Dion O'Reilly talks with Michael Kleber-Diggs about his new collection of poems, Worldly Things.

Come spend time with Leonora Simonovis and our new favorite poetry book, Study of the Raft, which won the 2021 Colorado Prize and was published November 2021.  Hear the poet read poems which explore what it means to be exiled from a place and culture, and also what she carries with her—fiercely and lovingly.

Buy Study of the Raft here.

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Victoria Bañales interviews poet Violeta Orozco, who discusses and reads from her forthcoming book, The Broken Woman Diaries. Violeta's poems are a bold exploration of love, loss, displacement, and dismemberment, and the ways in which broken bodies can be healed and stitched back together.  

Violeta Orozco is a bilingual author and spoken word artist from Mexico City. The Broken Woman Diaries is her third book and debut full-length poetry collection in English.

Violeta Orozco:

Instagram: @vletra

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 Poet, translator, essayist, editor, and journalist Stephen Kessler returns to the Hive to chat with Dion O'Reilly. They read from his new book, Last Call and also a poem by the author Jack Gilbert.

In this week's episode, Jessica Cohn and Nancy Miller Gomez join host Farnaz Fatemi in the Hive to read new work and talk about their poetry lives. We hear about the extraordinary Santa Cruz poetry community, and about finding joy during the pandemic, facing self-doubt. Above all, we hear some fantastic poems. 

(In individual segments: Jessica Cohn, part 1 and Nancy Miller Gomez part 2.)

Julie Murphy hosts this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective along with Farnaz Fatemi, chatting with Santa Cruz poet laureate David Allen Sullivan. David reads from his new book Black Butterflies Over Bagdad as well as new work. He also reads and talks about Inventing the Orange Peel , a poem by Meng Hui. They discuss community, compassion, and the power of sharing poetry across cultures as well as the Agents of Change Project for artists and poets.

David Sullivan

Agents of Change Project

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Dion O'Reilly interviews Donika Kelly about her recently published collection, The Renunciations. Donika also reads "The Animal Spell" by Zachary Schomburg, one of her favorite poets. 

Tune in for a conversation that covers a lot of ground: a Keetje Kuipers poem, ice cream insights, and plenty of Camille's poems that work to illuminate the intersections of motherhood, history, race, and the body in space and time. 

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Join Farnaz Fatemi for this week’s very special show with the two poet-translators of just-published The Blinding Star (Tolsun Books), poems by the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela. Talk with and hear Sara Daniele Rivera and Lisa Allen Ortiz read Varela’s poems in both the original Spanish and their English translations. It’s a ride through the inner life of this wildly contemporary poet.

https://tolsunbooks.com/shop/the-blinding-star

Dion O'Reilly interviews Diane Seuss about her fabulous new book Frank: Sonnets. Diane also reads a poem by the poet Frank O'Hara--an inspiration behind her book.