The Hive Poetry Collective

Listen to this free-wheeling conversation with acclaimed poet, memoirist, screenwriter and educator Jimmy Santiago Baca. We talk about the gift of saying 'no,' the unexpected byproducts of incarceration, his upcoming writers retreat, and hear him read several of his poems from his 50-year writing career. You can learn more about Jimmy on his website, at the Poetry Foundation, and find out about his upcoming writers retreat in Albuquerque, New Mexico here. The documentary based on his novel "A Place to Stand" can be seen on YouTube. You can also watch the film directed by Taylor Hackford, Bound by Honor, based on Jimmy's life here.

Vincent Rendoni and Dion O'Reilly engage in a wide-ranging and lively discussion of life and poetry. He reads Monica Rico's  "Poem in Consideration of My Death" from an anthology that, due to its representation of Latino life, influenced Vincent's decision to be a poet, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4, LatinNext. 

Vincent Antonio Rendoni is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, which was the winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. Previously, he was a 2022 Jack Straw Cultural Center Fellow and winner of the 2021 Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction Contest. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. His work appears in The Sycamore Review, The Texas Review, The Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Sky Island Journal, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.

Lisa is the author of two poetry collections: Stem, winner of the 2021 Idaho Prize and Guide to the Exhibit winner of the 2016 Perugia Press Prize. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Prime Number Magazine, Colorado Review and The Literary Review among other places. She is co-translator with Sara Rivera of The Blinding Star, selected poems of the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela, a book which won the 2021 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation.

Farnaz talked with Jennifer Franklin, whose third book, If Some God Shakes Your House, has just been published by Four Way Books in March 2023.  We discuss If Some God Shakes Your House, in which Franklin has “reimagined Antigone for our times--where filial devotion and ossified roles of gendered labor become the engine of her defiance.” Franklin's work is honest and riveting, and full of insight about what it means to be a woman. We discuss persona poems, writing about difficult material, ecopoetry, and more.

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Find out more about Tree Lines (Grayson Books, Edited by Jennifer Barber, Jessica Greenbaum and Fred Marchant), mentioned in the episode. 

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story  (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A proponent of collaboration, she and Maureen Seaton have co-authored five collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected,Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her nonfiction publications include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (with Julie Marie Wade, Noctuary Press, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the first Tibetan woman to publish poetry in English. She joins Julie Murphy to read new and favorite poems, as well as the poem ⁠When it rains in Dharamsala⁠ by Tenzin Tsundue. They talk about exile, impermanence, and how poems take us from image to mystery.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of the poetry books, My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday, and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley) and three chapbooks. Dhompa's first non-fiction book, Coming Home to Tibet was published in the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016 and by Penguin, India in 2014. She was born in India and raised in the Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Dhompa has a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She teaches in the English Department at Villanova University.

When it rains in Dharamsala by Tenzin Tsundue. 

Tsering Wangmo Dholpa on Intagram

Listen as Caridad reads poems from her book Tortillera, a work in three parts addressing the journey of a woman claiming her own voice. We talk about desire, the Cuban-American experience, coming out, artist Ana Mendienta...among other things. Tune in! Caridad's website is here: http://www.caridadmoro.com/about-me.html#/ You can purchase both the soft and hardcover copies of Tortillera here: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680032444/tortillera/ And you can find out about Ana Mendieta here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mendieta

Gregory Orr buzzes back into the Hive to talk with Dion O'Reilly about his newest book, Selected Books of the Beloved. We talk about John Keats's "Lines Supposed to Be Addressed to Fanny Braun," the difference between epic and lyric poetry, and the dangers of the false Beloved. 

Gregory Orr was born February 3, 1947 in Albany, New York. He grew up in the rural Hudson Valley. At the age of twelve, he was responsible for the death of a younger brother in a hunting accident, an event that powerfully influenced his ideas about trauma, silence and poetry. When he was fourteen, his family moved to Haiti, where his father worked as a doctor at the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles. The family returned to the States a year later, after his mother’s sudden death. In 1965, at the age of eighteen, he worked as a civil rights volunteer in Mississippi. During that time, he was kidnapped at gunpoint in rural Alabama and held for a week in solitary confinement in the town of Hayneville. These events of his youth form the basis of his memoir, The Blessing, which tells the story of his childhood and how he came to poetry.

The author of more than 10 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, Gregory Orr is a master of the short, personal lyric. His poetry has been widely anthologized and translated into at least 10 languages. Observes critic Hank Lazer, “From Burning the Empty Nests (1973) to the present, Orr gradually developed the ability to fuse his incredible skill at visual precision—the signature of his image-based work in his very first book—with an insistent musical quality, joining visual precision with a beauty of sound.”

In this week’s episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, Rodrigo Toscano joins Roxi Power to read work from The Charm and the Dread (Fence Books, 2022) and The Cut Point (Counterpath Press, 2023).  We hear about his work in the fields of labor organizing, as well as how his work within Latinx, New Orleans, and experimental poetry communities influence his poetics.

Jim Moore has been writing poetry for more than four decades. Before Prognosis from Graywolf in 2021, he wrote, Invisible Strings, published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. In 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the work in that book. Underground: New & Selected Poems is available now from Graywolf Press.

He has won the Minnesota Book Award for his poetry four times. Jim has received grants from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Loft Mcknight and in 2012 from the Guggenheim Foundation.  His poems have appeared three times in Pushcart Prize Editions as well as in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Harper’s The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, and Water-Stone Review.

Jim lives in Minneapolis and Spoleto, Italy with his wife the photographer JoAnn Verburg. He teaches in the Hamline University MFA Program in St. Paul, Minnesota and is often a Visiting Professor at the Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He works online individually with poets from around the country.

Jim reads and discusses one of his favorite poems, "We must Praise the Mutilated World," BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI TRANSLATED BY CLARE CAVANAGH

Editors Dustin Brookshire and Julie E. Bloemeke discuss their upcoming compilation of Dolly poems, Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology from Madville Publishing, due to be released on January 19th, 2023 on Dolly Parton's 77 th Birthday. 

