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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Three Poets Bring Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" to Life with "Chalk Song"
November 29, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast we interview not one, but three wonderful poets about their collaboration to create Chalk Song. Susan Berger-Jones is an architect and poet. Her written and visual work has appeared in Drunken Boat, No Exit, and two anthologies of ekphrastic poems published by Off the Park Press. Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge. Her work has been published Tupelo Quarterly, This Rough Beast, Colorado Review, SpoKe4, and in the poetry antholog...
Stelios Mormoris on Elevating Humanity through the Poetry of The Oculus [INTERVIEW]
November 15, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBStelios Mormoris is a resident of Boston and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and formerly lived in Paris most of his life, working as an executive in the beauty industry. Stelios is currently Chief Executive Officer of Scent Beauty, Inc. He studied architecture at Princeton University, where he received his BA, and he received his MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has held positions on the boards of the French Cultural Center of Boston, ACT-UP, Historic New England, and ...
Poet Donald Platt Explores Beauty, Dark Matter, and the Love of Family in Swansdown [INTERVIEW]
November 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBDonald Platt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, his most recent is Swansdown (Grid Books, 2022). His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Yale Review, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. --- Su...
Tess Taylor Explores Northern California through Poetry in "Rift Zone" [INTERVIEW]
October 18, 2022 09:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBTess Taylor, who Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed as “the poet for our moment” resides in El Cerrito, California. Her poems have received wide national and international acclaim. Taylor’s chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook competition. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, The Forage House, (an exploration of hidden family histories through archive and shard) “stunning,” and it was a finalist for t...
Seven Poets Recite (Rebekah Bartlett, RA Pavoldi, Rose Oliver, Rosanne Ehrlich, Simon Constam, Mon Malanovich-Gallagher, Marie Chambers)
October 11, 2022 05:03 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features contributions from 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, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured in this episode: The Execution of Maximillian by Rebekah Bartlett Old Money b...
Poets Take the Mic at Dublin's Splatter Festival 2022
October 04, 2022 22:58 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBThis episode features eleven points, nine finalists (eight of whom performed live at the City of Dublin's Splatter Festival on Saturday September 10, 2022) and two honorable mentions. All have wonderful poetic focus covering a diversion range of topics. Finalists Kate McCarroll Moore Cara Sennott Ida Marie Beck Marie-Anne Poudret Rowena Tho Nguyen Carissa Maddox Inge Sorensen Sarah Abbett Honorable Mentions Ileia Thomas AKA Black Latina Lyrics Sterling Nguyen --- Support this...
Yanyi's "Dream of the Divided Field" Explores the Separation of Self [INTERVIEW]
September 27, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBYanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space, and he is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Poets House. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University. He was most recently poetry editor at Foun...
Pamela Wax Explores the Healing Power of Poetry in "Walking the Labyrinth"
September 13, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBPamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received awards from Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Her publication credits include Barrow Street, Pensive, Connecticut River Review, Heron Tree, Glimpse, Mudfish, Pedestal, Pangyrus, Reed Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Sixfold, Solstice, and Passengers...
Behind the Scenes of a Local Bookseller with Tricia Huebner, Phoenix Books
August 30, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBThis week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast takes you behind the scenes of an independent bookstore courtesy of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont. As writers and poets we have all spent many hours - and dollars - in bookstores. No online experience can replace walking down an aisle of bookshelves, searching for the poetry section, and being distracted by an intriguing book cover. Tricia Huebner is the co-owner of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont which opened in 2015. She grew...
Five Poets Recite (Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis, David Holper, Connor Simons, Norma DaCrema, Linda Drattell)
August 23, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features contributions from 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, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured in this episode: Saint Matthew’s Rectus Femoris by Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis Aube...
Sarah Kobrinsky Shares Poetry from "Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything"
August 16, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry, Red Light Lit, Eleven Eleven, Monkeybicycle, *82 Review, 100 Word Story, Fjords Review, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada, raised in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in Califor...
Cynthia Good Explores Mortality Through Poetry in "What We Do with Our Hands"
August 09, 2022 06:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBCynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She has launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Free State Review, Main Street Rag and Terminus Magazine. Cynthia’s new chapbook What We Do with Our Hands from Finishing...
Tina Cane (Poet Laureate, RI) on Capturing "Year of the Murder Hornet" in Verse
August 02, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBBorn in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and raised in the Village, Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Spinning Jenny, Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat, and The Common. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane has established her state's first youth poetry ambassador program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the ...
Safia Elhillo on Crafting the Poetry of "Girls That Never Die"
July 26, 2022 09:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBPoet and author Safia Elhillo discusses her new book Girls That Never Die with Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA, and author of canvas and portraits of red and gray). Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children and Home Is Not a Country and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African P...
