Podcasts about harbor editions

April 2025 Dante's Old SouthBuffalo Nichols: Texas based, Milwaukee raised, Buffalo Nichols is known as an acoustic blues guitarist and singer but that isn't the whole story. Two albums into his career, Nichols has proven himself to be an innovative songwriter with lyrics address both personal and political themes with biting insight. His influences range from his time playing in Baptist churches to his many years playing guitar in West African music bands. His experimental and hip-hop influences are displayed as well on his 2023 album, The Fatalist'. Nichols' self-titled  debut, released in October 2021, ascended him to the national stage, earning praise and support from NPR Music (‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert;' All Songs Considered ‘Best of October') to Rolling Stone ('The Fight to Reclaim the Blues' feature; ‘Song You Need To Know'), Bandcamp Daily (‘October Shortlist') to Guitar World, Texas Monthly to Uncut (UK), among many others. www.buffalo-nichols.com/www.instagram.com/buffalonicholsmusic/Odessa Blaine: General oddment and possible cryptid, Odessa haunts the mountains and coffee shops of North Georgia. Her novels and short stories incorporate elements drawn from her Appalachia roots. Odessa has honed her skills as a performance storyteller and loves sharing stories with live audiences. When she's not slinking through the woods or over-caffeinating, Odessa can be found encouraging the creative passions of others by serving multiple writer focused nonprofits based in the Southeast and providing marketing and project management to small businesses.  substack.com/@odessablainebsky.app/profile/odessablaine.bsky.socialJenny Bates enjoys seven poetry books, published in numerous NC and international journals. Jenny was a judge for the Poetry in Plain Sight contest through the NC Poetry Society, 2024. Her book of poems, ESSENTIAL has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024. Her newest collection, From Soil and Soul is available. Jenny's books are also available at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, Bookmarks, the Book Ferret and The Book House in Winston-Salem, Scuppernongs in Greensboro, NC.redhawkpublications.com/Poetry-c120141004www.malaprops.comthebookhousews.comwww.bookferret.comCynthia Atkins: (She, Her), is a prizewinning poet originally from Chicago, IL and the author of Psyche's Weathers, In the Event of Full Disclosure, and Still-Life with God, and Duets from Harbor Editions.  Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, BOMB, Diode, Cimarron Review, Los Angeles Review North American Review, Permafrost, Plume, and Verse Daily. Atkins has earned fellowships and prizes from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. SWWIM Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Writers at Work.  Atkins lives on the Maury River of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with artist Phillip Welch and their family. More info at: www.cynthiaatkins.comOur Sponsors:Lucid House Press: www.lucidhousepublishing.comWhispers of the Flight: www.amazon.com/Whispers-Flight-Voyage-Cosmic-Unity-ebook/dp/B0DB3TLY43The Crown: www.thecrownbrasstown.comBright Hill Press: www.brighthillpress.orgInvisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777808/invisible-strings-by-edited-by-kristie-frederick-daughertyWe Deeply Appreciate:UCLA Extension Writing Program: www.uclaextension.eduMercer University Press: www.mupress.orgThe Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.comNPR: https: www.npr.orgWUTC: www.wutc.orgAlain Johannes for the original score in this show: www.alainjohannes.comThe host, Clifford Brooks', The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Old Gods are available everywhere books are sold. Find them all here: www.cliffbrooks.com/how-to-orderCheck out his Teachable courses, The Working Writer and Adulting with Autism, here: brooks-sessions.teachable.com

