Podcast appearances and mentions of denise duhamel

Dion and Denise chat about her new book, Pink Lady. We read and discuss "His Terror" by Sharon Olds and also reference Olds's poem "Satan Says."Denise Duhamel has published numerous collections of poetry, including Second Story (2021), Scald (2017), Blowout (2013), which was a finalist for a National Books Critics Circle Award, Ka-Ching! (2009), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (2001), all of which were published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, and Kinky, published by Orchises Press in 1997. Citing Dylan Thomas and Kathleen Spivack as early influences, Duhamel writes both free verse and fixed-form poems that fearlessly combine the political, sexual, and ephemeral.She co-edited, with Nick Carbó, Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon (The Anthology Press, 2002), and, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Duhamel has also collaborated with Seaton on several poetry collections, including Caprice (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), Little Novels (Penguin, 2002), Oyl (Pearl Editions, 2000), and Exquisite Politics (Northwestern University Press, 1997).Duhamel's honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has been included in several volumes of Best American Poetry, where she was a guest editor in 2013, and has also been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Bill Moyers's PBS poetry special Fooling with Words.A distinguished university professor at Florida International University, she lives in Hollywood, Florida.

Dustin Brookshire has gathered an impressive array of poetic emulations in When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton. They include free verse gestures, couplets, tercets, and prose poems. Maureen's influence shines, though is never blinding—each of the poets in this anthology takes her title and makes the poem that follows their own. (From the forward by Denise Duhamel)We read poems from: Kelli Russell Agodon, Sarah Cooper, Aaron DeLee, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Diamond Forde, and Addie Tsai.Dustin Brookshire (he/him) is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Repeat As Needed (Harbor Editions, 2025) and the chapbooks Never Picked First For Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023), Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021) and To T he One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). Love Most Of You Too and Never Picked First For Playtime were finalists in the Poetry Chapbook category of the American Book Fest's Best Book Awards in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Poet Maureen Seaton earned an MFA from Vermont College in 1996. She is the author of the poetry collections Fear of Subways (1991), winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize; The Sea Among the Cupboards (1992); Furious Cooking (1996), winner of both the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; Little Ice Age (2001); Venus Examines Her Breast (2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award; and Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (2009).Using collage techniques to create delight and dissonance, Seaton's poetry has been described as unusual, compressed, and surrealistic. Seaton has explored the possibilities of collaboration throughout her career, writing poetry with Denise Duhamel in such collections as Exquisite Politics (1997), Oyl (2000), and Little Novels (2002). She also collaborated with Samuel Ace on Stealth (2011) and with Neil de la Flor on Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (2011). Seaton, Duhamel, and David Trinidad edited an anthology titled Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (2007).Seaton is author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning memoir Sex Talks to Girls (2008), in which she addresses motherhood, sobriety, and sexuality. She teaches at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.(from the Poetry Foundation)

Have you ever gotten consumed by watching a couple argue in public and trying to decipher what's really going on between them? Denise Duhamel's deliciously entertaining “How It Will End” offers us that experience. Come for the voyeurism, stay for the awareness it stirs up. Why are we so captivated by other people's disagreements? And how can what we notice about them teach us about ourselves?Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Pink Lady, Scald, and Blowout. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Denise Duhamel's poem and invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack newsletter, read the Poetry Unbound book, or listen to past episodes of the podcast. Order your copy of Kitchen Hymns (new poems from Pádraig) and 44 Poems on Being with Each Other (new essays by Pádraig) wherever you buy books.

Recorded by Denise Duhamel for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 28, 2025. www.poets.org

Kim Addonizio was featured with a tribute to her and her poetry students in issue 67 and featured on Rattlecast 88. Kim authored nine poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her most recent collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton, September 2024). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. Recent books include Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems (W.W. Norton) and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Find more information at: https://www.kimaddonizio.com As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem with a title that begins with “Poem in Which I” after Denise Duhamel. For the next word in the title, find a random verb on randomwordgenerator.com. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem that explores the perspective of the other side, and arrives somewhere opposite to where the poem begins. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

In this week's show, John talks to the delightful poet Denise Duhamel about the nuts and bolts of poetry, the construction of themed collections, Barbie, and other matters of literary interest.

