Podcasts about poets

Tansy's Hot Cup of History essay series continues with a two-part tale of the Roman poet who specialised in snark, adultery and Sapphic allusions… and still found time to slag off Julius Caesar and friends. Sign up to my author newsletter for updates, follow me on Insta, Threads or Bluesky as @tansyrr, find me at tansyrr.com and on Facebook at TansyRRBooks, and if you like this podcast consider supporting me at Patreon where you can receive all kinds of cool rewards, early ebooks and exclusive stories for a small monthly pledge.

Today's poem is The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Poets are known for making big moves in small spaces. We value brevity and compression, which go hand in hand. In a brief poem, maybe a poem with only a handful of lines, each word weighs a ton. We have to choose them carefully. An enormous amount of meaning — and possibility — is packed inside every word. I picture them as expandable suitcases, unzipped so that we can stuff even more inside them. That's compression! The words themselves may be few, but they carry a great deal.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, regulatory decisions and new journal articles.

Poets From the Neighborhood - Ep. #500

Our disparate team of POETS converge at New Alexandria; as tensions rise amongst against stubborn personalities, will they survive each other, or get lost in the labyrinthian halls of Pointwall Academy?Featuring:Dusty (⁠@dustehill⁠) as the Game MasterAkino (⁠@akinomiiart⁠) as TechnomancerAmelia (⁠@amelia-g-music⁠) as CanaryAubrey (⁠@aubreyvakarian⁠) as TeliavelisReed (⁠@reedplays⁠) as Golden Boyand special guest Logan (⁠@holloworange⁠) as Indigo-12! Please check out more of his work on the ⁠Bloom&Blight⁠ podcast!Lancer is created by Tom Parkinson Morgan (author of Kill Six Billion Demons) and Miguel Lopez of Massif Press. Bring Your Own Mech is not an official Lancer product; it is a third party work, and is not affiliated with Massif Press. Bring Your Own Mech is published via the Lancer Third Party License. Lancer is copyright Massif Press. Support the official release at ⁠⁠⁠https://massif-press.itch.io⁠⁠⁠Support us on Patreon! ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/bringyourownmech⁠⁠⁠Get the official season 1 album, Bring Your Own Mixtape vol. 1! ⁠⁠⁠https://ownmech.bandcamp.com/album/bring-your-own-mixtape-vol-1⁠⁠⁠DRC CUSTOM OUTFITTERS Download: ⁠⁠⁠https://ownmech.itch.io/drc-custom-outfitters-a-lancer-supplement⁠⁠⁠Pilot NET Discord Server: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/p3p8FUm9b4⁠

Karen Palmer joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about changing her identity to escape a dangerous ex-husband, being stalked, the consequences of deciding to disappear, coming to grips with the experience of domestic abuse, mistaking grief for maturity, telling a story as truthfully as possible, relinquishing a child, the long-term effect of PTSD, not ever completely knowing ourselves or others, deep truth vs. inconsequential truth, writing about ourself like we are a character, projecting a persona that isn't real, understanding the end of the story late in the writing, moving around in time without losing the reader, believing in a story and the ability to tell it, and her new memoir She's Under Here: a Love Story, a Horror Story, a Reckoning.   Also in this episode: -keeping the faith -trying a story out as fiction first -coming of age with many obstacles   Books mentioned in this episode: -In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado -Bluets by Maggie Nelson  -Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel    Karen Palmer's memoir She's Under Here grew out of her award-winning essay The Reader Is the Protagonist, first published in VQR and selected by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in Best American Essays 2017. She has received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the NEA and the Colorado Council on the Arts, and is the author of the novels All Saints and Border Dogs. Other work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Arts & Letters, The Rumpus, and Kalliope. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, CO, and lives with her husband in California.    Connect with Karen: Website: www.karenpalmer.com Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/karenpalmer.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/karenpalmer1989/ Facebook: facebook.com/palmer.karen She's Under Here can be purchased at:   AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Shes-Under-Here-Karen-Palmer/dp/1643757547?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.V14dH3NYK1_JGqY01snjfw.dGdXTKkQ0h0_uH68hQXjNRQ82iK7rF80ygG6EAeafQ8&qid=1759333809&sr=8-1' BOOKSHOP.ORG: https://bookshop.org/p/books/she-s-under-here-a-memoir-karen-palmer/d5c065268851768c?ean=9781643757544&next=t For a signed copy from Diesel Bookstore: https://dieselbookstore.com/book/9781643757544s Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shes-under-here-karen-palmer/1147279207?ean=9781643757544   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

Poetry as memory, poetry as history that's what OG San Jose Pinay Poet Arlene Biala brings us today with her poem.

Springfield Area Arts Council organizes the Poetry Out Loud Contest annually. Mark Turcotte, the Illinois Poet Laureate, visits to share how poetry is thriving because it's more than dead poets.