In episode 14, Kai Coggin, Poet Laureate of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and host of Wednesday Night Poetry (0:02:56), talks with Ann Wallace about her new book Mother of Other Kingdoms, published in April 2024 by Harbor Editions. Kai speaks about the many ways in which the tender act of mothering living things, whether wild or human, has enriched her life and provides sustaining lessons on finding joy and wonder through difficult times.   In Ask Randi, Dr. Randi Eckel, the native plant expert for NPSNJ and owner of Toadshade Wildflower Farm⁠ (0:35:34), explains why native Jewelweed is hard to find for sale. She then answers a listener question from Maude about how we define local when purchasing native plants. Randi also makes a special announcement about the September trip to Cape May for NPSNJ members.   Kim Correro then speaks with Rebecca McMackin (0:45:41) about the power of ecological horticulture in creating a more just and equitable world. Rebecca discusses the emotional and physical benefits of living in a thriving ecosystem and suggests that access to beauty should be a human right. She wraps up by sharing tips on the importance of knowing how to water your plants and why fall is the ideal planting season. We encourage you to sign up for Rebecca's free NEWSLETTER, which is filled with valuable information for gardeners. Don't forget to check out her TED Talk "Let Your Garden Grow Wild" with almost one million views!   To close out the episode, Kim and Ann talk with Jared Rosenbaum, botanist and co-owner of Wild Ridge Plants in New Jersey (1:09:24). We speak about cultural ecology and Jared's YouTube series ROOTED. Each episode features one wild plant species, sparking stories about place, history, and future prospects. In the upcoming season, they span the state of New Jersey to feature Prickly Pear Cactus, Purple Milkweed, and more. Rooted is a recipient of a 2024 NPSNJ Mini-Grant. 

Maxim D. Shrayer reads his poem, "My Woven Kipa," and Matthew E. Henry reads his poems, "found" and "subtlety: an assay." Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and a professor at Boston College. He was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987. His recent books include A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas and Immigrant Baggage, a memoir. Shrayer's new collection of poetry, Kinship, is forthcoming in April 2024 from Finishing Line Press. Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the Boston-born author of the full length collections the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022) and The Third Renunciation (New York Quarterly Books, 2023), the chapbooks Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020), and the micro-chapbook have you heard the one about…? (Ghost City Press, 2023). He also has a collection forthcoming from Harbor Editions (said the Frog to the scorpion). MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes, an associate editor at Rise Up Review, and is the 2023 winner of the Solstice Literary Magazine Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

Today we meet Maya Williams and we're talking about the book that saved their  life: The Color Purple by Alice Walker.Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine .​Maya's debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, is available through Game Over Books . And Maya's second poetry collection, Refused a Second Date, is available now through Harbor Editions.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into a rich and memorable portrayal of Black women--their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery.Connect with MayaWebsite: mayawilliamspoet.comInstagram:  @emmdubb16Twitter: @emmdubb16Our BookshopVisit our Bookshop for  new releases, current bestsellers, banned books, critically acclaimed LGBTQ books, or peruse the books featured on our podcasts: bookshop.org/shop/thisqueerbookTo purchase The Color Purple visit: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9780143135692.Become an Associate Producer!Become an Associate Producer of our podcast through a $20/month sponsorship on Patreon! A professionally recognized credit, you can gain access to Associate Producer meetings to help guide our podcast into the future! Get started today: patreon.com/thisqueerbookCreditsHost/Founder: J.P. Der BoghossianExecutive Producer: Jim PoundsAssociate Producers: Archie Arnold, Natalie Cruz, Jonathan Fried, Paul Kaefer, Nicole Olila, Joe Perazzo, Bill Shay, and Sean SmithPatreon Subscribers: Stephen D., Stephen Flamm, Ida Göteburg, Thomas Michna, and Gary Nygaard.Creative and Accounting support provided by: Gordy EricksonPermission to use audio from the Kennedy Center Arts Across America - Maya Williams 'Definitions of Home' provided by Maya Williams.Music and SFX credits: visit thiqueerbook.com/musicQuatrefoil LibraryQuatrefoil has created a curated lending library made up of the books featured on our podcast! If you can't buy these books, then borrow them! Link: https://libbyapp.com/library/quatrefoil/curated-1404336/page-1Support the show