Dustin and Julie attended their first Dolly concert in August 2011. Ten years later, they  joined forces to co-edit a Limp Wrist Dolly issue in 2021 to honor Dolly’s 75th birthday, and on January 19th, they will release an anthology of poems paying tribute to the great singer-songwriter and cultural icon, Dolly Parton.

Dustin and Julie  will also launch an accompanying podcast to the anthology to be available by summer 2023. Be on the lookout for their new podcast, Just Because We’re Dolly Fans.

Join Julia Chiapella in conversation with award-winning Santa Cruz poet Charles Atkinson. We talk about his recent release, New and Collected Poems, life reflected in poetry, and his clear-eyed embrace of a diagnosis of lewy body dementia. You can purchase the book at Bookshop Santa Cruz or Two Birds Books. Chuck is joined in the conversation by his wife, writer and educator Sarah Rabkin.

Ellen Bass talks about her experience having Ann Sexton as a teacher in the '70s at Boston University. Then, Francesca Bell zooms in, and we read and discuss a few of Sexton's poems. I mention Sexton's fabulous biography by Diane Middlebrook. If you are interested in reading Sexton's poems, a good place to start is her collected poems or also her selected poems.

Paola Bruni chats with Dion O'Reilly about the collaborative book, How do you Spell the Sound of Crickets, written with the late Jory Post.

Jory Post was an educator, writer, and artist who lived in Santa Cruz, California. He and his wife, Karen Wallace, created handmade books and art together as JoKa Press. Jory was the co-founder and publisher of phren-Z, an online literary quarterly, and founder of the Zoom Forward reading series.

His first book of prose poetry, The Extra Year, was published in 2019, and was followed by a second, Of Two Minds, in 2020. His novel, Pious Rebel, also appeared in 2020. His novel, Smith: An Unauthorized Fictography, was published in 2021.

His work has been published in Catamaran Literary Reader, Chicago Quarterly Review, Rumble Fish Quarterly, The Sun, and elsewhere. 

Paola Bruni is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, and winner of the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Prize judged by Ellen Bass, as well as a finalist for the Mudfish Poetry Prize.

Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Five Points Journal, Rattle, Massachusetts Review, and Catamaran Literary Reader, among others. Her short plays have been produced by Actors Theater, Santa Cruz as well as short-listed for play festivals around the globe. 

Lucian Mattison is a US-Argentinian poet and translator. He is the author of three books of poetry, Reaper's, Peregrine Nation and, most recently, Curare , just released from C&R press.

John Sibley Williams is the author of Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Book Award, 2021), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award, 2021),  As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019),  Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. He has also served as editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies, Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013) and Motionless from the Iron Bridge (barebones books, 2013).

A twenty-eight-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Laux/Millar Prize, Wabash Prize, Philip Booth Award, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Vallum Award for Poetry. Previous publishing credits include: Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, Colorado Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and various anthologies.

Listen in to New York Times best-selling author Javier Zamora read poems from his book Unaccompanied and talk about the process that led him to write the wildly popular memoir Solito. You can find copies of Unaccompanied and Solito on Amazon. Read the New York Times article about Javier here.

Join Julie Murphy as she talks with renown poet David Baker about his new book Whale Fall.  We read Stanley Plumly's In Passing and talk about the how poems are one of the most connective things we have as humans, how a lyric moment opens from the pastoral to the sublime in the midst of a story, and about the solace of poetry.  Known from his early days as a nature poet, Baker's work has evolved into Ecopoetry where nature becomes the whole subject field of the poem from his back yard in the midwest to the glaciers in Iceland to the depths of the ocean.

https://www.mattsedillo.com/

https://www.lataco.com/best-american-political-poet-matt-sedillo/

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/proletarian-poetry-returns-review-of-matt-sedillos-city-on-the-second-floor

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/i-like-you-am-made-of-stars-matt-sedillos-mowing-leaves-of-grass/

Listen to new poems from Victoria Bañales, Julia Chiapella, Farnaz Fatemi, Julie Murphy and Dion O’Reilly in this special group episode.

Join Dion O'Reilly as she chats with Gregg Shapiro about his new book Fear of Muses. We read The Skokie Theater by Edward Hirsch and talk about the power of poetry to change us, the uses of the lyric, the poet Denise Duhamel, and Shapiro's life in poetry.

Farnaz Fatemi, an Iranian American poet and member of the Hive,  reads from her debut book, Sister Tongue, that won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (selected by Tracy K. Smith). Julie Murphy and Farnaz Fatemi discuss longing, language, loss, identity and sisterhood as they weave through the remarkable poems in this collection. Farnaz's poetry and prose appear in Poets.org (Poem-a-Day), Pedestal Magazine, Grist Journal, Catamaran Literary Reader, Crab Orchard Review, SWWIM Daily, Tahoma Literary Review,Tupelo Quarterly, phren-z.org, and several anthologies (including, most recently, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and its Diaspora, My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices of the Iranian Diaspora and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me). She was awarded the Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman Fellowship by Djerassi and has been honored by the International Literary Awards (Center for Women  Writers), Poets on the Verge (Litquake SF), Best of the Net Nonfiction, and Pushcart. She is a member of the Community of Writers. Farnaz taught Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1997-2018. www.farnazfatemi.com

Listen to or read Farnaz’s poem Farnaz, selected for a Poem-a-day in March 2022 by guest editor Brenda Shaughnessy.

Gregory Orr reads from his book Last Love Poem I will Ever Write. Dion O'Reilly and Gregory Orr discuss the "threshold," the boundary between the tolerable and intolerable and how poetry crafts disorder, revealing tools to survive or, even better, to discover the Beloved. We discuss the lyric poem, the villanelle, and how moments of bliss and pain turn us into poets and lovers of poetry, bringing deeper meaning to our lives. Greg has a new book, Selected Books of the Beloved, that came out in August 2022.