Host Pádraig Ó Tuama shares “The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare, a favorite childhood poem of his, and offers an audio postscript to Season 10 of Poetry Unbound. Later in 2026, he will bring us more Poetry Unbound to look forward to — find out what and when here. In the meantime, you can listen to past episodes of Poetry Unbound or to new episodes of On Being with Krista Tippett, out now.   We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.   Walter de la Mare was born on April 25, 1873, in London. He is the author of numerous books, including The Veil and Other Poems (Constable & Company, 1921) and The Listeners (Constable & Company, 1912). He died on June 22, 1956, in Twickenham, England. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bianca Stone talks with Mathias Svalina and Ben Pease about two poems, Paul Celan’s posthumously published book Schneepart, “I HEAR THE AXE HAS FLOWERED,” and “[God Talks to Each of Us as He Makes Us]”. https://www.mathiassvalina.com

Saturday, February 21, 2026 by Dr. Fawzia Al-Rawi The Qur'an speaks to the body, the heart, and the invisible depths of the soul. Among the gifts it offers us are six verses that God Himself calls “the verses of healing,” āyāt ash-shifā'. These verses are not metaphors, but gateways where the Divine Word meets the human wound. During this gathering, we will explore and experience the way in which God heals: through words, light, dhikr, and the awakening of the deep heart. Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Al-Rifai was born in Baghdad. She holds a doctorate in Islamic studies and studied Arabic language, Islam, and ethnology at the universities of Vienna and Cairo. She lived for twelve years in Jerusalem, where she deepened her knowledge of Sufism, both in theory and in practice, with her master, Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Al-Rifai. Since 2001, she has lived in Vienna and has been dedicated to transmitting Sufi wisdom and its traditions. Her teaching is particularly addressed to women and aims to build bridges of understanding between different cultures in order to contribute to peace in the world. Fawzia Al-Rawi is the author of several books, notably “The Call of Allah – a companion for the sacred month of Ramadan.” The Verses of Healing – Āyāt al-Shifā' In the Qur'an, the “verses of healing” (āyāt al-shifā' / آيات الشفاء) are six in number. These are the verses in which the word shifā' (healing) or the verb yashfī (to heal) are mentioned. They are recited for the purpose of healing. قَاتِلُوهُمْ يُعَذِّبْهُمُ اللَّهُ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ وَيُخْزِهِمْ وَيَنْصُرْكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيَشْفِ صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مُؤْمِنِينَ “Fight them; God will punish them by your hands, disgrace them, grant you victory over them, and heal the hearts of a believing people.” (Surah 9 At-Tawbah – The Repentance, verse 14) يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُمْ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَشِفَاءٌ لِمَا فِي الصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ “O mankind! There has come to you an exhortation from your Lord, a healing for what is in your hearts, and guidance and mercy for the believers.” (Surah 10 Yūnus – Jonah, verse 57) يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٌ مُخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهُ فِيهِ شِفَاءٌ لِلنَّاسِ “From their bellies comes a drink of varying colors, in which there is healing for people.” (Surah 16 An-Nahl – The Bees, verse 69) وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ “And We send down through the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy for the believers.” (Surah 17 Al-Isrā' – The Night Journey, verse 82) وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ “And when I fall ill, it is He who heals me.” (Surah 26 Ash-Shu‘arā' – The Poets, verse 80) قُلْ هُوَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا هُدًى وَشِفَاءٌ “Say: For those who believe, it [the Qur'an] is a guidance and a healing.” (Surah 41 Fuṣṣilat – Explained in Detail, verse 44) For more information, visit our website: https://consciencesoufie.com/

Have you ever watched, in awe, as a skilled gymnast or skater lifts off and completes a dizzying number of revolutions in less than a second before landing safely back down? That's how you may feel upon reading the great Leonard Cohen's urgent, dreamlike poem “I, 8” from Book of Mercy. In his telling of a man's fall “from his high place” into “disgrace”, Cohen sends us on a short, 206-word journey that seamlessly weaves together narration, fiction, meditation, devotion, and prayer.   We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.   Leonard Cohen had an artistic career that began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and 10 books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs and Book of Longing. During a recording career that spanned almost 50 years, he released 14 studio albums, the last of which, You Want It Darker, was released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. He died on November 7, 2016. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Poets From the Neighborhood - Ep. #499

We're joined by Culture Desk co-host and writer Joshua Michael Stewart to explore the work of some of America's great living poets.  This is a great chance for our listeners to explore poetry and what's going on in the minds of some of our most capable and artistic writers for all ages.  We explore among others: Joy Harjo, Charles Simic, Billy Collins.  Find the work of our co-host by clicking here.

