Each Bring a Poem

Each Bring a Poem

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Each Bring a Poem episodes

  • Each Bring a Poem with Nona Lea

    In this episode of Each Bring a Poem, host Yael Valencia

    Aldana and her guest Nona Lea discuss their poem picks. Nona is the Marketing Manager
    at the Independent Press Purple Ink Press. Yael is the Managing Editor at Purple
    Ink Press. https://Purpleinkpress.com

     

     

    The episode’s featured poems:

     

    Nona’s pick

    Blood is Thicker Than Water

    By Maureen P. Medina

    From her collection

    My Fears Out Loud

     

    https://linktr.ee/MaureenPMedina

     

     

    Yael’s Pick

    AGE OF BEAUTY

    By

    Emilia Phillips

    From her collection

    Embouchure

     

    https://emiliaphillips.com/

    1 hr 7 min
  • Each Bring a Poem with Richard Blanco Part 1

    In this episode of Each Bring a Poem, the poetic conversation is with Richard Blanco, 5th US inaugural poet. Richard misunderstood the brief and brought his own poem to the party with some ensuing hilarity. But watch his reading make me cry. 

    Well the electronic gremlins got me again, and the sound dropped out in the 2nd half of the podcast. But I am sharing Part One now so can enjoy Richard Blanca’s beautiful poem and check him and the other wonderful poems at the Miami Book Fair.

    Richard's poem, A Good Day to Die, is in his new book Homeland of My Body. Check out the book and learn more about Richard here https://richard-blanco.com/books/homeland-of-my-body/


    Your host, Yael Valencia Aldana, is an Afro-Latinx poet living in South Florida. She is the author of the chapbook Aliens, the forthcoming poetry collection, Black Mestiza, and is a Founding Editor at Purple Ink Press. Find out more about her at YaelAldana.com.

    33 min
  • Each Bring A Poem With Elisa Albo

    Another
    joyful, deep dive into two poems. This time my guest is Elisa Albo, a local
    poet and professor. In this episode, Elisa picks the poem, Photograph of the Girl by Sharon Olds. Yael’s
    pick is The Last Thing by Ada Limón.

    This episode’s guest, Elisa Albo is an award-winning

    professor of composition, literature, ESL, and creative writing at Broward
    College. A contributing editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual
    Harassment, Empowerment, and Healing, her poetry chapbooks are Passage to America,
    based on her family immigrant story, and Each Day More, a collection of
    elegies. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,
    including Alimentum, Bomb, Crab Orchard Review,
    Irresistible Appetites, MiPoesias, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Super Highway, SWWIM
    Every Day, Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents, and
    Vinegar and Char. Nominated in 2021 for a Best of the Net award, she is
    an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and co-produces
    the Seahawk Writing Conference at Broward College where she also teaches a
    food-themed film and literature course. Born in Havana, she lives with her family
    in Fort Lauderdale.

     

    Each Bring a Poem’s host Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the forthcoming

    poetry collection, Black Mestiza (University Press of Kentucky, 2025)
    and of the chapbook, Alien(s) (Bottlecap Press). She is the winner of
    the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
    Prize 2023 in poetry. She
    is a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Craft
    Literary. She teaches creative writing at Florida International University
    and lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets. You can find her
    online at YaelAldana.com.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Each Bring a Poem with Jubi Arriola-Headley

    Another wide-ranging discussion with two poets having a bit

    too much fun discussing two of their favorite poems, life, and everything in
    between. Host Yael Valencia Aldana welcomes Jubi Arriola-Headley.

     

    JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black

    homoflexible poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian and author of
    the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press),
    recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound,
    will be published by Persea Books in early 2024. You can find Jubi at Justjubi.com

     

    Yael Valencia Aldana is a Caribbean Afro-Latinx writer and poet.

    She is a descendant of the indigenous people of modern-day Colombia. Her work has
    also appeared or is upcoming in Stone
    Coast Review, South Florida Poetry
    Journal, and Cutbank Literary Journal, among others. She teaches
    creative writing in South Florida, where she lives with her son and too many
    pets. You can find her online at YaelAldana.com.

    56 min
  • Each Bring a Poem with Julie Marie Wade

    Julie and Yael have a joyful, complete unwieldy conversation

    between two poetry lovers about some of our favorite poems. We nerd out, delve
    deep and Virgo about these poems and poetry in general.

     

    Julie’s pick is the poem “Tenue at Forty” is from the debut

    collection Bardo by Suzanne Paola. Yael’s pick is “Two Miles Away” by Margaret
    Atwood from her collection Two Headed Poems.

     

    Some of the burning questions are answered:

    What is Virgoing?

    What was Julie reading in the fourth grade?

    What is the difference between oral and aural?

    Which independent New York bookstore did Yael work in?

    1 hr 28 min

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A joyful, complete unwieldy conversation between two poetry lovers about some of our favorite poems. We nerd out, delve deep, and Virgo about these poems and poetry in general.