Poetry Spoken Here

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  • Episode #128 Open Mic of the Air #5
    The Open Mic of the Air is a project from Poetry Spoken Here. Since most in-person poetry events are temporarily suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet.
    We are also eager to receive and share poems inspired by the recent country-wide protests against police brutality and in support of the value of black lives.
    This is the fifth episode of the Open Mic of the Air featuring poets from across the United States -New York, Wisconsin, Oregon and more - as well as work from England. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode!
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    This Week's Readers
    Stephanie Kendrick, Albany, Ohio in Athens County – “Baptism”
    Leanne Grabel, Portland, Oregon – “Peep”
    Laurie Derosiers, Westfield, Massachusetts – “About the Body”
    Rusty Russell, Madison, Wisconsin - “Idiot Savant”
    Carla Perry, Newport, Oregon – “Praying Mantis”
    Abdiel LeRoy, London, England – “74-Foiled”
    Susan Moorhead, New Rochelle, New York – “Luna”
    Dante Di Stephano, Owego, New York – “Note to Myself During National Poetry Month 2020”
    Gregorio Gomez, Chicago, Illinois – “Casting Shadows”
    Paul David Mena, Centerville Massachusetts – 8 Haiku
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    31 min
  • Episode #127 Rusty Russell
    Rusty Russell of Madison, Wisconsin discusses his new collection "Witness", gives his thoughts on poets as witnesses, and shares his poetry including a poem written the day after 9/11.
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!:
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
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    29 min
  • Episode #126 Nicole Santalucia
    Nicole Santalucia shares poems from her new collection, The Book of Dirt, and talks about life in conservative-small-town Pennsylvania where she lives with her wife and teaches.
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!:
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com
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    26 min
  • SPECIAL REBROADCAST: Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
    A first ever Poetry Spoken Here rebroadcast! Episode 100 of Poetry Spoken Here featured Jericho Brown reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. In honor of Jericho Brown being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his book The Tradition, we wanted to re-share this reading.
    The Unamuno Author Festival took place in the spring of 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
    Jericho Brown was recently awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has also won a Guggenheim fellowship, invented a poetic form, and had his poems featured in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the Bennington Review among others. His latest collection The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer, was released in 2019 to wide praise. This reading was part of an evening celebrating of the 25th anniversary of the Civitella Ranieri retreat program.
    Buy The Tradition, here: www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse…D6BC663B1%7D
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!:
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com
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    21 min
  • Episode #125 Open Mic of the Air #4
    The Open Mic of the Air is a new project from Poetry Spoken Here. Since in-person events are temporarily suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet while staying safe at home.
    This is the fourth episode of the Open Mic of the Air featuring poets from across the United States - Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and more - as well as work from Mexico. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode!
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    This Week's Readers
    Albert DeGenova, Chicago, Illinois – “The Cracked Mirror (A Charles Bukowski Cento)”
    Paula J. Lambert, Columbus, Ohio – “Opossum: Diversion Strategy”
    Marilyn Johnston, Salem, Oregon – “My Husband Talks about Covid-19 As If He’s Still on Patrol”
    Jonah Bornstein, Denver, Colorado - "Raven Flight at the Grand Canyon."
    Ken Salzmann, Central Mexico - "Another Gray Afternoon in Guernica"
    Mike Jurkovic, Wallkill, New York - “The Irreversible Future”
    Andrea Vallario, Massachusetts – “Other Than Love”
    Richard Evans, Grand Prairie, Texas via Los Angeles, California – “Vexation in the Garden”
    Cathryn Cofell, Appleton, Wisconsin – “The Day Her Speech Was Slurred”
    Dottie Joslyn, Springfield, Missouri – “Isolation” & “Solitude”
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
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    29 min
  • Episode #124 Georgia Popoff
    Poet/editor/educator Georgia Popoff from Syracuse, NY, reads from her new book Psychometry, from Tiger Bark Press. She also discuses the deep research she did while writing, including into Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary.
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    30 min
  • Episode #123 Open Mic of the Air #3
    NOTE: There was a glitch in the first upload of this episode that caused issues with playback. We have re-uploaded the audio and it should be error free now.
    The Open Mic of the Air is a new project from Poetry Spoken Here. Since in-person events are temporarily suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet while staying safe at home.
    This is the third episode of the Open Mic of the Air featuring poets from across the United States - California, New Hampshire, Missouri, and more - as well as work from Australia. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode!