For more information about the author’s books or to purchase copies, contact Naomi Helena Quiñonez at naomiquinonez@yahoo.com

 Rebecca Foust and Susan Cohen. are longtime friends and have attended the same writing group for years. In this interview with Dion O'Reilly, they both read from their new books: Susan Cohen's Democracy of Fire and Rebecca Foust's ONLY. 

Cate Kennedy chats with Dion O'Reilly and reads from her book, The Taste of Water.

Cate Kennedy is the author of two short story collections, a novel, three poetry collections and a memoir.  Her awards include the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Poetry for her collection “The Taste of River Water” (Scribe, 2011) and the NSW People’s Choice Award for her novel “The World Beneath” (Scribe 2009, published Australia, the U.S.A, the U.K, France and Hong Kong). Her short story collections are both on the Australian school syllabus as study texts.  She teaches widely both in Australia and the U.S., and has just completed her PhD in Creative Writing.

Kemi Alabi reads and discusses poems from her book Against Heaven which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Find more about Kemi on her website and at the Academy of American Poets website. Against Heaven can be purchased on Amazon.

The Things We Take With Us is available in Santa Cruz at Bad Animal Books and Bookshop Santa Cruz and by contacting him at timfitz@ucsc.edu. That way the book is free with a contribution to the Prison Arts Project at williamjamesassociation.org.

Please join poets and writers Charles Atkinson, Ellen Bass, Jack Foley, David Swanger, Hannah Sward and Ken Weisner celebrate the life and work of Santa Cruz's beloved poet Robert Sward who died this past February. Hosted by Julie Murphy, this episode includes readings and discussions of the guests' favorite poems of Robert's and their remarkable remembrances of him. Robert was a gifted poet, prolific writer, beloved friend, father and husband with a great sense of humor and deep insights. 

Francesca Bell and Dion O'Reilly read some of their favorite poets and a few of the own. She reads from her next book What Small Sound and her previous collection, Bright Stain. Dion reads from her debut collection, Ghost Dogs, and from her upcoming collection Sadness of the Apex Predator. They also read a little Maggie Smith and a few other favorites.

Journal X poets Carla Schick, Claudia Ramírez Flores, and GusTavo A. Guerra Vásquez read and discuss their poems, touching upon themes of racial oppression, jazz, homophobia, border violence, culture, ancestry, “Watsón(ville)”, and more. Journal X, also known as Xinachtli Journal, is a literary/arts magazine focusing on social justice issues. To read or submit to the journal, visit https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/.

About the poets:

Carla Schick is a Queer activist for liberation, educator and union activist, lover of jazz and language. They have worked for an education system that empowers our students. Published in SF City College’s Forum, Milvia Street, Sinister Wisdom, Earth’s Daughters, and online, at The Write Launch and A Gathering of the Tribes, they received their Certificate in Creative Writing/Poetry from Berkeley City College.

Claudia Ramírez Flores is a poet, fearless writer and Mexican immigrant who highlights crucial social issues in our world by writing about immigration, mental health, death and healing. She seeks to give a voice to the thousands of missing people in México. She has studied at Cabrillo College, UC Berkeley and Yale University.

GusTavo Adolfo Guerra Vásquez (he/him) is a multimedia artist whose work has been featured in La Raíz, Fingir, Arte Latino Now, The Coiled Serpent, and The Wandering Song. A GuatemaLAngelino, GusTavo facilitates artistic workshops on poetry and social justice through his consulting work on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility leadership. You can see his work at IDEALbridges.com or follow him on instagram as @poetartista. You can subscribe to his YouTube channel at gMeing. GusTavo lived in Santa Cruz and Watsonville during the 1990’s where he organized cultural events like “Noche de Artistas” and the “Sabor a Chocolate” art exhibit.

patrice@patricevecchione.com

For information on the Catamaran Writing Conference where Patrice will teach a nonfiction class this summer:

https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/nonfiction-with-patrice-vecchione

Many of Patrice's books can be found on Amazon, including her anthologies, writing guide books like "My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice, and her own poetry collections.

https://www.amazon.com/My-Shouting-Shattered-Whispering-Voice-ebook/dp/B07TQK8PBZ

For information on the Young Writers Program:

https://youngwriterssc.org

Joe Millar chats with Dion O'Reilly about the value of emotion and feeling in poetry. He reads from his fabulous new collection Dark Harvest.

Kelli Russell Agodon Chats with Dion O'Reilly about her newest book, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) and her previous book Hourglass Museum Finalist for the Washington State Book Award  and the Julie Suk Prize. They discuss eco-poetry and read one of Kelli's favorite poems, Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris. 

Please listen to this episode of the Hive with Rick Barot interviewed by Julie Murphy.  Rick reads a poem by Joy Harjo as well as several of his new poems. Join our conversation of poetry as elegy, the power of image and metaphor, and writing in difficult times. 

Shara McCallum reads from and discusses her book No Ruined Stone, a finalist for the 2022 Rilke Prize. Join us as we explore this riveting alternate history that spans Scotland and Jamaica, colonialism and self-determination, the literary tradition and the individual poet. Hear Shara’s wonderful stories about the making of her sensitive and searching new collection.

To order the book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/earth-my-witness-by-magdalena-montagne/

Website: https://www.poetrycirclewithmagdalena.com/

To be added to her email list for announcements and teaching schedule: magdamontagne@gmail.com

Listen in to as Shelley Wong reads from and talks about her debut collection, As She Appears, out May 10 from Yes Yes Books. Shelley talks with Farnaz Fatemi about the making of the book, building your own canon of self-love, and how poems help when the world erases or distorts. Find out why Electric Lit has called Shelley Wong "the poet-queen the world needs right now." 

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.

