Poetry Spoken Here
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Poetry Spoken Here
An almost weekly poetry podcast that features interviews with poets, reviews of poetry books, examinations of individual poems, and investigations of themes in poetry. Sit back, relax, and let poetry speak to you.
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Episode #208 Therese Broderick on Tone in Poetry and Her Lending Library of Local Poets
Albany area poet Therese Broderick discusses her work, how she thinks about tone in poetry, introduces the concept of ice balloons, and talks about he...
Episode #207 Faith Vicinanza, Poet Laureate of Southbury, Connecticut
Faith Vicinanza, slam poet and poet laureate of Southbury, CT, shares memories of the slam scene of the 90s, her plans for her laureateship, and the t...
Episode #206 2022: The Poetry Spoken Here Retrospective
In 2022 Poetry Spoken Here celebrated its 200th episode. We had guests from across the United States and around the world. We also shared even more re...
Episode #205 Maya Jewell Zeller Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
Maya Jewell Zeller reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Despe...
Episode #204 Violet Du Feng, Director of HIDDEN LETTERS on the Secret Language of Chinese Women
Emmy Award-winning director Violet Du Feng discusses her latest film Hidden Letters about Nushu, a secret language developed by women in China. She al...
Episode #203 Raena Shirali Reads from Her New Collection SUMMONINGS
Raena Shirali is a poet, editor, and educator whose latest book SUMMONINGS won the 2021 Hudson Prize. The book examines present-day witch hunting in I...
Episode #202 Aracelis Girmay Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
Aracelis Girmay reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at La Resid...
Episode #201 Rich Ferguson Reads from EVERYTHING IS RADIANT BETWEEN THE HATES and BEAT NOT BEAT
California poet Rich Ferguson reads from his new collection EVERYTHING IS RADIANT BETWEEN THE HATES. He also discusses and reads from BEAT, NOT BEAT a...
Episode #200 Tanya Tagaq Reads from Split Tooth
After just over six years, we've reached a milestone - 200 episodes of Poetry Spoken Here! This is an extra special episode featuring multi-award-winn...
Episode #199 Major New Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison Collections Reviewed
In this special episode, host Charlie Rossiter reviews and reads from two new collections of poetry by Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison. In June of 2022 t...
Episode #198 Marty Gervais - First Poet Laureate of Windsor, Ontario - Shares Tales from the Road
Marty Gervais, the first Poet Laureate of Windsor, Ontario, reads from his new book MEETING THOREAU AT THE GAS STATION DINER, a collection of poems ab...
Episode #197 Francesca Bell on Writing About All the Things Others Don't Want to Talk About
Francesca Bell, whose new book WHAT SMALL SOUND will come out from Red Hen Press in the Spring of 2023, shares some poems, talks about writers who ins...
Episode #196 Caylin Capra-Thomas Reads from IGUANA IGUANA
Caylin Capra-Thomas shares poems from her new collection IGUANA IGUANA. She also discusses some of the best advice she has received about writing poem...
Episode #195 Jim Cohn and The Power Of The Storm Anthology
Poet and activist Jim Cohn, founder of the Museum of American Poetics, joins host Charlie Rossiter to talk about his new collection TREASURES FOR HEAV...
Episode #194 Donald G. Evans and Al DeGenova on New Chicago Anthology WHEREVER I'M AT
Donald G. Evans and Al DeGenova join host Charlie Rossiter to talk about a new mega-anthology of Chicago poetry WHEREVER I'M AT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHICA...
Episode #193 Todd Boss On House-Sitting, Motionpoems, and His New Book SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN
Poet, inventor, and all around creative dynamo Todd Boss discusses his new book SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN that came out earlier this year from WW Nor...
Episode #192 Mary Makofske Reads from Her New Collection The Gambler's Daughter
Mary Makofske reads from her new collection "The Gambler's Daughter" from Orchard Street Press. She discusses the importance of family in her writing,...
Episode #191 Laura Budofsky Wisniewski Reads from Sanctuary, Vermont
Vermont poet Laura Budofsky Wisniewski reads from her new collection Sanctuary, Vermont. The book explores the history (and pre-history) of a fictiona...
