Award-winning poet and poetry festival founder Katerina Canyon shares poems from her newest book "Surviving Home." She also discusses the personal history she drew on when writing the collection,  her time as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, and the struggle to have her voice and work adequately valued.

Learn more about Katerina Canyon (and buy her books!), here: https://www.poetickat.com/

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Episode #165 Katerina Canyon

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Albany area poet Therese Broderick discusses her work, how she thinks about tone in poetry, introduces the concept of ice balloons, and talks about her personally curated lending library of local poets work.

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Episode #208 Therese Broderick on Tone in Poetry and Her Lending Library of Local Poets

Faith Vicinanza, slam poet and poet laureate of Southbury, CT, shares memories of the slam scene of the 90s, her plans for her laureateship, and the tips she gives to new writers in her workshops.

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Episode #207 Faith Vicinanza, Poet Laureate of Southbury, Connecticut

In 2022 Poetry Spoken Here celebrated its 200th episode. We had guests from across the United States and around the world. We also shared even more readings from the Unamuno Author Festival which took place in 2019. Guests you will hear on this episode include Ashley M. Jones, the first Black Poet Laureate of Alabama, Emmy Award-Winning Director Violet Du Feng, Polaris Award-Winning throat-singer, poet, and activist Tanya Tagaq and many, many more.

In order or appearance in the show:
Episode 181: Ashley M. Jones: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-180-ashley-m-jones-poet-laureate-of-alabama
Episode 182: Jonathan Mayers: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-182-jonathan-mayers-poet-laureate-of-baton-rouge-on-writing-in-english-and-kouri-vini
Episode 198: Marty Gervais https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-198-marty-gervais-first-poet-laureate-of-windsor-ontario-shares-tales-from-the-road
Episode 200: Tanya Tagaq: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-200-tanya-tagaq-reads-from-split-tooth
Episode 189: Wendy Hind: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-189-open-mic-of-the-air-11
Episode 190: Teresa Dzieglewicz: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-190-teresa-dzieglewicz-on-teaching-at-standing-rock 
Episode 195: Jim Cohn: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-195-jim-cohn-and-the-power-of-the-storm-anthology
Episode 204: Violet Du Feng: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-204-violet-du-feng-director-of-hidden-letters-on-the-secret-language-of-chinese-women
Episode 202: Aracelis Girmay: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-202-aracelis-girmay-reading-at-the-unamuno-author-festival

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Episode #206 2022: The Poetry Spoken Here Retrospective

Maya Jewell Zeller reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature, an independent bookstore in Madrid.

More about Maya Jewell Zeller, here: https://western.edu/people/maya-jewell-zeller/

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Episode #205  Maya Jewell Zeller Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival

Emmy Award-winning director Violet Du Feng discusses her latest film Hidden Letters about Nushu, a secret language developed by women in China. She also reads poems written in Nushu that offer a window into the lives of women living in rural China many years ago. 

Learn more about the film, here: https://www.hiddenlettersfilm.com/

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Episode #165 Katerina Canyon

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