Ken Weisner chats with Julie Murphy about odes, owls and homages. Ken has published three volumes of poetry with Santa Cruz’s own Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010 and Cricket to Star in 2019.  Ken edits Red Wheelbarrow through De Anza College, where he also teaches. Ken coordinates, with Poetry Center San José, the annual Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize—this year’s final judge, Juan Felipe Herrera. In an earlier stage of life, Ken earned a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison, currently using remote lesson plans. Please join us to hear poems from Ken's new manuscript and a lively conversation. 

Perhaps our most appropriate guest ever on The Hive: former Santa Cruzan Erica Gillingham discusses her debut poetry chapbook, The Human Body Is a Hive, a rich collection about queer love and queer family-making. Listen to Erica read from the book and share her pursuit of telling lesbian love stories in poems, "making a baby with science," and other revealing topics. With a guest cameo from her newborn son.

For U.S. orders, check out bookdepository.org

Follow Erica on IG or Twitter @ericareadsqueer

About poet Gary Young

That's What I Thought from Persea Books

Even So: New Selected Poems from Amazon

American Journal of Poetry feature 

Precious Mirror: Poems by Kobun Chino Otogawa translated by Gary Young

Sally Ashton chats with Dion O'Reilly about prose poetry. Sally Ashton is a writer, teacher, and editor in chief of DMQ Review, an online journal of poetry and art. Publishing in three genres, she’s the author of 4 books including her latest The Behaviour of Clocks, WordFarm. She won first prize in the international Fish Flash Fiction contest and work appears inProse Poetry: An Introduction, and in A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Actually Flies: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poems. She taught at SJSU for ten years in the undergraduate creative writing and composition programs and continues to teach workshops locally, Zoom and in person. Specializing in brief forms across genres and collaborations with artists, she has also taught multi-genre workshops at Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon.

Join host Julie Murphy as she chats with Kathryn Pertuccelli about loving language and life's unexpected journeys. Kitty reads from her manuscript God of Sea. God of Salt. Her poems are full of images of the natural world, surprising turns and fresh language as they explore relationships, loss, and the deep life.

Listen to poets from the Writers of Color-Santa Cruz County Collective read & discuss their poems, touching upon themes of ancestry, culture, death, trauma, and healing. The group talks about their Día de los Muertos poetry event (Nov. 2021), during which they were targets of a racist Zoombombing. Featured poets include Sonya Pendrey, Shirley Flores-Muñoz, Claudia Ramírez Flores, Vivian Vargas, Chloe Gentile-Montgomery,  Bob Gómez, and Victoria Bañales.

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Sonya Pendrey is a soon-to-be graduate from UC Santa Cruz, who loves to hike and write. She hopes to help people and the planet through her work. Her writing is dedicated to fellow strong-minded women and her sweet pup, Lily. Instagram: @sobido

Shirley Flores-Muñoz teaches in the women’s studies and history department at Cabrillo College. She has been a champion of gender equity and has established programs that encourage and support social justice.

Claudia Ramírez Flores is a mother, poet and a Yale Writers’ Workshop Alumni. She seeks to empower her community with her stories and poetry.

Vivian Vargas is a Chicanx writer and photographer living in Santa Cruz, CA. She founded The Heidelberg Writers Group and is a member of Writers of Color-Santa Cruz County Collective. Webpage: www.writersofcolorsantacruz.org; www.vivianvargas.com; Email: info@writersofcolorsantacruz.org

Chloe Gentile-Montgomery is a Black poet and teacher based in the Bay Area. She grew up in Santa Cruz and is honored to be sharing her poetry and new book with her community. Webpage: www.chloegentilemontgomery.com/; Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChloeRGM; Twitter: @ChloeRGM

Bob Gómez, songwriter, singer, guitarist and poet, is a long-time resident of Watsonville, and worked as a Migrant and Bilingual Resource Teacher in the Pájaro Valley. He was recently named Watsonville’s first Poet Laureate.

Victoria Bañales is a Chicanx writer, teacher, mother, and activist based in Watsonville, CA. She is the editor of Journal X and a member of the Hive Poetry Collective. Webpage: www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/

Dion O'Reilly chats with Dustin Brookshire, the editor of Limp Wrist Magazine, and Denise Duhamel, his co-editor of the upcoming issue, which will feature poems about BARBIE! Listen to poems from the all-Barbie issue, including poems by Dorianne Laux, Gregg Shapiro, Caridad Moro-Granlier, and also a couple by both Denise and Dustin. The inspiration for this issue was Denise's 1997 book, Kinky--a collection of poems all about the Mattel superstar.

Award-winning poet Julia Levine joins host Julie Murphy and reads from her most recent collection of poem Ordinary Psalms. Julia's poems are full of startling images and metaphors. Please join this lively conversation about loss of vision, affliction, transformation and learning to trust.

Join host Erin Redfern as she talks with Kelly Cressio-Moeller about Kelly's first book, Shade of Blue Trees (Two Sylvias, 2021; Wilder Prize finalist). Enjoy the lush images of Kelly's poems and hear thoughts on grief and the poem as portent, train rides in Germany and her approach to form, painting and music as creative spurs, and heeding what in us "is making the most noise" to get our creative attention. 

Watsonville native & poet Olga Rosales Salinas discusses and reads from her book, La Llorona: Poetry & Prose. In this stunning collection in which La Llorona's presence looms large, Rosales Salinas tackles the violence of deportation, being first gen, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, religion, mental illness, assimilation, & more. To purchase her book, go to https://www.olgars.com/ All proceeds from book sales go to the Rosales Sisters' Scholarship, which benefits PVUSD Latinx students.

rsscholarship.com & @rosalessistersscholarship (instagram), @RosalesSistersScholarship (facebook)

olgars.com & @olgarosalessalinas (both insta/facebook) @olgitarosales (twitter)

Dion O'Reilly interviews Susan Browne, who reads new poems and old ones from her book Just Living. They talk about Jim Moore's poem, "Whatever Else," a poem that studies  the lyric beauty in a difficult world. She quotes Robert Hass who says, "Every line of your poem needs something interesting in it." Obviously true! But just try to do it!

Yeats The Second Coming

Marie Howe What The Silence Said

Sharon Olds A Song Near the End of the World 

Roger Reeves For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning

Jessica Jacobs: In the Village of My Body, Two People appeared in Copper Nickel, Issue 33

Ellen Bass How to Apologize  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/how-to-apologize

Jim Harrison Bridge

Jessica Jacob's website

SunJune Literary Collaborative

Free SunJune generative writing sessions

Dion O'Reilly talks with Michael Kleber-Diggs about his new collection of poems, Worldly Things.

Come spend time with Leonora Simonovis and our new favorite poetry book, Study of the Raft, which won the 2021 Colorado Prize and was published November 2021.  Hear the poet read poems which explore what it means to be exiled from a place and culture, and also what she carries with her—fiercely and lovingly.

Buy Study of the Raft here.

photo: IG @meterphoto

Victoria Bañales interviews poet Violeta Orozco, who discusses and reads from her forthcoming book, The Broken Woman Diaries. Violeta's poems are a bold exploration of love, loss, displacement, and dismemberment, and the ways in which broken bodies can be healed and stitched back together.  

Violeta Orozco is a bilingual author and spoken word artist from Mexico City. The Broken Woman Diaries is her third book and debut full-length poetry collection in English.

Violeta Orozco:

Instagram: @vletra

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/florpurpura.azul

 Poet, translator, essayist, editor, and journalist Stephen Kessler returns to the Hive to chat with Dion O'Reilly. They read from his new book, Last Call and also a poem by the author Jack Gilbert.

In this week's episode, Jessica Cohn and Nancy Miller Gomez join host Farnaz Fatemi in the Hive to read new work and talk about their poetry lives. We hear about the extraordinary Santa Cruz poetry community, and about finding joy during the pandemic, facing self-doubt. Above all, we hear some fantastic poems. 

(In individual segments: Jessica Cohn, part 1 and Nancy Miller Gomez part 2.)

David Sullivan

Agents of Change Project

Bookshop Santa Cruz

Dion O'Reilly interviews Donika Kelly about her recently published collection, The Renunciations. Donika also reads "The Animal Spell" by Zachary Schomburg, one of her favorite poets. 

Join Farnaz Fatemi for this week’s very special show with the two poet-translators of just-published The Blinding Star (Tolsun Books), poems by the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela. Talk with and hear Sara Daniele Rivera and Lisa Allen Ortiz read Varela’s poems in both the original Spanish and their English translations. It’s a ride through the inner life of this wildly contemporary poet.

https://tolsunbooks.com/shop/the-blinding-star

Dion O'Reilly interviews Diane Seuss about her fabulous new book Frank: Sonnets. Diane also reads a poem by the poet Frank O'Hara--an inspiration behind her book.

July Westhale

Linda Gregg

www.greenlindenpress.com

Christopher Nelson 

Armen Davoudian

Farnaz Fatemi

Persis Karim

In this conversation I talk to the poet, Katerina Canyon about her work and inspiration for her upcoming book: Surviving Home. Hear her read and few poems and be just as moved as I was. For more information about Katerina or to buy her book: https://www.poetickat.com

S3:E24 Dion O'Reilly interviews Los Angeles poet laureate, Lynne Thompson.

Julie Murphy interviews Laure-Anne Bosselar. They talk about love, loss, and longing for authenticity. Laure-Anne reads poems from her recent book These Many Rooms and talks about upcoming classes.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar Website

Laure-Ann Bosselaar - Academy of American Poets

Laure-Anne's Books at Four Way Books

SUNJUNE Collaborative

Adela Najarro is the author of three poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over and My Childrens, a chapbook that includes teaching resources. With My Childrens she hopes to bring poetry into the classroom so that students can explore creative writing, identity, and what it means to be Latinx in US society. Every spring semester, she teaches a “Poetry for the People,” workshop at Cabrillo College where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word. More information about Adela can be found at her website: www.adelanajarro.com.

Círculo de poetas & Writers: Sign up for Círculo's 2021 online (Zoom) conference: Sat, August 14th, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm. Writing workshops, friendship, and open mic. Go to https://circulowriters.com/ to register.

Links to videos of five poems from My Childrens:

My Childrens

Lorca's Rain

Las Mujeres

Chicanos in a Museum

An Ambiguity

S3:E21: Dion O'Reilly interviews Carl Phillips. They talk about regret, college reunions, Henry James, and Carl's latest book Pale Colors in a Tall Field. He also reads one of his favorite poems by Li Po and references the song "Wild is the Wind," the title of which he borrowed for the name of one of his books (Wild is the Wind). 

Farnaz Fatemi and Erin Redfern hear and talk to Jen Siraganian about her poems and her work with various poetry organizations. 

Jen is the newly appointed Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. She is a writer, educator, and literary organizer. She has served as Managing Director for Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, been nominated for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, earned scholarships from Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and authored a poetry chapbook titled “Fracture.” Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Cream City Review, Mid-American Review, Smartish Pace, Barrow Street, Southwest Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, and other literary journals and anthologies.

https://jensiraganian.com

https://www.losgatosca.gov/2298/Poet-Laureate

Dane reads from his new book The World Is God’s Language and the poem “Origin" by Sarah Lindsey.  

 Dion O'Reilly interviews Guggenheim Fellow Mark Wunderlich. He reads a poem by his friend and mentor Lucie Brock-Broido. He reads a poem by his friend and mentor Lucie-Brock Broido and from his latest book God of Nothingness

https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/

http://writersofcolorsantacruz.org/

Nikia Chaney is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). She has served as Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018). She is founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for experimental poetry, and founding editor of Jamii Publishing, a publishing imprint dedicated to fostering community service among poets and writers. She has been published in the Portland Review, Welter, Vinyl, Saranac Review, Kweli, 491, and Apogee. She teaches at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz.

http://www.nikiachaney.com

Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Avatar Review, I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, Perceptions Magazine, phren-Z and The Wax Paper. She is the retired director of the Young Writers Program, which she established in 2012, opening an after-school writing lab and adjacent gallery at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. She received the Gail Rich Award in 2017 for creative contributions to Santa Cruz County.