Six Poets Recite (Durell Carter / Sarah Bitter / David Radavich / Mary Amato / Jai-Michelle Louissen / Nicole Farmer)
July 19, 2022 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The submitted poems, read by the authors, in this episode include: Midnight Velvetto by Durell Carter Dear Creature and Before the Pool, there was a Saltwater Lagoon by Sarah Bitter Self-Portrait by David Radavich You Will Know Us By Our Art by Mary Amato a gathering by Jai-Michelle Louissen Honest Sonnets b...
Six Poets Recite (Durell Carter / Sarah Bitter / David Radavich / Mary Amato / Jai-Michelle Louissen / Nicole Farmer)
July 19, 2022 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The submitted poems, read by the authors, in this episode include: Midnight Velvetto by Durell Carter Dear Creature and Before the Pool, there was a Saltwater Lagoon by Sarah Bitter Self-Portrait by David Radavich You Will Know Us By Our Art by Mary Amato a gathering by Jai-Michelle Louissen Honest Sonnets b...
Patagonia Poet Laureate Celebration Part 2 featuring Kimi Sugioka, Cynthia Patton, and Tongo Eisen-Martin
July 12, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBPatagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances. Kimi Sugioka (Poet Laureate – Alameda) Cynthia Patton (Poet Laureate – Livermore) Tongo Eisen-Martin (Poet Laureate – San Francisco) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Patagonia Poet Laureate Celebration Part 1 featuring Amy Glynn, James Morehead, and Sarah Kobrinsky
July 05, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBPatagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances. Amy Glynn (Poet Laureate – Orinda & Moraga) Sarah Kobrinsky (Poet Laureate – Emeryville) James Morehead (Poet Laureate – Dublin) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Cutter Streeby on Exploring the Intersection of Visual Arts and Poetry
June 28, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBCutter Streeby holds an MFA from the University of East Anglia and an MA in Literature from King's College, London. He has delivered many lectures on poetics, translation, and translation theory, including "Navigating Lèse- Majesté: Translating the Poetry of Zakariya Amataya" at universities across Thailand and Malaysia while teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Publications, translations, and anthologies include The White Review, Anthology of South East Asian Poets (Vagabond P...
Poet Beth McDermott on Displacing Silence in Her New Collection “Figure 1”
June 21, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBBeth McDermott is the author of Figure 1 (Pine Row Press) and a chapbook titled How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press). Her poetry appears in Pine Row, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, and Memorious. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, an Illinois Speaks Micro-Grant, and first place in the Regional Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. website: bethmcdermott.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcaste...
Poets at the Mic with James Morehead, Jessica Sabo, & Rachel Abramowitz
June 14, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBPoets James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA), Jessica Sabo (author of Body of Impulse), and Rachel Abramowitz (author of The Birthday of the Dead) present a live mix of poetry readings and discussion. The event, recorded live, features a unique format: three poets, reading three poems, and after each performance a discussion of the poem. A round robin of readings and discussion. James is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, author of canvas and portraits of red and gray, and he hosts t...
Six Poems / Five Poets (Richard Evans / Dana Kinsey / Jeff Bien / Eliza Sible / Erika B. Girard)
June 07, 2022 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off June with six wonderful poems contributed and read by five poets: Shout and The Flag by Richard Evans Pillow Talk by Dana Kinsey Eros unwritten by Jeff Bien The Life of a Pretty Girl by Eliza Sible A Villanelle for the Ones Who Know by Erika B. Girard Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings to be considered for a future podcast episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Maggie Queeney on Imagining the World of "Settler"
May 31, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBMaggie Queeney is the author of “Settler” (Tupelo Press). Recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Ruth Stone Scholarship, and a 2019 Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago, her most recent work is found or forthcoming in The New Republic, Guernica, The Missouri Review, and The American Poetry Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, and reads and writes in Chicago. Website: maggiequeeney.com --- Support this podcast: https...
Carmine Di Biase on Creating the Poetry of American Rondeau
May 24, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBViewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead interviews poet Carmine Di Biase about his upcoming chapbook American Rondeau (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Carmine writes about English and Italian literature, and his poems have appeared in various journals. Last year his English translations of thirteen poems by Cesare Pavese appeared in L’anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature. Occasionally he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement. He has recently retired as ...
Poet Rachel Abramowitz on How She Created "The Birthday of the Dead"
May 17, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBOn this episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast I’m excited to welcome Rachel Abramowitz, author of the recently released collection of poems, “The Birthday of the Dead”. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Oxford. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Wave Composition, an intern at the Paris Review, a stock analyst (for three months), and has taught English Literature at The University of Iowa, the University of Oxford, and most...