Dorothy Roberts joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about her father's interviews beginning in the 1930s with over 500 back-white couples who crossed the color line in Chicago,  moving to memoir to explore more personal experiences and feelings, growing up in a mixed race family, shifting the lens onto herself, thinking about identity, finding answers via the writing process, staying motivated and organized while working with heaps of material, the mystery in memoir, bringing the reader into the discovery process, the adventure of not knowing, looking for evidence people can love across racial boundaries, and her new book The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race and Family.   Info/Registration for Ronit's 10-Week Memoir Class Memoir Writing:Finding Your Story https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/memoir-writing-finding-your-story   Also in this episode: -taking breaks -working with source material -the possibility of racial harmony in America   Books mentioned in this episode: -The Color of Water by James McBride -South to America by Imani Perry -The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson -The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom   Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of five books, including Killing the Black Body, a MacArthur Fellow, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   Connect with Dorothy: Website: https://www.dorothyeroberts.com/ Get the book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mixed-Marriage-Project/Dorothy-Roberts/9781668068380   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

Will you leave this episode feeling uplifted, envious, curious, or something else entirely? Yes. Billy-Ray Belcourt's poem “Subarctica” transports you to a vividly specific time — “the coldest December / on record, I haven't left my mother's / house in over a week” — where the primary view is of poplars in “a tiny schoolyard”. Amid the simplicity and snow, the speaker shifts their perspective, seeing beyond their past and towards the wonder in their present and in what is to come.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.   Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is the author of six books, including the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning debut This Wound Is a World. Belcourt serves as the Canada Research Chair in Queer Indigenous Cultural Production at the University of British Columbia and also edits poetry for Hazlitt. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There is something powerful about hearing a poem in the voice of the one who received it. In this special book launch episode, you'll step inside Nature & Nurture, the fifth book in the Soulful Poems series from Soulful Valley Publishing.    Instead of a single interview, this episode becomes a living anthology. A weaving of voices. A chorus of hearts. Poets from around the world share excerpts from their own work, bringing themes of healing, resilience, earth wisdom, intuition, and sacred self-remembrance into your ears and into your body. You'll hear words that soothe.   Lines that awaken. Moments that feel like they were written just for you.   This is more than a book launch. It is a collective activation.     If you've ever felt held by nature, guided by spirit, or strengthened through life's storms, these voices will meet you exactly where you are.   The full book, Soulful Poems: Nature & Nurture, is now available on Amazon internationally.    If a particular poem speaks to you, please consider leaving a review. Every ripple helps these voices travel further. Welcome to the sound of Soulful Valley.    Here are the links:   Australia / New Zealand - https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 UK - https://amzn.to/4tYlKOR Germany - https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 France - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 Spain - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 Italy - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 USA - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 Mexico - https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B0GQ4L58C2 BR - https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B0GQ4L58C2      Watch the Zero Limits Movie on Amazon Prime or Apple TV  https://zerolimitsmovie.com/katiec .  Leave a short review on IMDb or Amazon to ripple this message further. Zero Limits (2025) - IMDb   Subscribe to both Soulful Valley Podcast & She Invests Intuitively to stay in the miracle flow. She Invests Intuitively Podcast – Soulful Valley

What nanty narking our Reginas have with some slang from the Victorian era. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Marilyn Nelson's poem in The New Yorker that Aaron was thinking of is "Pigeon and Hawk."Poets we mention include (with a poem by each):Marie HoweCleopatra MathisLinda GreggLucie Brock-BroidoAdrienne RichYvor WintersFrank O'HaraAnna AkhmatovaLynn MelnickMary Jo BangJean Valentines, "Ghost Elephants"Larry Levis and Aaron's poem "Elegy" which references Levis's "The Smell of the Sea"James MerrillBrenda HillmanRichard HowardShaon OldsHenry David ThoreauLaura KasischkeLucille CliftonAracelis GirmayKenneth KochRupi KaurJacques J. RancourtTerrance Hayes

