Poetry Spoken Here

Nico Amador reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at El Aleatorio in Madrid Spain. Last week’s episode featured Vermont’s new poet laureate, Mary Reufle. Today, we have a reading from another Vermont poet, Nico Amador. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and many other publications. His 2017 chapbook Flower Wars from Newfound Press won the Anzaldua Poetry Prize. Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Mary Ruefle, the newly appointed poet laureate of Vermont, reads from her latest book "Dunce," discusses the importance of ancient Chinese poets to her work, and the influence being a child in a military family had on her. You can buy "Dunce" here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Maria Mazziotti Gillan reads poems about family and loss. She also discusses some of her many poetry outreach efforts in Paterson, NJ and beyond. In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter reviews David Graham's (PSH guest on episode 56)new book, "The Honey of Earth." Find "The Honey of Earth" here: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/newmdashthe-honey-of-earth-by-david-graham.html Hear David's episode of PSH, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-056-david-graham-and-the-2016-vida-count Hear Maria talk explicitly about the family connections in her work in our Thanksgiving episode from 2016 "The Poetry of Family and Home": https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-011-the-poetry-of-family-and-home-special-episode Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Shara Lessley reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at El Aleatorio in Madrid Spain. Shara Lessley is the author of "Two Headed Nightingale" and, the book she reads from in this episode, "The Explosive Expert’s Wife." Lessley was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review among many others. Learn more about Shara Lessley, here: http://www.sharalessley.com/ Purchase "The Explosive Expert's Wife" here: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5701.htm Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Translator of ancient Chinese poetry, Red Pine (aka Bill Porter), discusses and reads translations of the poetry of Hanshan. He also describes his trips to China in search of contemporary hermits. Listen to part one of this interview, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-105-red-pine-pt-1-stonehouse Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Translator of ancient Chinese poetry, Red Pine (aka Bill Porter), discusses the process of translation which he says is like a dance. He also reads from the work of Stonehouse, a poet he discovered. Listen to part two of this interview, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-106-red-pine-pt-2-hanshan-and-hermits Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

American Book Award winner Jimmy Santiago Baca, talks poetry, borders, and the pursuit of truth. He also reads from his new book, "When I Walk Through That Door, I Am" released in February 2019 from Penguin Random House. Get "When I Walk Through That Door, I Am" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607534/when-i-walk-through-that-door-i-am-by-jimmy-santiago-baca/9780807059357/ Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Octavio Quintanilla reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature in Madrid Spain. Octavio Quintanilla is currently the poet laureate of San Antonia Texas. He is the author of the 2014 collection "If I Go Missing." In addition to writing poetry and fiction he is also a photographer. His work has appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwestern American Literature, and The Texas Observer. “Frontexto: A Return Home” an exhibit incorporating his poetry and sketches was displayed at The Weslaco Museum. Purchase "If I Go Missing" here: https://www.amazon.com/If-Go-Missing-Octavio-Quintanilla/dp/0941720357 Learn more about Desperate Literature, here: desperateliterature.com Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Campbell McGrath Reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. This reading was recorded at Desperate Literature in Madrid Spain. Campbell McGrath has won a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grand a Guggenheim fellowship a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of many books of poetry. His most recent, Nouns and Verbs: New and Selected Poems was released earlier this year from Ecco Press. Buy Nouns & Verbs, here: https://www.amazon.com/Nouns-Verbs-New-Selected-Poems/dp/0062854143 Learn more about Desperate Literature, here: https://desperateliterature.com Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Poet and singer/songwriter Lynn Patrick Smith from Madison, Wisconsin talks about his favorite poets, discusses the different ways he approaches poetics and songwriting, and even mentions Warren Zevon. Smith is part of the Minds Eye Radio Collective and has two books out with Fireweed Press. Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

EPISODE 100!!! Jericho Brown reading at the Unamuno Author Festival. The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. Jericho Brown has won a Guggenheim fellowship, invented a poetic form, and had his poems featured in The Bennington Review, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review among others. His latest collection The Tradition was released earlier this year to wide praise. This reading was part of an evening celebrating of the 25th anniversary of the Civitella Ranieri retreat program. Buy The Tradition, here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B138DF245-5792-4F5D-A2BA-6A4D6BC663B1%7D Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Wisconsin poet Robin Chapman shares her poetry and talks about writing in Banff. In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter offers a remembrance of Richard Roe who recently passed. Find her book, "The Only Home We Know" here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939678577/the-only-home-we-know.aspx Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Our first episode featuring a reading from the Unamuno Author Festival! The festival took place earlier this year in Madrid, Spain. Molly McCully Brown is the author of "The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded" which was named a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017. She has a book of essays and a collaborative book of poetry coming in 2020 from Persea Books. This reading was part of an evening celebrating of the 25th anniversary of the Civitella Ranieri retreat program. Learn more about (and buy!) The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded, here: https://www.perseabooks.com/virginia-state-colony-for-epileptics-and-feebleminded Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Mary Kathryn Jablonski reads from her new book Sugar Maker Moon from Dos Madres Press. In the second part of the show we announce that Poetry Spoken Here will be going WEEKLY thanks to reading recorded at the first Unamuno Author Festival held in Madrid, Spain. You can find Sugar Maker Moon, here: https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/sugar-maker-moon-by-mary-kathryn-jablonski/ Learn more about the Unamuno Author Festival and see the list of poets who read, here: https://unamunoauthors.com/festival-2019/ Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Len Lawson from South Carolina reads unflinching poems from his new book, Chime. In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter reviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s new novel, Little Boy. Learn more about Len Lawson, here: https://www.lenlawson.co/ Find his book, Chime, here: https://www.getfreshbooksllc.com/online-store2.html#!/Chime-Poems-by-Len-Lawson/p/129650939/category=0 Find Little Boy, here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602500/little-boy-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti/9780385544788/ Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

This episode features contemporary American poets (Sam Hamill, David Budbill, and others) writing in the style of the classical Chinese masters. Their poems are collected in the anthology "In the Spirit of Tao Chien." Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Paul Pines passed away last year, but he’s the feature of this podcast through the assistance of Albany poet, Dan Wilcox. Dan discusses his relationship with Paul, talks about Paul's life, and reads from Paul's work. Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Andrew Shaw from Port Townsend, Washington reads from "Couplets" and talks about his Silent Academy project. Host, Charlie Rossiter reviews former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser’s new book, Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems. Find out more about the Silent Academy, here: https://www.silentacademy.com/?v=7516fd43adaa Find Ted Kooser's book, here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B65277AB5-A189-41F2-905A-A42A3527C241%7D Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

LN Bethea from far northern Vermont shares her slam style poems and talks about writing poems without writing them down. Host Charlie Rossiter reviews The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter and writer. Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com

Catherine Pikula discusses her poetic process and the issue of whether or not poetry makes enough of a difference. Host Charlie Rossiter talks about PoemCity, a unique community-wide, poetry month celebration. Visit our website: www.poetryspokenhere.com Like us on facebook: facebook.com/PoetrySpokenHere Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/poseyspokenhere (@poseyspokenhere) Send us an e-mail: poetryspokenhere@gmail.com