In this eighth episode, Georgina Marie talks with two Poets Laureate Fellows from the Academy of American Poets. The Academy supports American poets at all stages of their careers and fosters the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Through its Poets Laureate Fellowship program, the Academy has become the largest financial supporter of poets in the nation. The fellowship program is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Guest Links: 

Brian Sonia-Wallace -  

Profile with the Academy: https://poets.org/poet/brian-sonia-wallace  

Website: https://briansoniawallace.com/  

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/rentpoet/

Buy his book, The Poetry of Strangers: 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/006287022X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Q97B7EN5KKX6YQ81VF28  

Lloyd Schwartz -  

Profile with the Academy: https://poets.org/poet/lloyd-schwartz  

Buy his book, Who’s on First?:  

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo95485299.html 

Music in--and on--the Air Collection of Fresh Air reviews: 

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Air-Lloyd-Schwartz/dp/0989237206 

Georgina Marie - 

Profile with the Academy: https://poets.org/poet/georgina-marie-guardado  

Website: https://www.georginamariepoet.com/  

The Rooted in Poetry Podcast is brought to you by Lake County, CA Poet Laureate Georgina Marie and The Bloom. Opening poem by Andrea Gibson entitled The Madness Vase.  

Show Notes: 

In this seventh episode, Georgina Marie talks with Lake County poet Brenda Yeager, whose lyrical poetry often strikes the community in the center of their hearts and spirits.  

 Guest Links: 

Brenda’s Website: https://www.brendayeager.com/ 

Lap of Stars, poem by Brenda: https://www.lakecountybloom.com/lap-of-stars-poetry-by-brenda-yeager/ 

In this sixth episode, Georgina Marie highlights The Bloom’s second poetry contest from July 2021: Poetry of the Outliers. She hosts a live reading with poets Hilary Brown, Mo Kng, and Preeti Vangani. The contest theme was chosen to honor voices that tend to be unheard and marginalized in our society. Content warning - difficult truths shared in this episode.  

Reader Links: 

 Hilary Brown’s book, When She Woke She Was an Open Field: 

https://headmistress-press.square.site/PRODUCT/WHEN-SHE-WOKE-SHE-WAS-AN-OPEN-FIELD-BY-HILARY-BROWN/48?CS=TRUE&CST=CUSTOM 

M.O. Kng’s (pronounced Mo or M.O.) book, speech therapy: poems and prose on trauma, healing, and empowerment: 
https://www.lulu.com/shop/mo-kng/speech-therapy-poems-and-prose-on-trauma-healing-and-empowerment/paperback/product-23375451.html?page=1&pageSize=4 

Mo’s Website: https://www.mokng.com/home  

Mo’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mokngpoetry 

Mo’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mokngpoetry 

Preeti Vangani’s book Mother Tongue Apologize: 

https://bookshop.org/books/mother-tongue-apologize/9788193929537 

In this fifth episode, Georgina Marie highlight’s The Bloom’s first poetry contest from April 2021, Poetry of the Body. She talks with Mendocino Coast poet Karen K. Lewis and Sonoma County poet Beulah Vega who both submitted to the contest. The contest theme was chosen in honor of National Donate Life Month and poem submissions explored the topic of organ donation and the celebration of our bodies. 

Special Mentions: 

Donate Life America

https://www.donatelife.net/ 

Clive Matson, Writer and Teacher

https://www.matsonpoet.com/ 

Follow the Writers: 

Find Karen on Instagram: @wordjourneysm, Twitter: @Karen_K_Lewis, and visit her website at https://www.wordjourneys.org/ 

Buy her book Peace Maps here: 

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/peace-maps-by-karen-k-lewis/ 

To follow Beulah’s lunacy (artistic and otherwise), find her on Facebook @BFVegaauthor and Instagram/Twitter @Byronwhoknew 

Buy Beulah's book, A Saga for the Unrequited: 

e-book option: https://books2read.com/Asagafortheunrequited paperback: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-saga-for-the-unrequited-beulah-vega/1139869438 

Learn more about Georgina Marie at https://www.georginamariepoet.com/ and visit The Bloom at https://www.lakecountybloom.com/

In this fourth episode, Georgina Marie talks time and poetics with Bay Area Poets K.R. Morrison and Paul Corman-Roberts.  

K.R. Morrison is a Bay Area writer, drummer, and high school teacher who these days, splits her time between SF and a place she calls Mermaidtown. There, she writes new poems, summons sirens, and recently finished and published her first chapbook “Cauldrons,” thanks to PaperPress Books. You may be familiar with her work featured in The Bloom for three weeks in July. 