Poet Emily Hockaday (2:07) speaks with Ann Wallace about her new poetry collection, In a Body, published in October 2023 by Harbor Editions. Emily discusses the layered ways in which new motherhood, the death of her father, a diagnosis of fibromyalgia—as well as science and ecology—have shaped Emily's work, much of which she composed while walking with her child on the trails of Forest Park in Queens, New York. We then hear from Dr. Randi Eckel (32:52) about the new NPSNJ programs that members can look forward to in 2024. Also, in this episode, Randi answers a question from Gail about using cardboard as a mulch to suppress invasive weeds in a new installment of Ask Randi. And Kim Correro joins the conversation to talk with sustainable landscape designer and naturalist Elaine Silverstein (40:32) about rethinking the lawn. Elaine is the Vice President of Chapters for NPSNJ and the Co-leader of the Bergen Passaic Chapter. She will further share her expertise in “Choosing, Planting, and Caring for Native Plants,” a four-week workshop for The Native Plant Society of New Jersey, to be offered in January. Registration opens on December 4th at NPSNJ.org. And to close out the episode, poet Theta Pavis (1:05:16) shares “Growing Avocadoes in East Orange,” winner of the Seed Challenge that The WildStory ran earlier this fall, sponsored by Jennifer Jewell and Timber Press. Theta and two other winners each received a copy of Jennifer's book What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds.

Maya Williams is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently the seventh poet laureate of Portland, Maine. Maya's debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, was selected as a finalist for the New England Book Award in July 2023, and is available via Game Over Books. Eir second poetry collection, Refused a Second Date, is available via Harbor Editions this October. They have contributed essays to venues such as Black Girl Nerds, Stylist, The Daily Beast, LGBTQ Nation, Honey Literary, The Rumpus, and more. Host: Ryanne Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax

305 The Anthem of Poetry   The arts have always been impactful and meaningful to humanity, however one stands above all the rest in this episode and that is poetry. Poetry conveys emotions and thoughts that are often difficult to put into words, making it one of the most important avenues for both emotional understanding and human connection.  In this episode Sarah Elkins and Maya Williams discuss the importance of poetry and how Maya's experiences and life paths shaped them into the artist they are.    Highlights You'll never know who you can teach or inspire. Find the communities that welcome and love you. Give yourself permission and encouragement to seek what you need and will work for you. Do the work, especially when it's hard. We are all full of contradictions, meaning it is even more important to hold true to our values.  Spite can be a great motivator, especially in succeeding and surviving.   Quotes “I remember telling my therapist, “Oh well, I know that not every space is perfect, right? So I just need to find the first thing that's available to me.” And then my therapist tells me, “You do not have to go to a house of worship that does not love you.”” “It makes me feel upset when someone says something like, “Oh I tried going to a therapist but I just felt worse afterwards so I stopped going.” and it's like that's part of the work! That's part of the work! I can understand not wanting to continue with a therapist if they said something bigoted or they didn't do their jobs, right? But they're doing their job and you feel worse afterwards, you need to give it more time.” “The most impactful friends in my life are the ones who tell me like it is.”   Dear Listeners it is now your turn, I'm curious to know if you have been interested in poetry. Have you ever found it interesting or intriguing or inspiring? And if you haven't, why did you stop looking for poetry that might actually inspire you? I challenge you to find a poem in the next two days that really resonates, a poem you can get into, dive into, maybe find some of your own healing in it. It could be from one of Maya Williams' books, it could be searching “Poems about,” and then putting your keyword in. Find your poem that can be your anthem for a little while, and when that gets tired find another to be your anthem for a little while, just as you would with song lyrics or a song. Don't forget to purchase a book of poetry from your local bookstore to support your local poets. And, as always, thank you for listening.    About Maya (From her website) Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine . ​ Maya's debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, is available through Game Over Books . And Maya's second poetry collection, Refused a Second Date, is available now through Harbor Editions.  ​ See the contact section on how to invite them to your next event as a workshop facilitator, performance feature, speaker, panelist, and/or honorary consensual virtual or air hugger. Maya's content covers suicide awareness, mental health, faith, entertainment media, grief, interpersonal relationships, intimate partner violence, and healing. ​ She graduated with a Bachelors in Social Work and a Bachelors of Art in English in May 2017. She graduated with a community practice-focused Masters in Social Work and Certificate in Applied Arts and Social Justice at the University of New England in May 2018. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts for Creative Writing with a Focus in Poetry at Randolph College in June 2022. ​ They have featured as a guest artist, panelist, and speaker in spaces such as The Mixed Remixed Festival in Los Angeles, California, The Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, Illinois, Black Table Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, TEDxYouth at Cape Elizabeth High School, and The Kennedy Center's Arts Across America series. ​ Ey has competed locally and nationally in slam poetry since her freshman year at East Carolina University under the slam team Word of Mouth in Greenville, North Carolina. While with them, ey placed in the top 20 at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) in 2015, and opened for folks such as Indira Allegra, Neil Hilborn, and Angela Davis. ​ They were a finalist of the Slam Free Or Die Qualifier Slam for their National Poetry Slam (NPS) 2018 team and a runner up of the Slam Free or Die Individual Slam Championship in 2018. ​ Maya has a Patreon you can donate to right here. Be sure to go to Maya's website by clicking here, as well as purchasing their book here, and checking out their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Poets mentioned in this episode   Maya Angelou Anis Mojgani Kaveh Akbar Wanda Coleman Andrea Philips Mia Stuart Willis  About Sarah "Uncovering the right stories for the right audiences so executives, leaders, public speakers, and job seekers can clearly and actively demonstrate their character, values, and vision." In my work with coaching clients, I guide people to improve their communication using storytelling as the foundation of our work together. What I've realized over years of coaching and podcasting is that the majority of people don't realize the impact of the stories they share - on their internal messages, and on the people they're sharing them with. My work with leaders and people who aspire to be leaders follows a similar path to the interviews on my podcast, uncovering pivotal moments in their lives and learning how to share them to connect more authentically with others, to make their presentations and speaking more engaging, to reveal patterns that have kept them stuck or moved them forward, and to improve their relationships at work and at home. The audiobook, Your Stories Don't Define You, How You Tell Them Will is now available! Included with your purchase are two bonus tracks, songs recorded by Sarah's band, Spare Change, in her living room in Montana. Be sure to check out the Storytelling For Professionals Course as well to make sure you nail that next interview!

Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the onset of chronic illness and parenting through grief. Her next full-length, In a Body, will be out in October with Harbor Editions. This collection looks at chronic illness through the lens of ecopoetry. Emily is the author of five chapbooks and has had poems in a variety of print and online journals. You can learn more about her at www.emilyhockaday.com. Naming the Ghost, Hockaday's first full-length collection, is a strikingly unique collection of poems that take on the grief of losing a parent just as the author becomes one herself during the time between onset of her chronic symptoms and a diagnosis that she was convinced, all evidence be damned, was fatal. Written during what the author herself calls her nervous breakdown, Naming the Ghost gives the reader a voicey visceral, encapsulating experience of the anxiety, disorientation and kind of fear of the tempts one to do reckless things that comprise the no-man's land between knowing something's wrong but not yet knowing its name. You can find Naming The Ghost on Cornerstone Press's store and on Amazon. You can learn more about the interviewer Megan Wildhood at meganwildhood.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the onset of chronic illness and parenting through grief. Her next full-length, In a Body, will be out in October with Harbor Editions. This collection looks at chronic illness through the lens of ecopoetry. Emily is the author of five chapbooks and has had poems in a variety of print and online journals. You can learn more about her at www.emilyhockaday.com. Naming the Ghost, Hockaday's first full-length collection, is a strikingly unique collection of poems that take on the grief of losing a parent just as the author becomes one herself during the time between onset of her chronic symptoms and a diagnosis that she was convinced, all evidence be damned, was fatal. Written during what the author herself calls her nervous breakdown, Naming the Ghost gives the reader a voicey visceral, encapsulating experience of the anxiety, disorientation and kind of fear of the tempts one to do reckless things that comprise the no-man's land between knowing something's wrong but not yet knowing its name. You can find Naming The Ghost on Cornerstone Press's store and on Amazon. You can learn more about the interviewer Megan Wildhood at meganwildhood.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the onset of chronic illness and parenting through grief. Her next full-length, In a Body, will be out in October with Harbor Editions. This collection looks at chronic illness through the lens of ecopoetry. Emily is the author of five chapbooks and has had poems in a variety of print and online journals. You can learn more about her at www.emilyhockaday.com. Naming the Ghost, Hockaday's first full-length collection, is a strikingly unique collection of poems that take on the grief of losing a parent just as the author becomes one herself during the time between onset of her chronic symptoms and a diagnosis that she was convinced, all evidence be damned, was fatal. Written during what the author herself calls her nervous breakdown, Naming the Ghost gives the reader a voicey visceral, encapsulating experience of the anxiety, disorientation and kind of fear of the tempts one to do reckless things that comprise the no-man's land between knowing something's wrong but not yet knowing its name. You can find Naming The Ghost on Cornerstone Press's store and on Amazon. You can learn more about the interviewer Megan Wildhood at meganwildhood.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

