The Poetry Show

Host Dennis Morton reads poetry from Tilly Washburn Shaw, Molly Peacock, Charles Simic, and others.

This episode of The Poetry Show was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

Danusha Lameris and Dion O’Reilly talk about the poetry of Morgan Parker, in a preview of this week’s Morton Marcus Memorial reading, with Parker as featured reader.

Listen to the podcast here.

This episode of The Hive was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

Dion O’Reilly interviews fellow Terrapin Poets Karen Holmes and Ann Fisher-Wirth. We hear a few poems from their books, The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth and No Such Things as Distance, by Karen Holmes. 

Listen HERE.

This episode of The Hive was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

For this episode of The Poetry Show on KSQD, host Dennis Morton read a selection of contemporary poetry from various authors.

This episode of The Poetry Show was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz’s own Diane Louie joins Farnaz Fatemi from her home in Paris, France, to talk about and read from her new book (October 2020) from University of Georgia Press, Fractal Shores. Fractal Shores is a winner in the National Poetry Series. Louie is a long time resident of Santa Cruz and now Paris. 
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357904/fractal-shores/
https://www.dianehlouie.com/work

Hear the podcast at: https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S2-E28-Diana-Louie–National-Poetry-Series-winner-for-Fractal-Shores-el0icp

This episode of The Hive was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

Dion O’Reilly interviews poet Elaine Nussbaum, who reads from her latest book Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest. She talks about her teacher, Allen Ginsberg, and her experience on the Great Peace March.

Listen to the podcast:
https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S2-E27-Dion-OReilly-interviews-poet-Elaine-Nussbaum-ekl6j7

This episode of The Hive was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

Julie Murphy interviewed award-winning poet Traci Brimhall. Traci read poems from her new book Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press), and shared her thoughts about love, vulnerability, death and writing. 

Links:
Traci Brimhall
Poetry Foundation
Bookshop Santa Cruz

Listen to the podcast at:
https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S2E26-Julie-Murphy-Interviews-Traci-Brimhall-ekbvbu

Season 2, Episode 26 of The Hive aired on KSQD Santa Cruz.  

Host Dennis Morton read an eclectic mix of favorite poems.

This episode of The Poetry Show was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

Farnaz Fatemi talks to Hive members Billy Butler and Dion O’Reilly about “Poetry in What Seem Like End Times”. Listen in to conversation about the 2020 election, hair product, facing uncertainty, friendship, and more.

• Billy Butler read from his essay, the Finer Points of Being an Anxious Person When Bad Things Happen, https://thebolditalic.com/what-you-have-when-you-may-lose-everything-2efa304c827c
• Dion O’Reilly read a poem soon to appear in Anti-Heroin Chic,http://heroinchic.weebly.com
• Poets/Poems mentioned in the show
  • William Bronk https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-bronk
  • Francine J Harris https://poets.org/poet/francine-j-harris
  • Keith Wilson Ode to the Police https://aprweb.org/poems/ode-to-the-police4
  • Pamela Hart American Mother https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2020/05/15/385-american-mother?fbclid=IwAR05La9QntqdGs2f0585kk20c3zhrk7oxZ3s5DUmyTzLLudGUZZyoRvo4Qs
    

Listen to the podcast at: https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S2-E25-Poetry-for-the-Seeming-End-Times-ejpbl9

This episode of The Hive was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.

In these sad and broken days, let’s not forget delight and what it’s made of— rage and rapture.
Lisa Allen Ortiz hosts an episode of PROSETRY on the Hive that celebrates Ross Gay’s poetry and prose and features Gay reading excerpts from his Book of Delights. Buzz in for a listen and discover that joy is powerful medicine.

Listen to the podcast at:
https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/ej8on9

This episode of The Hive was broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz.