The Poets Weave

Heart Rate Cento 19.01.2025 5:14 ↓

Danika Stegeman reads "Heart Rate Cento," as well as an excerpt from her second book Ablation.

Helen -- After Troy 12.01.2025 5:00 ↓

Zilia Balkansky-Sellés reads "Helen—After Troy, "The Grasshopper’s Curse," and "The Graiae." 

Seedlings 05.01.2025 6:09 ↓

Colleen Wells reads "Seedlings," "Second-hand Smoke," "The Hawk," "Roadkill," and "Angel Bee Funeral.”

Lake Griffy Woods 29.12.2024 4:54 ↓

Doris Lynch reads "Bird Languages," "First Snow After Your Death," "Sound Patina," "Sangre de Cristo Mountains," and "Lake Griffy Woods."

Winter Berries 22.12.2024 4:55 ↓

Heather Corbally Bryant reads “Crevices,” “Lady Slippers on Pinnacle Road,” “Gibbous Moon,” “Winter Berries,” and “Red Dragonfly.”

Jelly Donuts 15.12.2024 5:00 ↓

As a tribute to Jenny Kander, who created Poets Weave in 1999, we're reaching back to 2009 for an episode of Jenny reading her own work. She read poems from her "Ditzy Dee" series: "Life Happens," "Careering Through a Blaze of Words Ditzy Dee Plans to Write Copy for a Food Magazine," and "Jelly Donuts." Jenny passed away on October 8, 2024 at the age of 91. 

Leaving El Salvador 08.12.2024 4:50 ↓

Barb Schwegman reads "Two White Girls Go to Market," "Leaving El Salvador," and "For Walter and Scott."

Song for the Onion 01.12.2024 4:29 ↓

Karen Rigby reads "Song for the Onion," "To the Huy Fong Foods Company," and "Plums."

Ice Fishing on Thanksgiving Eve 24.11.2024 4:55 ↓

Doris Lynch reads "First Call, Cody - Kivalina, Alaska," "Ice Fishing on Thanksgiving Eve," and "Conjuring Borealis."

My Grandmother's Hands 17.11.2024 4:36 ↓

Barb Schwegman reads "Aunt Mary Rupe," "My Grandmother's Hands," "Meeting in the Garden," and "Night Walking."

The Satrap Will See You Now 10.11.2024 7:21 ↓

Joe Di Prisco reads "The Satrap Will See You Now," "Being at Home in You," "Poem in which no one appears to show up for his party," and "Poem in which he shares what he learned today at the spa."

Reframing 03.11.2024 5:00 ↓

Colleen Wells reads "Reframing," "Group," "Out of Chaos Comes Art," "A Dose of Today," and "Borderline Personality Disorder.”

Ghost in the Graveyard 27.10.2024 7:08 ↓

Joseph Kerschbaum reads "Distance From Here," "Into the Darkness," "Ghost in the Graveyard," and "Afterlife."

Field 20.10.2024 5:00 ↓

Danika Stegeman reads "Field," as well as an excerpt from Ablation .

Taking Care 13.10.2024 4:57 ↓

Daniel reads "An Account of a Llama’s Death," "Taking Care," "Clay," "Applause," and "Owlet."

Invasive Species 06.10.2024 6:04 ↓

Joseph Kerschbaum reads "Under the Surface," "Augury," "Invasive Species," and "Snapshot."

Descending the Staircase as Salome 29.09.2024 4:42 ↓

Karen Rigby reads "On Marion Cotillard’s 2008 Oscar Dress," "Derby Hats," and "Norma Desmond Descending the Staircase as Salome, Sunset Boulevard, 1950."

Myself, a Barbed Wire 22.09.2024 4:58 ↓

Daniel Lassell reads "Finishing the Harvest," "Portrait of Truth as a Satisfied Belly," "Myself, a Barbed Wire," and "Everywhere the Salt."

My Mission Statement 15.09.2024 4:42 ↓

Joe Di Prisco reads "My Last Resume" and "My Mission Statement."

Memory of Water 08.09.2024 4:49 ↓

Barb Schwegman reads "Memory of Water," "Night Walking," and "Basketball."

End of the Day 01.09.2024 5:00 ↓

Eric Rensberger reads "End of the Day," "10/17/18," "Autobiography Vol. VI," and "Old Guy Observation."

Once Every Seventeen Years 25.08.2024 5:27 ↓

Colleen Wells reads "A Bug’s Life," "Cut and Carry," "Gardening with the Aunts," and "Once Every Seventeen Years.”

Feeding an Orphan Reindeer Fawn 18.08.2024 5:00 ↓

Doris Lynch reads "Feeding an Orphan Reindeer Fawn," "Late August Beyond the Glacier," and "Leaving Kivalina."

Tussle 11.08.2024 6:14 ↓

Daniel Lassell reads "Evolution Chart," "Tussle," "The Way Home," "Taking Care," and "Late Capitalism."

The Roots of Kindness 04.08.2024 5:00 ↓

Patsy Rahn reads "The Roots of Kindness," "A Contemplation of Death," and "Reverie."