Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast May 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.

Lauren Ducrey is an award-winning poet, speaker, mindfulness facilitator, AI designer (ex-Google) and string cheese enthusiast. When she’s not designing more emotionally supportive AI, she’s on a mission to break poetry out of its ivory tower as an accessible tool to support our well-being. She spent 7 years at Google hacking poetry into the workplace with team-building and leadership training tha...

Alleliah Nuguid is a Californian poet based in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Utah and an MFA in Poetry from Boston University. Her work has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, Taft-Nicholson Center, and Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, and her poems have most recently appeared in The Slowdown, hex literary, and Vol...

J. Mae Barizo , born in Toronto to Filipino immigrants, is a poet, essayist, librettist and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect. A finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Megaphone Prize, her work has been anthologized in books published by W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard Universit...

Ariana Benson's poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry , Poem-a-Day , Ploughshares , Copper Nickel , and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2022 Furious Flower Poetry Prize, Benson serves as a nonfiction editor of Auburn Avenue Literary Journal . She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Mike Lala is a poet and performance writer living in New York City. He is the author of The Unreal City (Tupelo Press, 2023) and Exit Theater (Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2016);  several chapbooks, including Points of Return (Ghost Proposal, 2023); and a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2022). Lala’s installations, performance, and libretti include Whale Fall (...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features five 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. A Defense of Vermin by...

J.R Rice is a writer, teacher, and spoken word artist, born and raised in Oakland, California. He has a B.A in Creative Writing and an English Education teaching credential from California State University of Long Beach. While studying abroad in Greece, he was mentored by the author, George Crane. His novella, Broken Pencils earned Second place for Best African-American Fiction and Best Novella in...

Heather Bourbeau ’s award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times , The Kenyon Review, Meridian , and The Stockholm Review of Literature . She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin (Ireland). Her journalism has appeared in The Ec...

Katherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. She has attended Tin House's Summer Writing Workshop (2014), Sundress Publica...

The December submitted poetry episode features: Tell me Again by Cerid Jones Meals with Grandma and Grandpa by Lori Rottenberg The Aves of Morning by Caroline Wellman Nameless Things by Özge Lena Broken Glass by Kenya McDonald

Francesca Bell was raised in Washington and Idaho and settled as an adult in California. She did not complete middle school, high school, or college and holds no degrees. She has worked as a massage therapist, a cleaning lady, a daycare worker, a nanny, a barista, and a server in the kitchen of a retirement home. Bell’s writing appears in many magazines including ELLE, Los Angeles Review of Books,...

Jared Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject , selected by Kwame Dawes as the Winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (U. of Nebraska Press, 2023) and Go Because I Love You (Diode Editions, 2018.) He’s been awarded the ‘Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize’ from American Poetry Review , as well as the ‘William Matthews Poetry Prize’ from Asheville Poetry Re...

Tennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies (winner of the National Poetry Series , UGA Press 2023). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in SWWIM, Hotel Amerika, Booth, Wordgathering, and New Mobility , among others. Black received their MFA at Arizona State University. They are the Managing Editor at Sundress Publications and Best of the Net and are the editor of the anthology on...

James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California) recites his poem "Falling" from his first book "Canvas". Falling With a damp chill and shortening days, I drive past Dorset at autumn’s peak. High above, white clouds stroll puffed in promenade, held delicate together by slender contrails, and morning sun softly warms a crisp early breeze, sending lake shimmered ripples—a cumu...

Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s the author of A Heart With No Sca...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poetry episodes features poems by five poets: thank god for thanking god by Esteban Allard-Valdivieso Girlhood by Lucy Rattner Sins of Gold by Daude Teel Laura in April by Derek Kannemeyer Unannounced Guest by Alison Davis

Loreena McKennitt , currently on a North America, Europe, and United Kingdom tour , is a multi-faceted Canadian artist known for her unique blend of pop, folk, and worldbeat music, often described as "eclectic Celtic." With over 14 million records sold worldwide, she has achieved gold and platinum status in 15 countries. McKennitt owns her record label, Quinlan Road, and has an extensive...

Carol Guess is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including  Doll Studies: Forensics  and  Tinderbox Lawn.  Forthcoming books include a short story collection,  Sleep Tight Satellite  ( Tupelo Press ), and a hybrid poetry collection,  Infodemic  (Black Lawrence Press). A frequent collaborator, she writes across genres and illuminates historically marginalized material. In 2014 she w...

Gabriel Dozal is from El Paso, Texas. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. His work appears in Poetry magazine, Guernica, Bomb Magazine, The Iowa Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, The Volta, Contra Viento, and more. Natasha Tiniacos is a Venezuelan poet, literary translator, and scholar living and working in the United States after being gran...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast September submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six 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 include...

This week's episode features a special excerpt from the Exploring San Francisco podcast by San Francisco Travel . Award-winning host and travel writer Aaron Millar welcomes Viewless Wings founder and City of Dublin Poet Laureate James Morehead to recite his poem "nine point five miles per hour", recorded while riding a cable car. James' poem was inspired by the San Francisco Cabl...

Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead recites his poem "sisters" (from "canvas") to welcome a summer hiatus. The podcast will return with more interviews and submitted poetry episodes in September. Have a wonderful summer!

Brandon Rushton is the author of The Air in the Air Behind It ( Tupelo Press , 2022), selected by Bin Ramke for the Berkshire Prize. Born and raised in Michigan, his individual poems have received awards from Gulf Coast and Ninth Letter and appear widely in publications like The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Bennington Review, and Passages North. His essays appear in Alaska Quarterl...

Caitlin Conlon  is a poet and avid reader from Upstate New York. She holds a BA in English and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University at Buffalo and, while there, was chosen for the Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, and the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her debut poetry collection, The Surrender Theory , was released in 2022 with Central Avenue...