

This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.