Denise Duhamel was one of our 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners, and her book, In Which, was published along with this winter's issue. Her most recent full-length books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami, she lives in Hollywood, Florida. Find the In Which here: https://www.rattle.com/product/in-which/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Think of a word that transports you back to childhood, and give the poem that title. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem with a title that begins with “Poem in Which I” after Denise Duhamel. For the next word in the title, find a random verb on randomwordgenerator.com. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Knock knock, darlings! Join the queens as we talk about funny poems.If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTESWatch Stacey Waite give a full reading here (at 38:00); here's Stacey reading one poem: "The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV." Watch Gary Jackson's poem "Tryouts" in Motionpoems (Button Poetry) here.Read Tim Dlugos's "David Cassidy, I Want to Fuck You"; listen to Terence Winch read "Incredible Risks" (the title of one of Dlugos's books) here. Read "Note Passed to Superman" as well as some other of Lucille Clifton's "Clark Kent Poems" here.Here's an interview in Adroit Journal with Denise Duhamel, in which she discusses the craft of chattiness and comedy in her poetry. Visit Nick Lantz's website.You can read Aaron Smith's "Jennifer Lawrence" here (scroll down).Watch Anita Bryant get some queer comeuppance here. James's poem about this is: "On Dark Days, I Imagine My Parents' Wedding Video." Their poem, "A Fact Which Occurred in America" can be read here.Read Matthew Olzmann's "Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice" (from Constellation Route).Go read A.R. Ammons's poem "Their Sex Life" here.Read Ed Ochester's "Monroeville, PA."

Day 16: Matthew Gellman reads his poem “Beforelight,” originally published in Passages North, 2018.  Matthew Gellman is the author of a chapbook, Night Logic, which was selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of Tupelo Press' 2021 Snowbound Chapbook Award. His first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from BOA Editions. Matthew has received awards and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, the Adroit Journal's Djanikian Scholars Program, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Summer Writers Institute and the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, Narrative, The Common, the Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight, and other publications. He lives in New York, where he teaches at Hunter College and Fordham University. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language. Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and professor Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this fourth year of our series is from the second movement of the “Geistinger Sonata,” Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, by Ethel Smyth, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.

Today's poem is How It Will End by Denise Duhamel. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem illustrates how difficult it is to plot the fate of a couple, especially one whose ups and downs are played out publicly.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

With special guest Denise Duhamel! Julie Marie Wade is a poet, lyric essayist, memoirist, and an experimental/hybrid forms writer. She is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, winner of the Colgate University Press Nonfiction Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir; the book-length lyric essay Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing; and Otherwise: Essays, winner of the 2022 Autumn House Prize. Wade holds an MA in English from Western Washington University, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of Louisville. Born in Seattle, she now lives in Florida and is an associate professor of English in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami, where she teaches poetry, memoir, lyric essay, and hybrid forms. Find more on Julie and her books here: https://www.juliemariewade.com We'll also be joined by Denise Duhamel for part of the episode to discuss her collaborations with Julie. Denise was the guest on Rattlecast 86, and a winner of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize, in addition to publishing award-winning books like Queen for a Day and Kinky. Find their co-written book, The UnRhymables, here: https://www.amazon.com/UNRHYMABLES-Collaborations-Prose-Denise-Duhamel/dp/0578421429 As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Pull a random card from a deck and write a poem about it. Next Week's Prompt: Find a partner and write a collaborative poem in some kind of form. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

It's National Poetry Month and we are joined by the Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason who has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. Matt's poetry has appeared in The New York Times and he is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and in hundreds of other publications. Matt serves as our poetry tour guide through a pantheon of poets as we showcase work from Scott Woods, Aliyah American Horse, Denise Duhamel, Deb Carpenter-Nolting, Sean Patrick Mulroy, Nicholle Laffer & Mighty Mike McGee. The Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason, serves as our sherpa guide through a pantheon of poets: Scott Woods, Aliyah American Horse, Denise Duhamel, Deb Carpenter-Nolting, Sean Patrick Mulroy, Nicholle Laffer & Mighty Mike McGee.

