Podcast appearances and mentions of erin elizabeth smith

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features the wonderful Natalie Easton author off “I'll buy you a bird instead”. Natalie Easton's poems have appeared in such publications as Jet Fuel Review, Superstition Review, and tinywords. She was nominated for a Pushcart in 2014, and was a contributor at Bread Loaf in 2015. Her debut chapbook, I'll Buy You a Bird Instead, is was releeased on Femme Salve Books on November 9th 2022. “I'll buy you a bird instead” is described as “In this intimate chapbook of poems, Natalie Easton examines the complexity of her relationship with her mother through a kaleidoscope of loss, grief, and love. The troubles of childhood are reexamined in adulthood, brought out and looked at with a new depth of understanding. This is a book that encourages the reader to look harder at the difficult moments, and find the gems hidden there.” Some praise for “I'll buy you a bird instead”: “I'll Buy You a Bird Instead is a complex cry of longing – from a ‘throat veined white like a cut strawberry' – for the ever-disappearing mother. These poems are painted in the many colors of illness, healing, resentment, surprising humor, regret: ‘Go in, I will my former self. / Just for a glass of water.' From caring for the parent in extremis (‘If you weren't conscious in an hour, / then I should make a call') to tending her body after death (‘For all I knew you felt it still'), from denial (‘I have tried to escape without / burying you') to acceptance (‘Now that I'm alone I know / you'll never stop returning to me'), Easton brings a mother-daughter relationship – both foundational and impossible – into razor-edge focus, side-by-side with its loss. Easton's eye is unflinching, her portrayal of grief unstinting. The red bird glowing behind these poems – the parrot itself and the mother's devotion, even mixed with betrayal – is a reminder that love can wreck us and still we can be ‘filled – like an urn – with its beauty.'” —Laura Cherry, author of Haunts (Cooper Dillon Books) “In forthright and gutting language, this collection looks resolutely at the ways in which we communicate with our past in mourning. This is a beautiful book that will break your heart.” —Erin Elizabeth Smith, author of DOWN “…these fierce and tender poems affirm that at the end of pain, what remains is wisdom. What remains is love.” —Angela Narciso Torres, author of What Happens Is Neither More about Natalie can be found here - www.natalieeastonpoetry.com The book is available through femme salve books directly here - femmesalvebooks.net/bird-instead-by-natalie-easton/

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Executive Director for Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her third full-length poetry collection, Down, was released in 2020 by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Guernica, Ecotone, Mid-American, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and is now a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Links:Read "Alice Gives Advice to Dorothy"Read "February in Knoxville" and other poems at Menacing HedgeErin Elizabeth Smith's page at Sundress PublicationsTwo poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Los Angeles ReviewThree poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Superstition Review"Plating the Poem, Reclaiming the Story: A Conversation with Erin Elizabeth Smith"Mentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Executive Director for Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her third full-length poetry collection, Down, was released in 2020 by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Guernica, Ecotone, Mid-American, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and is now a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Links:Read "Alice Gives Advice to Dorothy"Read "February in Knoxville" and other poems by Smith at Menacing HedgeErin Elizabeth Smith's page at Sundress PublicationsTwo poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Los Angeles ReviewThree poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Superstition Review"Plating the Poem, Reclaiming the Story: A Conversation with Erin Elizabeth Smith"Mentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser

Nicole attempts to run through her notes from two different writing events held this past weekend: The WRITER'S DIGEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021, and DANIEL DAVID WALLACE'S FIND YOUR READERS SUMMIT. She gives each panel two minutes, but asks listeners to reach ut and let her know which panel(s) they want to hear more about. Sign up to receive Friday Night Writes emails, including the link to the monthly Writing Prompt Party! https://mailchi.mp/cc1507dc3fbd/friday-night-writes   Mentioned in this episode: WRITER'S DIGEST ANNUAL CONFERENCE https://writersdigestconference.com/ Ran Walker Author Page https://www.ranwalker.com/ Sharon Short Author Page http://www.sharonshort.com/ Nicole Blades author page https://www.nicoleblades.com/ Sadequa Johnson Author Page https://www.sadeqajohnson.net/  Katrina Kittle author page http://katrinakittle.com/ Carla Hoch's website https://www.fightwrite.net/ Larry Brooks website https://storyfix.com/ Donna Russo Morin Official Website https://www.donnarussomorin.com/ Chris Bohjalian website https://chrisbohjalian.com/ FIND YOUR READERS SUMMIT https://summit.findyournextreader.com/ Daniel David Wallace https://danieldavidwallace.com/ Elle Griffin https://ellegriffin.com/ Daje The Story Doula https://www.thestorydoula.co/ Kristen Kieffer's website https://www.well-storied.com/ Erin Elizabeth Smith website http://www.sundresspublications.com/erin/  STOP WRITING ALONE EMAIL LIST:  To find all the books discussed in this episode, check out Nicole's Summer Reading List on Bookshop https://bookshop.org/lists/2021-summer-reading-323d643d-d561-46e4-8db7-4d95a64b9c47  SIGN UP TO GET THE STOP WRITING ALONE REUSABLE WRITING PROMPTS https://mailchi.mp/0e082fd88a6d/stopwritingalone-reusable-writing-prompts  Kim A. Flodin Wise Woman of the Woods https://www.kelekilove.com/  Introduction to Friday Night Writes with Stop Writing Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syi6s1pDYs&t=1s  Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone Bookshop https://bookshop.org/shop/Stopwritingalone  NV Rivera YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPlp1EVzQhDFPdGp5w2KoQ?view_as=subscriber  Stay connected to learn about all Stop Writing Alone stuff -- get on Nicole's email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Buy Nicole a coffee (AKA support the podcast!) https://ko-fi.com/stopwritingalone   Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself: Stop Writing Alone FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/stopwritingalone/ Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone website: https://stopwritingalone.com/ Join the Stop Writing Alone email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Stop Writing Alone Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stopwritingalone/  Nicole's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nv_rivera  The Stop Writing Alone voice number (call to introduce yourself!): (646) 907-9607    When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole's Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!). Please support these women who do so much to support Nicole on a daily basis! Kim A. Flodin https://www.kelekilove.com/  Lisa Murray https://ihavedreamsdammit.com/ Claire Oldham West https://slimmingstories.podbean.com/ Johanna Jaquez-Peralta https://www.instagram.com/latina_livin_keto/ Emma Isaacs https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/   