Writing Publisher-Ready Poetry with James Morehead and Morgan Liphart
May 10, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBWriting publisher-ready poetry by James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California, and author of "canvas" and "portraits of red and gray") and Morgan Liphart (author of "Barefoot & Running"). James Morehead is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California. James has published two collections of poetry: "canvas” and "portraits of red and gray". James' poem "tethered" was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn animated short film, "gallery" was set to music for baritone and piano, and his poem...
Seven Poems / Seven Poets for the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast
May 03, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off May with seven wonderful poems contributed and read by seven poets. Seven different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast reader and then read each below: Opening by Olive Dwan Running Into Time by ...
Seven Poems / Seven Poets (Olive Dwan / Crystal Mayo / Airea Johnson / Inge Sorensen / Linda McQuarrie-Bowerman / Ivy Raff / Finbar Lennon)
May 03, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBThe Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off May with seven wonderful poems contributed and read by seven poets. Seven different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast reader and then read each below: Opening by Olive Dwan Running Into Time by ...
Unlocking Memories by Writing Poetry Featuring James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA)
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBJames Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, demonstrates how writing poetry can unlock memories and connect readers with universal truths. James shares memoir poems from his first two books, “canvas” and “portraits of red and gray”, and discusses how unlocked details from years or even decades ago through the poetic writing process. James also shares how to introduce “turns” into poems, to go beyond just capturing personal memories. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead...
Unlocking Memories by Writing Poetry Featuring James Morehead
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBJames Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, demonstrates how writing poetry can unlock memories and connect readers with universal truths. James shares memoir poems from his first two books, “canvas” and “portraits of red and gray”, and discusses how unlocked details from years or even decades ago through the poetic writing process. James also shares how to introduce “turns” into poems, to go beyond just capturing personal memories. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead...
Poet Nick Courtright Takes Readers to "The Forgotten World"
April 19, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBNick Courtright is author of The Forgotten World, Let There Be Light, and Punchline, and he serves as the Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, and Southern Review, among dozens of others. His essays and other prose have been published in Huffington Post, Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and SPIN Magazine. With a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Texas, Nick lives in Austin wi...
City of Dublin Poetry Walk Read by the Poets Part 2
April 12, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBFor National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk. Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com. This is the second of two episodes. Poets featured in this episode include: Jennifer deBie - "Dublin" Monique Rardin Richardson - "Out Fool th...
City of Dublin Poetry Walk Read by the Poets Part 1
April 05, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBFor National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk. Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com. This is the first of two episodes. Poets featured in this episode include: James Morehead - "At the crossroads" Morgan Liphart - "The Current ...
Lexicographer Philip David Morehead on dictionaries and the evolution of language
March 29, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBA veteran of over thirty years as pianist and conductor at the renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philip Morehead has extensive experience in the operatic repertory. He has conducted a widely varied list of concert works and contemporary music and performed in as varied a repertory of chamber music. A consummate musician, he has coached singers in operatic and concert repertory and given master classes in vocal and chamber music interpretation and performance. Philip is interviewed by his son,...
Poet Tyler Mills discusses her new book "City Scattered: Cabaret for Four Voices"
March 22, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBTyler Mills is the author of City Scattered (winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award), as well as Hawk Parable (winner of the Akron Poetry Prize), Tongue Lyre (winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award), and Low Budget Movie (co-authored with Kendra DeColo and winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah ...
Publishing Poetry with poets James Morehead and Morgan Liphart
March 15, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBPoet Laureate of Dublin, California and Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead and poet and author Morgan Liphart have a conversation about what they've learned publishing poetry. This event was originally a live (virtual) event that included audience questions. Morgan Liphart's debut book Barefoot & Running is on-sale now. Follow Morgan Liphart on Instagram (@mliphart) and on the website: morganliphart.com. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on...
Images of Love: original poems by Lisa Delan / Griffin Epstein / K.T. Reid / David Radavich / Lawrence Bridges
March 08, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBLove poems on greeting cards give poetry a bad name. There are so many beautiful and challenging poems anchored on the theme of "love" that avoid greeting card clichés. The latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features images of love-inspired poetry from five wonderful poets. Lisa Delan - The morning after Griffin Epstein - Poem for our tin anniversary and Evening, after James Schuyler K.T. Reid - California Dreamin’ David Radavich - When You Went Missing Lawrence Bridges...
Images of Love: original poems recited by five poets
March 08, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBLove poems on greeting cards give poetry a bad name. There are so many beautiful and challenging poems anchored on the theme of "love" that avoid greeting card clichés. The latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features images of love-inspired poetry from five wonderful poets. Lisa Delan - The morning after Griffin Epstein - Poem for our tin anniversary and Evening, after James Schuyler K.T. Reid - California Dreamin’ David Radavich - When You Went Missing Lawrence Bridges...
