Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast
127 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. The podcast also features monthly submitted poetry, read by the poets.
Host: James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California and author of "canvas", "portraits of red and gray", and "The Plague Doctor".
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Episodes
Olivia Gatwood on Crafting Her Stunning Novel "Whoever You Are, Honey" [INTERVIEW]
July 09, 2024 07:30 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBOlivia Gatwood is the author of two poetry collections, New American Best Friend and Life of the Party, and the co-writer of Adele’s music video for "I Drink Wine." She has received international recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Her performances have been featured on HBO, MTV, VH1, the BBC, and more. Her poems have appeared in The Poetry Foundation, Lambda Literary, and The Missouri Review. Ori...
Five Poets Recite (Scott Pleasants, Jennifer Brown, Kenya McDonald, Olivia Qi, Hoyt Rogers)
June 25, 2024 06:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. June featured poets: Under by Scott Pleasants Fabrication by Jennifer Brown Faces by Kenya McDonald Harry’s by Olivia Qi O...
Ellen Chang-Richardson Transforms Blank Pages into a Canvas of Poetry in “Blood Belies [INTERVIEW]
May 28, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBEllen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Plenitude, Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction and others. The co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, they are a member of Room’s editorial collective, long con magazine’s editorial board and the creative poetry collective VII. They...
Six Poets Recite (Najya Williams, hms, Shada Harris, Breanna Reyes, Joanne Jagoda, Shannon Frost Greenstein)
May 08, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast May submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Lauren Ducrey Brings the Power of Poetry into Corporate Workshops [INTERVIEW]
April 30, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBLauren Ducrey is an award-winning poet, speaker, mindfulness facilitator, AI designer (ex-Google) and string cheese enthusiast. When she’s not designing more emotionally supportive AI, she’s on a mission to break poetry out of its ivory tower as an accessible tool to support our well-being. She spent 7 years at Google hacking poetry into the workplace with team-building and leadership training that build on the connective power of language. She also supports individuals writing themselves ou...
Alleliah Nuguid Explores Horror Themes through Poetry in "A Human Moon" [INTERVIEW]
April 16, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBAlleliah Nuguid is a Californian poet based in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Utah and an MFA in Poetry from Boston University. Her work has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, Taft-Nicholson Center, and Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, and her poems have most recently appeared in The Slowdown, hex literary, and Volume Poetry. Her debut collection, A Human Moon, won the 2022 Dynamo Verlag Book Prize. A Leo sun and...
J. Mae Barizo on Intersecting Poetry, Music, and Minimalism in "Tender Machines" [INTERVIEW]
April 02, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBJ. Mae Barizo, born in Toronto to Filipino immigrants, is a poet, essayist, librettist and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect. A finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Megaphone Prize, her work has been anthologized in books published by W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard University Press. Recent writing appears in Poetry, Ploughshares, Esquire, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pa...
Ariana Benson's "Black Pastoral" Makes African American History Visceral through Poetry [INTERVIEW]
March 19, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBAriana Benson's poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2022 Furious Flower Poetry Prize, Benson serves as a nonfiction editor of Auburn Avenue Literary Journal. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Poet Mike Lala Explores Urban Glittering Hellscapes in "The Unreal City" [INTERVIEW]
March 05, 2024 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.9 MBMike Lala is a poet and performance writer living in New York City. He is the author of The Unreal City (Tupelo Press, 2023) and Exit Theater (Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2016); several chapbooks, including Points of Return (Ghost Proposal, 2023); and a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2022). Lala’s installations, performance, and libretti include Whale Fall (2021), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (2020, with Iris McCloughan), Oedipus in the Distric...
Five Poets Recite (Peter Carellini, t.m. thomson, Edward Sankey, Diane Sahms, Tobi Alfier)
February 20, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. A Defense of Vermin by Peter Carellini Kiting by t.m. thomson The Fallen by Edward Sankey Crow in Variations by Diane S...
Poet J.R. Rice on Why "Dreams Don't Work Unless You Do"
February 13, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBJ.R Rice is a writer, teacher, and spoken word artist, born and raised in Oakland, California. He has a B.A in Creative Writing and an English Education teaching credential from California State University of Long Beach. While studying abroad in Greece, he was mentored by the author, George Crane. His novella, Broken Pencils earned Second place for Best African-American Fiction and Best Novella in the 2023 Speak Up Radio International Firebird Book Award Contest, an Honorable Mention in the ...