For this very special episode we interview our own Brynn Martin about her work and get to know ½ of the SFD hosts. We talk about the elementary school poetry unit that rocked her little world, how she was forever changed by LOTR (though she wasn’t allowed to watch it), and how writing poetry has always helped her work through her personal problems. Shoutout to our guest co-host for this episode, Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin, SFD episode 5)! Extra shoutouts to Mr. Carter, Emilia Phillips, and Barb Martin, who taught, mentored, and birthed Brynn, respectively.  You can follow Brynn on Twitter @brynnsie and find her poem, “My Mother’s Nipples” at Crab Orchard Review. You can read the original (yikes-y) Robert Hass poem at Michigan Quarterly Review. You can also read more of Brynn’s recent work at Five:2:One’s #thesideshow. Find our fundraiser on Facebook and share it if you can! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Erin talks to us about her 19-year old poem, the best liquor to drink to pre-game writing #sadpoems (hint: it’s whiskey), and how she basically discovered Lena Dunham. You can read Erin’s poem “Frieze” at Guernica Magazine https://www.guernicamag.com/frieze/. You can find her at http://www.sundresspublications.com/erin/ and follow her on twitter @sundresserin.    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. As Cathy Park Hong states at the end of her New Republic essay, “There’s a New Movement in American Poetry and it is Not Kenneth Goldsmith”: “poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice. The era of Conceptual Poetry’s ahistorical nihilism is over and we have entered a new era, the poetry of social engagement.” This anthology stands with a significant few who are helping to usher in or marking this renewed time of social engagement through poetry. Up and coming poets are balking at the instruction to stay away from the political, the politicized, and the instigative. We are writing about the body as we have come to understand it, not a version sanitized for comfortable consumption. With two editors–Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith–at the helm who were fully present in their responsibility to broadly represent the politics of identity, this anthology is unafraid. It refuses to apologize and instead insists that it is owed some genuflection. Unified in their disparate realities, these 65 poets sing, perform, and present their versions of life, love, and loss across spectrums and time lines. Listen here for four of these exceptional poets to share their work. This anthology, these poets, and these editors understand that literature has a responsibility to reinforce or establish empathy; it is not merely a mirror or means of self-appraisal, it has a responsibility to act as connective tissue. Pick up a copy of this anthology today. Share it, give it as a gift, teach it–let these poems flex and stretch throughout the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. As Cathy Park Hong states at the end of her New Republic essay, “There’s a New Movement in American Poetry and it is Not Kenneth Goldsmith”: “poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice. The era of Conceptual Poetry’s ahistorical nihilism is over and we have entered a new era, the poetry of social engagement.” This anthology stands with a significant few who are helping to usher in or marking this renewed time of social engagement through poetry. Up and coming poets are balking at the instruction to stay away from the political, the politicized, and the instigative. We are writing about the body as we have come to understand it, not a version sanitized for comfortable consumption. With two editors–Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith–at the helm who were fully present in their responsibility to broadly represent the politics of identity, this anthology is unafraid. It refuses to apologize and instead insists that it is owed some genuflection. Unified in their disparate realities, these 65 poets sing, perform, and present their versions of life, love, and loss across spectrums and time lines. Listen here for four of these exceptional poets to share their work. This anthology, these poets, and these editors understand that literature has a responsibility to reinforce or establish empathy; it is not merely a mirror or means of self-appraisal, it has a responsibility to act as connective tissue. Pick up a copy of this anthology today. Share it, give it as a gift, teach it–let these poems flex and stretch throughout the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. As Cathy Park Hong states at the end of her New Republic essay, “There’s a New Movement in American Poetry and it is Not Kenneth Goldsmith”: “poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice. The era of Conceptual Poetry’s ahistorical nihilism is over and we have entered a new era, the poetry of social engagement.” This anthology stands with a significant few who are helping to usher in or marking this renewed time of social engagement through poetry. Up and coming poets are balking at the instruction to stay away from the political, the politicized, and the instigative. We are writing about the body as we have come to understand it, not a version sanitized for comfortable consumption. With two editors–Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith–at the helm who were fully present in their responsibility to broadly represent the politics of identity, this anthology is unafraid. It refuses to apologize and instead insists that it is owed some genuflection. Unified in their disparate realities, these 65 poets sing, perform, and present their versions of life, love, and loss across spectrums and time lines. Listen here for four of these exceptional poets to share their work. This anthology, these poets, and these editors understand that literature has a responsibility to reinforce or establish empathy; it is not merely a mirror or means of self-appraisal, it has a responsibility to act as connective tissue. Pick up a copy of this anthology today. Share it, give it as a gift, teach it–let these poems flex and stretch throughout the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode poet Erin Elizabeth Smith to talk about Sundress Academy for The Arts, Firefly Farms, and building writing communities both locally and online.

This week's microcast features a pair of scene reports from the Mid-South Book Festival in Memphis and The Union Square Slam in New York City with poetry by Yolonda J. Franklin and Jason Carney. We also preview next week's episode with Sundress Academy for the Arts founder Erin Elizabeth Smith.