Off The Bricks

Welcome to Off The Bricks Poets and Poetry Lovers. This week, we have Dr. Lucy Park and Dale Ho Kim, who are featured in the Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon. Join us for an episode of translation and Sijo/Sejong poetic form, a Korean style of poetry. The Firefly Blue Ghost lander is now on the moon!

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers. Today we welcome back to the program Norbert Krapf who, in honor of black history month, is reading from his 2024 project, Ida Hagan of the Pinnkston Freedom Settlement. 14 years in the making Krapf, details in narrative poetry the bilingual, trailblazing life of Indianapolis local Ida Hagan. You can find more information about the project as well as links to purchase at krapfpoetry.net and additional historical information from The Dubois County Free Press .

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and Poetry lovers, today's episode features Robert "Bob" Okaji and his new chapbook In The Garden of Wind's Delight.

Learn about the Japanese bamboo flute - Shakuhachi which offers both challenge and inspiration through the path of learning Suizen, the practice of playing the Shakuhachi.

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Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! Today we have an interview with Alessandra Lynch regarding her fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, published by Alice James Books in 2024. She is the author of four other poetry collections: Pretty Tripwire, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Sails the Wind Left Behind. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Alessandra serves as Butler University’s poet in residence where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs. you can find her books and other information on her website. www.alessandralynch.com

Welcome to Off The Bricks Poets and Poetry lovers. This week we have PART 1 of our interview with George Kalamaras. The poet laureate of Indiana from 2014 to 2016 and professor emeritus at Purdue University Fort Wayne shares with us today his newest book, To Sleep in the Horse's Belly. You can find further information about Kalamaras's work at the Dos Madres website.

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we welcome poet Nancy Chen Long to the program. Nancy Chen Long is the author of Wider than the Sky, selected for the Diode Editions Book Award (Diode Editions, 2020) and Light into Bodies, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2017), as well as the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). Today in conversation with Joyce Brinkman, Nancy Chen Long discusses her poetry inspired by memory and its curious nature and challenges. You can learn more about her work on her website linked here.

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! Today's show brings back our publishers' series with Natalie Solmer

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month we are proud to feature the poetic works of our Brick Street Poetry - poetry night participants who met for a live recording this past 4th of July. On the 1st Thursday of each month, Brick Street Poetry hosts enriching programming at the Sullivan Munce in Zionsville, Indiana. Today's episode showcases a diverse interpretation of the concept and celebration of Freedom. Please consider joining us next month, Off The Bricks

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we have with us Curtis L Crisler the current Indiana Poet Laureate! Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received a BA in English, with a minor in Theatre, from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW, now PFW), and he received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. You can learn more about Curtis at his website, and find the works featured in this episode for purchase at C&R Press.