Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

Allison Mei-Li is a writer based in Southern California. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, podcasts, and journals such as Rust & Moth, Coffee + Crumbs, MER Literary, Voicemail Poems, Ink & Marrow, wildscape, and others. A finalist for poetry prizes by The Alpine Fellowship and Central Avenue, she writes about motherhood, identity, and the stories our bodies hold. Allison co-hosts poe...

Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize. Laurentiis is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, BOMB, and poets.org. A 2018 Whiting Award winner, s...

The  Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast  September submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by five poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including  Safia Elhillo ,  A.E. Stallings ,  Dana Gioia ,  Yanyi ,  Olivia Gatwood ,  Lisa Marie Simmons  and more. Subscribe t...

Sarah Green is the author of a previous collection, Earth Science (421 Atlanta), and the editor of Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence (Ohio University Press.) She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at St. Cloud State University.

m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica and chronicle the body. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in RHINO, Muzzle, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. mick is a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University o...

The  Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast  July submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including  Safia Elhillo ,  A.E. Stallings ,  Dana Gioia ,  Yanyi ,  Olivia Gatwood ,  Lisa Marie Simmons  and more. Subscribe today....

Hosho McCreesh is currently writing, painting, & making stuff in the gypsum & caliche badlands of the American Southwest. His work has appeared widely in print, audio, & online. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets, songwriters, and artists including Safia Elhillo, Olivia Gatwood, Daniel Ash + David J, Kari Byron, A.E. Stallings, Da...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Listen to...

Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. She serves on the board of directors for Círculo de poetas and Writers and works with the Latine/x community nationwide, promoting the intersection of creative writing and social justice. Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of th...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast April submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Listen to the poems using...

Liz Cahill is the Co-founder & Executive Director of Decentered Arts and leads the organizational and strategic direction. Liz is also a founding member and resident of Uzay Gallery , a poet, event producer, and researcher. She is working on her first book of poems, Garbage Age Lady , forthcoming on Decentered Press. Outside of the arts she can be found cooking food for friends and biking with...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast March submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. A Father...

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize; Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Sal...

Queer poet and writer Cass Donish was born and raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area. They are the author of the poetry collections Beautyberry and The Year of the Femme , winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, as well as the nonfic­tion chapbook, On the Mezzanine . Their work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Guernica, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Revi...

Sam Rush began writing after developing progressive hearing loss and realizing how many words each word could be. They were a finalist at the National Poetry Slam in 2016 and Sam's work has been featured in Muzzle, The Offing, Voicemail Poems & The Journal, as well as on Button Poetry, and SlamFind. Their first collection of poems, SWALLOW (Sibling Rivalry Press,2021) was nominated for the Geo...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast November submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured poets in this...

Robin LaMer Rahija is originally from Kansas City, MO and now lives in Kentucky. She received her MFA from the University of Kentucky, where she is currently staff in the Department of English. In 2010, she co-founded and edited Rabbit Catastrophe Press, a handbound, feminist, book arts micropress. In 2015, she co-founded Workhorse Writers Collective, a publishing and education platform for poets...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Featur...

Tyler Mills is the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poetry guidebook, Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets , is newly released this summer (2024) from the University of Akron Press. She is the author of the poetry books City Scattered (Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press 2...

Maria Giesbrecht is a Canadian poet whose writings explore her Mexican and Mennonite roots. Her work has previously been published in Contemporary Verse 2, Talon Review, and is forthcoming in Queen's Quarterly. She is the runner-up for the 2022 Eden Mills Poetry Contest and a graduate of the post-graduate Creative Writing program at Humber College. Maria is the founder and host of the writing...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Home, My...

AE Hines is the author of Adam in the Garden (Charlotte Lit Press, 2024) and Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). He has won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize and Palette Poetry’s Love and Eros Prize, and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. His poems have been widely published in such journals as The Southern Review, Rattle, The Sun , Prairie Schooner and Alaska Quarterly...

Olivia Gatwood is the author of two poetry collections, New American Best Friend and Life of the Party, and the co-writer of Adele’s music video for "I Drink Wine." She has received international recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Her performances have been featured on HBO, MTV, VH1, the BBC,...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo , A.E. Stallings , Dana Gioia , Yanyi , Olivia Gatwood , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. June featured poets: Under...

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Plenitude, Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction and others. The co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, they are a member of Room’s editor...