Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

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 first of two episodes. Poets featur...

A veteran of over thirty years as pianist and conductor at the renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philip Morehead has extensive experience in the operatic repertory. He has conducted a widely varied list of concert works and contemporary music and performed in as varied a repertory of chamber music. A consummate musician, he has coached singers in operatic and concert repertory and given master clas...

Tyler Mills is the author of City Scattered (winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award), as well as Hawk Parable (winner of the Akron Poetry Prize), Tongue Lyre (winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award), and Low Budget Movie (co-authored with Kendra DeColo and winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic,...

Poet Laureate of Dublin, California and Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead and poet and author Morgan Liphart have a conversation about what they've learned publishing poetry. This event was originally a live (virtual) event that included audience questions. Morgan Liphart's debut book Barefoot & Running is on-sale now . Follow Morgan Liphart on Instagram ( @mliphart ) and on th...

Love poems on greeting cards give poetry a bad name. There are so many beautiful and challenging poems anchored on the theme of "love" that avoid greeting card clichés. The latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features images of love-inspired poetry from five wonderful poets. Lisa Delan - The morning after Griffin Epstein - Poem for our tin anniversary and Evening, after James Schuy...

Alicia (A. E.) Stallings is an American poet and translator who has lived in Greece since 1999. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently LIKE ( FSG ), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer . Her most recent book of verse translation is the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (illustrated!) with Paul Dry Books . She has a Selected poems forthcoming shortly from F...

Zoe Norvell has been designing book covers professionally since 2011, and has designed nearly 700 covers to date. Zoe started her career in New York City as an in-house designer at Simon & Schuster and then moved over to Penguin Random House. In 2015, she began freelancing full-time. Today, Zoe is based in her hometown of Washington, DC, and when not global pandemic times, loves to travel and...

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022). He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com . Twitter: @ SeanSi...

Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens ( Tupelo Press , 2022). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review , Best American Poetry 2014 and 2020 , Boston Review, The New Yorker,...

On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood , artist Kari Byron , musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons , director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature poetry inspired by new beginnings from four wonderful poets: Sarah Bricault - when I close my eyes and think apple Nikita Jayaprakash - Trio of poems: Grim R...

Angie Trudell Vasquez is a Mexican-American writer and the current poet laureate of Madison . She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published the first half of her MFA thesis, In Light, Always Light, in 2019, and will publish the second half, My People Redux, in 2022. She became a Macondista in 2021. Angie's website: angietrudellvasquez.com Vie...

Jessica Sabo is a former classical ballet dancer and writer whose work focuses on the intersection between eating disorders, trauma, and sexuality. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications by 805 Lit + Art , Inklette Magazine , and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature , among others. Her work has been anthologized with ChannelMarker Literary Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Da...

On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood , artist Kari Byron , musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons , director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature moon-inspired poetry from four wonderful poets: Nancy Cook - Moonwater John Peter Beck - Moon Carmine Di Biase - Midsummer Nut Brown Ale Beatriz Seelaender -...

To close out the first season of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, host James Morehead reads a prose poem from his upcoming book of memoir poems, which is currently in design. The poem, “Four Summers in Florida (82-83-84-85)", is based on his experiences living alone and working as a computer programmer in Florida for four summers, starting at the age of 15. We encourage you to explore more of ou...

On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood , artist Kari Byron , musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons , director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature three upcoming poets performing their poetry. Nicole Farmer - Why the girl? and Animals Jerome Berglund - Paint Chips Haiku Patricia Cannon - Solitary Song T...

Brittany Smail is a copyeditor and writer who helps major book publishers, corporate clients, and indie authors polish a wide range of writing, from full-length book manuscripts and poetry chapbooks to ad copy and client presentations. She holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from San Francisco State University and a professional certificate in editing from UC Berkeley Extension. James...

In this weeks Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast nine poets who workshop and critique poetry recite their work. Each poem is also published on ViewlessWings.com. Featured poets: Dear Jack Kerouac by Constance Hanstedt Thirteen Stripes by Marie-Anne Poudret Release by Ryan McRee Frozen by Monique Rardin Richardson Old Man by Linda Drattell Salt Lick by Eunhee Soh First Night by Patricia J. Boyle Two Hai...

This episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast will take you on a trip to Italy, featuring two Italy-themed poems by James Morehead, each translated into Italian by Chiara Garioni. "limano" is inspired by Limano, Italy, the hometown of James' father-in-law. "torta di riso" is inspired by the delicious rice tart created every Easter by James' mother-in-law. The English version of each poem is re...

David Wogahn , founder of AuthorImprints , discusses the challenges of launching and marketing a self-published book, with a focus on first-time authors. AuthorImprints is an award-winning, professional self-publishing services company assisting clients worldwide. They have helped more than 100 authors, businesses and other organizations launch self-publishing imprints which, in turn, has resulted...

Three poems introduced and read by the poets are featured on this episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. The poems can also be read online: Kiboko Boy by Kelly Showker: https://viewlesswingspress.com/kiboko-boy-by-kelly-showker/ You’ll find yourself who? by Lawrence Bridges: https://viewlesswingspress.com/youll-find-yourself-who-by-lawrence-bridges/ the green line by James Morehead: https:/...

Ruchi Acharya is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wingless Dreamer , a global platform for those passionate about writing, art, and design; a space where authors and artists are free to express themselves. Ruchi is an Oxford University summer graduate in English Literature. She has been a contributor to multiple journals The Pangolin Review, Muddy River Poetry, Borderless Journal, and Mulberry Liter...

Poet James Morehead and composer Deon Nielsen Price discuss how they collaborated to create "gallery", a piece for baritone and piano based on Morehead's poem of the same name. The piece will be premiered in The Presidio Chapel, as part of a free series of concerts, in San Francisco on November 14, 2021. Dr. Price also talks about how she discovered a passion for performing and composition, and he...

This special episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features the winners of the Viewless Wings Scary Poetry Contest reading their selected poems. Each poem is unique. The poems are on display Oct 14-31 at the F.CO. Art Gallery for the Scary Art Show in Dublin, California. These poems will haunt you, each eerie, beautiful and timeless. Visit viewlesswings.com to learn more about these wonderf...

James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, discusses using art as an inspiration for poetry (known as ekphrastic Poetry). James reads and discusses two of his poems, "landscape (after bert weir)" (published by Wingless Dreamer in their Spring Anthology ) and "carved" (published in James' debut book " canvas: poems "). James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com...

James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, reads and discusses his poem "That time I was left for dead downstage" (Read the poem Prometheus Dreaming: https://www.prometheusdreaming.com/that-time-i-was-left-for-dead-downstage ). James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon . Follow James Morehead on Twitter ( @dublinranch ) and Instagram ( @viewlessw...