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    This Week's Readers
    Michael Zinkowski, Salem, Oregon – “If I knew It Would Come Back, Have I Given Anything?”
    John Elizabeth Stinzi, Kansas City, Missouri – “Toward Hoboken Station”
    Kari Gunter-Seymour, Southeastern (Appalachia) Ohio – “Hank Williams’ Last Ride”
    Jennifer Mackenzie, Melbourne, Australia – “Kalimantan”
    Elizabeth S. Wolf, Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts – “I Am Not the Woman I Was In That House”
    Joe Cottonwood, La Honda, California - “The Family Tree”
    Alice B. Fogel, Walpole, New Hampshire - “Saturn”
    Jared Smith, Colorado – “The Death Has Not Occurred”
    LoriAnn Butler, West Virginia – “My Lost Queen”
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
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    37 min
  • Episode #122 Open Mic of the Air #2
    The Open Mic of the Air is a new project from Poetry Spoken Here. Since in-person events are temporarily suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet while staying safe at home.
    This is the second episode of the Open Mic of the Air features poets from across the United States - Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and more. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode!
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    This Week's Readers
    1:22 Linda Simone, San Antonio, Texas – “Salon”
    3:12 Michael Minassian, Flower Mound, Texas – “Cut Above the Heart”
    5:16 Carlos “El Principito” Garcia Leon, Cincinnati, Ohio – “This is a Sentence”
    8:09 Selena Abbot – Largo, Florida, “hear me”
    10:11 Susan Jefts, Lake George, New York – “Bardo Over the Hudson”
    12:39 Kirk Judd, Morgantown, West Virginia – “The High Country Remembers Her Heritage”
    15:29 J. D. Fox, Barre, Vermont – "Daff o Dils"
    18:13 Brenda Berry, Winchester, Virginia – “Longanimity”
    20:36 Matthew Ussia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – “At the Moment He Was Conceived”
    22:10 Ralph Culver, South Burlington, Vermont – “To March”
    25:27 Kate Jordan, Cross Lanes, West Virginia – “Ten-Year Father”
    31:14 Laura Santner, Brooklyn, New York – “March”
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
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    34 min
  • Episode #121 Open Mic of the Air #1
    The Open Mic of the Air is a new project from Poetry Spoken Here. Since in-person events are temporarily suspended due to coronavirus, this is a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet while staying safe at home.
    This first Open Mic of the Air features poets from Brazil, Mexico, India, both coasts of the United States, and the heartland. Give a listen and submit your work for the next episode!
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    This Week's Readers
    2:52 Dan Wilcox, Albany, New York – “Hanging Over the Edge”
    4:20 Andrew Shaw, Port Townsend, Washington – “On the Nature of Motifs”
    6:38 Leonides Jongui, San Luis Potosi, Mexico – “Momnto et Pasado”
    8:39 John Berry, Winchester, Virginia – “How to Teach Poetry”
    10:42 Jeannie E. Roberts, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin – “The Tempo of Gratitude”
    12:47 G.E. Schwartz, Henrietta, New York – “The Searchers”
    16:22 Charles Castle, Eugene, Oregon – “Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus”
    18:47 Ralph Carusillo, Hudson River Valley, New York – “The Last Avenue”
    23:36 Vandana Parashar, Panchkula, India – “A Leap of Faith”
    25:48 Sandy Rochelle, New Jersey – “To Mothers All Alone in a Sandbox”
    27:26 Dottie Joslyn, Springfield, Missouri – “Virus Two”
    28:34 Michael Glassman, Newburgh, New York – “Drop Zone”
    31:33 Louiza Mussnich, Rio de Janiero, Brazil – “Accident (to Iris Murdoch)” and “For Sale”
    33:56 Romy Maimon, Cape Cod, Massachusetts – “I Wish”
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
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    38 min
  • Episode #120 ANNOUNCING the Open Mic of the Air and an Appreciation of Margaret Atwood's Poetry
    Host Charlie Rossiter offers an appreciation of Margaret Atwood's poetry. Also...
    ANNOUNCING the Open Mic of the Air. We are putting out a call for submissions for a new audio poetry project! If you are searching for poetic community and an outlet for your pent up creative energy, this is an opportunity to share your poetry and be inspired by the poetry of others while you’re at home avoiding the coronavirus.
    Send a recording - 5 mins or shorter - of yourself reading one of your poems, including your name and location, to [email protected].
    For full submission guidelines, check out: http://www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR!: http://www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-air
    Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com
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    14 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…