Award-winning poet Julia Levine joins host Julie Murphy and reads from her most recent collection of poem Ordinary Psalms Julia’s poems are full of startling images and metaphors. Please join this lively conversation about loss of vision, affliction, transformation and learning to trust.
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Join Erin Redfern as she talks with Kelly Cressio-Moeller about Kelly’s first book, Shade of Blue Trees (Two Sylvias, 2021; Wilder Prize finalist). Enjoy the lush images of Kelly’s poems and hear thoughts on grief and the poem as portent, train rides in Germany and her approach to form, painting and music as creative spurs, and heeding what in us “is making the most noise” to get our creative attention.
Victoria Bañales talks with Watsonville native and poet Olga Rosales Salinas, who discusses and reads from her book, La Llorona: Poetry & Prose. In this stunning collection in which La Llorona’s presence looms large, Rosales Salinas tackles the violence of deportation, being first gen, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, religion, mental illness, assimilation, and more. All proceeds from book sales go to the Rosales Sisters’ Scholarship, which benefits PVUSD Latinx students.Olga Rosales Salinas is a content writer and freelancer who produces poetry, short stories, and essays. Her debut collection of poetry and prose, La Llorona was published in August of 2021 by Birch Bench Press. Her column, Thriving While Anxious at Jumble & Flow, speaks to a generalized anxiety disorder that has shaped much of her writing and content. She also writes columns and blogs for San Francisco Bay Area Moms; and was featured by Los Sotelos Podcast for her philanthropy and activism in starting a non-profit, benefiting first-generation and immigrant students; The Rosales Sisters’ Scholarship. She is passionate about all of her creative endeavors which include; motherhood, mental health, fitness, writing and wife-life.
Rosales Sisters’ Scholarship:
rsscholarship.com & @rosalessistersscholarship (instagram), @RosalesSistersScholarship (facebook)
Olga Rosales Salinas:
olgars.com & @olgarosalessalinas (both insta/facebook) @olgitarosales (twitter)
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Dion O’Reilly interviews Susan Browne, who reads new poems and old ones from her book Just Living. They talk about Jim Moore‘s poem, “Whatever Else,” a poem that studies the lyric beauty in a difficult world. She quotes Robert Hass who says, “Every line of your poem needs something interesting in it.”
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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.
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.)
The Hive Poetry Collective 