Farnaz Fatemi’s manuscript, Sister Tongue, was a finalist for the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and the Catamaran Literary Reader Poetry Prize, and is out in the world finding its long-term home. You can find her work in several anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, and numerous journals. Farnaz taught Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for over 20 years.

http://www.farnazfatemi.com

Julie Murphy’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Buddhist Poetry Review, CALYX, Massachusetts Review, The Louisville Review, and The New Ohio Review Online among other journals and anthologies. A licensed psychotherapist, Julie developed Embodied Writing™. She hosts radio programs for the Hive Poetry Collective on KSQD. She is a founding member of the Right to Write Press and teaches poetry, as a volunteer, at Salinas Valley State Prison. Julie lives in Santa Cruz County, California.

www.juliemurphy.org

Dion O'Reilly’s prize-winning debut book, Ghost Dogs, was published in February 2020 by Terrapin Books. Her work appears in American Journal of Poetry, Cincinnati Review, Narrative, The New Ohio Review, The Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Rattle, The Sun, and other literary journals and anthologies. She teaches ongoing workshops on Zoom, and soon, maybe, in her artsy messy house.

dionoreilly.wordpress.com

https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/

email: xinachtlijournal@gmail.com

Victoria Bañales

http://writersofcolorsantacruz.org/

Josslyn Glenn:

Facebook: Josslyn Glenn

Twitter: Funky_Nurd

Email: josslyn.glenn@gmail.com

Nickole Brown's Website

SunJune Literary Collaborative

Dion O'Reilly interviews the poet Erin Belieu. Erin reads from her new book Come Hither Honeycomb. She also reads and discusses the poem "Kindly," by Ashley Capps.

Julia Chiapella interviews this year's county contestants in the Poetry Out Loud competition. Hear our local high school students' experiences and listen to the poems they selected to be recited at the event. 

Ellen Bass' Website

Buy Ellen's books here.

Dion O'Reilly chats with Leah Naomi Green about her recent award--The Lucille Clifton Award. They also read from her new book, The More Extravagant Feast, winner of the Walt Whitman Award. Hear the recorded Lucille Clifton Award event here (with Li-Young Lee). 

Listen in to hear Vanessa Angélica Villareal read from her poems and talk deeply and passionately about the development of her book, Beast Meridian. We were moved by her rigorous, precise, and poetic mind and we know you will be too. If you’ve already read Beast Meridian, you will love hearing Villareal dive into portions of it. If you haven’t yet, you’re going to want to.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination,  and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellow, and has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, The Boston Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. She is working on a poetry and essay collection while raising her son in Los Angeles.

http://vanessaangelicavillarreal.com/

Purchase: http://vanessaangelicavillarreal.com/shop/beast-meridian

Dion O'Reilly interviews author, editor, and translator  Zack Rogow. He reads from his new book Irreverent Litanies.

Dion O'Reilly chats with a new member of The Hive Poetry Collective, Nikia Chaney. We talk about her poetry and the new African-American literature class she is teaching at Cabrillo. We read some Ross Gay and Lucille Clifton. 

Dion O'Reilly interviews Robert Stewart, long-time editor of New Letters, about his career as a writer and editor. He reads from his new book Working Class.

Natalie Diaz

Jack Gilbert

Tim Seibles

Beth Ann Fennelly

Dorothy Parker

Robert Wrigley

Dorianne Laux

S3: E4 Dion O'Reilly interviews Alison Luterman about her new book In the Time of Great Fires.

Poets read their poems about fire and talk to host Farnaz Fatemi about writing them. With Lisa Ortiz, Carmen Fought, Terri Drake, Nicelle Davis, Maggie Paul, Roxi Power Hamilton, and Charles Atkinson. Let us know what you think at https://hivepoetry.org

Lisa Allen Ortiz

https://lisaallenortiz.com

Mychorrhiza:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html

Bonny Doon video with Lisa’s poem:

https://www.facebook.com/100000462274944/videos/4903937866298241/

Carmen Fought can be reached at: cfought@pitzer.edu

Maggie Paul

https://maggiepaulpoetry.com

Nicelle Davis

http://www.nicelledavis.net

Terri Drake’s poetry collection is called At The Seams, published by Bear Star Press

Charles Atkinson can be reached at atkinson@ucsc.edu

Roxi Power can be reached at roxipower@ucsc.edu

The Visitant by Kim Scheiblauer.  Published soon by Hummingbird Press

Dion O'Reilly interviews Santa Cruz poet, translator, and journalist Stephen Kessler.

The Poetry Project's New Year's Day Marathon:
https://www.poetryproject.org/marathon

Archival audio recording of Tim Dlugos provided by PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dlugos.php

New York Diary by Tim Dlugos forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in January: https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/

Background audio track:
"Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

To stay connected with the Hive Poetry Collective, you can visit hivepoetry.org

Dion O'Reilly interviews prolific poet Alexis Rhone Fancher about her many books and current projects.

Dion O'Reilly talks with poet Francesca Bell about her life in poetry and her new book, the prize winning Bright Stain. 

Farnaz Fatemi and Lisa Allen Ortiz celebrate the political work that poetry can do. In the shadow of our recent election, they read poems by Rick Barot, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Gary Copeland Lilley; they also discuss Farnaz’ own work and parse out what it means to define a poem as political.

Grabbed: Writers and Poets on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing edited by Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, and  Elisa Albo

Grabbed Website

Ellen Bass

Cynthia White

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 20th Anniversary Edition by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

I Never Told Anyone by Ellen Bass

Award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker will be the featured guest at the 11th annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, which takes place this year as a virtual event on November 12. Danusha Lameris and Dion O'Reilly dive deep into Morgan Parker's poetry.