The queens get beachy, play f*ck marry kill with a Pulitzer winner, and fabricate some fab poets' drag names.Support Breaking Form, the spirit so moves you:Review Breaking Form on Apple Podcasts here.  Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Watch Carl Phillips read from Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007-2020, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, here (~1 hour).Poets we mention in this extravaganza include:Denise Duhamel, Queen for a DayFrank O'Hara, Lunch PoemsDavid Trinidad, Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera ; Swinging on a StarFranny Choi, Soft Sciencesam sax, MadnessDanez Smith, HomieYou can read a short excerpt of Nin Andrews's The Book of Orgasms at her website here. Jennifer L. Knox, Crushing ItCamille Guthrie, Diamonds                               Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union Louise GluckYou can watch Jorie Graham's book launch for her newest collection, To 2040, online here (~1 hour).Rita Dove's latest book is Playlist for the Apocalypse. Amy ClampittEmily DickinsonEdgar Allen PoeRobert Lowelle.e. cummingsHenry Wadsworth LongfellowGertrude SteinJohn Donne's reputation as a major poet is now cemented, but it wasn't always so. Donne fell out of fashion for much of the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more about that in Adam Kirsch's review of Katherine Rundell's biography of Donne in the New Yorker, here. Ezra PoundSara Teasdale, whom you can read more about here. Hart CraneRobert FrostWalt WhitmanLucille CliftonThomas HardyJohn KeatsMarilyn Chin's sixth book of poetry, Sage, was released by Norton in May 2023.Mark DotyPatrick Phillips, whose most recent book is Song of the Closing Doors (Knopf, 2022),. Visit Phillips's website.

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.

Just the tip-off! You'll laugh, you'll gasp, you'll win $50 in breakcoin (more crypto than currency). Polish up your high-heel cleats and get out your pompoms! Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.Writing for the Ploughshares blog, Robert Anthony Siegel calls Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book “a progenitor of the fragmentary, nonlinear, hybrid-genre work....” Read the whole, short essay here.You can watch Elaine Equi read four poems from Big Other here (~4.5 mins). And read more about this fabulous poet's bio here. Hear Plath read “November Graveyard” here (~1 min)Hear Plath read “Poppies in October” here (~1 min)Plath reads the Rabbit Catcher here (~1.5 min)Plath reads “The Applicant” here (~2 min)Watch a beautifully-read, dramatic rendering of “Crossing the Water” here (~1 min)Audio of Plath reading Lady Lazarus can be heard here (~3 min)Watch Clara Sismondo perform “Blackberrying” (National Poetry in Voice) here (~3 min)Hear “Tulips” in Plath's voice here (~4.5 min)Watch this arresting short film of “Death & Co” produced by Troublemakers TV here (~1.5 min)You can read “The Couriers” here.Read “The Colossus” here.Hear Plath read “Daddy” here (~4 min)Read “Electra on Azalea Path” hereRead “The Babysitters” hereRead “The Beekeeper's Daughter” hereRead “Winter Trees” hereYou can read this fascinating essay about acquiring Plath's table by David Trinidad here.Listen to David talk with scholar Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the light and dark sequences in Plath's life.Watch Dorianne Laux read a very recent poem “What's Broken” here (~2 min)You can attend virtually this fabulous Terrance Hayes reading at the University of Chicago (~1 hour)

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.

The queens are joined by Empress Maureen Seaton to discuss pushing the envelope....Buy Maureen's books from Loyalty Bookstore, a DC-area Black-owned indie bookstore.Maureen Seaton earned an MFA from Vermont College in 1996. She is the author of the more than 25 poetry collections, some of them authored in collaboration with writers like Samuel Ace, Denise Duhamel, and Neil de la Flor. Seaton, Duhamel, and David Trinidad edited an anthology titled Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (2007). Seaton is author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning memoir Sex Talks to Girls (2008), in which she addresses motherhood, sobriety, and sexuality. Her most recent books are Undersea and Genetics, which she published in 2021. Elizabeth Gilbert's TED Talk called “Your Elusive Creative Genius" confirms the story about Ruth Stone visualizing a poem as a sort of weather system. You can hear the whole talk here. Read a poem by Maureen's teacher Mark Cox here.  A triolet is an eight-line poem, French in origin, with only two rhymes used throughout. A rondelet's basic structure is:Line 1: A—four syllablesLine 2: b—eight syllablesLine 3: A—repeat of line oneLine 4: a—eight syllablesLine 5: b—eight syllablesLine 6: b—eight syllablesLine 7: A—repeat of line oneThe refrained lines should contain the same words, however substitution or different use of punctuation on the lines has been common.In 1965, Jack Spicer gave a talk on poetry as "dictation." The poet Michael Peterson, whose online post I'm linking to below, writes: "By Spicer's theorem, the poet was not a kind of inspired genius, but rather a "medium" for a psychic, spiritual, poetic message. The poem, in turn, was like a radio which picked up the transmission. This lecture became the stuff of poetry legend, the recording passed from person to person until it was finally made available online almost fifty years later. This is an early recording which I have edited down from almost three hours to just under thirty minutes."You can watch Levine read Lorca's poem "New York (Office and Denunciation)" at the New York Public Library here (~5 min).Marilyn Hacker read and discussed her career at the National Book Festival in 2016, and you can watch it here (~40 min).

