Off The Bricks

Today Gabriele Glang joins us for the 16th episode of Off The Bricks! Listen in as Glang discusses her experience with grief from the loss of her husband. Glang is a Bilingual poet who writes in both German and English, and among her multiple publications has also been teaching creative writing in English at the University of Applied Sciences at Esslingen. You can visit Glang's website here. Today's natural moment poem can be found in Haiku for Hikers, and was written by Alessio Zanelli

Today we welcome Elise Paschen as she joins us for the fifteenth episode of Off The Bricks! Listen in as Elise reads selected poems from her newest long poem sequence that celebrates her Osage heritage in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Hailing from Chicago with ancestral ties to Fairfax, Oklahoma, Elise brings the history and landscape of the Osage reservation into vibrant resolution in her currently in-progress manuscript, Heritage of The Blood Wolf Moon. Her website is available here. The music featured in today's natural moment is Warrior Flute by Tommy Wildcat at the Smithsonian's Cherokee Days (2017) available in full here.

Today we are featuring our very own Joyce Brinkman as she debuts her most recent international collaboration, Catena Poetica. This collaborative effort was created in part by Flor Aguilera, Joyce Brinkman, Gabriele Glang, and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda. Today's discussion centers on the form of the chapbook, the art of collaboration, and the creation of international poetry. Our Natural Moment poem for the month is a haiku by Tony Brewer and can be found in Haiku for Hikers. You can find the Catena Poetica chapbook for preorder by clicking here.

Today we are featuring a delightful discussion between American Poet Dr. Norbert Krapf and German Poet Dr. Helmut Haberkamm concerning dialect poetry. Krapf is a Fulbright Fellow in American Poetry at the Universities of Freiburg and Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he met our second guest Helmut Haberkamm. Dr. Haberkamm writes extensively in the Franconian dialectic. The conversation touches on subjects from James Whitcomb Riley to Bob Dylan with lots in between. www.krapfpoetry.net Our Natural Moment poem for the month is Reverence by Pheonix Cole.

Today Dr. Eric Kreuter joins us for the 12th episode of Off the Bricks! Listen in as Dr. Kreuter discusses his work with recovering drug addicts as he allows them to process their emotions around addiction via poetry writing as an alternative to traditional therapies. This episode features the work of a recovering addict by the name of Rammell S.

Today Linda Neal Rising joins us for the 11th episode of Off The Bricks! Listen in as Rising discusses her poetry and how it has been informed by her experiences growing up a member of the Western Cherokee Nation, as well as the personal experiences of her parents which inform her political affiliations and activism. Rising has published multiple books of poetry including The Keeping which are available for sale on Amazon here.

Today Mary Sexson joins us for the 10th episode of Off The Bricks! Listen in as Sexson discusses her experiences with her daughter's addiction and shares the poetry that she wrote to manage her emotions during the course of her recovery. Sexson has been published multiple times and most recently has released work on the pandemic that was published through the Indianapolis Writers Center publication What Was and Will Be, with her poem, “Close”, being choreographed by Dance Kaleidoscope (November 2020). Some of Sexson's work is available for purchase on Amazon here and her personal website can be found here.

Today Katie Hesterman joins us for our 9th episode of Off The Bricks! Young poets all around should listen in as Katie reads poetry from her new book, A Round of Robins, an informational and playful collection of poems about robins. Our special guest interviewer today is Sammy the interviewing Toucan, a local bird who is excited to learn all about her cousins the robins today. Katie's website can be found at katiehesterman.com, and to plan a visit to the Indiana Young Readers Center go to www.in.gov/library/iyrc/

Today Matthew Graham joins us for our eighth episode of Off The Bricks! Listen in as Indiana's newest poet laureate discusses his poetry which explores the geography of home. Graham's poetry incorporates his travels to Ireland, and shares his love of music and language that conveys themes of home. Learn more about Graham at https://indianahumanities.org/protest-and-pandemic-matthew-graham-2.