Of Poetry Podcast

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Purchase: Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine Rockwood

Moira J Saucer is a disabled poet living in the Alabama Wiregrass. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her worked has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada including Black Bough Poetry Freedom- Rapture anthology, Visual Verse, Fly on the Wall Press, Ice Floe Press, Mooky Chick, Floodlight Editions, and Fevers of the Mind Poets of 2020.

Catherine Rockwood is a staff member of Reckoning Magazine and a reviewer for Strange Horizons. She has a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies, and many remaining questions about everything.

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Purchase: Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point Press

Jason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & (Belle Point Press, 2023) and A Place for the Genuine (Eerdmans, 2024). Myers is a National Poetry Series finalist and has published poetry and essays in The Believer, Image, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Paris Review, and numerous other magazines. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best New Poets and was introduced by Campbell McGrath as part of American Poet‘s Emerging Poets feature. He is co-Executive Director of EcoTheo Collective and Editor-in-Chief of EcoTheo Review. An Episcopal priest, He lives with his wife, Allison Grace Myers, and their son Robinson in Texas.

More reading recommended from this episode: Lucille Clifton’s Collected Poems, Meik Wiking’s The Little Book of Hygge

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Read: “we ask mama-n-em, ‘where is the motherworld?'” (Split This Rock)

Purchase: motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023)

Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop, she is the author of the poetry chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press, 2018), and her debut Motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Actionbooks, 2023). 

More reading recommended from this episode:

Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing

Heartberries by Teresa Marie Mailhot

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Read: “Psychology for Black Folk” at Jasper Project

Purchase: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023)

Len Lawson is author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021) and Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017). South Carolina Humanities awarded him a 2022 Governor’s Award for Fresh Voices in the Humanities.  He has received fellowships from Tin House, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Callaloo Barbados, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. His poetry appears in African American Review, Callaloo, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, Poetry Northwest, and has been translated internationally. Len earned a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A South Carolina native, he is currently Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College. 

More reading recommended from this episode:

Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself

Nikky Finney’s Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts

Honorée Fannon Jeffers The Age of Phillis

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Read: “put ur phone down for a sec” from night mode in Blush Lit

Purchase: night mode (Everybody Press, 2023)

Caelan Ernest is a poet and a performer. They are the author of two forthcoming collections: night mode and ICONOCLAST, being published in 2023 and 2024 respectively by Everybody Press. They received their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. They are Publicist at Graywolf Press. They live in Brooklyn with their cat named Salad.

More reading and viewing recommendations from this episode:

Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto

Bladerunner

r. erica doyl’s Proxy

Wings of Desire

Carl Phillips’ My Trade is Mystery

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Read: “Whale Watch” at Turbine

Purchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022)

Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON’T READ POETRY: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). In addition to poetry things, she writes about trans stuff and pop music and comic book superheroes for Comicsxf.com, the New Yorker and other fun venues. Her podcast about tabletop role-playing games is Team-Up Moves (teamupmoves.com). 

More reading and viewing recommendations from this episode:

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Jem and the Holograms (Thompson and Campbell)

The Fire Never Goes Out ND Stevenson

She-Ra

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Read: “When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird,” at Tinderbox

Purchase: We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and the Ethel Zine!

Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City, and Tinderbox among others.

Read Also:

Leonora Carrington’s short stories

Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing-World

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Read: “Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982” in The Common

Purchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023)

K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Iver is the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Fellow for Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.

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Read: “War Machine” at The Tiny Mag

Purchase: Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022)

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.

Read More:

Lyn Hejinian: My Life and My Life in the Nineties

Mina Loy: Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose (Part I)

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Read: “Flowers as Mind Control” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse.

Purchase: Flowers as Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021)

Laura Minor’s critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Laura won the I.L.A.’s Rita Dove Poetry Award (chosen by Marilyn Nelson) and the Emerging Writers Spotlight Award (chosen by poet D.A. Powell). She teaches poetry at Oklahoma State University.

Also please check out:

Sean Singer’s Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022)

Rosemary Tonks – read more here