The queens explore poetic law and rebellion with Denise Duhamel. Part 2 of their Breaking Form Interview concludes.Please consider purchasing books by Denise and other poets we mention in this episode at , a Black-owned DC-area bookstore.Denise Duhamel's most recent books of poetry are Second Story; Scald; and Blowout, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She and Maureen Seaton have co-authored four poetry collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New). Her collaboration with Julie Marie Wade, The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, was published by Noctuary Press in 2019. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She served as the guest editor is for The Best American Poetry 2013.The pantoum is a Malaysian poetic form that was introduced into English literature in the 19th century. The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme (as bcbc, cdcd). Although the pantoum was introduced into Western literature in the 19th century, it bears some resemblance to older French fixed forms, such as the rondeau and the villanelle.Denise's poem "Terza Irma" appears in her book Second Story and was first published in The Missouri Review. You can read it here. Watch Denise Duhamel read "Dear Memory" from Second Story here (~3 min). Watch Timothy Berry recite "Ego" by Denise Duhamel (Poetry Out Loud competition).

The queens ask Denise Duhamel's superhero poet origin story in Part One of their interview.Buy Denise's books at Loyalty Bookstore, a DC-area Black-owned bookstore.  Denise Duhamel was a sociology major in undergrad. Her most recent books of poetry are Second Story; Scald; and Blowout, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She and Maureen Seaton have co-authored four poetry collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New). Her collaboration with Julie Marie Wade, The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, was published by Noctuary Press in 2019. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She served as the guest editor is for The Best American Poetry 2013.Dangerous Diane is also known as DANGEROUS DIANE SPODAREK. Her website is: http://dangerousdiane.blogspot.com. She also has an MFA, from Eastern Michigan in video & performance.Flanagan, Bob and David Trinidad published A TASTE OF HONE with Cold Calm Press, 1990.If you don't know what a gay bear is, think: dad bod-burly, hirsute, lumberjack vibes, though of course there are lots of different kind of bears, including femme bears, polar bears, and younger bears, called cubs. If you want to know more about gay taxonomy, visit my Instagram. You can listen to the pronunciation of Orchises Press here.Click here to read more about Bill Knott, and here to see a poem of his set to video and music (~1 min).Click here to read more about Michael Burkard.Click here to read Lyn Lifshin's poem "The Fathers." You can see her give a reading here (~2 min).Read more about Tom Lux. More about Jean Valentine can be found here. Jayne Anne Phillips's Sweethearts (illustrated by Yvonne Jacquette) can be found online and bought for like $120. You can see Phillips read with Amy Hempel for The Strand here (~60 min).Over the last 40 years, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has served as a home for groundbreaking works of poetry, music, theater and visual arts. A multicultural and multi-arts institution, the Cafe gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians. Visit them online at https://www.nuyorican.org

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.

Story time! I read poet Denise Duhamel's tale of a poem that ambushed her, dwelt with her, was stolen, and... you'll see.  The poem is "Modifications" by Ron Koertge and I read from the anthology Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems. 

