Albany area poet Therese Broderick discusses her work, how she thinks about tone in poetry, introduces the concept of ice balloons, and talks about her personally curated lending library of local poets work.SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-airFind us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@cardboardboxproductionsincV…

Faith Vicinanza, slam poet and poet laureate of Southbury, CT, shares memories of the slam scene of the 90s, her plans for her laureateship, and the tips she gives to new writers in her workshops.SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-of-the-airFind us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cardboardboxproductionsincVisi…

In 2022 Poetry Spoken Here celebrated its 200th episode. We had guests from across the United States and around the world. We also shared even more readings from the Unamuno Author Festival which took place in 2019. Guests you will hear on this episode include Ashley M. Jones, the first Black Poet Laureate of Alabama, Emmy Award-Winning Director Vi…

Maya Jewell Zeller reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature, an independent bookstore in Madrid.More about Maya Jewell Zeller, here: https://western.edu/people/maya-jewell-zeller/SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-…

Emmy Award-winning director Violet Du Feng discusses her latest film Hidden Letters about Nushu, a secret language developed by women in China. She also reads poems written in Nushu that offer a window into the lives of women living in rural China many years ago. Learn more about the film, here: https://www.hiddenlettersfilm.com/SUBMIT TO THE OPEN …

Raena Shirali is a poet, editor, and educator whose latest book SUMMONINGS won the 2021 Hudson Prize. The book examines present-day witch hunting in India. Shirali reads from the book, discusses some of the formatting choices she made, and explains the connections she sees between explicit witch hunting in India, and social practices in the United …

Aracelis Girmay reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at La Residencia de Estudiantes which cultural luminaries such as Frederico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali once called home.Learn more about Aracelis Girmay, here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aracelis…

California poet Rich Ferguson reads from his new collection EVERYTHING IS RADIANT BETWEEN THE HATES. He also discusses and reads from BEAT, NOT BEAT a collection of California poets whose work is in a beat vein.Learn more about Rich and buy his books, here: http://rich-ferguson.com/SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mi…

After just over six years, we've reached a milestone - 200 episodes of Poetry Spoken Here! This is an extra special episode featuring multi-award-winning musician, poet, and activist Tanya Tagaq. She reads from her 2018 book Split Tooth, shares warm memories of a dear friend, gives insight into the throat singing tradition she has helped keep vibra…

In this special episode, host Charlie Rossiter reviews and reads from two new collections of poetry by Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison. In June of 2022 the Library of America released an 1100+ page collection of Snyder's poetry and at the very end of 2021, Copper Canyon Press released a collection of all of Jim Harrison's poems. Charlie reads from bot…

Marty Gervais, the first Poet Laureate of Windsor, Ontario, reads from his new book MEETING THOREAU AT THE GAS STATION DINER, a collection of poems about his adventures hitchhiking across Canada in the late 1960s. During his travels he met preachers, wrestlers, firecracker salesmen, and even went in search of Jimi Hendrix's grandmother.Get a copy o…

Francesca Bell, whose new book WHAT SMALL SOUND will come out from Red Hen Press in the Spring of 2023, shares some poems, talks about writers who inspire her, discusses writing through the brain-fog of long COVID and much more.Learn more about WHAT SMALL SOUND, here: https://www.francescabellpoet.com/what-small-soundSUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE A…

Caylin Capra-Thomas shares poems from her new collection IGUANA IGUANA. She also discusses some of the best advice she has received about writing poems as well as what she tells young poets about the writing process. She and host Charlie Rossiter also address one of life's enduring questions: why do dads love hawks so much?Get a copy of IGUANA IGUA…

Poet and activist Jim Cohn, founder of the Museum of American Poetics, joins host Charlie Rossiter to talk about his new collection TREASURES FOR HEAVEN: COLLECTED POEMS 1976-2021 from Giant Steps Press.In the second part of the show, Charlie discusses and reads from the anthology THE POWER OF THE STORM A GATHERING OF INDIGENOUS VOICES, VISIONS, AN…

Donald G. Evans and Al DeGenova join host Charlie Rossiter to talk about a new mega-anthology of Chicago poetry WHEREVER I'M AT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHICAGO POETRY. They discuss the book's long gestation process, the list of contributors, and even read some selected works.Get a copy of the book, here: https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/poetry_anthology/whe…

Poet, inventor, and all around creative dynamo Todd Boss discusses his new book SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN that came out earlier this year from WW Norton. In the book, he reflects on his time house-sitting across the world. In this interview he also discusses the long-running Motionpoems project.Get a copy of SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN, here: https…

