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
S5:E9 Caridad Moro-Gronlier Talks with Julia Chiapella
Listen to the episode here!Listen as Caridad reads poems from her book Tortillera, a work in three parts addressing the journey of a woman claiming her own voice. We talk about desire, the Cuban-American experience, coming out, artist Ana Mendienta…among other things. Tune in! • Caridad’s website is here.• You can purchase both the soft…
S5:E8 Gregory Orr Chats with Dion O’Reilly (2)
Listen to the episode here!Gregory Orr buzzes back into the Hive to talk with Dion O’Reilly about his newest book, Selected Books of the Beloved. We talk about John Keats’s “Lines Supposed to Be Addressed to Fanny Braun,” the difference between epic and lyric poetry, and the dangers of the false Beloved. Gregory Orr was…
S5:E7 Rodrigo Toscano with Roxi Power
Listen to the episode here! In this week’s episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, Rodrigo Toscano joins Roxi Power to read work from The Charm and the Dread (Fence Books, 2022) and The Cut Point (Counterpath Press, 2023). We hear about his work in the fields of labor organizing, as well as how his work…
S5:E6 Janice Lobo Sapigao talks with Julie Murphy
Listen to the episode here! Join host Julie Murphy as she chats with Janice Lobo Sapigao about how the intimate details of our lives are the best way to address big themes in poetry such as immigration, community, connectedness, colonization, and loneliness. Janice reads new works as well as the poem “Swerte” by Alyza Taguilaso.…
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S5:E5 (Reair) Javier Zamora with Julia Chiapella
Listen to the episode here! Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. When he was a year old, his father fled El Salvador due to the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). His mother followed her husband’s footsteps in 1995 when Javier was about to turn five. Zamora was left at the care…
S5:E4 Jim Moore Talks with Dion O’Reilly about his new book Prognosis
Listen here! Jim Moore has been writing poetry for more than four decades. Before Prognosis from Graywolf in 2021, he wrote, Invisible Strings, published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. In 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the work in that book. Underground: New & Selected Poems is available now from Graywolf Press. He has won the…
S5:E3 (Reair) Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, Hosted by Nikia Chaney
Listen here! Listen to Nikia Chaney interview the editor and poets of ESSENTIAL VOICES: POETRY OF IRAN & ITS DIASPORA. Christopher Nelson, editor, is joined by Persis Karim, Armen Davoudian, the Hive’s Farnaz Fatemi, and Arash Saedinia to read their poems and translations from the anthology (Sept 2021, Green Linden Press). Show links: Green Linden…
S5:E2 Daniel Summerhill chats with Julie Murphy
Listen here! Poet Daniel Summerhill talks with Julie Murphy about his new collection of poems and a writer’s duty to tell the truth. Daniel Summerhill is a poet and scholar originally from Oakland, CA. His work has appeared in Columbia Journal, Obsidian, Academy of American Poets and elsewhere. He is the author of Divine, Divine,…
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