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In her recent book, P.O.E.T. (Power Over Emotional Trauma), Honey Bell-Bey asks, "What do you do with what did not kill you?" Trauma happens, she notes, but healing happens also.rnrnWidely known as the dynamic National Award-winning Poet Laureate (Academy of American Poets), Honey Bell-Bey isn't just a poet. She is also an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist, and for decades, has used her talent in poetry as a vehicle for healing intergenerational trauma and other issues related to public health. Together with Dr. Scott Frank, an award-winning family medical doctor, Associate Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), and poet himself, they worked to underscore the importance of poetry as a public health need.
Recorded by Jorge Galán and Janet Hendrickson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 22, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 21, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by John Iremil Teodoro and Luisa A. Igloria for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 20, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by David Cruz and Anthony Geist for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 19, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Shivanee Ramlochan for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 18, 2025. www.poets.org
July, August & September — Dante's New South Mega ReturnRichard Blanco — Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet, Blanco was the youngest, first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person in that role. In 2023, President Biden awarded him the National Humanities Medal. Born to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, Blanco explores identity, belonging, and place in works like Homeland of My Body, For All of Us, One Today, and The Prince of Los Cocuyos. His honors include the Agnes Starrett Prize, PEN America Beyond Margins Award, Patterson Prize, and Lambda Literary Award. Blanco is Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets, Associate Professor at Florida International University, and Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County. www.richard-blanco.comSamiya Bashir — Poet, writer, librettist, and multimedia artist described as “a dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion.” Her work has been seen from Berlin to Accra, Florence to across the U.S. She is the author of Field Theories (Oregon Book Award) and I Hope This Helps (Nightboat Books, 2025). Honors include the Rome Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Oregon Arts & Culture Council Fellowship, with residencies at MacDowell and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She is reigniting Fire & Inkwell to support LGBTQ+ artists and writers of African descent. www.samiyabashir.comOctavio Quintanilla — Author of If I Go Missing (2014) and Poet Laureate of Texas. His poetry, fiction, translations, and Frontextos (visual poems) appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Texas Observer, Green Mountains Review, and more. Exhibitions include Southwest School of Art, Weslaco Museum, and the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Regional editor for Texas Books in Review, poetry editor for Voices de la Luna, and faculty in Literature & Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. www.octavioquintanilla.com | IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla | X: @OctQuintanillaVince Herman (Leftover Salmon) — Since co-founding Leftover Salmon in 1989, Herman's joyful, theatrical energy has defined the band. After moving from West Virginia to Boulder, CO, he briefly joined the Left-Hand String Band before forming Salmon Heads; both merged on New Year's Eve 1989 to become Leftover Salmon. Decades on, Herman continues to bring his eclectic musical vision to audiences everywhere.Additional Music: Alain Johannes — www.alainjohannes.com | Documentary: YouTubeSponsorsThe Pickens County Chamber of CommerceThe CrownBright Hill PressSpecial ThanksUCLA Extension Writing ProgramMercer University PressRed Phone BoothAlain Johannes — original score: www.alainjohannes.comHost Clifford Brooks — The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, Old Gods: www.cliffbrooks.com/how-to-orderCheck out his Teachable courses, The Working Writer and Adulting with Autism, here: brooks-sessions.teachable.com
Recorded by Rolando Kattan and Katherine M. Hedeen for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 17, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by José Mármol and Eileen O'Connor for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 16, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Youmna Chamieh for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 15, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 14, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Marilyn Chin for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 13, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Bejan Matur and Eleanor Wright for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 9, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 11, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Immanuel Mifsud for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 10, 2025. www.poets.org
Hala Alyan is the author of the debut memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, available from Avid Reader Press. Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Get How to Write a Novel, the debut audio course from DeepDive. 50+ hours of never-before-heard insight, inspiration, and instruction from dozens of today's most celebrated contemporary authors. Subscribe to Brad's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recorded by Yolanda Castaño and Samantha Schnee for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 9, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Damir Šodan and James Meetze for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 8, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 7, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Yaxkin Melchy Ramos and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 6, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Andrea Cote and Craig Epplin for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 5, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Tomica Bajsić for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 4, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Anthony Joseph for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 3, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Katerina Iliopoulou and Jackson Watson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 2, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on September 1, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Mary Sutton and Nathalie Handal for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 31, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 31, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 30, 2025. www.poets.org
