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David chats with Donna Vorreyer about her collection Unrivered. As is our custom, we read two poems by our guest poet, one by David and the other by our guest. The third poem is also read by our guest poet, and it can be a poem by anyone from the present or past. 

The discussion is lively and includes the structure of Unriverred, which is anchored in a heroic crown of sonnets. 

Poem 1. “If You Go Into the Woods Today,” from Unrivered by Donna Vorreyer. Read by David 

Poem 2. “I Fail in Many Tenses” by Donna Vorreyer. Read by Donna.

Poem 3. “What Is There to Say,” by Jack Gilbert and read by Donna. 

“What Is There to Say” was published in The Great Fires (1994, Knopf/Random House) and later in Collected Poems (2012), and originally in Poetry Magazine, January 1965. Used with permission by Knopf Doubleday Rights

Donna’s Bio:

Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length collections of poetry and seven chapbooks! In this episode she and I are reading from her latest collection, Unrivered from Sundress Publications, published in 2025. Her recent work has appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Colorado Review, Baltimore Review, Salamander, and many other journals. She is the co-founder/co-editor of Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.

Donna hosts the online poetry reading/interview series A Hundred PItchers of Honey, which maintains a YouTube archive. 

More Links:

Purchase Unrivered from Sundress Publications. 

DonnaVorreyer.com

Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters

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