The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading is held each year to honor poet, teacher, film critic, and Santa Cruz cultural icon Morton Marcus (1936-2009). It was created to continue Marcus’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County, to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in the community's history, and to help preserve poetry's influence in the county's culture.

This community event is presented by the The Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Cabrillo College English Department, Cowell College, the Living Writers Series, Ow Family Properties, Poetry Santa Cruz, the Porter Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund, and Porter College.

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.

Rob Fisher Website

Ting Ting   Website (in Mandarin)

Ellen Bass: If You Knew

The Hakomi Institute of California

The Hakomi Institute of China

University of Georgia Press, Fractal Shores.

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357904/fractal-shores/

https://www.dianehlouie.com/work

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.

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

Dion O'Reilly talks with poet Cynthia White and fellow Bee Julie Murphy about our favorite poems. We read Diane Seuss, Lucille Clifton, Robert Frost, Tracy K. Smith, and Frank Gaspar.

Maggie Paul  Website    Facebook:

Cynthia White  Facebook:

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

A conversation between the beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye and Danusha Laméris at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, marking the occasion of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Bay Area poet Meryl Natchez. You can find her newest book Catwalk right HERE.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Seattle poet, editor, and teacher Jeanne Morel.  You can find her newest chapbook HERE. 

The Hive was thrilled to host Armen Davoudian and hear poems from his forthcoming book, Frost Place Chapbook contest winner Swan Song (Bull City Press). Farnaz Fatemi talked to Armen about translation as metaphor, James Merrill, listening to poems in foreign tongues, growing up Armenian in Isfahan, and how "the sonnet is perfectly engineered to talk about immigration.”

"Alibi" (in The Offing)

"Wake-Up Call" (Poetry Daily)

“We Were Happy During the War” appears in Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky.  “Crabs” appears in Telling the Bees, by Faith Shearin. “From Blossoms” appears in  Rose by Li-Young Lee.   “First Blues” appears in Disappearing Act by Saundra Rose Maley.  “After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard” appears in Chickamauga  by Charles Wright.  “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay. “How Batteries Work” by Lisa Allen Ortiz.

Dion O'Reilly talks with San Jose poet Erin Redfern. 

Dion O'Reilly talks with fellow Terrapin Books poets Kory Wells and David Graham.

Find information on Kory here:

https://korywells.com/

on Wells's writing with incarcerated women:

https://boropulse.com/2018/10/inmates-write-of-hard-times-and-hope/

and Wells's NPM videos mentioned in our conversation:

https://korywells.com/npm2020/

For information on David Graham:

Graham's website: www.davidgrahampoet.com

Graham's column "Poetic License" accessible through the Verse-Virtual homepage: http://www.verse-virtual.org/

Graham's Instagram: www.instagram.com/doctorjazz/

https://williamjamesassociation.org/prison_arts/\

William James Foundation

Newsom’s proposal (before the Corona Virus hit!)

http://arts.ca.gov/news/prdetail.php?id=295

Lobby these people:

https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sub5publicsafety

Great local Advocate for Arts in corrections: Assemblyman Mark Stone (who is on the arts committee)

https://a29.asmdc.org/

California Lawyers for the Arts (instrumental in advocacy for arts in corrections

https://www.calawyersforthearts.org/

Another great rehabilitative program to support:

https://avpcalifornia.org/

Proven tio reduce recidivism, waiting lists for workshops

Started by Quakers after Attica, great curriculum, led by outside facilitators and experienced inmates

Here’s the National Site for AVP:

https://avpusa.org/

Literature:

Red Wheelbarrow:

De Anza College literary journal pub wishes both a student edition and a national edition annually.

Work by inmates is featured each issue alongside work of poets & writers from around the region and the country.

https://www.deanza.edu/english/creative-writing/red-wheelbarrow.html/

https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/red_wheelbarrow

Right to Write Press:

Publishes limited edition chapbooks by prisoners for their families, friends

https://righttowritepress.org/

Chapbooks:

Scroungy by Joseph Weldin

https://smile.amazon.com/SCROUNGY-Joseph-Weldin/dp/1090962533/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=scroungy&qid=1587105625&s=books&sr=1-1

Baca Films:

A Place to Stand directed by Daniel Glick

https://aplacetostandmovie.com/

Bill Moyers Language of Life

https://billmoyers.com/series/the-language-of-life-with-bill-moyers-1995/

Shabnam Piryaei

Forrugh Farrokhzad translated by Sholeh Wolpe

The Captive Bird by Jazmin Darznik

Revolutionary Letter #1 by Diane diPrima

New and Selected poems Cecilia Vicuña

Intervenir/Intervene. Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez, trans. from the Spanish by Jen Hofer.

Zoom Forward! Reading Series

Catamaran Literary Reader Events

Danusha Lameris and Armando Alcarez read from Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness edited by James Crews.

Dion O'Reilly interviews the prolific poet, Paul Hostovsky. We talk about deafness, blindness, harmonica playing, cocoanuts, and, of course, poetry. Learn more about Paul at: http://www.paulhostovsky.com/

Dion O'Reilly interviews Ken Weisner, De Anza College Community College English teacher and editor of Red Wheelbarrow, the DeAnza literary journal. He coordinates, with Poetry Center San José to hold the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. For fifteen years, Ken edited Quarry West out of Porter College, UCSC. Ken has published three  volumes of his own poetry with Santa Cruz’s Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010. and his most recent, Cricket to Star Ken’s poems have appeared most recently in Perfume River Poetry Review, Catamaran, Caesura, Nine Mile, Porter Gulch Review, and Phren-Z. Ken also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison.