This satirical audio transcript from "The Strange Mole Show" employs surrealist sketch comedy to critique the contemporary political landscape of the United Kingdom and the United States. The narrative is structured as a series of absurdist vignettes, featuring caricatured versions of figures like Donald Trump, Liz Truss, and Nigel Farage, while utilizing a Harry Potter allegory to mock the perceived failures of Keir Starmer's leadership. Central themes include the instability of global power, the corruption of the "billionaire class," and the lingering shadows of scandals like the Epstein list. Ultimately, the piece serves as a biting social commentary, using dark humor and parody songs to express a deep-seated populist frustration with institutional hypocrisy and the erosion of political accountability.   Transcript: A year off from doing the Strange Mole Show and where are we? The Greens have just won Gorton and Denton. Maybe there's a bit of hope. Maybe the world is about to change for the better. We bring you this breaking news. Israel and America have bombed Iran. Oh, bollocks. The strange mole show. The strange mole show. pop baby. What the hell?   Mr. President, I need you to stop playing with the sliders on your toy tariff adjuster and come with me. Why? What's going on?   I need you to come with me to a secure location. We've had notice of a credible threat.   Who is it?   Reports are coming in that Bliss Trust is on her way and she wants to shake hands with you.   Jesus Christ. Get me out of here.   Ky Donald.   Oh my god.   S about the window. I don't know what's going on. on with your door people. But they said I didn't have the right credentials. Can you imagine? As if anyone needs qualifications and credentials anymore.   Listen, Liz, baby, it's great to see you and everything, but I got a lot going on right now. So many beautiful things. And I'm going to have to take a little rain check until   until you can find a new sunny hot spot. Liz. Honey, don't be like that.   Like what, Donald? I thought you liked my cheery disposition.   I just don't want you to go upsetting yourself again. Remember what the doctor said about getting all confused when you think about things too hard.   I get what doctors Donald,   this is nappy one requesting immediate backup. The shrew is Wild. I repeat, the shrew is wild. Ma'am, stand down.   Lizzy Sugar, calm down.   Where is my necklace, Donald?   I don't have it. I swear.   You can tell me now while you still have the faculties to read an auto quue. Or we can do a photo op and shake hands to celebrate. how you have so many former world leaders still like you. It's up to you, Donnie.   Please, no, not the handshake. I've got so much to live for.   Really?   Well, no. But there's still a few megamorons with some dollars I can squeeze.   The necklace, Donald.   I don't Don't have it. I never did. It was another bluff.   You son of a   Wait, wait. Steve has it.   Steve Bannon.   No, Steve Guttenberg. Of course, Steve Bannon. Now, please don't shake my hand. I can't go out like the queen.   All right, but this isn't over until I get what's mine, Donnie.   Sure. Sure. Whatever you need. baby.   And if I don't, the list you're going to be on is the obituary one. Are we clear?   Totally, Crystal. I'll make all the calls. So many beautiful calls to find out everything you need to know.   You'd better because the lady ain't for learning.   What?   Oh, and Donald.   Yes.   Don't forget to like and subscribe on my YouTube. YouTube channel. Till next time, the listister is leaving. Watcher. God damn it, that was a close one. Quick, let's bomb her ran and see if we can shut down the world's airspace so she can't come back. What the hell is going on? I was assured that when I opened this magical cabinet, I would have access to all the corridors of power. And now look where we are.   My Lord Bulga thought   that's not my title yet. I was hoping to retire into the role, but instead we are one year on from getting rid of that Tory fool Bumblebear, and I'm suddenly two Horcruxes. down out of nowhere.   Two Horlocks is down, Saki.   Yes, two. I can no longer hear the whispers of advice from the old dark lord that were hidden deep within Jeff Fiddler's diary. Now that everyone's sunk their teeth into it, it's ruined. And just last night, somebody cut their head off my beloved snake that was by my side.   Won't somebody think of the women and children?   That's the problem. Everybody will, and they'll see that We facilitated these spells of horror in human history, too.   Well, I'm sorry to report, but your NHS data eaters have been reporting attacks of green lightning strikes with people shouting, "I've had enough of this s***." Bloody hell, Wasel. Just watch where Yao's firing off shots at.   Enough. There is no time for fighting when we have these Harley Quinn plotters taking down our power bases. They just killed off Gorton and Denton.   This did all start to go wrong when you grasped hold of the deadly values. Yao now.   All right. I know that trying to throw a cloak of invisibility over the disabled and trans community caused a bit of a muggle. And perhaps snapping the elder bonds was a mistake.   Resurrecting saturity was always going to get you stoned.   Well, it was that or let in the demented. It's bad enough he's still hovering over Gaza looking for a job.   So, are we summoning all of your supporters for a counter attack? Reveal some scandalous secrets, Hogwarts and all.   Don't be absurd. I haven't any supporters left. Just a few patron asses to defend me. I shall have to lie low and hope I don't get scorched by an ally in an unexpected way. See you, Anna. Oh dear.   Next up on Radio Flawed, it's Poets's Corner with Spam Heirs. Scam. le abounds. Rumors persist. Who could be named in the full Epstein list? Excitement and interest for a gossipy twist. Such picadillo. Who could resist? Will there be royals, princes and kings? Political classes and celebrity rings. Corruption and crime in each institution. Powerful figures runchy. Prostitution. Media mogul maintain the illusion. Generations of suburuge lies and confusion. Page upon page of such sickening depravity. Everyone struggling with the size, the pure gravity of evil, its ability and widespread capacity. So how do we deal with truths we have learned? The tales of these women, those stories were burned. And when the stakes were so high, when blind eyes were turned, and no verdict of justice was ever returned. Public inquiry, public outrage. Don't let the billionaire class turn the page. Reject the old orders. Start a new age. And never rest up till they rot in a cage. Hello, Nigel Farage here, working hard from home in my beloved town of um where do I live this week? Ah, yes, Clton. Here with a special message for my old pal Steve from your old pal Jeffrey who's asked me to pass on his Best wishes from beyond the veil. Whoa. Beyond the veil. Oh, that sounds a bit, you know, nice. Wink wink. I hope this Jeffrey isn't a threat to women and children. Oh, Mr. Farage, you scared me. I did not know you were working from home today.   Ah, Wanita, I'm sorry if you were startled. I'm just doing a few recordings and I thought my wife had told you that I was here.   No, Mr. Ash, she not tell me nothing. I cannot understand her. I don't speak German.   Well, regardless of that, I do have a number of cameo videos to make here. So,   Oh, that is why you not have the trousers on. You're so naughty, Mr. Farage.   No, no, it's nothing like that. I just got up and was simply knocking out a few gems for my loyal followers to start the day.   Understands me, sir. Farage. You're an alien. Riser, but it's just for only fans. You are a giver.   Precisely. No, wait. It's not that at all.   Oh, you're on the take.   No.   Oh, it's a tough economy, Mr. Farage. We do what we can to pay the bills. Everyone needs a side hustle. Quanita runs evening rumba class.   I'm not sure that I can approve of provocative, exotic, foreign, non-Christian dancing. Oh, Mr. Farage. Roomba classes. I teach for boomers that are too lazy to read instructions or use the internet on how they use electronica. It pays for cruise three times a year. Hoovering up the profits. Eh.   Oh, see Mr. Farage. So, Juanita is very busy. Um, when can clean, please?   Well, I'm very busy, Wanita. Let's see. I've got wellw wishes for a pizza. A file press, a G. Maxwell, a Mandy Petlesson. Oh, I've also got to get through three H Shipman's, four J Saviles, and half a dozen Hugh Januses.   Oh dear.   Although I am flying out to my holiday home to see Donald this afternoon. I suppose I could rattle them off there.   Uh, will Mrs. Farage meet you there?   No, she's heading off to our second home in Germany to do some work from there. with the children.   Good gracious, no. They have homework to do in the countryside home.   Well, it seems like you never relax, Mr. Farage.   It may seem that way, but where you see sacrifice, I see advantage.   You You see benefit.   Exactly.   You You see benefit while you working from home.   I suppose you could say that.   Shall I come back later? It does go against my foreign workers return policy, but I suppose you should. We can't have any horrible messes building up and causing a stink in my own backyard, can we?   Oh, I'm sure you are squeaky clean, Mr. Farage.   Yes, of course.   As my grandmother used to say, the dust cannot settle if you sweep it away from from the carpet and not underlay.   Yes. Um, you haven't got any spaces in that room class later, have you? When I wake up, well, I know there's going to be there's going to be another pedo crime on view when it comes out. Yeah, I know there's going to be there's going to be be a man we all know. You know who. If they get dumb, I'm going to be surprised. I'm going to be the man who's just as shocked at it as you. And if love falters, hey, I know I'm going to be I'm going to be the man who calls out this taboo. But I would read the Epstein files and I would read three million more just to see the wealthy class was slow. across a courtroom floor when I'm reading. Yes, I know. I'm going to see I'm going to see the man who's working against you. And all the money flowing from the crimes they do. It all began when the UK left the EU. When I call When I Oh, I know they're going to flee. They're going to flee. The country vanish out the blue. And they might grow loud. Well, I know there's going to be there's going to be a crowd who hear the victim. It's true. Cuz I would read the Epstein files and I would read 3 million more just to see the wealthy class walk slow across the courtroom floor. Hang the bastards. Hang the bastards. Hang the bastards. Hang the bastards. They done. They done. They done. They done. They done.   Hang the bastards. Hang the bastards. Hang the bastards. Hang the bastards. They done. They done. They done. They done. They done. The Strange Mole Show is written by The Holy Mole and performed alongside Chris Doc Strange and Chrissy Greg. Additional musical material by Augusta Lees. Find back episodes at strange mole.co.uk. Oh, hello sir. Been on holiday in Cornwall. I go. Yeah, as a matter of fact, I have. I was I was visiting my friend Jethro. I forgot what I forgot while I went away. I've been spending time with him.   Knows how he speaks now.   You mean I don't normally speak like this? Yes, master.   No, master. Hello, sir. I can't not do it now.

