Mission
To bring a diverse community together in appreciation of all kinds of poetry by all kinds of people.
The Hive Poetry Collective is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets. 📝
The Hive radio show is broadcast on KSQD, 90.7 FM Community Radio in Santa Cruz on Sunday nights from 8pm-9pm. 🎙️
All episodes are available to stream through anchor.fm, and wherever you get your podcasts. 🐝
Recent Episodes
S6 E12: Paul E. Nelson with Roxi Power
Listen Here: “Over the past decade or so, nobody has done more for the Pacific Northwest than Paul Nelson.” –Sam Hamill. Paul E. Nelson talks with Roxi Power about his forthcoming book, DaySong Miracle (Past 62) from Carbonation Press. The two poet friends laugh, talk, and even sing some of Nelson’s lyrical lines in his long…
S6: E11 Ed Hirsch chats with Dion O’Reilly
Listen Here Join Dion O’Reilly as she talks with Ed Hirsch about 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, including The Living Fire, Gabriel: A Poem. and Stranger by Night. He has also published six prose books about poetry, among them, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with…
S6: E9 Lee Herrick, California Poet Laureate, chats with Farnaz Fatemi
Listen Here: Lee Herrick in conversation with Farnaz Fatemi. Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award; Gardening Secrets of the Dead; and This Many Miles from Desire. His poems appear widely, in The Poetry Foundation, Academy of American Poets, The Place That Inhabits…
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S6:E8 Dorianne Laux Chats with Dion O’Reilly
Listen HERE Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection,Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall…
S6 E7: Elizabeth Vignali Chats with Dion O’Reilly
Listen HERE: Bellingham poet Elizabeth Vignali buzzes in to read from her newest book and also to read and discuss Dorianne Laux’s poem ”Facts about the Moon. Elizabeth Vignali is the author of the poetry collection House of the Silverfish (Unsolicited Press 2021) and three chapbooks, the most recent of which is Endangered [Animal] (Floating Bridge Press 2019). Her work…
S6: E4 Carla Sameth Chats with Geneffa Jahan
Listen Here. “I Am a Woman of Almost 62 Years Old / of no special bravery.” With this poem, Carla Rachel Sameth begins her hour on The Hive Poetry Show, reading from her first full-length collection, Secondary Inspections, released in January 2024, as well as newer poems. For a voice both introspective and self-aware, Sameth’s writing pours itself…
S6: E6 Alexandra Lytton Regalado & Farnaz Fatemi
Listen here: “This weirdness swims up…” Alexandra Regalado talks to Farnaz Fatemi about teeth as relics, finding inspiration in visual artists, attempting to say the unsaid, writing things in poems that might never get said aloud–and more serious and not-so-serious preoccupations. Our conversation focuses on Regalado’s second book, the National Poetry Series publication Relinquenda, from…
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