Tracy K. Smith is the author of five poetry collections, including Such Color: New and Selected Poems; Wade in the Water, winner of the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. Her debut collection, The Body's Question, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2002. Her second book, Duende, won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She also edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recorded by Geoffrey Brock for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 29, 2025. www.poets.org
In this episode, WIR Cynthia Amoah sits down with Ghanaian-American poets Claudia Owusu and Tasha Lomo for a layered conversation about language, place, and what it means to write and create from the in-between. Together, they explore how heritage shapes creative voice, the role of poetry as both resistance and refuge, and the ways they each build community through art—from spoken word albums to filmmaking to advocacy for Black women. Special thanks to fo/mo/deep for lending us their song, "Bourbon Neat" for the podcast! Find out about upcoming Bexley Public Library events at https://www.bexleylibrary.org Follow Bexley Public Library across platforms @bexleylibrary Host/Guest Bios Cynthia Amoah is a Ghanaian-American poet, national speaker, and teaching artist. She received her MFA from The New School, where she was cited for Excellence in Poetry. Cynthia has been featured on three TEDx stages, The Lincoln Theatre, and the United Nations Information Center in Accra, among others. She is currently serving as the 2025 Inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Bexley Public Library and the 'Arts in the Parks' Coordinator with Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Her writing and performances often explore questions of identity, belonging, displacement, migration, and uprootedness. Cynthia's chapbook 'Handrails' was published by Akashic Books in Fall 2021. She resides in Columbus, OH with her family and facilitates workshops in poetry, positive thinking, confidence-building, and using our voice as instruments for strength and social change. Learn more at www.cynthiaamoah.com. Tasha Lomo is a Ghanaian American poet, writer, and community advocate. She currently serves as the Program Manager for The Giovanni Collective; a collective dedicated to the advancement of Black women writers and poets, and has performed her work across the central Ohio community. She has received training through the Lincoln Artist Incubation Program, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Writerz and Scribez based in London, England. She uses her work as a platform to explore themes of identity, culture, and self actualization. Claudia Owusu is a Ghana girl through and through. As a writer and filmmaker, her work divulges the nuance of Black girlhood through a personal and collective lens. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Bellingham Review, Indianapolis Review, Vogue, Narrative Northwest, Akoroko, and Brittle Paper. Her films have screened internationally at Aesthetica, the New York African Film Festival, Urbanworld, and Blackstar Fest. She is the author of the chapbook, In These Bones I Am Shifting, by Akashic Books. Her documentary film in progress "This is the House: If I Don't See You, I Love You" is the winner of the 2025 Julia Reichart award. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The Ohio State University.
Recorded by Atsuro Riley for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 28, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Ari Banias for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 27, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Brian Tierney for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 26, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Cate Marvin for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 25, 2025. www.poets.org
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong– At Length– Annie O. Fisher– The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker– Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker– The Belle of Amherst by William Luce– A Quiet Passion ()– Being John Malcovich (1999)– Laura Lippman– Lewis Turco– Carl Dennis– Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright– Vox by Nicholson Baker– House of Holes by Nicholson Baker– Funny, but Serious Too by Michael Dirda– Poems: North & South; A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop– Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop– Specimen Days by Walt Whitman– Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham– Dead Souls by Sam Riviere– Ep 32: Poets Without Poems, ft. Sam Riviere– Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol– Practice by Rosalind Brown– A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) (Is it a coincidence that her yellow coat and red hat match Amanda Gorman's inauguration ensemble?)– Lupita Nyong'o, great weirdo actor– The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)– Ep 126: Sassy Kids, ft. Alexis Sears, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– A Teacher (2013)– The American Poet at the Movies by Laurence Goldstein– Paterson (2016)– Ep 27: Baker's Poetry, ft. Alice Allan– Rhyme and Unreason by David Orr– Jason Koo– Meter in English by David Baker– Paul Kiparsky– Sara Teasdale– Lullaby by W. H. Auden– Ashes of Life by Edna St. Vincent Millay– If you stick a stock of liquor by Norman Levy– Susan Delaney Spear– The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe– Sonnet 31 by Philip Sidney– Marilyn Hacker– Horace i.25– The League of Moveable TypeFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna Pearson– Matt WallOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
Recorded by Sharon Olds for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 24, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 23, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Wayne Miller for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 22, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Armen Davoudian for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 21, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Paul Tran for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 20, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Aaron Smith for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 19, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by D. A. Powell for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 18, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 17, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by staff of the Academy of American Poets for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 16, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Sandra Lim for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 15, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Noah Warren for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 14, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Christian Gullette for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 13, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Natalie Shapero for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 12, 2025. www.poets.org
Recorded by Michael Dumanis for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 11, 2025. www.poets.org
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