Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features contributions from 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 , Olivia Gatwood , Regina Harris Baiocchi , Kari Byron , Lisa Marie Simmon...

This episode features eleven points, nine finalists (eight of whom performed live at the City of Dublin's Splatter Festival on Saturday September 10, 2022) and two honorable mentions. All have wonderful poetic focus covering a diversion range of topics. Finalists Kate McCarroll Moore Cara Sennott Ida Marie Beck Marie-Anne Poudret Rowena Tho Nguyen Carissa Maddox Inge Sorensen Sarah Abbett Honorabl...

Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize . His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space, and he is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Poets Hous...

Pamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received awards from Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Her publication credits include Barrow Street , Pensive, Connecticut River Review, Heron Tree, Glimpse, Mudf...

This week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast takes you behind the scenes of an independent bookstore courtesy of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont. As writers and poets we have all spent many hours - and dollars - in bookstores. No online experience can replace walking down an aisle of bookshelves, searching for the poetry section, and being distracted by an intriguing book cover. Tric...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features contributions from 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 , Olivia Gatwood , Regina Harris Baiocchi , Kari Byron , Lisa Marie Simmons...

Sarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything ( New Rivers Press , 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry, Red Light Lit, Eleven Eleven, Monkeybicycle, *82 Review, 100 Word Story, Fjords Review, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's Poetry P...

Cynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She has launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Free State Review, Main S...

Born in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and raised in the Village, Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI . Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Spinning Jenny, Tupelo Quarterly , Jubliat, and The Common. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane has established h...

Poet and author Safia Elhillo discusses her new book Girls That Never Die with Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA, and author of canvas and portraits of red and gray ). Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children and Home Is Not a Country and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Bo...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured.  The submitted poems, read by the authors, in this episode include: Midnight Velvetto by Durell Carter Dear Creature and Before the Pool, there was a Saltwater Lagoon by Sarah Bitter Self-Portrait by David Radavich Y...

Patagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances. Kimi Sugioka  (Poet Laureate – Alameda) Cynthia Patton  (Poet Laureate – Livermore) Tongo Eisen-Martin  (Poet Laureate – San Francisco)

Patagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances. Amy Glynn  (Poet Laureate – Orinda & Moraga) Sarah Kobrinsky  (Poet Laureate – Emeryville) James Morehead  (Poet Laureate – Dublin)

Cutter Streeby holds an MFA from the University of East Anglia and an MA in Literature from King's College, London. He has delivered many lectures on poetics, translation, and translation theory, including "Navigating Lèse- Majesté: Translating the Poetry of Zakariya Amataya" at universities across Thailand and Malaysia while teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Publications, transla...

Beth McDermott is the author of Figure 1 ( Pine Row Press ) and a chapbook titled How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press). Her poetry appears in Pine Row, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, and Memorious. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, an Illinois Speaks Micro-Grant, and first place in the Regional Mississipp...

Poets James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA), Jessica Sabo (author of Body of Impulse), and Rachel Abramowitz (author of The Birthday of the Dead) present a live mix of poetry readings and discussion. The event, recorded live, features a unique format: three poets, reading three poems, and after each performance a discussion of the poem. A round robin of readings and discussion. James is Poet...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off June with six wonderful poems contributed and read by five poets: Shout and The Flag by Richard Evans Pillow Talk by Dana Kinsey Eros unwritten by Jeff Bien The Life of a Pretty Girl by Eliza Sible A Villanelle for the Ones Who Know by Erika B. Girard Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings to be considered for a future podcast episode.

Maggie Queeney is the author of “Settler” (Tupelo Press) . Recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Ruth Stone Scholarship, and a 2019 Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago, her most recent work is found or forthcoming in The New Republic, Guernica, The Missouri Review, and The American Poetry Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University...

Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead interviews poet Carmine Di Biase about his upcoming chapbook American Rondeau (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Carmine writes about English and Italian literature, and his poems have appeared in various journals. Last year his English translations of thirteen poems by Cesare Pavese appeared in L’anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literatu...

On this episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast I’m excited to welcome Rachel Abramowitz, author of the recently released collection of poems, “The Birthday of the Dead”. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Oxford. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Wave Composition, an intern at the Paris Review, a stock analyst (for three months),...

Writing publisher-ready poetry by James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California, and author of "canvas" and "portraits of red and gray") and Morgan Liphart (author of "Barefoot & Running"). James Morehead is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California. James has published two collections of poetry: "canvas” and "portraits of red and gray". James' poem "tethered" was transformed into an award-winn...

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off May with seven wonderful poems contributed and read by seven poets. Seven different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including A.E. Stallings , Olivia Gatwood , Regina Harris Baiocchi , Kari Byron , Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Listen to the poems using y...

James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, demonstrates how writing poetry can unlock memories and connect readers with universal truths. James shares memoir poems from his first two books, “canvas” and “portraits of red and gray”, and discusses how unlocked details from years or even decades ago through the poetic writing process. James also shares how to introduce “turns” into poems, t...

Nick Courtright is author of The Forgotten World , Let There Be Light , and Punchline , and he serves as the Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press . His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, and Southern Review, among dozens of others. His essays and other prose have been published in Huffington Post, Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and...

For National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk . Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com . This is the second of two episodes. Poets featu...