Hi there, Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Audra Kerr Brown! (audrakerrbrown.wordpress.com) Audra Kerr Brown lives with her husband and two children at the end of a dirt road in Iowa. Her work has appeared in the Best Small Fictions (2018, 2021 editions) and Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fiction List. Former managing editor of New Flash Fiction Review, she is now the founding creator and archivist of the (sometimes) YouTube channel, The Flashtronauts! which “explores the ever-expanding universe of Flash Fiction.” Her flash chapbook, hush hush hush, is available at Harbor Editions. hush hush hush now available! https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/hush-hush-hush Audra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/audrakerrbrown "Keep at it. Keep turning your wheels. That is success." Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent: much love, j https://artscalling.com/welcome/

Michael talks with Matthew E. Henry about teaching high school, becoming drawn to the immediacy of poetry, advanced degrees in poetry and theology and education, a chapbook leading to his first full-length poetry collection, teaching and learning in mostly white educational spaces, a book as a prompt for recurring forms to access content, writing in conversation with the work of Langston Hughes, narrative arc and lyric depth in poetry, sarcasm as a poetic tool, and more.Matthew E. Henry is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022), Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). He has two collections forthcoming in 2023 from New York Quarterly Books and Harbor Editions. MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Sonia Greenfield (she/they) is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: All Possible Histories, released in December 2022 with Riot in Your Throat; Letdown, released in March 2020, selected for the Marie Alexander Series, and published by White Pine Press, and Boy With a Halo at the Farmer's Market, which won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize and was published in 2015. Her chapbook, Helen of Troy is High AF will be out with Harbor Editions in January 2023, and American Parable, won the 2017 Autumn House Press chapbook prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of places, including in the 2018 and 2010 Best American Poetry, Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, and Willow Springs. She lives with her family in Minneapolis where she teaches at Normandale College, edits the Rise Up Review, and advocates for neurodiversity and the decentering of the cis/het white hegemony. Find much more here: https://www.soniagreenfield.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 about a time in your life when you felt like you lost yourself. What were the circumstances? Use as much detail as possible. How did you find yourself again? Write for 10 minutes. Next, type into a search bar: “If you don't” and then just one more letter (for example, "If you don't r".) How does the search engine think you might want to finish the sentence? Choose one of these as the first line of your poem. How can you tie the ideas together? Maybe you can incorporate a few of them into your poem? Next Week's Prompt: Go to a newspaper of your choice. Find a headline you find completely uninteresting. Read the entire article and let your mind wander. Write a poem about where it went. Title it with a phrase from the article. 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.