Mary Makofske reads from her new collection "The Gambler's Daughter" from Orchard Street Press. She discusses the importance of family in her writing, reads poems responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and shares some of her favorite poets.Learn more about Mary Makofske, here: https://marymakofske.com/SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspok…

Vermont poet Laura Budofsky Wisniewski reads from her new collection Sanctuary, Vermont. The book explores the history (and pre-history) of a fictional Vermont town. Hear more in this interview about the inspiration behind the collection and the exhaustive research - often into hidden, challenging histories - that went into the poems.Learn more abo…

Award-winning poet, Teresa Dzieglewicz, reads poems inspired by her time teaching at the Standing Rock Reservation where she spent time working alongside water protectors. She also discusses her work as the Chicago Poetry Center's poet-in-residence. She also encourages listeners to find writing from native voices about Standing Rock, calling attent…

The Open Mic of the Air is a project from Poetry Spoken Here that began just over two years ago. When in-person poetry events were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Open Mic of the Air was created as a way for poets from around the world to connect and have a creative outlet. Now, over 100 poets have been featured and we look forward t…

Vermont poet James Crews discusses and reads from the new collection he edited, "The Path to Kindness" a follow up to the 2021 anthology he curated, "How to Love the World." In his new book, Crews brings together poetry from dozens of well-known writers and from lesser known poets. The result is over 100 pieces, all of which speak to the human cond…

Jose Angel Araguz discusses his new collection "Rotura" from Black Lawrence Press, which former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera called, "A moving book where the voice undulates dark and soul-filled along cracked borders, rising boundaries and worn “brown gods” along the routes, grasping at fading shimmers of truth, family, longings and stark…

Monica Prince, author of the award-winning collection "Instructions for Temporary Survival" and the choreopoem "How to Exterminate the Black Woman," reads from her work and discusses choreopoems, a blend of poetry and theater.Find out more about Prince and choreopoems on her website: https://monicaprince.com/SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.p…

Mark Doty reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature, an independent bookstore in Madrid.Doty has won the National Book Award for his 2008 collection "Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems." He was also the first American poet to win the T.S. Ell…

Devon Bohm reads from her new book Careful Cartography published in November of 2021 from Cornerstone Press. She also discusses writing advice that has stuck with her, ways she's broadening her reading, and talks about where the title or the collection originated.Find out more about Devon at her website: http://www.devonbohm.com/Order a copy of Car…

Christian J. Collier shares poetry from his new collection "The Gleaming of the Blade" and shares details about his creative process which includes blowing apart early drafts of poems so they can be totally reformed.Learn even more about Christian on his website: http://www.christianjcollier.com/newsOrder a copy of The Gleaming of the Blade, here: …

Jonathan Mayers, poet laureate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, shares poetry in English and Kouri-Vini, the endangered Louisiana Creole language. Mayers is involved with efforts to keep Kouri-Vini alive. He also discusses some of the work he has planned during his time as poet laureate, including editing a collection of poems in Kouri-Vini.Lean more abo…

Newly appointed Alabama Poet Laureate, Ashley M. Jones discusses taking complicated inspiration from James Brown, contrapuntal poems, and her plans for poetry in Alabama. She also reads from her new book "Reparations Now!" Jones is the first Black poet laureate in Alabama's history.Learn more about Ashley M. Jones on her website: https://ashleymjon…

In 2021 Poetry Spoken Here reached tens of thousands of listeners around the world. We also featured poets from around the world - both on regular episodes and as part of our ongoing series The Open Mic of the Air, and posted more readings recorded at the Unamuno Author Festival in Madrid, Spain in 2019. The eight poets featured on this episode are…

Sheila Maldonado reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in the spring of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading took place at Desperate Literature.Maldonado is the author of the 2011 book "one-bedroom solo" and of "that’s what you get" which came out earlier this year from Brooklyn Arts Press. She grew up in New York City and …

David Watts, poet, commentator, and professor of medicine, shares his poetry and describes how his writing process has changed over time. He began writing linear poems, then experimented with writing while half-awake to add what he calls "wildness" to his work. He and host Charlie Rossiter also discuss James Pennebaker's research into the health be…

Jenny Qi shares poems from her new book "Focal Point" just out from Steel Toe Books (and winner of the Steel Toe Book Poetry Award). She also talks about growing up in Las Vegas, translating her mother's writing, and how being a scientist influences her poetry.Visit Jenny Qi's website to learn even more about her work: https://jqiwriter.com/Get a c…

Tomás Morín reads from his new collection Machete and discusses poetry's relationship to narrative. He also goes in-depth on the creative process behind some of his poems and explains why one of them several years to finish.Learn more about Tomás Morín, here: https://www.tomasqmorin.com/AboutGet a copy of his new book Machete: Poems, here: https://…