Heather Bourbeau's "Monarch" Writes Forgotten Histories of Western States in Poetry [INTERVIEW]
January 30, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBHeather Bourbeau’s award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin (Ireland). Her journalism has appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to ...
Katherine Gaffney Explores Grief through the Surreal in "Fool in a Blue House" [INTERVIEW]
January 16, 2024 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBKatherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. She has attended Tin House's Summer Writing Workshop (2014), Sundress Publications' SAFTA Residency in (2021), and was a scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2022). Her f...
Five Poets Recite (Cerid Jones, Lori Rottenberg, Caroline Wellman, Özge Lena, Kenya McDonald)
December 19, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBThe December submitted poetry episode features: Tell me Again by Cerid Jones Meals with Grandma and Grandpa by Lori Rottenberg The Aves of Morning by Caroline Wellman Nameless Things by Özge Lena Broken Glass by Kenya McDonald --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Francesca Bell Fearlessly Tackles the Unsettling in "What Small Sound" [INTERVIEW]
December 12, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBFrancesca Bell was raised in Washington and Idaho and settled as an adult in California. She did not complete middle school, high school, or college and holds no degrees. She has worked as a massage therapist, a cleaning lady, a daycare worker, a nanny, a barista, and a server in the kitchen of a retirement home. Bell’s writing appears in many magazines including ELLE, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. Her translations appear i...
Jared Harél's Poetry Captures Family, Love, and Death on the Canvas of New York City [INTERVIEW]
December 05, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43.4 MBJared Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject, selected by Kwame Dawes as the Winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (U. of Nebraska Press, 2023) and Go Because I Love You (Diode Editions, 2018.) He’s been awarded the ‘Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize’ from American Poetry Review, as well as the ‘William Matthews Poetry Prize’ from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél’s poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, El...
Transforming Trauma into Verse: Tennison S. Black on "Survival Strategies" [INTERVIEW]
November 28, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.8 MBTennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies (winner of the National Poetry Series, UGA Press 2023). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in SWWIM, Hotel Amerika, Booth, Wordgathering, and New Mobility, among others. Black received their MFA at Arizona State University. They are the Managing Editor at Sundress Publications and Best of the Net and are the editor of the anthology on contemporary disability, A Body You Talk To. Though Sonoran born, Black resides in Washington sta...
A poem for Autumn to Welcome Thanksgiving - "Falling" by James Morehead
November 22, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.63 MBJames Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California) recites his poem "Falling" from his first book "Canvas". Falling With a damp chill and shortening days, I drive past Dorset at autumn’s peak. High above, white clouds stroll puffed in promenade, held delicate together by slender contrails, and morning sun softly warms a crisp early breeze, sending lake shimmered ripples—a cumulus mirror. I step into a forest, maples rooted firm in Canadian shield, feet meandering in search of a tic...
Brennan DeFrisco Explores the Spectrum of Love in "Honeysuckle & Nightshade" [INTERVIEW]
November 14, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBBrennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, & ekphrastic artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & regional coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, & the San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press, & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Me...
Five Poets Recite (Esteban Allard-Valdivieso, Lucy Rattner, Daude Teel, Derek Kannemeyer, Alison Davis)
October 31, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poetry episodes features poems by five poets: thank god for thanking god by Esteban Allard-Valdivieso Girlhood by Lucy Rattner Sins of Gold by Daude Teel Laura in April by Derek Kannemeyer Unannounced Guest by Alison Davis --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Loreena McKennitt on Amplifying the Human Condition Through Song [INTERVIEW]
October 23, 2023 04:23 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBLoreena McKennitt, currently on a North America, Europe, and United Kingdom tour, is a multi-faceted Canadian artist known for her unique blend of pop, folk, and worldbeat music, often described as "eclectic Celtic." With over 14 million records sold worldwide, she has achieved gold and platinum status in 15 countries. McKennitt owns her record label, Quinlan Road, and has an extensive catalog that includes hits like "The Mummers' Dance." She has received numerous awards, including two Junos...
