The Buzz

Join host Julie Murphy and fellow Hive Poetry Collective members Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O’Reilly as they read and discuss poems inspired by the season. 

“We Were Happy During the War” appears in Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky.  “Crabs” appears in Telling the Bees, by Faith Shearin. “From Blossoms” appears in  Rose by Li-Young Lee.   “First Blues” appears in Disappearing Act by Saundra Rose Maley.  “After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard” appears in Chickamauga  by Charles Wright.  “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay. “How Batteries Work” by Lisa Allen Ortiz

Dion O’Reilly talks with San Jose poet Erica Redfern. If you missed it on Sunday, June 7th at 8pm on KSQD 90.7 Santa Cruz, listen here!

Julie Murphy interviews fellow teachers of the Salinas Valley State Prison Poetry Workshop—Rose Black, Lisa Charnock and Ken Weisner.  Please join our lively conversations about the poetry workshop, our experiences teaching, and be ready to hear some amazing poems written by the workshop participants!  Listen Sunday, May 24th on KSQD 90.7 Santa Cruz or come back here later to find the link to the podcast.

This episode, hosted by The Hive’s Farnaz Fatemi, is in two segments. The first, “Why Do Iranians Love Poetry,” was produced by Shabnam Piryaei. Part two is an interview with artist Mara Poliak about dance, movement, poetry and poems. If you missed the original broadcast, you can listen here or any of then many places our podcast beeeeee..

Find comfort in kindness. Danusha Lameris and Armando Alcarez read from the shelter of their home– poems from the anthology Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness edited by James Crews.  If you missed Sunday’s show, you can stream it here.

Host Julie Murphy, poet and psychotherapist, talks to bees Farnaz Fatemi, Dion O’Reilly and Lisa Allen Ortiz about loneliness and the comfort poetry can offer. You can listen here.

Mentioned in this episode:

Phren-Z:: https://phren-z.org/  
Zoom Forward: https://phren-z.org/zoom_forward.html
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Online Sales https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/shop-bookshop-santa-cruz
Ellen Bass Indigo
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9781556595752
Danusha Lameris Bonfire Opera
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9780822966050
Dion O’reilly Ghost Dogs
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9781947896239
Jane Hirshfield Ledger
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/search/site/jane%20hirshfield%20ledger
Gail Newman Blood Memory
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9780996991193
Kerrin McCadden Keep This to Yourself
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9781943735709
Bookshop Santa Cruz On-line Events:
 https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/2020-05
Poets/Poems
The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy edited by John Brehm:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Poetry-of-Impermanence-Mindfulness-and-Joy/John-Brehm/9781614293316
Traveling Light by 
Linda Pastan 
https://poets.org/poem/traveling-light
Ash First published in the Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/08/ash/306045/
Jane Hirshfield
Chance Darkened Me in American Poetry Review
https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/products/vol-49-no-1-jan-feb-2020
Ledger
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612680/ledger-by-jane-hirshfield/
Michiko Dead by Jack Gilbert
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43407/michiko-dead
Morning On The Island by CAROLYN FORCHÉ
https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/morning-island-12782
Elizabeth Bishop
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-bishop
I Will Greet The Sun Again by Forugh Farrokhzad in 
https://www.uapress.com/product/sin/
https://www.uapress.com/product/sin/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forough_Farrokhzad

CLICK HERE 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.

Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic joins Hive host Farnaz Fatemi in this episode of Poetry in the World to talk about how poems—their visions, the process of making them, the poets who write them—are integral to her art. This episode is a meal full of poems, prompts, artistic vision. Sink your teeth in!

Julie Murphy interviews Kerrin McCadden about her chapbook Keep This to Yourself, winner of the 2020 Button Poetry Prize.  Don’t miss this soulful conversation about family, addiction, and loss. 8 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM — and click here on Tuesday if you miss the broadcast.