Gary Jackson co-editor of the new collection "The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry" reads poems from the book - both his own and those from other contributors - and discusses Afrofuturism.In the second part of the show, renowned drummer and percussionist Michael Wimberly, who teaches at Bennington College, talks abo…

Monica Youn reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in 2019 in Madrid, Spain.Monica Youn is a lawyer-turned-poet whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and many others. Her 2016 book "Blackacre" was long-listed for the National Book Award and was named one of the New York Times Book Reviews best poetry …

Raúl Sánchez, poet laureate of Richmond, Washington and author of the new book "When There Were No Borders," reads his poems, describes some of the creative ways he has brought poetry to new audiences as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, and shares some of the ways he helps students gain comfort with using language.Get a copy of "When There Wer…

Mike Bernhardt discusses the collection "Voices of the Grieving Heart" which he first edited and published shortly after the death of his first wife in 1991. Now, an expanded 30th anniversary edition includes poems that touch on the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to poems, the collection has writing prompts and blank pages so readers can add their …

Haudenosaunee poet Janet Marie Rogers shares work from her newest collection Ego of a Nation and discusses what it was like organizing the first literary festival focused on Haudenosaunee storytelling.Watch the award-winning book trailer for "Ego of a Nation," here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjyviYxwb68Watch some of the Haudenosaunee storytel…

Marc di Saverio reads poems from his new collection "Crito Di Volta" recently published by Guernica Editions. The book is about a young man released after a decade of institutionalization. Marc discusses the inspiration for the book and how he practices reading his poems for hours so that he can properly communicate them to an audience with exact r…

Poet, memoirist, and essayist Sarah Bracey White shares poems and stories. She discusses the importance of having unconditional support and love from non-parental family members, the advice she gives students, and the need to consider often overlooked perspectives.In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter reviews Camille Guthrie's new b…

Charlie Rossiter sits down with Wilnona Marie and Jade Dee also known as the And I Thought Ladies who helm a multi-platform media empire. They write books, publish a literary magazine, and host virtual events among many other ventures.Find out more about Wilnona and Jade and their various endeavors at: https://andithoughtladies.com/SUBMIT TO THE OP…

Freesia McKee shares her poetry and discusses how she makes a living as a poet and writer. In the second part of the show host Charlie Rossiter reviews DeWitt Clinton's new book "By a Lake Near a Moon" which was inspired by Kenneth Rexroth's translations of ancient Chinese poetry.SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.com/open-mic-…

Poet, writer, activist, emcee, father, and academic Propaganda shares poems from his new book "Terraform: Building a Better World" and reflects on the power of narrative, the necessity of 'institutional neighborliness,' and what it's like living in a house that has strong female energy.Learn more about Propaganda and his writing and activism, here:…

Award-winning poet and poetry festival founder Katerina Canyon shares poems from her newest book "Surviving Home." She also discusses the personal history she drew on when writing the collection, her time as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, and the struggle to have her voice and work adequately valued.Learn more about Katerina Canyon (and buy her …

Poet Rob Carney reads from his new book "Call and Response" just out from Black Lawrence Press. He also shares some of the advice he gives poetry students and a poem from his previous book, "The Book of Sharks."Get a copy of "Call and Response" here: https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/call-and-response/SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetr…

Khalisa Rae reads from her new book Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat recently out from Red Hen Press. She also discusses some of her numerous projects including Women Speak a "monthly reading series geared towards creating a stage for BIPOC women-identified poets and prose writers of all stages of their career."Learn more about Khalisa Rae, here: htt…

Writer Terese Svoboda reads poems from her new book "Theatrix: Poetry Plays" and talks about the secrets to her success in a variety of literary styles - short story, memoir, opera, and more.Get a copy of Theatrix, here: http://www.anhingapress.org/poetry/theatrix-poetry-plays-by-terese-svobodaSUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere…

New Orleans poet Kelly Harris DeBerry reads from her new collection "Freedom Knows My Name," talks about how writing poetry is a "sacred practice," and how she combines her experience with spoken word and performance poetry with the academic and technical knowledge from her MFA days.Learn more about Kelly and get a copy of "Freedom Knows My Name" h…

Paisley Rekdal reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place in May of 2019 in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature an independent bookstore in Madrid.Though this reading is short it includes everything from Greek myths to Mae West impressions. Rekdal is the current poet laureate of Utah, a Distinguishe…

Poet, writer, and animal rights advocate Gretchen Primack shares her poetry. She reads from her 2013 book "Kind" which reflects on the dynamics between humans and other animals as well as her new book "Visiting Days" which was inspired by the teaching work she has done through prison education programs.Buy a copy of Kind, here: https://lanternpm.or…