Of Poetry Podcast

Purchase: Fifty Mothers (River River Books, 2026) Read: "Gridlock" and a process note! (Periodicities)  Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet & writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), winner of the RLFPA Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among several other places. Her debut short story won...

Purchase: Antibody (River River Books) by Elane Kim Read: The Body As Archive , a review of Antibody by Leah Choi ( Harvard Crimson ) and Kim's poem "Respite" ( Poetry Foundation ) Elane Kim is a Korean American writer from California. The editor-in-chief of Gaia Lit, she is the recipient of the 2024 Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Columbia Journal Winter Poetry C...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Alcestis as the Dead Woman’s Auto-Roman à Clef" and "Alcestis as Peripheral | Swift | Ominous Movement in the House" in Arcturus Magazine Purchase : House of Myth and Necessity (River River Books, 2026) Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney in Baltimore. She is the author of House of Myth and Nece...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : Four excerpts f rom There Is News Along the Ohio River at Heavy Feather Review Purchase : There Is News Along the Ohio River (River River Books, 2026) Beth Gilstrap (she/her) is a multi-genre author, copywriter, editor, and educator. Her debut hybrid/flash CNF collection, There Is News Along the Ohio River , was rel...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Listen to Yourself" ( Sixth Finch ) Purchase : The Visible Field (River River Books, 2026) Zoë Ryder White ’s first full-length collection, The Visible Field, was published by River River Books in February, 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : the title essay "Backyard Alchemy" ( The Common ) Purchase : Backyard Alchemy : on life with other creatures in a time of salvage (River River Books, 2026) J.D. Ho was born by the sea, raised on a rock, schmoozed in Hollywood, drove to Austin, Texas for an MFA, and now lives among foxes and deer on a sliver of east...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "On Learning that Kim Kardashian Exceeded her Water Allowance by 232,000 Gallons in June" ( Passengers Journal ) Purchase : Scythe (River River Books, 2026) Elizabeth Sylvia ’ s first book, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. Her chapbook My Little Book...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Ghazal: Morning" ( The Offing ) Purchase: In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls (Wandering Aengus Press, 2025)  Majda Gama was born in Beirut to a Saudi father and American mother. Her hometown is Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and her roots Hijazi, but she also has a long, complicated relationship with Northern Virgin...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: Three Poems by Frances Klein at Cultural Daily Purchase: Another Life (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2025) Frances Klein is an Alaskan poet and teacher. Klein is the author of the poetry collection Another Life (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2025). She is also the author of several poetry chapbooks, including (Text) Messag...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Mother Water Ash" (Poets.org) Purchase : MOTHER WATER ASH (Louisiana State University Press 2024) Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, most recently MOTHER WATER ASH (Louisiana State University Press 2024), as well as OF MARRIAGE (Alice James Books 2018), GIRL AFTER GIRL A...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Water Castle  by Natalie Solmer (Kelsay Books, 2024) Read : "I Am a Great Lake" ( MER ) Natalie Solmer was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a granddaughter of Polish and German immigrants. She worked in the field of horticulture for many years, including 13 years as a grocery store florist, before becomin...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize) Sarah Green is the author of an April 2025 release, The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Prize) and a previous collection, Earth Science. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Paris Review, New Ohio Review, 32 Poems, FIELD, Copper Nickel, Gettysburg...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025) Read: "Dysmorphia (Autumn)" at Harpur Palate Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Unrivered ( 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publicati...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Encounters for the Living and the Dead (River River Books, 2025) Jameela F. Dallis lives in Durham, NC. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, The Fight and the Fiddle, Our State, Walter, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison,...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Field Notes (River River Books, 2025) E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including The Abandoned Playground, Colorado Review,...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Faith Test" at The Florida Review Online Purchase : The Science of Things We Can Believe (Ghost Peach Press, 2024) Christen Noel Kauffman is author of The Science of Things We Can Believe which won the Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry chosen by Tiana Clark (2024) and the chapbook Notes to a Mother God (2021), whic...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner (Lynx House Press, 2024) Read : “Annie Oakley’s Bullet Inventory” Jet Fuel Review Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot , winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan Wife ( Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022)...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Practice Elegy" at Copper Nickel Purchase : The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021); The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards , the 2014 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Pr...

Today's episode of Of Poetry is hosted by Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack), the author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy   (Sundress Publications, 2021). -- Purchase : Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025) Read : " Larks " at Poetry Daily Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), was selecte...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine) Purchase : Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022) Karl Knights ’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian , Poetry Review , Poetry London , The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Kin , (2022...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Ablation  (11:11 Press)  Read : "Relentless" (at cloak.wtf, the relentless reading experience)  Danika Stegeman ’s second book, Ablation , was released by 11:11 Press November 1st, 2023. Her first book, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s a 2023 recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020) Read : poems from "Fayre Gabbro Suite" ( Ice Floe Press ) upfromsumdirt is a speculative poet & visual artist dreaming of romanticisms and revolutionar...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : The Grief Committee Minutes by Sarah Carey (Saint Julian Press, 2024) Read : "What We Read About Ukraine Makes Us Dream of Burning" by Sarah Carey ( Gulf Coast ) Sarah Carey is an award-winning veterinary public relations specialist, science writer and Pushcart-nominated poet. She holds a master’s degree in Engl...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025) Read : "You're Hoarding Guns, I'm Growing Herbs" (Kenyon Review) Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Your Mother’s Bear Gun , which is newly out from River River Books . Her...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Pastoral, 1994 (River River Books, 2025) Read : "Limp" at The Missouri Review Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of the novels Fall Back Down When I Die (2019) and The Entire Sky (2024), b...