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Hosted by Julia Chiapella, Hive members share poems to focus our collective consciousness on imagining a new world. From Yeats to Jessica Jacobs to Roger Reeves. Julia is joined by guests Julie Murphy and Farnaz Fatemi.

Poems from the episode: 

Yeats The Second Coming

Marie Howe What The Silence Said

Sharon Olds A Song Near the End of the World 

Roger Reeves For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning

Jessica Jacobs: In the Village of My Body,

Two People appeared in Copper Nickel, Issue 33

Ellen Bass How to Apologize  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/how-to-apologize

Jim Harrison Bridge

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Julie Murphy  talks with Jessica Jacobs about solitude, revelation and inspiration. Jessica read and discusses Ellen Bass’ s poem “God and the G-Spot” as well as poems from each of her books, including her forthcoming collection of poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis. She also shares all the goings-on with SunJune Literary Collaborative. Click here if you are interested in joining the free SunJune generative writing sessions she hosts with her wife, poet Nickole Brown. 

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 Dion O’Reilly talks with Michael Kleber-Diggs about his new collection of poems, Worldly Things.

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Come spend time with Leonora Simonovis and our new favorite poetry book, Study of the Raft, which won the 2021 Colorado Prize and was published November 2021.  Hear the poet read poems which explore what it means to be exiled from a place and culture, and also what she carries with her—fiercely and lovingly.

https://www.leonorasimonovis.com

Photo credit is @meterphoto.

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Victoria Bañales interviews poet Violeta Orozco, who discusses and reads from her forthcoming book, The Broken Woman Diaries. Violeta’s poems are a bold exploration of love, loss, displacement, and dismemberment, and the ways in which broken bodies can be healed and stitched back together.  

Violeta Orozco is a bilingual author and spoken word artist from Mexico City. The Broken Woman Diaries is her third book and debut full-length poetry collection in English.

Violeta Orozco:

Instagram: @vletra

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/florpurpura.azul

In this week’s episode, Jessica Cohn and Nancy Miller Gomez join host Farnaz Fatemi in the Hive to read new work and talk about their poetry lives. We hear about the extraordinary Santa Cruz poetry community, and about finding joy during the pandemic, facing self-doubt. Above all, we hear some fantastic poems. 

(In individual segments: Jessica Cohn, part 1 and Nancy Miller Gomez part 2.)

https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S3-E33-Jessica-Cohn-and-Nancy-Miller-Gomez–with-host-Farnaz-Fatemi-e19mgqt

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Poet, translator, essayist, editor, and journalist Stephen Kessler returns to the Hive to chat with Dion O’Reilly. They read from his new book, Last Call, and also discuss a poem by the poet Jack Gilbert.

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Julie Murphy hosts this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective along with Farnaz Fatemi, chatting with Santa Cruz poet laureate David Allen Sullivan. David reads from his new book Butterflies Over Bagdad as well as new work. He also reads and talks about Inventing the Orange Peel , a poem by Meng Hui. They discuss community, compassion, and the power of sharing poetry across cultures as well as the Agents of Change Project for artists and poets.
David SullivanAgents of Change ProjectBookshop Santa Cruz

Join Farnaz Fatemi for this week’s very special show with the two poet-translators of just-published The Blinding Star (Tolsun Books), poems by the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela. Talk with and hear Sara Daniele Rivera and Lisa Allen Ortiz read Varela’s poems in both the original Spanish and their English translations. It’s a ride through the inner life of this wildly contemporary poet.https://tolsunbooks.com/shop/the-blinding-star

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:www.greenlindenpress.comChristopher Nelson Armen DavoudianFarnaz FatemiPersis Karim