Carol Guess on Being a Poet Masquerading as a Fiction Writer in "Sleep Tight Satellite" [INTERVIEW]
October 03, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBCarol Guess is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Doll Studies: Forensics and Tinderbox Lawn. Forthcoming books include a short story collection, Sleep Tight Satellite (Tupelo Press), and a hybrid poetry collection, Infodemic (Black Lawrence Press). A frequent collaborator, she writes across genres and illuminates historically marginalized material. In 2014 she was awarded the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement by Columbia University. She is Pro...
Gabriel Dozal's "The Border Simulator" Brings the U.S. Border to Life with Poetic Theatre [INTERVIEW]
September 18, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBGabriel Dozal is from El Paso, Texas. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. His work appears in Poetry magazine, Guernica, Bomb Magazine, The Iowa Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, The Volta, Contra Viento, and more. Natasha Tiniacos is a Venezuelan poet, literary translator, and scholar living and working in the United States after being granted political asylum. She holds an MFA in creative writing in Spanish from New York University ...
Six Poets Recite (Ani Jones, Siavash Saadlou, Keith Mark Gaboury, Sara Femenella, Kelsey Kessler, Marianne Tefft)
September 05, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast September submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured poets include: You left a box of neckties by Ani Jones Words and Lives by Siavash Saadlou My Blue Affront by K...
A Poetic Journey by Cable Car (from Exploring San Francisco)
August 08, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes - 8.39 MBThis week's episode features a special excerpt from the Exploring San Francisco podcast by San Francisco Travel. Award-winning host and travel writer Aaron Millar welcomes Viewless Wings founder and City of Dublin Poet Laureate James Morehead to recite his poem "nine point five miles per hour", recorded while riding a cable car. James' poem was inspired by the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. Hear the complete episode and follow Exploring San Francisco on your favorite podcast streaming serv...
"sisters" by James Morehead + Summer Hiatus
August 01, 2023 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBViewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead recites his poem "sisters" (from "canvas") to welcome a summer hiatus. The podcast will return with more interviews and submitted poetry episodes in September. Have a wonderful summer! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Brandon Rushton on Dissecting the American Landscape and Environmental Distress through Poetry [INTERVIEW]
July 25, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBBrandon Rushton is the author of The Air in the Air Behind It (Tupelo Press, 2022), selected by Bin Ramke for the Berkshire Prize. Born and raised in Michigan, his individual poems have received awards from Gulf Coast and Ninth Letter and appear widely in publications like The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Bennington Review, and Passages North. His essays appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Terrain.org, the critical anthology, A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, an...
Caitlin Conlon's "The Surrender Theory" Burrows Into the Depths of Human Emotion [INTERVIEW]
July 18, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBCaitlin Conlon is a poet and avid reader from Upstate New York. She holds a BA in English and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University at Buffalo and, while there, was chosen for the Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize, and the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her debut poetry collection, The Surrender Theory, was released in 2022 with Central Avenue Publishing. You can find her online almost anywhere @cgcpoems. Below are excerpts from the interv...
Roger Craik on Crafting a Collage of Poetic Memories for "In Other Days" [INTERVIEW]
July 11, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBRoger Craik, Professor Emeritus of English at Kent State University, Ohio, has written four collections of poetry: I Simply Stared (2002), Rhinoceros in Clumber Park (2003), The Darkening Green (2004), and Down Stranger Roads (2014), along with two chapbooks, Those Years (2007), (translated into Bulgarian in 2009), and Of England Still (2009). His poetry has appeared in several national poetry journals, such as The Formalist, Fulcrum, The Literary Review, The Atlanta Review, The London Grip ...
L.J. Sysko Explores the Heroine from Maiden to Warrior in "The Daughter of Man" (INTERVIEW)
June 27, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBL.J. Sysko is the author of “The Daughter of Man” (April ’23, University of Arkansas Press), the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Series first finalist selected by Patricia Smith, and Battledore (Finishing Line Press), a chapbook about early motherhood. Sysko’s poems have been anthologized in “Best New Poets” and “Let me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology” (Madville Publishing) and have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Missouri Review's "Poem of the Week," and Mississippi...
Kweku Abimbola Explores Colonization and the Power of Names in "Saltwater Demands a Psalm" [INTERVIEW]
June 20, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBBorn in the Gambia, Kweku Abimbola earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. He is of Gambian, Ghanaian, and Sierra Leonean descent. Abimbola’s first full-length poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm, was published by Graywolf Press in 2023. In 2022, the début collection was selected by Tyehimba Jess to receive the Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award. Abimbola’s writing primarily investigates colonization, Black mourning, Black boy...