You're listening to the Westerly Sun's podcast, where we talk about the best local events, new job postings, obituaries, and more. First, a bit of Rhode Island trivia. Today's trivia is brought to you by Perennial. Perennial's new plant-based drink “Daily Gut & Brain” is a blend of easily digestible nutrients crafted for gut and brain health. A convenient mini-meal, Daily Gut & Brain” is available now at the CVS Pharmacy in Wakefield Now for some trivia. Did you know that Rhode Island poet, Denise Duhamel, was born in Woonsocket and is known for her feminist writings. Her books including Smile, Girl Soldier, and Kinky explore American culture through humor, satire, and feminist thought. Now for our feature story: The guidance department at Westerly High School will be reduced from four to three counselors and a vacant districtwide physical education teacher position will not be filled as part of an effort to address a deficit in the School Committee's 2021-22 budget, which goes into effect on July 1. According to Cindy Kirchhoff, the district's director of finance and operations, she proposed the move to the School Committee during a meeting on Wednesday as part of package of recommendations that reduced the deficit by a net amount of $525,115. The School Committee unanimously approved all of Kirchhoff's recommendations. Kirchhoff, Superintendent of Schools Mark Garceau and the School Committee have been steadily chipping away at the deficit, which started at about $1 million after the Town Council approved an increase of just $600,000 in the annual appropriation of local tax dollars for education in the budget. The School Committee had sought a $1.61 million increase in the local appropriation and a reduction of state aid of about $220,000 also contributed to the deficit.. The budget changes approved Wednesday also include costs related to establishment of a new clinical support program for the district's special education students. Creation of the program will allow the district to teach more students in the district rather than the students attending school out of the district. This will lead to a $366,000 reduction in out of district tuition. Part of the reduction will be offset by the need to hire an additional social worker and an additional special education teacher at Westerly High School. The committee also approved creation of an additional part-time custodian position for the transportation garage and the Transition Academy. Additional savings of $172,000, Kirchoff said will be realized in the cost of employee fringe benefits due to the retirement of 11 teachers though they expect Those vacancies to be filled. Retirements of non-teachers in the district who accepted retirement incentives will require $36,700 that was not anticipated in the approved budget, Kirchhoff said. The deficit now stands at $97, 014 with The Westerly budget needing to be balanced by July 1, the start of the district's new fiscal year. For more about the coronavirus pandemic and the latest on all things in and around Westerly, head over to westerlysun.com. There are a lot of businesses in our community that are hiring right now, so we're excited to tell you about some new job listings. Today's Job posting comes from Sea Bags in Watch Hill. They're looking for a part-time retail sales associate ideally with 2 years of retail experience and customer service. Pay depends on experience.. If you'd like to learn more or apply, you can do so at the link in our episode description: https://www.indeed.com/l-Westerly,-RI-jobs.html?vjk=2742aded61e027db&advn=8743562717035863 Today we're remembering the life of Patricia Ann Loporchio who passed away surrounded by family. Pat leaves behind her loving husband, Vincent, with whom she shared a wonderful life for 63 years. They celebrated their anniversary in April. They were the proud parents of two children. her grandchildren, and her many extended family members. Pat was born in Providence and graduated from St. Xavier's Academy in Providence in 1952. Her priority was raising her children; however, she also worked for many years as a highly regarded executive assistant in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Pat's faith was an important part of her life and she was a communicant of St. Pius X Church. Her other joy was her family. Her grandchildren were by her side in the final days and recalled wonderful stories of the many special memories of their grandmother over the years. Pat will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her. She was always thinking of others and would never consider putting herself before anyone else. Pat made every room brighter with her presence. Thank you for taking a moment today to remember and celebrate Pat's life. That's it for today, we'll be back next time with more! Also, remember to check out our sponsor Perennial, Daily Gut & Brain, available at the CVS on Main St. in Wakefield! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Denise Duhamel's (she/her) most recent book of poetry is “Second Story” (Pittsburgh, 2021). Her other titles include Scald; Blowout; Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She and Maureen Seaton have co-authored four collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). And she and Julie Marie Wade co-authored The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (Noctuary Press, 2019). She is a Distinguished University Professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.  

Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Her previous books include Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Kinky. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her newest collection, Second Story, has just released from Pitt Press. Find Second Story here: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822966531/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem that explores what it would be like to be someone else. Next Week's Prompt: Write a letter poem to an abstract concept. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

Today on Boston Public Radio: E.J. Dionne weighs in on what the events of last weekend’s CPAC can tell us about the future of Trumpism and the GOP. He also speaks about the nursing home scandal and sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Cuomo. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His latest book is "Code Red: How Progressives And Moderates Can Unite To Save Our Country.” Next, we open the phone lines to speak with listeners about the Baker administration’s plan to reopen schools by April. Charlie Sennott discusses President Biden’s decision to not penalize Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He also talks about the firing of Myanmar’s U.N. ambassador Kyaw Moe Tu after he spoke out against the country’s military coup. Sennott is a GBH News analyst and the founder and CEO of The GroundTruth Project. Bob Thompson recaps the Golden Globes, highlighting Andra Day’s historic win for her performance in The United States vs. Billie Holiday. He also discusses criticism over the lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Thompson is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a professor of television and popular culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price talk about vaccine inequity in Cambridge, and the Black exodus from the Catholic church. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at the Boston University School of Theology. Price is an executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together, they host GBH’s All Rev’d Up podcast. Richard Blanco highlights the work of poet Denise Duhamel, and previews her upcoming book, Second Story: Poems. Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. history. His new book, "How To Love A Country," deals with various socio-political issues that shadow America. We end the show by asking listeners about meteorological spring.

Exquisite Politics by Denise Duhamel

Today's poem is Ego by Denise Duhamel.

On this week's program, I talk to the poet Denise Duhamel about the role of politics and play in poetry. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES Here in Orlando, the City Beautiful, come out and hear some protest poetry on January 19th. If you love Pat Greene, or just love great art, please donate a little something to The Downtown Arts District of Orlando. The music used in this episode was “Tremor” and “As the Dark Wave Swells” by The Bambi Molesters.

Hilary S. Jacqmin's first book of poems, Missing Persons, was published by Waywiser Press in spring 2017. She earned her BA from Wesleyan University, her MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from the University of Florida. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an associate production editor at Johns Hopkins University Press. Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, Painted Bride Quarterly, PANK, Best New Poets, DIAGRAM, FIELD, and elsewhere.Greg Williamson is the author of four volumes of poetry: The Silent Partner, Errors in the Script, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, and The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Nicholas Roerich Prize, an NEA Grant in Poetry, and others. His poetry has been published in more than 50 periodicals and several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry. He teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.Michele Wolf is the author of Immersion (Hilary Tham Capital Collection, The Word Works, selected by Denise Duhamel), Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Anhinga Press, chosen by Peter Meinke), and The Keeper of Light (Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series, selected by J.T. Barbarese). Her poems have also appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The North American Review, and many other journals and anthologies, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. A contributing editor for Poet Lore, she teaches at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Read "Coupling" by Hilary S. Jacqmin. Read "Drawing Hands" by Greg Williamson. Read "The Great Tsunami" by Michele Wolf.Recorded On: Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Hilary S. Jacqmin's first book of poems, Missing Persons, was published by Waywiser Press in spring 2017. She earned her BA from Wesleyan University, her MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from the University of Florida. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an associate production editor at Johns Hopkins University Press. Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, Painted Bride Quarterly, PANK, Best New Poets, DIAGRAM, FIELD, and elsewhere.Greg Williamson is the author of four volumes of poetry: The Silent Partner, Errors in the Script, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, and The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Nicholas Roerich Prize, an NEA Grant in Poetry, and others. His poetry has been published in more than 50 periodicals and several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry. He teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.Michele Wolf is the author of Immersion (Hilary Tham Capital Collection, The Word Works, selected by Denise Duhamel), Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Anhinga Press, chosen by Peter Meinke), and The Keeper of Light (Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series, selected by J.T. Barbarese). Her poems have also appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The North American Review, and many other journals and anthologies, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. A contributing editor for Poet Lore, she teaches at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Read "Coupling" by Hilary S. Jacqmin. Read "Drawing Hands" by Greg Williamson. Read "The Great Tsunami" by Michele Wolf.

In this week's episode, I share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with fiction writer and poet Stuart Dybek, and I also talk to the poet Denise Duhamel, plus Jim Ross writes about how Moss Hart's Act One changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read prose at There Will Be Words on January 13th. On Tuesday, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library. On Saturday, January 24th, 7 P.M., come hear Boris Fishman read from his novel, A Replacement Life, and me read poetry at the Gallery at Avalon Island.

