Of Poetry Podcast

Read : Angie Mazakis's poem "Oh, My Kidneys," which she reads on the episode, and Han’s review of I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First . Angie Mazakis 's first book of poetry, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First , was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for the 2020 Miller Williams Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Press in March 2020. The book was also a finalis...

Listen : On Apple, Google, Spotify, and elsewhere. Read : Alina's poem "Apologia," which she reads on Episode 14. Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor , which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021...

Read: Christian's poem "when my days fill with ghosts" at Hayden's Ferry Review, which Christian reads on the episode. Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review , The Michigan Quarterly Review , Atlanta Review , Grist Journal , and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft S...

Read : Amorak Huey's poem " CHILDHOOD GOES KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, GUN " at American Poetry Review Amorak Huey is a poet and professor, a writer and sometime journalist, a decent dad and a mediocre slow-pitch softball player. He pronounces his first name uh-MOR-ack. Amorak is author of four poetry collections: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021); B...

Read: Lyd Havens' poem "I only mis-gender myself when Fleetwood Mac comes on" ( flypaper lit ), which they read on Episode 11 Lyd Havens is a reader and writer currently living in Boise, Idaho. Their work has previously been published in Ploughshares, The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Foglifter, among others. They are the author of the chapbook I Gave Birth to All the Ghosts Here (No...

Read: Anuja Ghimire's poem "Orlando" and Burgi Zenhaeusern's "Self-Portrait as Granatöpfel" Anuja Ghimire is a Nepal-born writer of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of Kathmandu (Unsolicited Press, 2020),  fable-weavers (Ethelzine, 2022),  and two poetry books in Nepali. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Anuja works as a senior publisher in an online learning...

Read: Several poems from The Valley . Esteban Rodríguez is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Valley (Sundress Publications 2021), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press 2021). He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review , Senior Book Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly , and Associate Poetry Editor for AGNI . He currently lives in centra...

Read:  "Dear Hannah," and other poems Laura Wetherington ’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. The Brooklyn Rail called the book “humble, folksy, romantic, tough, inventive, and not over-programmed.” Her second book, Parallel Resting Places , was chosen by Peter Gizzi for the New Measure Prize, was released w...

Read : Jessica's poem "The Ballad of the Red Wisteria" Jessica Q. Stark is a California-native, Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and dual MA Degrees in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. She received her PhD in English from Duke University. She has published scholarl...

Read: Four of C.T.’s American Cavewall Sonnets C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is forthcoming in 2022 from Acre Books. He’s the author of three chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press, 2021). He’s the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry....

Read : An interview with Kelly Cressio-Moeller at ZYZZYVA . Kelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, Best of the Net and have appeared widely in journals and at literary websites including Gargoyle , North American Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review , Water~Stone Review , and ZY...

Read: Carla’s Chapbook Ironbound Fados and her craft chap Eat a Persimmon Carla Sofia Ferreira is a Portuguese-American poet from Newark, New Jersey who teaches high school English in Newark today. She’s received fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and DreamYard Radical Poetry Consortium. Her micro-chap Ironbound Fados was published in 2019 by Ghost City Press and in 2020, she self-...

Read : Tom’s poem Gospel of Thomas , which he reads on Episode 3. Tom Snarsky is a math teacher who writes poetry. He is a former Robert Noyce Teaching Fellow at Tufts University and a Senior Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative. He is the author of two books forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2022: Speaking Roles, a collection of poetry interviews, and Complete Sentences , a pamphlet of poems a...

Conversation with Christopher Kempf, author of What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU Press, 2021).

Read one of the poems Jessica reads on Episode 1: “ The Androgynous Christ .” Jessica Cuello ’ s manuscript, Liar , has been selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, forthcoming in October 2021. She is also the author of Pricking (Tiger Bark Press 2016), winner of the 2017 CNY Book Award, and Hunt (The Word Works 2017), winner of the 2016 Washington Prize. In addition, Cuel...