Concluimos nuestra conversación con el profesor, periodista y una de las voces del Podcast ⁠Microfono Franco⁠ Gary Gutierrez. Intercambiamos impresiones sobre Bad Bunny y su propuesta neocriollista, además de sus peligros y definimos lo que es la anarquía como propuesta filosófica-política. Visita a nuestro auspiciador ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Poets' Passage⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apoya nuestros esfuerzos visitando ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nuestras redes y tienda.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Durante este año 10% de nuestras ganancias serán destintadas a la entidad ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amor Que Sana inc. ⁠⁠⁠⁠

Ruth Irupé Sanabria's delicious and dexterous “Carne” begins with these lines: “I've eaten pork from / pernil to chuletas to chitterlings.” And just in case you were wondering — and even if you're not — the speaker goes on to list much more of the seafood, poultry, and animal parts that have been consumed and how they were cooked. Lest you think this poem is simply a meat-eater's manifesto, savor its final turn towards what else the speaker is really hungry for.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.   Ruth Irupé Sanabria's first collection of poetry, The Strange House Testifies, was published by Bilingual Review Press. Her second collection, Beasts Behave in Foreign Land, received the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Prize. She is a Dodge Poet, a CantoMundo Fellow, and holds an MFA in poetry from NYU. She works as a high school English teacher in New Jersey.  Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Poets From the Neighborhood - Ep. #498

The Superbowl was held right here in the Bay Area this year. Now, San Jose poet Ellie Lopez helps us all consider the cultural significance of Bad Bunny's performance at this year's Superbowl. Here is her latest poem "When the NFL announced Bad Bunny as the halftime performance."

