Of Poetry Podcast

Read : Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature. Purchase : Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Erin Malone ’s new book, Site of Disappearance , was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concrete Wolf, 2008). Her recent honors include the...

Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in Scalawag Purchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020). Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and aut...

Read : "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn Quarterly Purchase : Flutter, Kick by Anna V. Q. Ross ( Red Hen Press , 2022) Anna V.Q. Ross 's previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press); and Hawk Weather (winner the New Women’s Voi...

Listen : On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read : "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry Daily Purchase : An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) Lauren Mukamal Camp , New Mexico Poet Laureate , is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2023). She was awarded a 2023 Academy of Ameri...

Read : "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion Review . Purchase : Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023) Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or will appear in Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, I-70 Review, Cagibi, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. Reading Recommendation: Hart...

Purchase : Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine Rockwood Moira J Saucer is a disabled poet living in the Alabama Wiregrass. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her worked has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada including Black...

Read : Read "Eucharist" in Diagram Purchase : Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point Press Jason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & ( Belle Point Press , 2023) and A Place for the Genuine ( Eerdmans , 2024). Myers is a National Poetry Series finalist and has published poetry and essays in The Believer, Image, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Paris Review , and numerous other magazines. His writin...

Listen :  On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read : "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock) Purchase : motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023) Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop...

Read : "Psychology for Black Folk" at Jasper Project Purchase : Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023) Len Lawson is author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero...

Read : “put ur phone down for a sec” from night mode in Blush Lit Purchase : night mode ( Everybody Press , 2023) Caelan Ernest is a poet and a performer. They are the author of two forthcoming collections: night mode and ICONOCLAST, being published in 2023 and 2024 respectively by Everybody Press. They received their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. They are Publicist at Graywolf Press. They...

Read : "Whale Watch" at Turbine Purchase : We Are Mermaids ( Graywolf Press, 2022) Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). In addition to poetry...

Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City , and Tinderbox among others. Read : "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird," at Tinderbox Purchase : We Are Hopelessly S...

Read : "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The Common Purchase : Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023) K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize f...

Read: "War Machine" at The Tiny Mag Purchase : Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022) Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. Read Mo...

Listen : On the web, or at your favorite player (Google, Apple, Spotify) Read : "Flowers as Mind Control" at Queen Mob's Teahouse.  Purchase : Flowers as Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021) Laura Minor ’s critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control , won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Laura won the I.L.A.’s Rita Dove...

Read : " Moon Without Possible Approach " at Tin Fish Press. Purchase : The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Books, 2021) Bronwen Tate teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore and a contributor to the collaborative book-length poem Midwinter Constellatio...

Read : Shelley Wong's poem "To Yellow," which she reads on Episode 24. Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry , Kenyon Review , and New England Review . She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Cen...

Listen : On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read : "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLip jason b. crawford (They/Them) is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is out from Paper Nautilus Press. Their third chapbook, Good Boi, is out from Neon...

Read : "Hurricane Family," published at Moist Poetry Journal . Marlanda Dekine ’s debut full-length poetry collection, Thresh & Hold , is the winner of Hub City Press's 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in March 2022. MARLANDA DEKINE’S WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED OR IS FORTHCOMING IN OXFORD AMERICAN, POETRY, EMERGENCE MAGAZINE, BEESTUNG, ANNULET, SHUDDHASHAR MAGAZINE, AND EL...

Listen : On Apple, Spotify, Google, and more Read : a selection of haiku by Lenard D. Moore at the North Carolina Haiku Society Lenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His literary works have been published in more than sixteen countries and translated into more than twelve languages. His poems, essays, short stories and book reviews have appeared in more than 400 pub...

Listen : On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere.  Read : Amanda Moore's poem "Labor as an Exotic Vacation," which she reads on Episode 20. Amanda Moore ’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening , was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets , ZZYZVA...

Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she serves as an associate editor for Rhino Poet...

Twila Newey has an M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa. Her poems were finalists for the 2019 Coniston Prize at Radar Poetry and won honorable mention in the 2019 JuxtaProse Poetry Contest. You can read recent work at Interim Poetics, Sugarhouse Review, Green Mountains Review, and Moist Poetry journal. Twila lives in Northern California at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Riv...

Read : Kasey Jueds' poem "Kittatinny," which she reads on the episode. Kasey Jueds a poet living in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Kasey poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, Ninth Letter , Pleiades , Provincetown...

Read : " Mandala of the Soapy Water ," that Chloe reads on the episode Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna C...