The Hive Poetry Collective S3 E27:  Julie Murphy Interviews award winning poet July Westhale. July reads "The Presence In Absence" by  Linda Gregg  as well as her own poems from Via Negativa and Moon Moon, and discusses the importance of negative capability in life as well as poetry.

July Westhale

Linda Gregg

Listen to Nikia Chaney interview the editor and poets of ESSENTIAL VOICES: POETRY OF IRAN & ITS DIASPORA. Christopher Nelson, editor, is joined by Persis Karim, Armen Davoudian, the Hive's Farnaz Fatemi, and Arash Saedinia to read their poems and translations from the anthology (Sept 2021, Green Linden Press). 

Show links:

www.greenlindenpress.com

Christopher Nelson 

Armen Davoudian

Farnaz Fatemi

Persis Karim

In this conversation I talk to the poet, Katerina Canyon about her work and inspiration for her upcoming book: Surviving Home. Hear her read and few poems and be just as moved as I was. For more information about Katerina or to buy her book: https://www.poetickat.com

S3:E24 Dion O'Reilly interviews Los Angeles poet laureate, Lynne Thompson.

Julie Murphy interviews Laure-Anne Bosselar. They talk about love, loss, and longing for authenticity. Laure-Anne reads poems from her recent book These Many Rooms and talks about upcoming classes.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar Website

Laure-Ann Bosselaar - Academy of American Poets

Laure-Anne's Books at Four Way Books

SUNJUNE Collaborative

Victoria Bañales interviews Santa Cruz-based Latinx poet Adela Najarro.

Adela Najarro is the author of three poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over and My Childrens, a chapbook that includes teaching resources. With My Childrens she hopes to bring poetry into the classroom so that students can explore creative writing, identity, and what it means to be Latinx in US society. Every spring semester, she teaches a “Poetry for the People,” workshop at Cabrillo College where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word. More information about Adela can be found at her website: www.adelanajarro.com.

Círculo de poetas & Writers: Sign up for Círculo's 2021 online (Zoom) conference: Sat, August 14th, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm. Writing workshops, friendship, and open mic. Go to https://circulowriters.com/ to register.

Links to videos of five poems from My Childrens:

My Childrens

Lorca's Rain

Las Mujeres

Chicanos in a Museum

An Ambiguity

S3:E21: Dion O'Reilly interviews Carl Phillips. They talk about regret, college reunions, Henry James, and Carl's latest book Pale Colors in a Tall Field. He also reads one of his favorite poems by Li Po and references the song "Wild is the Wind," the title of which he borrowed for the name of one of his books (Wild is the Wind). 

Farnaz Fatemi and Erin Redfern hear and talk to Jen Siraganian about her poems and her work with various poetry organizations. 

Jen is the newly appointed Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. She is a writer, educator, and literary organizer. She has served as Managing Director for Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, been nominated for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, earned scholarships from Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and authored a poetry chapbook titled “Fracture.” Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Cream City Review, Mid-American Review, Smartish Pace, Barrow Street, Southwest Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, and other literary journals and anthologies.

https://jensiraganian.com

https://www.losgatosca.gov/2298/Poet-Laureate

Dane reads from his new book The World Is God’s Language and the poem “Origin" by Sarah Lindsey.  

 Dion O'Reilly interviews Guggenheim Fellow Mark Wunderlich. He reads a poem by his friend and mentor Lucie Brock-Broido. He reads a poem by his friend and mentor Lucie-Brock Broido and from his latest book God of Nothingness