Meet the cast and crew of our brand new Lancer miniseries! GM Dusty walks the cast through the world of New Alexandria and how the hell these misfits got together in the first place.Featuring:Dusty (@dustehill) as the Game MasterAkino (@akinomiiart) as TechnomancerAmelia (@amelia-g-music) as CanaryAubrey (@aubreyvakarian) as TeliavelisReed (@reedplays) as Golden Boyand special guest Logan (@holloworange) as Indigo-12! Please check out more of his work on the Bloom&Blight podcast!Lancer is created by Tom Parkinson Morgan (author of Kill Six Billion Demons) and Miguel Lopez of Massif Press. Bring Your Own Mech is not an official Lancer product; it is a third party work, and is not affiliated with Massif Press. Bring Your Own Mech is published via the Lancer Third Party License. Lancer is copyright Massif Press. Support the official release at ⁠⁠https://massif-press.itch.io⁠⁠Support us on Patreon! ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/bringyourownmech⁠⁠Get the official season 1 album, Bring Your Own Mixtape vol. 1! ⁠⁠https://ownmech.bandcamp.com/album/bring-your-own-mixtape-vol-1⁠⁠DRC CUSTOM OUTFITTERS Download: ⁠⁠https://ownmech.itch.io/drc-custom-outfitters-a-lancer-supplement⁠⁠Pilot NET Discord Server: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/p3p8FUm9b4

The stage is set and the curtains rise on a new Lancer mini-series. Commander Cornelius Stein eyes a list of peculiar individuals; talented warriors, unbecoming scoundrels, and even a mysterious enchantress. Their fates become intertwined as this shrewd officer onboards them to an 'off the books' program that they simply cannot refuse. Featuring:Dusty (⁠@dustehill⁠) as the Game MasterAkino (⁠@akinomiiart⁠) as TechnomancerAmelia (⁠@amelia-g-music⁠) as CanaryAubrey (⁠@aubreyvakarian⁠) as TeliavelisReed (⁠@reedplays⁠) as Golden Boyand special guest Logan (⁠@holloworange⁠) as Indigo-12! Please check out more of his work on the ⁠Bloom&Blight⁠ podcast!Lancer is created by Tom Parkinson Morgan (author of Kill Six Billion Demons) and Miguel Lopez of Massif Press. Bring Your Own Mech is not an official Lancer product; it is a third party work, and is not affiliated with Massif Press. Bring Your Own Mech is published via the Lancer Third Party License. Lancer is copyright Massif Press. Support the official release at ⁠⁠⁠https://massif-press.itch.io⁠⁠⁠Support us on Patreon! ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/bringyourownmech⁠⁠⁠Get the official season 1 album, Bring Your Own Mixtape vol. 1! ⁠⁠⁠https://ownmech.bandcamp.com/album/bring-your-own-mixtape-vol-1⁠⁠⁠DRC CUSTOM OUTFITTERS Download: ⁠⁠⁠https://ownmech.itch.io/drc-custom-outfitters-a-lancer-supplement⁠⁠⁠Pilot NET Discord Server: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/p3p8FUm9b4⁠

Rebecca N. Thompson, MD joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about life-threatening pregnancy losses and  weaving her own story of navigating a challenging path to parenting with the stories of others, her decade-long collaboration with a remarkable group of women, how healing others helps us heal, imperfect love, not feeling heard, advocating for our own care, humanism in medicine, the cumulative impact of small actions, accepting help to get better, transcribing and processing interviews and forming a narrative, processing as we craft, making stories accessible to a wide audience, the moments that change everything when we least expect it, and her new memoir HELD TOGETHER: A SHARED MEMOIR OF MOTHERHOOD, MEDICINE, AND IMPERFECT LOVE.   Info/Registration for Ronit's 10-Week Memoir Class Memoir Writing: Finding Your Story https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/memoir-writing-finding-your-story   Also in this episode: -accepting help to get better -portraying others in a positive light -Getting consent from book contributors   Books mentioned in this episode: How to Tell a Story from The Moth  Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum If You Want to See a Whale by Julie Fogliano   Rebecca N. Thompson, MD, is a family medicine and public health physician from Portland, Oregon, who specializes in women's and children's health—and the author of HELD TOGETHER: A SHARED MEMOIR OF MOTHERHOOD, MEDICINE, AND IMPERFECT LOVE, published with HarperCollins in Spring 2025. In this innovative book, Dr. Thompson intertwines her personal story of life-threatening pregnancy complications with the stories of twenty-one of her patients, friends, and medical colleagues.   Through profoundly honest first-person narratives created primarily from spoken interviews, Held Together offers a space for connection, bringing comfort and solidarity to anyone touched by challenges in building or sustaining families. At its heart, this collaborative project celebrates the extraordinary moments in the lives of ordinary women, as they navigate the complexities of motherhood, family dynamics, and health and healing across generations.   Connect with Rebecca: www.rebeccanthompson.com – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