On this episode, "summer is open", Darren and Shannon Frost Greenstein get a chance to discuss developing a child's evolving understanding of their place in the world. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "there's no place to go" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "summer is open", Darren and Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick get a chance to discuss developing a child's evolving adventures and freedom. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "summer is open" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "that coal", Darren and Sara Moore Wagner get a chance to discuss developing a child's evolving language as the world presents itself to them. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "that coal" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "she is enough to break open any atom", Darren and Kimberly Ann Priest get a chance to discuss developing a child's confidence and independence. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "she is enough to break open any atom" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "her body", Darren and Kolleen Carney Hoepfner get a chance to discuss the anger, sadness, and fierce love that is generated in a parent's heart when others attempt to impose themselves on a child's body and their choices about their body. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "her body" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "not the dead boy on the news", Darren and Jack Bedell get a chance to discuss grief, activism, and the changing contexts of a child's development. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "not the dead boy on the news" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "an orange fruit bowl", Darren and Marianne Chan get a chance to discuss gender expectations, a child's right to their own narrative, and how parents can support their children as they mature into themselves. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "an orange fruit bowl" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "a mask or two", Darren and Tommy Dean get a chance to discuss a child's constant development, ability to adapt, and their creative approaches to identity. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "a mask or two" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "the self-removal", Darren and Cathy Ulrich get a chance to discuss a child's understanding of accomplishment, ego, and the willingness to help others. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the self-removal" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "it's one defeat at a time", Darren and Joan Kwon Glass get a chance to discuss a child's understanding of challenging authority and a parent's challenge of continuing to educate and care for children in the current environment. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "it's one defeat at a time" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "not far off", Darren and Ira Sukrungruang get a chance to discuss a child's understanding of authority and violence in the world. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "those junk plums" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "those junk plums", Darren and Philip Metres get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's search for and creation of joy in this complicated world. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "those junk plums" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "the pipes in the rain", Darren and Teri Ellen Cross Davis get a chance to discuss the idea of a child learning and developing with the nature around them. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the pipes in the rain" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

We're thrilled to consider new poems and flash fiction by Dr. Emily Kingery on this episode. Subtle and specific and utterly compelling, these poems make us ponder and pause and praise. We're global as ever, Slushies: from Lititz, PA, to the KGB Bar, Gabby is somewhere in Powelton, it's last year's Ramadan (Ramadan Kareem!), Samantha hasn't gotten married yet, and Kingery's got us thinking about the trouble we got into in high school basements. Time warps and shapes shift! Listen in & enjoy.    This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist A.M.Mills, whose song “Spaghetti with Loretta” now opens our show.    At the table: Addison, Alex, Gabby, Jason, Kate, Kathy, Larissa, Marion, & Samantha    Emily Kingery is an English professor at a small university in Iowa and the author of Invasives (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), a semi-finalist in the New Women's Voices Series. Her work appears widely in journals, including Birdcoat Quarterly, Blood Orange Review, GASHER, The Madison Review, Midwest Review, New Ohio Review, Plainsongs, Raleigh Review, and Sidereal, among others. She has been a chapbook finalist at Harbor Editions and Thirty West Publishing House, as well as the recipient of honors and awards in both poetry and prose at Eastern Iowa Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Midway Journal, Quarter After Eight, and Small Orange Journal. She serves on the Board of Directors at the Midwest Writing Center, a non-profit supporting writers in the Quad Cities community (mwcqc.org), and you can follow her on facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ekingery/ Dirtbag Wilderness Our dirtbags, our dirtbags were medicine men.   They spoke as oracles, capped bottles, skated   razorblades across the glass of pictures.   It's just like shoveling snow, laughed our dirtbags   as they unburied their parents' faces.   Like raking leaves, want to try?   We watched their hands swap bills, our eyes   the wrong kind of wild. Our dirtbags laughed:   You can sit with us while we finish.   This was intimacy: our sitting; their finishing.   We laughed; we returned frames to their shelves.   We bought shadows dark and lip stains darker. Darker,   said our dirtbags, damp on basement couches.   We envied in secret the laughs of bright girls,   high as their hair pinned in hard, slick curls.   They spun like acrobats in the high school gym,   strobing in glitz we were disallowed.   Bitches, spat our dirtbags, skanks, whichever   words coaxed our laughter. We swallowed them   like expectorant and laughed in wet coughs   under canopies of parking lot trees,   our arms crossed as though coffined already.   We rolled in our dirtbags' scent like hunting dogs,   napped in stuffy rooms as their hands, their hands   blessed guns, made backpacks heavy with Ziploc holy.   It's all good, laughed our dirtbags. Our hips, our ponytails   swayed easy as leaves. By summer, our dirtbags   wore sly, deep pockets, weighed powders,   held capsules to the light under a jeweler's loupe.   The car windows glided, phones lit up like lightning   bugs on the shoulders of gravel roads. Such soft light,   light of vigils, light the yellow of a forgiven bruise.   We rode to neighboring towns of missing teeth and needles.   We cried in bathrooms far from home. We were home   when we laughed, when we laughed we laughed Everclear vomit.   But our dirtbags, our dirtbags let us sit while they finished,   and their hands were warm as stones pressing us to sleep.   Funeral for a Cat When the cat was killed by a driver in a tragic hit-and-run, the dirt bike kid watched it happen. He screamed to gather us to her carcass: Pumpkin! He pedaled hard around the block. Pumpkin is dead! I was afraid to tell Dad, at first. He went outside, shoveled Pumpkin into a grocery bag and dug a hole under a lilac bush. It was too late in the season for flowers, but he said they would bloom next year: a small truth sounding like kindness. The kids begged him for a real funeral to say goodbye. He smiled a little, but not at them, and had us circle the grave and hold each other's sweaty hands while he prayed. It was a test. The dirt bike kid and the girls with yards of upside-down toys wept for the cat, loose with their sadness. The streetlights flickered on, and I was afraid of Dad again. I tried not to picture Pumpkin with a halo and wings, but I failed. I begged God to forgive me for it, then tried not to picture God as a cat shaking its head at my blasphemy, then prayed not to cry as the cats kept coming. I missed the amen, but I held out. I passed. After the funeral, Dad said I was so grown-up, not weeping over a cat that didn't belong to anyone. Not to the neighborhood, not even to God. He prayed over hamsters in the years to follow, maybe a second cat. He prayed, and I grew into a tragic, feral thing.          

