"Mother" written and read here by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

"For the Stranger" Carolyn Forché

www.sallybliumisdunn.com

Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and offers individual manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review,On the Seawall, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s  column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her two books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010. Galapagos Poems published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. Her third full-length collection, Echolocation, was published by Plume editions Madhat Press in March of 2018. Shortly afterwards she was interviewed by Nin Andrews for THE BEST OF AMERICAN POETRY.

 

In 2019, her third book, ECHOLOCATION, Plume Editions/MadHat Press:

 

Long-listed for the Julie Suk Award for Best Book of Poetry in 2018.

Runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018

Runner-up for the Poetry By The Sea Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018.

Ravi Shankar is the author, editor or translator of over a dozen books, including most recently "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas Press, 2017) and "Andal: The Autobiography of A Goddess" (Zubaan Books/University of Chicago Press, 2016). He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, appeared on NPR, PBS, the BBC and in such publications as The New York Times, The Paris Review and Caravan, and been awarded many fellowships, including from the Rhode Island Commission on the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo. He founded Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, and he teaches and performs around the world, most recently for the New York Writers Workshop and as the Writer-in-Residence at Sun Yat-Sen University in Gwangzhou, China. His memoir-in-progress is entitled "Correctional" and he currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney.

reading one

From the Calabrian Notebooks:

Calabria - Providence

by Peter Covino

reading two

"Ars Poetica"

by Giorgio Bassani

music from los duderinos

https://www.losduderinos.com/

Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu92CzWMVpY

Jennifer Franklin (AB Brown, MFA Columbia) is the author of two full-length collections, Looming (Elixir, 2015) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Boston Review, Connotation Press, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She teaches poetry workshops and seminars at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, where she serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City.

"My Daughter's Body" (Looming)byJ ennifer Franklin

"Tulips" by Sylvia Plath

music from

Dier straits "walk of life" insramental

Los Duderinos "?"

Heather Lang Cassera—a poet, critic, literary editor, and educator—holds an MFA in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas' Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming with The Normal School, North American Review, Pleiades, South Dakota Review, and other literary journals, and have been on exhibit in the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. Heather curated Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace, an anthology of literature by Nevada women, funded by the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. She serves as World Literature Editor for The Literary Review, Faculty Adviser for 300 Days of Sun, and Co-Publisher for Tolsun Books. At Nevada State College, Heather teaches Composition, Professional Writing, World Literature, and more

https://www.heatherlangwrites.com/

music:

thelittlecomptonband.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0j4U4PTrtqBEoRYVXIgtiU

In the spirit of back to school season, we have Mr. Aaron Coleman sharing his poem, "On Acquiescence," as well as his School Dose selection, "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes.

Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow from Metro-Detroit, Aaron has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain, South Africa, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kalamazoo. Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston Review, FENCE, and New York Times Magazine. As a poet and translator from Spanish, Aaron has received awards including the American Literary Translators Association’s Jansen Memorial Fellowship, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest, and the Cincinnati Review Schiff Award. Aaron is currently a PhD student at Washington University St. Louis, studying 20th Century literature of the African Diaspora and Translation Studies in the Comparative Literature Program’s International Writers’ Track.

Music;

"Another Brick in the Wall" by Richard Cheese

on this episode two readings from Maggie Smith

Slipper by Maggie Smith

&

Fortress by Ann Sexton

Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017. The title poem, “Good Bones,” was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio International and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received the Pushcart Prize, and fellowships and awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Believer, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary.

maggiesmithpoet.com

music by The Horse Eyed Men

horseyedmen.bandcamp.com/album/noah-h…-inch-series

Tracy K. Smith is the author of the memoir Ordinary Light and four books of poetry: Wade in the Water, (April 2018); Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award; and The Body's Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award and a Whiting Award. She was the Literature protégé in the 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In June 2017 she was named the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the Library of Congress, and in March 2018 she was re-appointed to a second term for 2018-19.

Heidi Reszies

A poem from her series titled "Illusory Borders."

School Dose reading of “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity," by John Tobias.

Heidi is a multidisciplinary artist living in Richmond, VA, and a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches letterpress printing at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, and manages Artifact Press, an independent micropress that publishes limited edition poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has recently appeared in literary journals including BOAAT, Daily Gramma, LEVELER, Fog Machine, Forklift Ohio, FORTH Magazine, Kelsey Street, La Vague Journal, SUSAN/the Journal, and Queen of Cups. Her chapbook "Recollections & Reenactments" was published by Zoo Cake Press in 2017.

"Only Sweetness" by Rosalynde Vas Dias

"Stone" by Charles Simic

Rosalynde Vas Dias is the author of Only Blue Body from Anhinga Press. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.