Episode #190 - Teresa Dzieglewicz on Teaching at Standing Rock
Award-winning poet, Teresa Dzieglewicz, reads poems inspired by her time teaching at the Standing Rock Reservation where she spent time working alongs...
Episode #189 Open Mic of the Air #11
The Open Mic of the Air is a project from Poetry Spoken Here that began just over two years ago. When in-person poetry events were suspended due to th...
Episode #188 James Crews on The Path to Kindness
Vermont poet James Crews discusses and reads from the new collection he edited, "The Path to Kindness" a follow up to the 2021 anthology he curated, "...
Episode #187 Jose Angel Araguz on Latinx Poetics and His New Book Rotura
Jose Angel Araguz discusses his new collection "Rotura" from Black Lawrence Press, which former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera called, "A movi...
Episode #186 Monica Prince on Choreopoems and Her Journey to Poetry
Monica Prince, author of the award-winning collection "Instructions for Temporary Survival" and the choreopoem "How to Exterminate the Black Woman," r...
Episode #185 Mark Doty Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
Mark Doty reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Lite...
Episode #184 Devon Bohm Reads from Careful Cartography
Devon Bohm reads from her new book Careful Cartography published in November of 2021 from Cornerstone Press. She also discusses writing advice that ha...
Episode #183 Christian J. Collier Talks Writing Process and Reads from The Gleaming of the Blade
Christian J. Collier shares poetry from his new collection "The Gleaming of the Blade" and shares details about his creative process which includes bl...
Episode #182 Jonathan Mayers, Poet Laureate of Baton Rouge, on Writing in English and Kouri-Vini
Jonathan Mayers, poet laureate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, shares poetry in English and Kouri-Vini, the endangered Louisiana Creole language. Mayers is...
Episode #181 Ashley M. Jones - Poet Laureate of Alabama
Newly appointed Alabama Poet Laureate, Ashley M. Jones discusses taking complicated inspiration from James Brown, contrapuntal poems, and her plans fo...
Episode #180 2021: The Poetry Spoken Here Retrospective
In 2021 Poetry Spoken Here reached tens of thousands of listeners around the world. We also featured poets from around the world - both on regular epi...
Episode #179 Sheila Maldonado Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
Sheila Maldonado reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in the spring of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading took place at De...
Episode #178 David Watts on Writing, Consciousness, and the Health Benefits of Poetry
David Watts, poet, commentator, and professor of medicine, shares his poetry and describes how his writing process has changed over time. He began wri...
Episode #177 Jenny Qi on Her New Book Focal Point
Jenny Qi shares poems from her new book "Focal Point" just out from Steel Toe Books (and winner of the Steel Toe Book Poetry Award). She also talks ab...
Episode #176 Tomás Morín on Poetry, Narrative, and His New Collection Machete
Tomás Morín reads from his new collection Machete and discusses poetry's relationship to narrative. He also goes in-depth on the creative process behi...
Episode #175 Gary Jackson on The Future of Black Anthology & Michael Wimberly's Album Afrofuturism
Gary Jackson co-editor of the new collection "The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry" reads poems from the book - both...
Episode #174 Monica Youn Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival
Monica Youn reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
Monica Youn is a lawyer-turned-poet...
Episode #173 Raúl Sánchez on When There Were No Borders
Raúl Sánchez, poet laureate of Richmond, Washington and author of the new book "When There Were No Borders," reads his poems, describes some of the cr...
Episode #172 Mike Bernhardt on Poetry, Grief, and Voices of the Grieving Heart at 30
Mike Bernhardt discusses the collection "Voices of the Grieving Heart" which he first edited and published shortly after the death of his first wife i...
Episode #171 Janet Marie Rogers on Recent Haudenosaunee Storytelling Festival and Ego of a Nation
Haudenosaunee poet Janet Marie Rogers shares work from her newest collection Ego of a Nation and discusses what it was like organizing the first liter...
Episode #170 Marc di Saverio Featured and Gregorio Gomez's New Book Reviewed
Marc di Saverio reads poems from his new collection "Crito Di Volta" recently published by Guernica Editions. The book is about a young man released a...
Episode #169 Sarah Bracey White Featured and Camille Guthrie's "Diamonds" Reviewed
Poet, memoirist, and essayist Sarah Bracey White shares poems and stories. She discusses the importance of having unconditional support and love from...