On this episode, "the roots have risen up away from the trunk", Darren and Maureen Langloss get a chance to discuss the idea of a child learning to find their own way in the world. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the roots have risen up away from the trunk" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "you might choose to read these poems", Darren and Aubrey Hirsch get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's interaction and understanding of the work their parents create. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "you might choose to read these poems" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "there is a small song", Darren and Hannah Stephenson get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's play and creativity. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "there is a small song" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "collarbones", Darren and Danny Caine get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's place in politics and those first conversations about social and economic justice. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "collarbones" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "drinking where the animals drink", Darren and Todd Dillard get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's place is nature, in the time of Covid-19, and how imagination plays into all of it. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "drinking where the animals drink" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "one candle", Darren and Keith Leonard get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's place of growth, small towns and cities, and how those locations play a role in development. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "one candle" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "the dark gets cold", Darren and Adam Clay get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's grief, growth, and their development into connected and joyful people. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the dark gets cold" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "the control of the bird", Darren and Jessica Q. Stark get a chance to discuss the idea of a child's freedom, safety, and their development into dynamic people. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the control of the bird" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "the words again", Darren and Katie Manning get a chance to discuss the idea of children, their language, linguistics, and storytelling. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the words again" from the a child walks in the dark collection (available now from Harbor Editions) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "the field moves towards you", Darren and Han VanderHart get a chance to discuss the idea of children, their inheritance, understanding, and growth. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "the field moves towards you" from the a child walks in the dark collection (due to be published by Harbor Editions in December 2021) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "if they ever find themselves strapped to the mast", Darren and Alina Stefanescu get a chance to discuss the idea of children, their lineage and authorship of their own lives. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "if they ever find themselves strapped to the mast" from the a child walks in the dark collection (due to be published by Harbor Editions in December 2021) that inspired the theme for this episode.

On this episode, "there is enough youth", Darren and Donna Vorreyer (Poet) get a chance to discuss the idea of music and performance and parenting through all that volume. Make sure to listen to the end of the podcast to hear Darren read his poem "there is enough youth" from the a child walks in the dark collection (due to be published by Harbor Editions in December 2021) that inspired the theme for this episode.