Loving in the face of violence, danger, and distress is an act of defiance, as demonstrated in Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's achingly beautiful poem “Dukka”.  The Palestinian American writer spotlights seven aspects of love in action — between father and newborn, for example, a journalist and her audience, a pair of intimates dining out. She shows us the “million ways to love” flowing through her community and cascading through generations, centuries, millennia, as inexorable and constant as the ocean and as bright and surprising as a rare meteor shower.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (The University of Akron Press, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize; Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Salt (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honorable mention of the 2018 Arab American Book Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks: Arab in Newsland, winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, and Letters from the Interior, finalist for the 2020 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.  Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rachel Mann's “#TDOR” manages to turn a depiction of one side of a conversation about marking Trans Day of Remembrance into a poem that is both empathic and uncompromising. Mann captures the verbal stammers and stumbles of the well-meaning but leaves us to reckon whether the words land as mirror, mockery, or cry for action.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.   Rachel Mann is a priest, writer, and broadcaster. She is the author of 13 books, including her debut poetry collection, A Kingdom of Love, and the acclaimed nonfiction, Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God. She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Manchester Writing School and broadcasts regularly, including as a contributor to Thought For The Day.  Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Poets From the Neighborhood - Ep. #497

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Now we bring you a reading from YouthSpeaks Bringing the Noise for MLK poetry slam. We hear an excerpt of the poem ”For the Black Kids in My 8th Grade Class” by Ariana Brown.

Mele by Kalehua Kim by Poets & Writers

Bees, and After by John Liles by Poets & Writers

True Mistakes by Lena Moses-Schmitt by Poets & Writers

Reality Checkmate by Daniel Ruiz by Poets & Writers

A Love Tap by Bernardo Wade by Poets & Writers

Beyond the Watershed by Nadia Alexis by Poets & Writers

Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin by Poets & Writers

Second Nature by Chaun Ballard by Poets & Writers

The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup by Poets & Writers

Death Does Not End at the Sea by Gbenga Adesina by Poets & Writers

Blair Glaser joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about her time on a Catskills ashram during her twenties in the 1990s, yearning and the thrilling and perilous idolization of other human beings, spiritual development, group think, revisiting our experiences with curiosity and excitement, navigating writing about others, pitching agents and digesting their feedback, writing in scene in a sustained way, growing thematically, digging deeper, allowing the unconscious to inform our writing process, being the stewards of our stories, and her new memoir This Incredible Longing:Finding My Self in a Near Cult Experience. Info/Registration for Ronit's 10-Week Memoir Class Memoir Writing: Finding Your Story https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/memoir-writing-finding-your-story   Also in this episode: -composite characters -working with smaller presses -our foundational, formative experiences Books mentioned in this episode: -Permission by Elissa Altman -Seven Drafts by Allison K. Williams -Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg   Blair Glaser, MA, is a writer, speaker, leadership consultant and licensed psychotherapist who helps create collaborative cultures and increase bottom lines across sectors including finance, law, healthcare, entertainment, and nonprofits. She has run a variety of workshops at renowned retreat centers, including Women Writing to Change the World. After working for six years for V's (formerly Eve Ensler) nonprofit V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women and girls, she developed and facilitated The Vagina Monologues Workshop, a creative approach to sexual empowerment for women, and later worked with actor-activist Jane Fonda on an empowerment workshop for teenage girls.    Glaser earned her B.S. in theater at Northwestern University and received her master's in Drama Therapy from Vermont College and The Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy, where she eventually served as a senior faculty member.  She was a New York-licensed creative arts therapist from 1998 to 2022, when she left therapy to work full-time with leaders and organizations. Glaser was the first ever online actor-advice columnist when her weekly column “Ask Blair” appeared on Playbill On-Line.    More recently, her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Longreads, Quartz, The Muse, HuffPost, Shondaland and literary publications such as Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Brevity, and the Mantlepiece. Her new memoir is This Incredible Longing:Finding My Self in a Near Cult Experience.   Connect with Blair: Website: www.blairglaser.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairglaser/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blair.glaser Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blair_glaser/ Substack: https://thehistack.substack.com/ Books: www.blairglaser.com/books Events: www.blairglaser.com/events   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

Sanah Ahsan's evocative “Ramadan's Greeting” brings us into the thoughts and experiences of a person observing the holiest month in Islam. In nine brief couplets, the poet deftly directs our attention towards some of the rich contrasts that emerge at this time — between light and dark, desire and abstinence, self and community — as well as the abiding satisfactions and joys. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.  Sanah Ahsan is a poet, liberation psychologist, and educator. Sanah's work plays in the wild terrain of woundedness, the sacred landscapes of falling apart, centering compassion and embracing each other's madness. Their work draws on therapeutics, psychospirituality, embodiment, and poetics as life-affirming practices. Some of Sanah's media work includes writing for The Guardian, delivering a TEDx Talk, and presenting a Channel 4 documentary on the overmedicalization of people's distress. Sanah is working on a nonfiction book about the politics of distress, and society's relationship with unruly emotions. As a poet, Sanah won the Out-Spoken Poetry Performance Prize and has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, The White Review Poetry Prize, and Bridport Poetry Prize. Sanah's debut poetry collection, I cannot be good until you say it, is a meditation on Islam, queerness, and goodness. It was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection and Polari Prize, and selected as one of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

