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!
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Kerrin McCadden
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.
Button Poetry
Los Angeles Review
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Chestina Craig
Local poet and first-time Hive Poetry Collective host Billy Butler had this conversation with another local poet, Chestina Craig. If you missed it live, listen HERE.
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.
Gail Newman
Sunday, February 23rd at 8:00 pm on KSQD 90.07 fm, Julie Murphy interviews San Francisco poet Gail Newman about her award winning book Blood Memory. Gail, a daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, talks about her poetry, memory, and faith. If you miss it, check back here on Tudsday for a link to our podcast— honey in your pocket.
Discussed in this HIVE conversation
Marsh Hawk Press Book Store https://marshhawkpress.org/catalog/
Small Press Distribution
https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780996991193/blood-memory.aspx
On Being: https://onbeing.org/blog/the-poetry-of-bearing-witness/
Ellen Bass: Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe
https://www.ellenbass.com/readings-workshops/truth-and-beauty-earthrise-2020/
Two Sylvias Press
https://twosylviaspress.com/index.html
Li Young Lee
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee#tab-poems
Ploi Pirapokin Lands in the Hive
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
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.
David LeCount: Haiku in the Redwoods
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 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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