The Buzz

Listen to Vanessa Angélica Villareal read from her poems and talk deeply and passionately about the development of her book Beast Meridian. We were moved by her rigorous, precise, and poetic mind and we know you will be too. If you’ve already read Beast Meridian, you will love hearing Villareal dive into portions of it. If you haven’t yet, you’re going to want to.

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Dion O’Reilly interviews author, editor, and translator  Zack Rogow. He reads from his new book Irreverent Litanies. 

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Dion O’Reilly chats with a new member of The Hive Poetry Collective, Nikia Chaney. We talk about her poetry and the new African-American literature class she is teaching at Cabrillo College in Aptos California.

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Julie Murphy & Julia Chiapella host the Hive Poetry Collective Valentines Special: S3:E6. Don’t miss a lively discussion of the highs and lows of Valentines Day and great poems by Natalie Diaz, Jack Gilbert, Dorothy Parker, Tim Seibles and more…
Natalie Diaz, Jack Gilbert, Tim Seibles, Beth Ann Fennelly, Dorothy Parker, Robert Wrigley, Dorianne Laux

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Dion O’Reilly interviews Robert Stewart, long time editor of New Letters, about his career as a writer and editor. He reads from his new book Working Class. 

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 Dion O’Reilly interviews Allison Luterman about her new book In the Time of Great Fires. 

Poets read their poems about fire and talk to host Farnaz Fatemi about writing them. With Lisa Allen Ortiz, Carmen Fought, Terri Drake, Nicelle Davis, Maggie Paul, Roxi Power Hamilton, and Charles Atkinson.  If you missed it on KSQD, the show can be found in podcast form, here for example. A few things we mention: <a href="http://&lt;!– wp:paragraph –> <p>: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html</a> Bonny Doon video with Lisa’s poem: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100000462274944/videos/4903937866298241/">https://www.facebook.com/100000462274944/videos/4903937866298241/</a> Creached at </p> Suzanne Simard, Lisa’s poem with fire video, and Terri Drake’s poetry collection which is called At the Seams. Furthermore: Carmen Fought can be reached at: cfought@pitzer.edu ,Charles Atkinson can be reached at atkinson@ucsc.edu and Roxi Power can be reached at roxipower@ucsc.edu

Julie Murphy interviews Kim Scheiblauer about her forthcoming book of poems “The Visitant” with a guest appearance of fellow Bee Dion O’Reilly!  Don’t miss these great poems and lively conversation about myth, place and the ineffable. Listen here.

The Visitant by Kim Scheiblauer.  Published soon by Hummingbird Press

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Dion O’Reilly interviews Santa Cruz poet, translator, and journalist Stephen Kessler.

Billy Butler introduces a range of poets who contribute poems about ‘The End’ — the end of the year, the end of good and bad things, times of transitions, and more.