Of Poetry Podcast

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) Read : " A BRIEF HISTORY OF YANKEE THRIFT, YANKEE INGENUITY, AND YANKEE WORK ETHIC " in Sixth Finch Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared i...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Space Age" in Menagerie Magazine Purchase : The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024) Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or...

Preorder Corrie Williamson's Your Mother's Bear Gun and Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994 River River Books was founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, at River River Books, two poetry editors join together to publish (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year. By limiting our press catalog, we commit to supporting...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Midwinter" in The Dodge Purchase : Songs for the Land-Bound (June Road Press, 2024) Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, teacher, and suburban wildlife photographer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2022, she received a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is a...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase : Sweet Hunter : The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2024) trans. Dana Delibovi and The Widow's Crayon Box (Penguin, 2024) by Molly Peacock Dana Delibovi is a poet, essayist, and translator. She began translating the poetry of St. Teresa of Ávila in 2019, after retiring from a hybr...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Inheritance" and "Homecoming, Rich Square, NC" (Fourway Review) Purchase : Composition (Button Poetry, 2023) Junious 'Jay' Ward is a poet and teaching artist from Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "I Pull My Leaf Leg Stockings Off My Body" ( The Boiler Journal ) Purchase : The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (HCP, 2024) Emilie Menzel , writer and librarian of hybridities, is the author of the book-length lyric The Girl Who Became a Rabbit   (Hub City Press, 2024). Their gently haunted writing features in Copper Nick...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Men Working Above: demolition" and "Parable of Baiting" (UCity Review) Purchase : Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024) Nicholas Molbert Born and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Pr...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Everyone Said Nature Was Healing" (Poetry Northwest) Purchase : Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023) Sebastián H. Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. His poems have recentl...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : Emily's poem "The Meat of the Plum" in Moist Poetry Journal Emily Kramer is a poet and editor living in Boston, MA. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and her PhD from Boston University’s Editorial Institute. Her critical edition of Arthur Henry Hallam’s collected poems is forthcoming from Oxford U...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Invitatory" at Poetry Daily Purchase : Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024) Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, editor, and writing instructor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge ​ (SIU Press, 2020), a f...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Dawn's Fool" (author's website), also "[your mind that beautiful country]" at Malarkey Books Purchase : But Then I Thought by Kyla Houbolt ( above/ground press , 2023) Kyla Houbolt writes poems and occasional reviews, and takes care of two goats, 11 chickens, and 8 ducks. Chapbooks But Then I Thought available from...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Disambiguation" at Poetry Daily  Purchase : Asterism by Ae Hee Lee (Tupelo Press, 2024) Ae Hee Lee --born in South Korea and raised in Peru--is the author of ASTERISM , which was selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press 2017), Dear bear, (Platy...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap's There is News Along the Ohio River ( Cincinnati Review), and Lee Potts' "A Time of Splinters" (Moist Poetry Journal) Purchase : Deadheading & Other Stories   (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Beth Gilstrap and We Will Miss the Stars in the Morning by Lee Potts Beth Gilstrap is the author of D...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "I'd Rather Be" by Mitchell Nobis and "After the Last" by Jared Beloff, both published in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase : Who Will Cradle Your Head by Jared Beloff (and be on the lookout for Mitch Nobel's Beginning to Sense , forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2025) Jared Beloff is the author of the Who Will Cradle Yo...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" ( The Sun ) Purchase : No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare Peop...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Dream, with an interior" in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase : World's End (ARP Books, 2023) and groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve" Purchase : Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024) Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise...

Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cotton Xenomorph, Whisk(e)y Tit, Kicking Your Ass, Cracked.com, and elsewhere. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is ½ of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels. You can find more Chris on Bluesky @thecorlew, a storiesfromvine.com, or...

Read : Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's " Larks" (Up the Staircase Quarterly) Purchase : Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poe...

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart , author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read : "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey Mag Purchase : A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024) Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Iron...

Read : "A Poem for Retired Lighthouses," Little Blue Marble Purchase : And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (Ethel Zine Press, 2023) Catherine Rockwood   (she/they) lives in Massachusetts. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Their poetry chapbooks, And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death  (2023) and Endeavors To...

Read : Neutral Spaces , for more of Tom Snarsky's poetry Purchase : Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his...

Read : Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020 Purchase : For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Carolyn Hembree 's third poetry collection, For Today , is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague , winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, P...

Read : "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.org Purchase : Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023) Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Dear Memphis , their debut collection of poems, will be published by River River Books in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and many other journal...