The Hive Poetry Collective

Dion O'Reilly interviews Santa Cruz poet, translator, and journalist Stephen Kessler.

Billy Butler introduces a range of poets who contribute poems about 'The End' — the end of the year, the end of good and bad things, times of transitions, and more.  Contributing poets in the order they appear: Colin Drohan Elliott Sky Case José Diaz Prince Bush Joumana Altallal Nathan Blansett Kim Harvey Dana K Mac Axton Nathan Xavier Osorio Kevin Bertolero Isaac Williams Billy Butler Tim Dl...

Dion O'Reilly interviews prolific poet Alexis Rhone Fancher about her many books and current projects.

Dion O'Reilly talks with poet Francesca Bell about her life in poetry and her new book, the prize winning Bright Stain . 

Farnaz Fatemi and Lisa Allen Ortiz celebrate the political work that poetry can do. In the shadow of our recent election, they read poems by Rick Barot, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Gary Copeland Lilley; they also discuss Farnaz ’ own work and parse out what it means to define a poem as political.

Julie Murphy interviews award winning poets Ellen Bass and Cynthia White about their poems and the work of Jericho Brown and Paul Tran included in the new gender-inclusive anthology Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing. Please join us as we read stunning poems and engage in a lively discussion of the power of poetry, how to write about difficult subjects, art...

Listen to the buzz of the Morton Marcus annual event!   Award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker will be the featured guest at the 11th annual  Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading , which takes place this year as a virtual event on November 12. Danusha Lameris and Dion O'Reilly dive deep into Morgan Parker's poetry. The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading is held...

Dion O'Reill y interviews fellow Terrapin Poets Karen Holmes and Ann Fisher-Wirth . We hear a few poems from their books, The Bones of Winter Birds , by Ann Fisher-Wirth and No Such Things as Distance , by Karen Holmes.

Listen here for the first episode dedicated to   The Healing Powers of Poetry . Julie Murphy, LMFT interviews therapists and teachers  Rob Fisher  and Hu Ting Ting .  Please join us as we read poems and share experiences with poetry in therapeutic settings.   The Hive Poetry Collective:  The Healing Powers of Poetry .. Rob Fisher Website Ting...

Diane Louie joins Farnaz Fatemi from her home in Paris, France, to talk about and read from her new book (October 2020) from University of Georgia Press , Fractal Shores. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357904/fractal-shores/ https://www.dianehlouie.com/work

Dion O'Reilly interviews poet Elaine Nussbaum who reads from her latest book Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest . She talks about her teacher, Allen Ginsberg, and her experience on the Great Peace March.

Please join me for a lively conversation with award winning poet Traci Brimhall. Traci will read poems from her new book "Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod" and share her thoughts about love, vulnerability, death and writing.  Aired on KSQD 90.7 FM Sunday September 27! The Hive Poetry Collective: Julie Murphy interviews Traci Brimhall. Season 2, Episode 26.   

Farnaz Fatemi talks to Hive members Billy Butler and Dion O’Reilly about poetry in the seeming end times. Listen in to conversation about  wildfires, the 2020 election, hair product, facing uncertainty, friendship, and more. Billy Butler read from his essay, the Finer Points of Being an Anxious Person When Bad Things Happen,   https://thebolditalic.com/what-you-have-when-you-may-lose-eve...

In these sad and broken days, let's not forget delight and what it's made of— rage and rapture.  Lisa Allen Ortiz hosts an episode of PROSETRY on the Hive that celebrates Ross Gay's poetry and prose and features Gay reading excerpts from his Book of Delights. Buzz in for a listen and discover that joy is powerful medicine. 

Dion O'Reilly talks with poet Cynthia White and fellow Bee Julie Murphy about our favorite poems. We read Diane Seuss , Lucille Clifton, Robert Frost , Tracy K. Smith , and Frank Gaspar .

Listen here for a great conversation and great poems.  Julie Murphy interviews Cynthia White and Maggie Paul, Santa Cruz poets, who read new work and talk about nature, metaphor, and who inspires them.   Maggie Paul   Website     Facebook : Cynthia White   Facebook : The Hidden Life of Trees  by Peter Wohlleben A Natural History of the Senses  by Diane...

A conversation between the beloved poet  Naomi Shihab Nye and Danusha Laméris at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, marking the occasion of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Bay Area poet Meryl Natchez. You can find her newest book Catwalk right HERE .

Join host Julie Murphy and Santa Fe poet,  Barbara Rockman, as they share poems and talk about about her award winning book to cleave.  The conversation weaves through themes of  marriage, loss, aging, and spirituality.

Honey from the Flashback Hive —Poet and Fiction Writer Meg Freitag talks with Lisa Allen Ortiz about fiction, boxes, God, mirrors and of course poetry written to dead parakeets named Edith.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Seattle poet, editor, and teacher Jeanne Morel.  You can find her newest chapbook HERE . 

The Hive was thrilled to host Armen Davoudian and hear poems from his forthcoming book, Frost Place Chapbook contest winner Swan Song (Bull City Press). Farnaz Fatemi talked to Armen about translation as metaphor, James Merrill, listening to poems in foreign tongues, growing up Armenian in Isfahan, and how "the sonnet is perfectly engineered to talk about immigration.” " Alibi " (in The Offing) "...

Summer is almost here! Join host Julie Murphy and fellow Hive Poetry Collective members Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O’Reilly as they read and discuss poems inspired by the season. “We Were Happy During the War” appears  in  Deaf Republic , by Ilya Kaminsky.  “Crabs” appears in  Telling the Bees , by Faith Shearin. “ From Blossoms ” appears in  Rose by Li-Young Lee.  ...

Dion O'Reilly talks with San Jose poet Erin Redfern. 

Dion O'Reilly talks with fellow Terrapin Books poets Kory Wells and David Graham. Find information on Kory here: https://korywells.com/ on Wells's writing with incarcerated women: https://boropulse.com/2018/10/inmates-write-of-hard-times-and-hope/ and Wells's NPM videos mentioned in our conversation: https://korywells.com/npm2020/ For information on David Graham: Graham's website:  www.davidg...