Our feature is a lively and thoughtful interview with writer Ploi Pirapokin about poetry in her world--how it influences her prose, her teaching, and her days. She talks to Farnaz about emotional turns, point of view, images and more, and reads from some of her favorite poems. Mentioned in this conversation: 

For the Taking, Linda Gregerson

Crush, Richard Siken

BBHMM, Tiana Clark

Aubade with Burning City, Ocean Vuong

Dion O'Reilly interviews poet Cynthia Neely and reviews John McCarthy's amazing collection of poems, Scared Violent Like Horses. 

Find Cynthia Neely 's book HERE. 

Find information on John McCarthy HERE. 

Find McCarthy's Scared Violent like Horses HERE. 

Co-hosts Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O'Reilly discuss the virtuosic poet Patricia Smith. Let Smith’s poetry alter your mind (as poetry should!) with her intense subject matter and comforting beats. Hear poems and discussion from her books Incendiary Art and Blood Dazzler, and explore poetry forms like the Golden Shovel, invented by Terrance Hayes after a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and used by Smith in Incendiary Art.

http://www.wordwoman.ws

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patricia-smith

Poet Lee Rossi stops by the Hive to chat with Lisa Allen Ortiz about his new book Darwin’s Garden and about fleeing seminary commitments,  the Eden of back yards, climate change, true love and knee caps. Lee Rossi is the author of three books of poetry and a regular contributor to Sun Magazine, reviewer for Pedestal and a contributing editor to Poetry Flash.  Keep up with all the buzz at www.hivepoetry.org.

The first in a series, Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Danusha Laméris and poet Dion O’Reilly host a show featuring poems about Santa Cruz. Included is work from Ellen Bass, Joseph Stroud, Gary Young and also a few written by the hosts.

When history and poetry collide-- Colorado poet Kierstin Bridger buzzes into the Hive.  Find out more about Bridger or order her books at https://kierstinbridger.com/books/

Did you miss our Halloween show on KSQD due to the power outage. Listen here as a podcast. Dion O'Reilly hosts Wilma Marcus and The Willing Armchair Theater reading poetry by Edgar Allen Poe. 

Learn more about the Willing Suspension Armchair Theater HERE.

Learn more about Edgar Allen Poe HERE.

Three hive members buzz about poems and poets they’ve been reading, and what to make of it all. Tune in to hear a poem by our new U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo, from the most recent Pulitzer winner, Forrest Gander, and more.

Some Autumn Poems:

Didi Jackson https://poets.org/poem/fall-1

Emily Jungmin Moon https://poets.org/poem/between-autumn-equinox-and-winter-solstice-today

Emily Dickinson https://poets.org/poem/besides-autumn-poets-sing-131

Bad Animal Books

Edgar Kunz, Tap Out

Danusha Laméris and Armando Alcaraz in conversation with the poet Zubair Ahmed. We learn about his journey here from Bangladesh and about poetry as saving grace. Find his work at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/zubair-ahmed.