On this weeks’ episode of The Hive poetry collective on KSQD, we hear Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Danusha Lameris in conversation with some of the members of Monterey Bay’s Hummingbird Poetry Press. Guests include: Wilma Marcus Chandler, George Lober, Maggie Paul, Chuck Atkinson, and Angie Boissevain.
To see and/or order any of the books mentioned, go to the Hummingbird Press website: http://www.hummingbirdpresspoetry.com/. (Note: there’s another Hummingbird Press, which publishes an online poetry magazine, so don’t be confused.)
Host Dennis Morton welcomed guest poet Marc Zegans to The Poetry Show on KSQD radio in Santa Cruz, broadcast on Sunday, June 16, 2019. This conversation was a follow-up to Marc’s reading last Tuesday for Poetry Santa Cruz, which can be heard in the previous podcast post.
Marc’s latest work (cover image above) is titled La Commedia Sotteranea Della Machina da Scrivere – or, in English: Swizzle Felt’s First Folio from The Typewriter Underground. Marc read poems from and discussed this and several other of his published works. In addition, we got a preview of his next collection, to be published in the fall and titled The Snow Dead.
In addition to poetry, Marc Zegans is a creative development adviser, “Helping Artists, Writers, and Creative People Thrive and Shine”. Following are some links to Marc Zegans and his work:
Poetry Santa Cruz welcomed Marc Zegans to read at Bookshop Santa Cruz on June 11, 2019.
Marc Zegans
Marc Zegans is a poet, spoken word artist, and creative development advisor who helps artists, writers and creative people thrive and shine. Marc is the author of four collections of poems, The Book of Clouds, Boys in the Woods, The Underwater Typewriter, and Pillow Talk, an e-book, Intentional Practice and the Art of Finding Natural Audience, and two spoken word albums, Marker and Parker, with the late jazz pianist Don Parker, and Night Work. He has been the Narragansett Beer Poet Laureate and a Poetry Whore with the New York Poetry Brothel—which Time Out New York described as “New York’s Sexiest Literary Event,” and has performed everywhere from the Bowery Poetry Club and the American Poetry Museum to the San Francisco 40th Anniversary of Punk Rock Renaissance.
The Hive premieres a new segment, hosted by Farnaz Fatemi, called Poetry in the World. Farnaz talks with the multi-disclipinary artist, Christian Berman, about why writing poetry matters and how it informs his art practice (image courtesy Christian Berman).
Dion O’Reilly talks about Who and What she is reading. Also includes the local poetry calendar for June.
A conversation between Danusha Laméris and Jory Post. Talking about Phren-z, Santa Cruz Writes, health, illness and the prose poem. Includes Jory’s recent work.
For May 19, 2019, the first half of The Poetry Show on KSQD Santa Cruz was a pre-recorded interview of Michigan poet Robert Fanning, by host Dennis Morton. Robert read from and discussed his newest poetry collection, titled Severance, published by Salmon Poetry.
In the second half-hour, local poet Rosie King reads selections from Robert Fanning’s previous book Our Sudden Museum, and tells how she became acquainted with Robert Fanning in their native Michigan – an acquaintance that eventually brought Robert to read for Poetry Santa Cruz last Tuesday:
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 7:30 PM Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Robert Fanning is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Severance (2019), Our Sudden Museum (2017), American Prophet (2009), and The Seed Thieves (2006), as well as two chapbooks: Sheet Music (2015) and Old Bright Wheel (2002). His poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Ploughshares,Shenandoah, The Atlanta Review, and other journals. Recent work has also appeared on The Writer’s Almanac on NPR, and on the Library of Congress website for the nationally-syndicated radio program “The Poet and the Poem.” A graduate of the University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College, he is a professor of creative writing at Central Michigan University, and the founder and facilitator of the Wellspring Literary Series in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
Rosie King was born in Saginaw, Michigan, went east to Wellesley College, came west in the 60’s for graduate work, and in 1973 to UC Santa Cruz, where she taught the beginning poetry workshops while finishing her PhD dissertation. Hummingbird Press published her first book, Sweetwater, Saltwater, in 2007, and a second, Time and Peonies, in 2017. Garrison Keillor read seven of her poems on The Writer’s Almanac before it ended. When not traveling, she’s happy still to be writing in a house by the beach where poets like to meet, and to be down on her knees or reaching up in a garden of flowers, berries, fruit trees, a veggie patch, and abundance of weeds.
Celebrate the 2019 issue of Porter Gulch Review with editor David Allen Sullivan and a panel of this year’s contributors: Victoria Bañales, Jennifer Lagier, Travis DeYoung, Kate Avraham, and Robin White Turtle Lysne as they read poems from the issue.
Be sure to join poets and editors for the 2019 Porter Gulch Review launch party at the Horticulture Center at Cabrillo College on May 18th.
Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O’Reilly interview local Santa Cruz poet and songwriter, Laurence White. We hear Laurence read and sing and talk further about both.
Episode also includes a segment from The Hive called, Who Are We Reading?
In this week’s edition of The Hive poetry collective hour on KSQD-FM, Santa Cruz, host Dion O’Reilly interviewed current Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Danusha Laméris.
Danusha talks about her life, her writing, and her role as poet laureate. She reads a few poems from her first book The Moons of August and also some new ones from her second book– Bonfire Opera– which will be available in spring 2020.