Paul Corman-Roberts is exhausted. His new full-length collection of poems BONE MOON PALACE (Nomadic Press, 2021) is his first book in six years. In that time, he has been hired five times, fired three times, organized four festivals and working on a fifth, gave away his drum kit, and started a new press. 

Special Mentions: 

Bay Area Generations 

https://bayareagenerations.com/ 

Beast Crawl Lit Fest 

https://www.facebook.com/BeastCrawlLiteraryFestival/ 

Buy their Books: 

Bone Moon Palace by Paul Corman-Roberts: 

https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/bonemoonpalace 

Cauldrons by K.R. Morrison 

https://paperpressbooks.org/store#mce_temp_url# 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0615868746?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 

In the third episode, Georgina Marie talks poetry and vulnerability with Vallejo Poet Laureate Jeremy Snyder.  

Jeremy Snyder is a 46-year-old man from Vallejo, California who became the Poet Laureate of Vallejo in January of 2020. He has been writing most of his life and is the host of Poetry By the Bay, one of the longest-running poetry shows in the bay area (over a decade and currently on Zoom every Thursday at 9 p.m. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81888607048).  

He has hosted various slam events and holds a monthly creative writing group at JFK library called Poetry In Notion (pre/post-pandemic). Jeremy loves to foster the art of creative writing in other people and its ability to be a cathartic act of self-realization. Jeremy is currently working to publish his first book of poetry, "Letters to dead poets", which he hopes to finish soon.

Special Mentions: 

Poetry by the Bay: 

https://www.facebook.com/PoetryByTheBay/ 

On Zoom every Thursday at 9 p.m. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81888607048 

New Poet Laureate Puts Heart Into Writing: 

https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/01/07/january-9-arts-and-entertainment-source-new-poet-laureate-puts-heart-into-writing/

The Rooted in Poetry Podcast is brought to you by Lake County, CA Poet Laureate Georgina Marie and The Lake County Bloom. 

In the second episode, Georgina Marie discusses poetry with poet and Alameda Poet Laureate Kimi Sugioka. Kimi is an educator and poet. She earned an MFA from Naropa University and has published two books of poetry; the newest of which is Wile & Wing on Manic D Press. She is the poet laureate of Alameda, California, and her work appears in various anthologies including Civil Liberties United, Endangered Species Enduring Values, Colossus: Home, and The City is Already Speaking Vol. 4. 

Purchase Wile & Wing by Kimi Sugioka here: 

https://bookshop.org/books/wile-wing-poems/9781945665189

The Rooted in Poetry Podcast is brought to you by Lake County, CA Poet Laureate Georgina Marie and The Lake County Bloom.

Show Notes:

In our inaugural episode, Georgina Marie discusses poetry with poet Beulah Vega. Beulah Vega is a writer, poet, and theatrical artist living and working in California’s Bay Area.  Her poetry has been published in The Literary Nest, Sage Cigarettes, Walled Women, and Blood & Bourbon among others. Her first book of poetry, 'A Saga for the Unrequited', will be published in August of 2021 by Fae Corps Publishing.  And her theatrical production company: Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots will present the second annual Sonoma County Women's theater festival "In Their Own Voice" starting May 8th. She will also be reading as part of the Eclipse Lit launch party/American Foundation for Suicide Prevention fundraiser on May 22nd. She is still amazed when people refer to her as a writer, every time.

To follow her lunacy (artistic and otherwise) find her on Facebook @BFVegaauthor and Instagram/Twitter @Byronwhoknew

Tickets to "In Their Own Voice" can be found here.

Tickets for the Eclipse Lit Launch Party/Suicide Prevention Fundraiser can be found here. 

Special Mentions:

Both Georgina Marie and Beulah Vega attended the 2020 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. The 2021 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference will take place virtually from Aug 5-7 and is now open for registration! Visit https://mcwc.org/2021-registration for more information  

Visit the following link to learn more about Prop 187 discussed in this podcast: https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/california-proposition-187    

Read the poems Beulah read here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S-999dnhnVbphsfF6er-SCl0Ehr8TX5VbrtjBPHDv24/edit?usp=sharing 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B4oG8pTkzcy0KR67HsU6XfZ_vwJsMVk7BKGDNQ0Ijc/edit?usp=sharing 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hNocU0ujKYz0dGpBhahxWiNRKKtc0WpfgAGVXOUHoWk/edit?usp=sharing