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to hear Dion O’Reilly interview Ken Weisner, De Anza College Community College English teacher and editor of Red Wheelbarrow, the DeAnza literary journal. He coordinates, with Poetry Center San José to hold the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. For fifteen years, Ken edited Quarry West out of Porter College, UCSC. Ken has published three volumes of his own poetry with Santa Cruz’s Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010. and his most recent, Cricket to Star. Ken’s poems have appeared most recently in Perfume River Poetry Review, Catamaran, Caesura, Nine Mile, Porter Gulch Review, and Phren-Z. Ken also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison.
Author: dion lissner oreilly
Dion O'Reilly third book, Limerence, was finalist for The Floating Bridge Press John Pierce Chapbook Competition for Washington State Poets. She is the author of Sadness of the Apex Predator (Cornerstone Press 2024) and Ghost Dogs (Terrapin 2020). Her work appears in Cincinnati Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, and Rattle. She is a podcaster at The Hive Poetry Collective, leads private poetry workshops, and is co-editor of En•Trance Journal. She splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington.
S2E3 Dion O’Reilly Talks with Rebecca Faust
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Northern California poet Rebecca Foust Skypes into the Hive to join host Dion O’Reilly for a conversation. Find her chapbook, Unexploded Ordnance Bin, HERE.
Dion O’Reilly talks with poet David Sullivan about “Nightjars”
Listen RIGHT HERE as Dion O’Reilly talks with poet David Sullivan about his
long poem, Nightjars, about the friendship between an Iraqi interpreter and a US soldier. With Arabic speaker, Aisha Charves, David reads a section from the opening of the poem.
Dion O’Reilly interviews Finn Gratton
Dion O’Reilly interviews Finn V. Gratton, LMFT about their poetry, their work as a somatic psychotherapist, and their book, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults.
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Danusha Laméris interviews Dion O’Reilly about her new book, Ghost Dogs
Listen RIGHT HERE as Danusha Laméris talks to Dion O’Reilly about her new book, Ghost Dogs which is available for pre-order from Bookshop Santa Cruz also available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
The rainy night conversation includes tasty tidbits about compost piles, waking up with a new face, and the parables of Jesus Christ!
Learn more about Dion O’Reilly, including upcoming appearances and ongoing workshops at her website.
Dion O’Reilly buzzes with Cynthia Neely and then a review of John McCarthy’s Scared Violent Like Horses
Dion O’Reilly interviews poet Cynthia Neely and reviews John McCarthy’s amazing collection of poems, Scared Violent Like Horses.
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Danusha Laméris and Dion O’Reilly read and discuss poems about Santa Cruz
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The first in a series, Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Danusha Lamérisand poet Dion O’Reilly host a show featuring poems about Santa Cruz. Included is work from Ellen Bass, Joseph Stroud, Gary Young and also a few written by the hosts.
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Joseph Stroud’s book launch for his latest collection Everything That Rises will be December 8th, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the beautiful Cabrillo College Horticulture Center
For information and to RSVP on the Patricia Smith reading December 8th, 2019 7:00pm at MAH: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/patricia-smith-at-the-mah-december-8-tickets-77655350243?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Episode 28) The Halloween Show: Dion O’Reilly hosts The Willing Suspension Armchair Theater reading Edgar Allen Poe
Did you miss The Hive Poetry Collective’s Halloween show because of the power outage? Yes you did!!! Listen to it here. Dion Lissner O’Reilly hosts The Willing Suspension Armchair Theater reading the fab and spooky Edgar Allen Poe. This was a super-fun show!!
Listen RIGHT HERE on a dark and stormy night. You won’t be sorry.
Danusha Lameris Interviews Zubair Ahmed
This is a moving interview with poet Zubair Ahmed conducted by Santa Cruz poet laureate Danusha Laméris.
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Find out more about Zubair HERE.
Dian O’Reilly Interviews Diane Lockward
Listen Right Here to Dion O’Reilly interviewing poet and publisher Diane Lockward about Terrapin’s new anthology A Constellation of Kisses.
Find out more about Diane Lockward and read her poems here: http://www.dianelockward.com/
Learn about Terrapin Books here: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/
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