Pulitzer Prize Finalist A.E. Stallings Interviewed for the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast
March 01, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBAlicia (A. E.) Stallings is an American poet and translator who has lived in Greece since 1999. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently LIKE (FSG), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. Her most recent book of verse translation is the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (illustrated!) with Paul Dry Books. She has a Selected poems forthcoming shortly from FSG, and FSG is also reissuing her first collection, Archaic Smile. She has received fellowships fro...
Designer Zoe Norvell on Creating Impeccable Book Covers and Interiors
February 22, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBZoe Norvell has been designing book covers professionally since 2011, and has designed nearly 700 covers to date. Zoe started her career in New York City as an in-house designer at Simon & Schuster and then moved over to Penguin Random House. In 2015, she began freelancing full-time. Today, Zoe is based in her hometown of Washington, DC, and when not global pandemic times, loves to travel and will occasionally bring work with her on the road. Zoe recently launched “INeedaBookInterior.com”, ...
Poet Sean Singer Breaks Down his New Book "Today in the Taxi"
February 15, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBSean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022). He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com. Twitter: @SeanSingerPoet Sean Singer Editorial Services Subscribe to Sean's email newsletter about thinking through...
Poet Corey Van Landingham discusses "Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens"
February 08, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBCorey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo Press, 2022). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2014 and 2020, Boston Review, The New Yorker, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Ashland, Oregon, she teaches in the MFA program at t...
New Beginnings-Inspired Poetry Featuring Sarah Bricault, Nikita Jayaprakash, Patricia Cannon and Colleen Charlette
February 01, 2022 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature poetry inspired by new beginnings from four wonderful poets: Sarah Bricault - when I close my eyes and think apple Nikita Jayaprakash - Trio of poems: Grim Reaper, Counting on the Porch, and Swings, Church and Shoes Patricia Cannon - Inspiration Collee...
Angie Trudell Vasquez - an interview with the Poet Laureate of Madison, WI
January 25, 2022 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBAngie Trudell Vasquez is a Mexican-American writer and the current poet laureate of Madison. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published the first half of her MFA thesis, In Light, Always Light, in 2019, and will publish the second half, My People Redux, in 2022. She became a Macondista in 2021. Angie's website: angietrudellvasquez.com Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.c...
Poet Jessica Sabo discusses her chapbook "A Body of Impulse"
January 18, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBJessica Sabo is a former classical ballet dancer and writer whose work focuses on the intersection between eating disorders, trauma, and sexuality. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications by 805 Lit + Art, Inklette Magazine, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among others. Her work has been anthologized with ChannelMarker Literary Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Damaged Goods Press, and is forthcoming with Quillkeepers Press. Jessica was selected as a finalist f...
Moon-inspired poetry featuring John Peter Beck, Carmine Di Biase, Nancy Cook, and Beatriz Seelaender
January 11, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature moon-inspired poetry from four wonderful poets: Nancy Cook - Moonwater John Peter Beck - Moon Carmine Di Biase - Midsummer Nut Brown Ale Beatriz Seelaender - Be Wolf The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads The moment before totalit...
Four Summers in Florida (82-83-84-85) read by James Morehead
December 21, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBTo close out the first season of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, host James Morehead reads a prose poem from his upcoming book of memoir poems, which is currently in design. The poem, “Four Summers in Florida (82-83-84-85)", is based on his experiences living alone and working as a computer programmer in Florida for four summers, starting at the age of 15. We encourage you to explore more of our first season, which includes interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist and curiosity commu...
Three poets and three poems: Nicole Farmer, Jerome Berglund, and Patricia Cannon
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBOn this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature three upcoming poets performing their poetry. Nicole Farmer - Why the girl? and Animals Jerome Berglund - Paint Chips Haiku Patricia Cannon - Solitary Song The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads shadow's play from his book canvas: ...
The importance of editors and copyeditors: an interview with Brittany Smail
December 07, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBBrittany Smail is a copyeditor and writer who helps major book publishers, corporate clients, and indie authors polish a wide range of writing, from full-length book manuscripts and poetry chapbooks to ad copy and client presentations. She holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from San Francisco State University and a professional certificate in editing from UC Berkeley Extension. James Morehead spoke with Brittany in the latest episode of The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. Britta...
The value of poetry workshops: nine poets recite original poems
November 30, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this weeks Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast nine poets who workshop and critique poetry recite their work. Each poem is also published on ViewlessWings.com. Featured poets: Dear Jack Kerouac by Constance Hanstedt Thirteen Stripes by Marie-Anne Poudret Release by Ryan McRee Frozen by Monique Rardin Richardson Old Man by Linda Drattell Salt Lick by Eunhee Soh First Night by Patricia J. Boyle Two Haiku and a Tanka by Marilyn J. Dykstra dissolving in the gallery by James Morehead Jame...