Poetry Spoken Here

Poetry Spoken Here

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Poetry Spoken Here episodes

  • Episode #110 Nico Amador Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
    Nico Amador reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain.
    This reading was recorded at El Aleatorio in Madrid Spain.
    Last week’s episode featured Vermont’s new poet laureate, Mary Reufle. Today, we have a reading from another Vermont poet, Nico Amador. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and many other publications. His 2017 chapbook Flower Wars from Newfound Press won the Anzaldua Poetry Prize.
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    18 min
  • Episode #109 Mary Ruefle
    Mary Ruefle, the newly appointed poet laureate of Vermont, reads from her latest book "Dunce," discusses the importance of ancient Chinese poets to her work, and the influence being a child in a military family had on her.
    You can buy "Dunce" here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce
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    31 min
  • Episode #108 Maria Mazziotti Gillan and David Graham Reviewed
    Maria Mazziotti Gillan reads poems about family and loss. She also discusses some of her many poetry outreach efforts in Paterson, NJ and beyond. In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter reviews David Graham's (PSH guest on episode 56)new book, "The Honey of Earth."
    Find "The Honey of Earth" here: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/newmdashthe-honey-of-earth-by-david-graham.html
    Hear David's episode of PSH, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-056-david-graham-and-the-2016-vida-count
    Hear Maria talk explicitly about the family connections in her work in our Thanksgiving episode from 2016 "The Poetry of Family and Home": https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-011-the-poetry-of-family-and-home-special-episode
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    33 min
  • Episode #107 Shara Lessley Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
    Shara Lessley reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain.
    This reading was recorded at El Aleatorio in Madrid Spain.
    Shara Lessley is the author of "Two Headed Nightingale" and, the book she reads from in this episode, "The Explosive Expert’s Wife."
    Lessley was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review among many others.
    Learn more about Shara Lessley, here: http://www.sharalessley.com/
    Purchase "The Explosive Expert's Wife" here: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5701.htm
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    19 min
  • Episode #106 Red Pine Pt. 2 - Han Shan and Hermits
    Translator of ancient Chinese poetry, Red Pine (aka Bill Porter), discusses and reads translations of the poetry of Hanshan. He also describes his trips to China in search of contemporary hermits.
    Listen to part one of this interview, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-105-red-pine-pt-1-stonehouse
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    29 min
  • Episode #105 Red Pine Pt. 1 - Stonehouse
    Translator of ancient Chinese poetry, Red Pine (aka Bill Porter), discusses the process of translation which he says is like a dance. He also reads from the work of Stonehouse, a poet he discovered.
    Listen to part two of this interview, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-106-red-pine-pt-2-hanshan-and-hermits
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    27 min
  • Episode #104 Jimmy Santiago Baca
    American Book Award winner Jimmy Santiago Baca, talks poetry, borders, and the pursuit of truth. He also reads from his new book, "When I Walk Through That Door, I Am" released in February 2019 from Penguin Random House.
    Get "When I Walk Through That Door, I Am" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607534/when-i-walk-through-that-door-i-am-by-jimmy-santiago-baca/9780807059357/
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    33 min
  • Episode #103 Octavio Quintanilla Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
    Octavio Quintanilla reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain.
    This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature in Madrid Spain.
    Octavio Quintanilla is currently the poet laureate of San Antonia Texas. He is the author of the 2014 collection "If I Go Missing." In addition to writing poetry and fiction he is also a photographer. His work has appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwestern American Literature, and The Texas Observer. “Frontexto: A Return Home” an exhibit incorporating his poetry and sketches was displayed at The Weslaco Museum.
    Purchase "If I Go Missing" here: https://www.amazon.com/If-Go-Missing-Octavio-Quintanilla/dp/0941720357
    Learn more about Desperate Literature, here: desperateliterature.com
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    17 min
  • Episode #102 Campbell McGrath Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
    Campbell McGrath Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain.
    This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature in Madrid Spain.
    Campbell McGrath has won a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grand a Guggenheim fellowship a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of many books of poetry. His most recent, Nouns and Verbs: New and Selected Poems was released earlier this year from Ecco Press.
    Buy Nouns & Verbs, here: https://www.amazon.com/Nouns-Verbs-New-Selected-Poems/dp/0062854143
    Learn more about Desperate Literature, here: https://desperateliterature.com
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    15 min
  • Episode #101 Lynn Patrick Smith's Poems and Songs
    Poet and singer/songwriter Lynn Patrick Smith from Madison, Wisconsin talks about his favorite poets, discusses the different ways he approaches poetics and songwriting, and even mentions Warren Zevon. Smith is part of the Minds Eye Radio Collective and has two books out with Fireweed Press.
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    31 min

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An almost weekly poetry podcast that features interviews with poets, reviews of poetry books, examinations of individual poems, and investigations of themes in poetry. Sit back, relax, and let poetry…