In case you missed this fantastic episode! On December 22, 2019 our feature was a lively and thoughtful interview with writer Ploi Pirapokin about poetry in her world–how it influences her prose, her teaching, and her days. She talks to Farnaz about emotional turns, point of view, images and more, and reads from some of her favorite poems. Listen HERE.
Mentioned in this conversation: For the Taking, Linda GregersonCrush, Richard SikenBBHMM, Tiana ClarkAubade with Burning City, Ocean Vuong
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.
Lisa Allen Ortiz travels to La Honda to talk to David LeCount about his 45 year haiku habit, living with nature and how he met his teacher, James Hackett. Ortiz also presses the mute button for the second half of the field interview— ah, but the episode is saved by Farnaz Fatemi who comes by the hive to read haiku by Hackett and LeCount. All are delighted and amazed by such being that haiku inspires. Listen to 90.7 KAZU at 8pm on Sunday, February 9th or visit here on Tuesday to get the podcast.
captured firefly—
a child’s fingers
hatch the moon
David LeCount, 1989 winner of the japanese Haiku Society Grand Prize
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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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 interviews poet Cynthia Neely and reviews John McCarthy’s amazing collection of poems, Scared Violent Like Horses.
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Co-hosts Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O’Reilly discuss the virtuosic poet Patricia Smith. Let Smith’s poetry alter your mind (as poetry should!) with her intense subject matter and her comforting beats. Hear poems and discussion from her books Incendiary Art and Blood Dazzler, and explore poetry forms like the Golden Shovel, invented by Terrance Hayes after a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and used by Smith in Incendiary Art. Listen HERE.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patricia-smith
Poet Lee Rossi stops by the Hive on KSQD 90.7 Santa Cruz to chat with Lisa Allen Ortiz about his new book Darwin’s Garden and about seminary, the Eden of back yards, climate change, true love and knee caps. Lee Rossis is the author of three books of poetry and a regular contributor to Sun Magazine, reviewer for Pedestal and a contributing editor to Poetry Flash. Subscribe to the Hive podcast or click HERE to listen.