Five Poets Recite (Sinead McGuigan, Heather MacKechnie, Lawrence Bridges, Denise Alden, Dana Kinsey)
June 13, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by five poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Whiskey Breath by Sinead McGuigan Nothing to Lose by Heather MacKechnie How to What? by Lawrence Bridges ...
"She" Documentary Transforms True Crime with Aimée Baker's Poetry of Missing and Unidentified Women [INTERVIEW]
June 06, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBOn this episode we welcome poet Aimee Baker and filmmakers Jason Greer and Vanessa Cicarelli to discuss the award-winning documentary "She" based on Baker's collection "Doe" which tells the stories of missing and unidentified women through poetry. A warning that this episode deals with subject matter some listeners may find triggering or disturbing. Aimée Baker is the author of the Akron Prize-winning collection of poetry Doe (University of Akron Press, 2018) which was the subject of the do...
David J on Crafting the Lyrics for "Love and Rockets" (Part 2) [INTERVIEW]
June 01, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBThis week features the second interview in a two-part series with Daniel Ash and David J., lyricists and songwriters behind Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, and multiple other band and solo projects. I interviewed Daniel and David separately, with a similar set of questions. The success of their projects can be attributed, in part, to their distinctly different approaches to writing lyrics and crafting songs. Today’s episode features David J. I spoke with Daniel and David while they were preparing...
Daniel Ash on Crafting the Lyrics for "Love and Rockets" (Part 1) [INTERVIEW]
May 30, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBThis is the first interview in a two-part series with Daniel Ash and David J., lyricists and songwriters behind Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, and multiple other band and solo projects. I interviewed Daniel and David separately, with a similar set of questions. The success of their projects can be attributed, in part, to their distinctly different approaches to writing lyrics and crafting songs. This episode features Daniel Ash with David J.’s interview coming next. I spoke with Daniel and David...
Katy Didden's "Ore Choir" Crafts Erasure Poetry to Explore Icelandic Lava [INTERVIEW]
May 23, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBKaty Didden is the author of Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland (Tupelo Press, 2022), and The Glacier’s Wake (Pleiades Press, 2013). Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in journals such as Public Books, Poetry Northwest, Ecotone, Diagram, The Kenyon Review, Image, 32 Poems, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Sewanee Review, and Poetry, and her work has been featured on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. She has received fellowships and residencies from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee W...
Stephen Massimilla's "Frank Dark" Creates Striking Poetic Landscapes Through a Painter's Lens [INTERVIEW]
May 16, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBStephen Massimilla is a poet, professor, painter, and author, most recently of the poetry collection Frank Dark (Barrow Street Press, 2022) and the 2022 co-edited social justice poetry anthology, Stronger Than Fear. His multi-genre, co-authored Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo Press, 2016) won the Eric Hoffer Award and many others. Previous books and honors include The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (SFASU Press Prize); Forty Floors from Yesterday (Bordighera Prize, CUNY); The Grolier Poe...
Katie Farris Battles Cancer and Insurrections with Poetic Humor and Hope in "Standing in the Forest of Being Alive" [INTERVIEW]
May 09, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBKatie Farris’s work has been commissioned by MoMA and appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, McSweeneys, The Nation, and Poetry. She is the author of the chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, which won the 2020 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal, and boysgirls, a hybrid-form book, as well as co-translator of many books of poetry. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Brown University. She is currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Georgia Institute...
Bay Area Book Festival - Viewless Wings Poets Laureate Celebration Preview
May 02, 2023 09:00 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBJoin Viewless Wings for an extraordinary day of poetry readings and book signings by celebrated current and former SF Bay Area Poets Laureate at the 2023 Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, May 7 (11 am - 5 pm) in the Viewless Wings booth (#96). James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA and host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast), Sarah Kobrinsky (former Poet Laureate - Emeryville, CA), Kathleen Moore (former Poet Laureate - San Ramon, CA), and Kimi Sugioka (Poet Laureate - Alameda, CA) wi...
