Read: "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" (The Sun) Purchase: No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). Her…

Read: "Dream, with an interior" in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase: World's End (ARP Books, 2023) and groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares…

Read: Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve" Purchase: Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024) Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (forthcoming February 2024) …

Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cotton Xenomorph, Whisk(e)y Tit, Kicking Your Ass, Cracked.com, and elsewhere. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is ½ of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels. You can find more Chris on…

Read: Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's "Larks"(Up the Staircase Quarterly) Purchase: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-…

Read: "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey Mag Purchase: A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024) Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press, 2…

Read: "A Poem for Retired Lighthouses," Little Blue Marble Purchase: And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (Ethel Zine Press, 2023) Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Their poetry chapbooks, And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for …

Read: Neutral Spaces, for more of Tom Snarsky's poetry Purchase: Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). He lives in the m…

Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020 Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appe…

Read: "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.org Purchase: Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023) Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Dear Memphis, their debut collection of poems, will be published by River River Books in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepe…

Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature. Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Disappearance, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concr…

Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in Scalawag Purchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020). Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fe…

Read: "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn Quarterly Purchase: Flutter, Kick by Anna V. Q. Ross (Red Hen Press, 2022) Anna V.Q. Ross's previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press);…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry Daily Purchase: An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) Lauren Mukamal Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate, is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2…

Read: "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion Review. Purchase: Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023) Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or will appear in Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, I-70 Review, Cagibi, Appalachian Revie…

Purchase: Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine Rockwood Moira J Saucer is a disabled poet living in the Alabama Wiregrass. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her worked has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United State…

Read: Read "Eucharist" in Diagram Purchase: Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point Press Jason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & (Belle Point Press, 2023) and A Place for the Genuine (Eerdmans, 2024). Myers is a National Poetry Series finalist and has published poetry and essays in The Believer, Image, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Paris Review, and n…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock) Purchase: motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023) Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Call…

Read: "Psychology for Black Folk" at Jasper Project Purchase: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023) Len Lawson is author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also co-editor of The Future of …

Read: “put ur phone down for a sec” from night mode in Blush Lit Purchase: night mode (Everybody Press, 2023) Caelan Ernest is a poet and a performer. They are the author of two forthcoming collections: night mode and ICONOCLAST, being published in 2023 and 2024 respectively by Everybody Press. They received their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institut…

Read: "Whale Watch" at Turbine Purchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022) Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to R…

Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City, and Tinderbox among others. Read: "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird,"…

Read: "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The Common Purchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023) K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved…

Read: "War Machine" at The Tiny Mag Purchase: Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022) Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based…

Listen: On the web, or at your favorite player (Google, Apple, Spotify) Read: "Flowers as Mind Control" at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Purchase: Flowers as Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021) Laura Minor’s critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Arkansas Pr…

Read: "Moon Without Possible Approach" at Tin Fish Press. Purchase: The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Books, 2021) Bronwen Tate teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore and a contributor to the collabo…

Read: Shelley Wong's poem "To Yellow," which she reads on Episode 24. 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 fr…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLip jason b. crawford (They/Them) is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is out from Paper Nautilus Press. …

Read: "Hurricane Family," published at Moist Poetry Journal. Marlanda Dekine’s debut full-length poetry collection, Thresh & Hold, is the winner of Hub City Press's 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in March 2022. MARLANDA DEKINE’S WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED OR IS FORTHCOMING IN OXFORD AMERICAN, POETRY, EMERGENCE MAGAZINE, BEEST…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google, and more Read: a selection of haiku by Lenard D. Moore at the North Carolina Haiku Society Lenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His literary works have been published in more than sixteen countries and translated into more than twelve languages. His poems, essays, short stories and…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere. Read: Amanda Moore's poem "Labor as an Exotic Vacation," which she reads on Episode 20. Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. Her poems have appeared in journals and a…

Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago wher…

Twila Newey has an M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa. Her poems were finalists for the 2019 Coniston Prize at Radar Poetry and won honorable mention in the 2019 JuxtaProse Poetry Contest. You can read recent work at Interim Poetics, Sugarhouse Review, Green Mountains Review, and Moist Poetry journal. Twila lives in Northern California at th…

Read: Kasey Jueds' poem "Kittatinny," which she reads on the episode. Kasey Jueds a poet living in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Kasey poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, N…

Read: "Mandala of the Soapy Water," that Chloe reads on the episode Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah …

Read: Angie Mazakis's poem "Oh, My Kidneys," which she reads on the episode, and Han’s review of I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First. Angie Mazakis's first book of poetry, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for the 2020 Miller Williams Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Pr…

Listen: On Apple, Google, Spotify, and elsewhere. Read: Alina's poem "Apologia," which she reads on Episode 14. Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won th…

Read: Christian's poem "when my days fill with ghosts" at Hayden's Ferry Review, which Christian reads on the episode. Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review,The Michigan Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review…

Read: Amorak Huey's poem "CHILDHOOD GOES KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, GUN" at American Poetry Review Amorak Huey is a poet and professor, a writer and sometime journalist, a decent dad and a mediocre slow-pitch softball player. He pronounces his first name uh-MOR-ack. Amorak is author of four poetry collections: Dad Jokes from Late in …

Read: Lyd Havens' poem "I only mis-gender myself when Fleetwood Mac comes on" (flypaper lit), which they read on Episode 11 Lyd Havens is a reader and writer currently living in Boise, Idaho. Their work has previously been published in Ploughshares, The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Foglifter, among others. They are the author of the …

Read: Anuja Ghimire's poem "Orlando" and Burgi Zenhaeusern's "Self-Portrait as Granatöpfel" Anuja Ghimire is a Nepal-born writer of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of Kathmandu (Unsolicited Press, 2020), fable-weavers (Ethelzine, 2022), and two poetry books in Nepali. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Anuja w…

Read: Several poems from The Valley. Esteban Rodríguez is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Valley (Sundress Publications 2021), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press 2021). He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review, Senior Book Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and Associate Poetry…

Read: "Dear Hannah," and other poems Laura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. The Brooklyn Rail called the book “humble, folksy, romantic, tough, inventive, and not over-programmed.” Her second book, Parallel Resting Places, was chosen by Peter …

Read: Jessica's poem "The Ballad of the Red Wisteria" Jessica Q. Stark is a California-native, Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and dual MA Degrees in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. She received her PhD in English…

Read: Four of C.T.’s American Cavewall Sonnets C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is forthcoming in 2022 from Acre Books. He’s the author of three chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press, 2021). He’s the 2020 recipient of the Mississip…

Read: An interview with Kelly Cressio-Moeller at ZYZZYVA. Kelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, Best of the Net and have appeared widely in journals and at literary websites including Gargoyle, North American Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valpara…

Read: Carla’s Chapbook Ironbound Fados and her craft chap Eat a Persimmon Carla Sofia Ferreira is a Portuguese-American poet from Newark, New Jersey who teaches high school English in Newark today. She’s received fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and DreamYard Radical Poetry Consortium. Her micro-chap Ironbound Fados was published …

Read: Tom’s poem Gospel of Thomas, which he reads on Episode 3. Tom Snarsky is a math teacher who writes poetry. He is a former Robert Noyce Teaching Fellow at Tufts University and a Senior Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative. He is the author of two books forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2022: Speaking Roles, a collection of poetry interviews…

Conversation with Christopher Kempf, author of What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU Press, 2021).By Han VanderHart

Read one of the poems Jessica reads on Episode 1: “The Androgynous Christ.” Jessica Cuello’s manuscript, Liar, has been selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, forthcoming in October 2021. She is also the author of Pricking (Tiger Bark Press 2016), winner of the 2017 CNY Book Award, and Hunt (The Word Works 2017), winner of…