“O come, in any way you want” is the first line in Kevin Hart's marvelous, mystical “Prayer”. So come to this poem — whether for its deliciously sensual language (“bouts of rain”, “wind that wraps”, “raw and ragged smells / [o]f gumleaves”, and more), its air of mystery, or its unabashed aching for a “you” — and then linger for a while. Stay with it, or let it stay with you, and see what emerges.   We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.Kevin Hart's most recent collections of poetry are Firefly (Pitt St. Poetry, 2026) and Carnets (Cascade, 2025). Other collections include Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). A collection of new selected poems, 101 Poems, is forthcoming from Pitt St. Poetry. He teaches at Duke University in Durham, NC. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bee Wilson joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about the evolution of our narratives, how each book teaches you how to write it, approaching memoir from many different angles, how there's no predetermined idea of what a memoir needs to be, writing about divorce and her husband leaving at the end of the first lockdown in the UK, the emotional life of kitchen objects, not being afraid to tell our truth, cooking as salve, obligations to our reader and our lives, growing comfortable with the idea of writing about ourselves, how the particular becomes universal, piecing strands together, creating necessary boundaries, writing closer to the bone, and her new memoir about moving on The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love Loss and Kitchen Objects.  Info/Registration for Ronit's 10-Week Memoir Class Memoir Writing: Finding Your Story https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/memoir-writing-finding-your-story Also in this episode: -cooking as a salve -choosing what we share  -the ethics of memoir writing   Books mentioned in this episode:  -Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner -The Kitchen Congregation: A Daughter's Story of Wives and Women Friends  by Nora Seaton -Work by Guy de Mauppassant -Work by Anton Checkov   Bee Wilson is a food writer and the author of 8 books on food-related topics. Her latest book, The Heart-Shaped Tin, is an exploration of the emotional stories behind kitchen objects, told partly through memoir. Her previous books include The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen and Consider the Fork. She writes for a wide range of publications in the U.K. and U.S. including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is the co-founder of TastEd, a charity aimed at bringing the joy of vegetables and fruits to children.   Connect with Bee: Website: https://www.beewilson.com/ @kitchenbee on Instagram and Substack Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Shaped-Tin-Love-Kitchen-Objects/dp/132407924X   Get the book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heart-shaped-tin-bee-wilson/1146855283   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

Too many of us left high school thinking that a poem could be taken seriously only if it was difficult to understand, subdued in its use of rhyme and alliteration, and addressed lofty topics. Harryette Mullen's saucy, suggestive “LVTOFU” bulldozes through convention, all the while revelling in its own rhythms, references, and humor.   We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.  Harryette Mullen is the author of eight books of poetry, including Urban Tumbleweed, Recyclopedia, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What is there to say or do when the life of a loved one has been upended and devastated? Stewart Henderson's poem “How To Speak Love In A Storm?” offers a tender masterclass in how you can accompany someone — or even just yourself — through a time of tumult and pain. We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.  Stewart Henderson is a Liverpool-born, best-selling poet, song lyricist, and award-winning broadcaster. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including A Poet's Notebook: with new poems, obviously (2018), Urban Angel (2000), and Assembled in Britain (1986). Henderson has also authored three volumes of poetry for children, with poems from those books included on the UK National Education Curriculum. He hosted the program Questions, Questions on BBC Radio 4 for eight years. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dante Micheaux's rich and rollicking poem “Theologies for Korah” is written on the occasion of an infant's baptism, but it's anything but baby talk or bland instruction. Religious figures, rites, and symbols are proffered, not as liturgy or lore to be swallowed whole, eyes shut, but as people, stories, and ideas that cry out to be seen, played with, and engaged with.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.  Dante Micheaux is the author of Circus, which won the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation, and Amorous Shepherd. His poems and translations have appeared in African American Review, The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Literary Imagination, Poem­-A-Day, Poetry, and Tongue, among other journals and anthologies. Micheaux's other honors include the Oscar Wilde Award, an Amy Clampitt Residency, the Ambit Prize, and a fellowship from The New York Times Foundation. He is a Fellow and Artistic Director at Cave Canem Foundation. Micheaux's most recent work is the libretto, Sky in a Small Cage.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

“How could there be a war in this city?” is the plaintive question that starts Oksana Makysymchuk's “Arguments for Peace”. Like ours, the world of her poem holds both the “goodness of the universe” and “a foreign leader / warning of invasion”. She offers no pat answers for what to do in the face of conflict — just a dizzying sense of disbelief and the deep desire to hold tight to the people and life around us.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.  Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an anthology of contemporary poetry and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In Armen Davoudian's casually intimate poem “Coming Out of the Shower”,  mother and son perform their morning routines in the small, shared space of their household's only bathroom. She chats and puts on her makeup, while he showers and uses her shampoo and robe — oh what rhythm, affection, and ease are to be seen in this dance they both know so well.  We invite you to subscribe to Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound books and his newest work, Kitchen Hymns, or listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes.  Armen Davoudian has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His poems and translations from Persian appear in Poetry Magazine, the Hopkins Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Swan Song, won the Frost Place Competition. Armen grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and currently lives in California.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.