Dion O'Reilly interviews Ken Weisner, De Anza College Community College English teacher and editor of Red Wheelbarrow, the DeAnza literary journal. He coordinates, with Poetry Center San José to hold the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. For fifteen years, Ken edited Quarry West out of Porter College, UCSC. Ken has published three  volumes of his own poetry with Santa Cruz’s Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010. and his most recent, Cricket to Star Ken’s poems have appeared most recently in Perfume River Poetry Review, Catamaran, Caesura, Nine Mile, Porter Gulch Review, and Phren-Z. Ken also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison.

Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic joins Hive host Farnaz Fatemi in this episode of Poetry in the World to talk about how poems—their visions, the process of making them, the poets who write them—are integral to her art. This episode is a meal full of poems, prompts, artistic vision. Sink your teeth in!

Mentioned in our conversation:

Woman, Native, Other by Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Cecilia Vicuña (Language is Migrant)

Roland Barthes "I like, I don’t like"

Roberto Bolaño Antwerp

Bolaño quotes https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/7350263-amberes

Nicanor Parra  AntiPoems

In this episode, Julie Murphy interviews Kerrin McCadden about her chapbook Keep This to Yourself, winner of the 2020 Button Poetry Prize.  Don’t miss Kerrin's beautiful, honest poems and this soulful conversation about family, addiction, and loss. Aired March 22, 2020 on KSQD 90.7 FM. Keep This to Yourself will be released March 24, 2020!

LINKS

Kerrin McCadden:

Facebook

Twitter  @kerrinmccadden

Los Angeles Review

Keep This to Yourself:

Button Poetry

Amazon

Addiction & Substance Use Disorder Resources:

Websites:

santacruzhealth.org

www.samhsa.gov

24 hour Help Line:

1-800-662-HELP

On this episode of the Hive, Billy Butler talks with local Santa Cruz-area poet Chestina Craig about her book Daughter of Salt, forthcoming from Picture Show Press later this March. Topics include: marine biology, the best worst reality TV shows, the joy and unbearable weirdness of being in Santa Cruz, finsta accounts, and more. Chestina will be reading poems from her new book on an  Instagram livestream (@chesseea) on March 19 at 7pm PST. 

You can stay updated with the Hive Poetry Collective at our website: hivepoetry.org or look for the Hive Poetry Collective on Facebook and Twitter. You can check out other programming at KSQD by going online to ksqd.org or tuning in to 90.7FM in Santa Cruz.

Northern California poet Rebecca Foust Skypes into the Hive to join host Dion O’Reilly for a conversation. Find her chapbook Unexploded Ordnance Bin HERE.

Julie Murphy interviews San Francisco poet Gail Newman about her award winning book Blood Memory. Gail, a daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, talks about her poetry, memory, and faith.

Links:

On Being

Ellen Bass: Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe

Two Sylvias Press

Li Young Lee

Lisa Allen Ortiz travels to La Honda to talk to David LeCount about his 45 year haiku habit, living with nature and how he met his teacher, James Hackett. Ortiz also presses the mute button for the second half of the field interview— ah, but the episode is saved by Farnaz Fatemi who comes by the hive to read haiku by Hackett and LeCount.  And-- for your further delight-- here is LeCount's poem that won the 1989  Japanese Haiku Society Grand Prize:

captured firefly--

a child's fingers

hatch the moon

Dion O'Reilly talks with poet David Sullivan about his long poem, "Nightjars," about the friendship between an Iraqi interpreter and a US soldier. With Arabic speaker, Aisha Charves, David reads a section from the opening of the poem.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Finn V. Gratton, LMFT about their poetry, their work as a somatic psychotherapist, and their book, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults.

Danusha Laméris talks to Dion O'Reilly about her new book, Ghost Dogs which is  available for pre-order from Bookshop Santa Cruz also available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

The rainy night conversation includes tasty tidbits about compost piles, waking up with a new face, and the parables of Jesus Christ!

Learn more about Dion O'Reilly, including upcoming appearances and  ongoing workshops at her website.