Woman, Native, Other by Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Cecilia Vicuña (Language is Migrant)

Roland Barthes "I like, I don’t like"

Roberto Bolaño Antwerp

Bolaño quotes https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/7350263-amberes

Nicanor Parra  AntiPoems

Facebook

Twitter  @kerrinmccadden

Los Angeles Review

Keep This to Yourself:

Button Poetry

Amazon

Addiction & Substance Use Disorder Resources:

Websites:

santacruzhealth.org

www.samhsa.gov

24 hour Help Line:

1-800-662-HELP

You can stay updated with the Hive Poetry Collective at our website: hivepoetry.org or look for the Hive Poetry Collective on Facebook and Twitter. You can check out other programming at KSQD by going online to ksqd.org or tuning in to 90.7FM in Santa Cruz.

Northern California poet Rebecca Foust Skypes into the Hive to join host Dion O’Reilly for a conversation. Find her chapbook Unexploded Ordnance Bin HERE.

On Being

Ellen Bass: Truth and Beauty with Marie Howe

Two Sylvias Press

Li Young Lee

Dion O'Reilly talks with poet David Sullivan about his long poem, "Nightjars," about the friendship between an Iraqi interpreter and a US soldier. With Arabic speaker, Aisha Charves, David reads a section from the opening of the poem.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Finn V. Gratton, LMFT about their poetry, their work as a somatic psychotherapist, and their book, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults.

Danusha Laméris talks to Dion O'Reilly about her new book, Ghost Dogs which is  available for pre-order from Bookshop Santa Cruz also available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

The rainy night conversation includes tasty tidbits about compost piles, waking up with a new face, and the parables of Jesus Christ!

Learn more about Dion O'Reilly, including upcoming appearances and  ongoing workshops at her website.

For the Taking, Linda Gregerson

Crush, Richard Siken

BBHMM, Tiana Clark

Aubade with Burning City, Ocean Vuong

Dion O'Reilly interviews poet Cynthia Neely and reviews John McCarthy's amazing collection of poems, Scared Violent Like Horses. 

Find Cynthia Neely 's book HERE. 

Find information on John McCarthy HERE. 

Find McCarthy's Scared Violent like Horses HERE. 

http://www.wordwoman.ws

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patricia-smith

The first in a series, Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Danusha Laméris and poet Dion O’Reilly host a show featuring poems about Santa Cruz. Included is work from Ellen Bass, Joseph Stroud, Gary Young and also a few written by the hosts.

Events:
Joseph Stroud’s book launch for his latest collection Everything That Rises will be December 8th, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the beautiful Cabrillo College Horticulture Center.

Also, the Patricia Smith reading is on December 8th, 2019 7:00pm at MAH. For information and to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/patricia-smith-at-the-mah-december-8-tickets-77655350243?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Learn more about the Willing Suspension Armchair Theater HERE.

Learn more about Edgar Allen Poe HERE.

Didi Jackson https://poets.org/poem/fall-1

Emily Jungmin Moon https://poets.org/poem/between-autumn-equinox-and-winter-solstice-today

Emily Dickinson https://poets.org/poem/besides-autumn-poets-sing-131

Bad Animal Books

Edgar Kunz, Tap Out

Danusha Laméris and Armando Alcaraz in conversation with the poet Zubair Ahmed. We learn about his journey here from Bangladesh and about poetry as saving grace. Find his work at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/zubair-ahmed.

https://www.amazon.com/Constellation-Kisses-Diane-Lockward/dp/1947896172 

Dion O'Reilly interviews poet and publisher Diane Lockward about her poetry, Terrapin Books, and the anthology Constellation of Kisses. Find out more about Diane Lockward and read her poems here: http://www.dianelockward.com/

Learn about Terrapin Books here: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/

Dion O'Reilly interviews San Francisco poet, teacher, and bee keeper Amanda Moore. Find out more about Amanda and read more of her wonderful work at https://amandapmoore.com/about.

More about Raja can be found on Instagram: @rajafeatherkelly, and at: http://thefeath3rtheory.com/

Dion O’Reilly interviews Julia Chiapella of The Young Writers Program, a program sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Office of Education which brings poetry to 4th-12th graders in Santa Cruz City Schools. Three students and a teacher speak passionately on the benefits of poetry for school age children. Find more about this program including how to volunteer at https://youngwriterssc.org

Dion O’Reilly interviews Julia Levine. Julia B. Levine has won numerous awards for her work, including the Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight.  She has three other books: Ditch Tender, Ask, and Practicing for Heaven. She received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. She lives and works in Davis,California.

Also, Farnaz Fatemi reads from Flèche by Mary Jean Chan and Halal If You Hear Me: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3, edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

http://maryruefle.com
https://marniebriggs.com

Marnie Briggs on Instagram: @mar_nie

Find more about Christian at http://www.cruizberman.com and @cruizberman 

Beloved Palo Alto poet Esther Kamkar joins Lisa Allen Ortiz and the Hive Poetry Collective this Sunday at 8pm on KSQD 90.7, Santa Cruz. Esther will read from her new book "of such things." 

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.

Lisa Allen Ortiz hosts this episode of The Hive.

·  https://shallowdiverecords.bandcamp.com/track/homesick-- this is the track you heard on our show. 

·  https://chaoticfutch.bandcamp.com/releases--this is the “bedroom EP” Laurence refers to. 

More info on Word Church can be found here

Farnaz mentioned a movie which takes place at Transylvania U in Kentucky. It is American Animals.

In the “Who Are We Reading” segment: 

Dion read from Ploughshares; she also mentioned New Ohio Reviewand New England Review.

Farnaz read from Halal If You Hear Me: Breakbeat Poets vol 3, newly released. 

Poetry Calendar: 

Monday, May 6 @ Word Church: Billy Butler, Featured Poet

Thursday, May 9 @ Peace United: Brenda Shaughnessy and Ellen Bass

As part of our Community Outreach Series, we meet Watsonville-based poet, writer, and teacher Christopher Soriano who speaks to us about his life and work. Find him on Instagram and Twitter @chsoripalma and at christophersorianowrites.wordpress.com

Episode Hosts: Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O'Reilly