In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, poet Cate Lycurgus opens the show with a reading of “Jacaranda” by Shirley Kaufman, setting the tone for a conversation attuned to beauty, impermanence, and change. Host Julie Murphy then speaks with Cate about her chapbook Seacliff and her new manuscript, Radiance, Despite.

Moving poem by poem, they explore erosion and belonging, caregiving and grief, fractured faith, and the intimate question at the heart of her work: what is care but where we put our hands?

Cate’s poems are precise, unflinching, and luminous — attentive to the ways love reshapes us, and to how even what has been broken may still shine.