Denise Duhamel and Daniel talk about drawing the "spirit, emotion" and energy out of loss. Denise's recent book of poems is titled, "Blowout." The writers discuss divorce in parallel to other losses and the importance of writing throughout the periods of grief. Denise Duhamel says, "write and let time go by...it frees the monster" and 'later, once the words are written, once the "monster" or the mood of the painful experience has been captured, it will always be there, even if the content and direction of the poem changes.' Denise contributes this week's Poem of the Week: "My Strip Club" from "Blowout." Daniel reads a Poetic License about the distances between what we can see and what we have access to enter.

Women III 3 (NEW) ?Apocalyptic Barbie? by Denise Duhamel, read by Ginger Gohier Bamboo Ridge 60 (Winter 1994): 97 Republished: Kinky (Alexandria, VA: Orchises Press, 1997): 23 ?Big Bones? by Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, read by Kiana Rivera Bamboo Ridge 77 (Spring 2000): 75-76 ?Eggs? by Juliet S. Kono, read by Caitlin Hatakeyama Bamboo Ridge 36 (Fall 1987): 23-24 Republished: Hilo Rains (Bamboo Ridge 37/38, Winter 1987/Spring 1988): 38-39 ?Grandmother? by Susan Nunes, read by Kiana Rivera A Small Obligation and Other Stories of Hilo (Bamboo Ridge 16, 1982): 26-29 Republished: The Best of Bamboo Ridge (Bamboo Ridge 31/32, 1986): 221-224 Reprinted in Island Fire: An Anthology of Literature from Hawai?i. Cheryl A. Harstad and James R. Harstad, eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 2002): 193-197 ?Still Someone?s Hula Girl? by Waimea Williams, read by Karen Levy Bamboo Ridge 87 (Spring 2005): 352-353 ?The Old Woman Who Dances with Me? by Amy Uyematsu, read by Noe Tanigawa Bamboo Ridge 36 (Fall 1987): 67-69 Republished: 30 Miles from J-Town (Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1992): 56-58

Women III 3 (NEW) ?Apocalyptic Barbie? by Denise Duhamel, read by Ginger Gohier Bamboo Ridge 60 (Winter 1994): 97 Republished: Kinky (Alexandria, VA: Orchises Press, 1997): 23 ?Big Bones? by Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, read by Kiana Rivera Bamboo Ridge 77 (Spring 2000): 75-76 ?Eggs? by Juliet S. Kono, read by Caitlin Hatakeyama Bamboo Ridge 36 (Fall 1987): 23-24 Republished: Hilo Rains (Bamboo Ridge 37/38, Winter 1987/Spring 1988): 38-39 ?Grandmother? by Susan Nunes, read by Kiana Rivera A Small Obligation and Other Stories of Hilo (Bamboo Ridge 16, 1982): 26-29 Republished: The Best of Bamboo Ridge (Bamboo Ridge 31/32, 1986): 221-224 Reprinted in Island Fire: An Anthology of Literature from Hawai?i. Cheryl A. Harstad and James R. Harstad, eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 2002): 193-197 ?Still Someone?s Hula Girl? by Waimea Williams, read by Karen Levy Bamboo Ridge 87 (Spring 2005): 352-353 ?The Old Woman Who Dances with Me? by Amy Uyematsu, read by Noe Tanigawa Bamboo Ridge 36 (Fall 1987): 67-69 Republished: 30 Miles from J-Town (Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1992): 56-58

Eric Mo's Jozaphine Freedom is performed by Haleh Abghari, soprano, Peter Josheff, clarinet, Eric More, paino/keyboard, Chris Froh, percussion, with Denise Duhamel, text, and Suzie Silver, video.

How do the Rorschach, the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and the House, Tree Person tests work? Do you reveal something about yourself when you tell stories about pictures or tell what you see in an inkblot or even when you do something as seemingly innocent as drawing a picture of a house? In this episode I try to answer these questions as well as show you how a wonderful poem called How It Will End by Denise Duhamel could be an excellent example of psychology in everyday life.