Natalia Andrus on Creating the Eerie Ink Drawings for "The Plague Doctor" [INTERVIEW]
April 25, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MBNatalia Andrus (Eerie Ink) is a freelance artist who works in multiple media, both digital and traditional. I had a chance meeting with Natalia at her SiliCon booth in San Jose last summer and immediately knew her style of art would be perfect for my new book "The Plague Doctor". Fast forward to today and Natalia has completed three incredible black ink drawings inspired by poems in my book. I interviewed Natalia for the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast to learn more about how she transformed m...
Seven Poets Recite (Cathy Wittmeyer, Kristen Gundlach, Emma Paris, Joanne Jagoda, Jaime Lam, Sophia Zhang, Phynne~ Belle)
April 18, 2023 09:00 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast April submitted poems episode, for National Poetry Month features seven wonderful contributions read by seven poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswi...
Morgan Liphart on Creating a Masterclass to Inspire and Empower Emerging Poets [INTERVIEW]
April 04, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBMorgan Liphart’s work has appeared in anthologies and journals across the US, Canada, and England, such as Oxford University Press’ Literary Imagination, Popshot Quarterly, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her first chapbook, Barefoot and Running, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She recently launched a groundbreaking poetry masterclass where students can learn step-by-step how to get their poetry placed in journals and magazines worldwide. When she’s not writing, she enjoys her car...
Dana Gioia on Exploring Lyrical Forms in "Meet Me at the Lighthouse" [INTERVIEW]
March 28, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBDana Gioia is the former Poet Laureate of California. An internationally recognized poet and critic, he is the author of seven collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), which won the Poets’ Prize for the best new poetry volume of the year. His critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, and Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a...
Sandy Longhorn on Storytelling Through Poetry in "The Alchemy of My Mortal Form" [INTERVIEW]
March 14, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBSandy Longhorn has received the Porter Fund Literary Prize for Arkansas authors and the Collins Prize from the Birmingham Poetry Review. She is the author of three books of poetry: The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths, and Blood Almanac. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, North American Review, Oxford American, and elsewhere. Longhorn studied poetry at the College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, MN) and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She no...
Eric Stiefel Playfully Welcomes "Nothingness" in His Latest Poetry Collection [INTERVIEW]
February 28, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBEric Stiefel lives in Athens, Ohio with his dog, Violet. He is a PhD candidate at Ohio University, where he teaches poetry and composition . He received the Sequestrum New Writer Award for Poetry in 2018, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Penn Review Prize, and others. He earned his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and his undergraduate degree from NYU. His first collection, Hello Nothingness, was published by Main Street Rag in 2022, and his work has b...
Six Poets Recite (Maddy Robinson, George Yatchisin, Mara Scrupe, Karin Krieger, Yael Valencia Aldana, Rachel Richmond)
February 21, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Poets featured in this episode: light// [verb] by Maddy Robinson Gathering Light at a Ferry Stop, Jesolo, Ita...
Tupelo Press Editor-in-Chief Kristina Marie Darling on A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle [INTERVIEW]
February 07, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBKristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-six books. Her work has been recognized with multiple residencies, fellowships, and grants, including an an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; six residencies at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence position with the Andorran Ministry of Culture. She was recognized with the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions, among many ot...
Tupelo Press Editor-in-Chief Kristina Marie Darling on A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle
February 07, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBKristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-six books. Her work has been recognized with multiple residencies, fellowships, and grants, including an an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; six residencies at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence position with the Andorran Ministry of Culture. She was recognized with the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions, among many ot...
A poem to close Season 2: "Among the scattered ribbons and crumpled paper"
December 27, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 2.84 MBAs 2022, and our second season, comes to a close Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead shares his Christmas-themed poem "Among the scattered ribbons and crumpled paper" which first appeared on NPR’s Poetically Yours earlier this month. W’d like to thank all of the wonderful poets profiled this year with in-depth interviews, and the poets that 89 for inclusion in our monthly submitted poetry episodes. We’ll be back in 2023 with more interviews and opportunities for poets to have...
Six Poets Recite (Linda Eve Diamond, Alex Stanley, Angela Sucich, Cynthia Dorfman, Ipsheeta Furtado, Rosanne Ehrlich)
December 06, 2022 05:06 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast December submitted poems episode features seven wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Poets featured in this episode: The Twittering Machine and A Question of Hope by Linda Eve Diamond Rui...