Poetry Spoken Here

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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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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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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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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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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Raena Shirali is a poet, editor, and educator whose latest book SUMMONINGS won the 2021 Hudson Prize. The book examines present-day witch hunting in India. Shirali reads from the book, discusses some of the formatting choices she made, and explains the connections she sees between explicit witch hunting in India, and social practices in the United States that similarly endanger women.

Learn more about Raena Shirali, here: http://www.raenashirali.com/

Get a copy of SUMMONINGS, here: https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/summonings/

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Aracelis Girmay reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at La Residencia de Estudiantes which cultural luminaries such as Frederico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali once called home.

Learn more about Aracelis Girmay, here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aracelis-girmay

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California poet Rich Ferguson reads from his new collection EVERYTHING IS RADIANT BETWEEN THE HATES. He also discusses and reads from BEAT, NOT BEAT a collection of California poets whose work is in a beat vein.

Learn more about Rich and buy his books, here: http://rich-ferguson.com/

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After just over six years, we've reached a milestone - 200 episodes of Poetry Spoken Here! This is an extra special episode featuring multi-award-winning musician, poet, and activist Tanya Tagaq. She reads from her 2018 book Split Tooth, shares warm memories of a dear friend, gives insight into the throat singing tradition she has helped keep vibrantly alive, and discusses her frustrations with the corporatization of activism.

Learn more about Tanya on her website: www.tanyatagaq.com

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In this special episode, host Charlie Rossiter reviews and reads from two new collections of poetry by Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison. In June of 2022 the Library of America released an 1100+ page collection of Snyder's poetry and at the very end of 2021, Copper Canyon Press released a collection of all of Jim Harrison's poems. Charlie reads from both collections and shares his thoughts on these two literary titans.

Get a copy of Gary Snyder: Collected Poems from the Library of America, here: https://www.loa.org/books/711-collected-poems

Get a copy of Jim Harrison: Complete Poems from Copper Canyon Press, here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/jim-harrison-complete-poems/

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