Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner (Lynx House Press, 2024) Read: “Annie Oakley’s Bullet Inventory” Jet Fuel Review Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan …

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Practice Elegy" at Copper Nickel Purchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021); The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, the …

Today's episode of Of Poetry is hosted by Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack), the author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). -- Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025) Read: "Larks" at Poetry Daily Han VanderHartis a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, Larks…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine) Purchase: Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022) Karl Knights’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, and…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Ablation (11:11 Press) Read: "Relentless" (at cloak.wtf, the relentless reading experience) Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press November 1st, 2023. Her first book, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s a 2023 recipient o…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020) Read: poems from "Fayre Gabbro Suite" (Ice Floe Press) upfromsumdirt is a speculative poet & visual artist …

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: The Grief Committee Minutes by Sarah Carey (Saint Julian Press, 2024) Read: "What We Read About Ukraine Makes Us Dream of Burning" by Sarah Carey (Gulf Coast) Sarah Carey is an award-winning veterinary public relations specialist, science writer and Pushcart-nomina…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025) Read: "You're Hoarding Guns, I'm Growing Herbs" (Kenyon Review) Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Your Mother’s Bear Gun, w…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Pastoral, 1994 (River River Books, 2025) Read: "Limp" at The Missouri Review Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of the novels Fall Back Down…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) Read: "A BRIEF HISTORY OF YANKEE THRIFT, YANKEE INGENUITY, AND YANKEE WORK ETHIC" in Sixth Finch Abbie Kieferis the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Space Age" in Menagerie Magazine Purchase: The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024) Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali P…

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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Midwinter" in The Dodge Purchase: Songs for the Land-Bound (June Road Press, 2024) Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, teacher, and suburban wildlife photographer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in 2022, she received a grant …

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Purchase: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2024) trans. Dana Delibovi and The Widow's Crayon Box (Penguin, 2024) by Molly Peacock Dana Delibovi is a poet, essayist, and translator. She began translating the poetry of St. Tere…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Inheritance" and "Homecoming, Rich Square, NC" (Fourway Review) Purchase: Composition (Button Poetry, 2023) Junious 'Jay' Ward is a poet and teaching artist from Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), aut…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "I Pull My Leaf Leg Stockings Off My Body" (The Boiler Journal) Purchase: The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (HCP, 2024) Emilie Menzel, writer and librarian of hybridities, is the author of the book-length lyric The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024). Their gent…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Men Working Above: demolition" and "Parable of Baiting" (UCity Review) Purchase: Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024) Nicholas Molbert Born and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Everyone Said Nature Was Healing" (Poetry Northwest) Purchase: Portrait of Us Burning(Curbstone Books, 2023) Sebastián H. Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023) and was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texa…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: Emily's poem "The Meat of the Plum" in Moist Poetry Journal Emily Kramer is a poet and editor living in Boston, MA. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and her PhD from Boston University’s Editorial Institute. Her critical edition of Arthur Henry Halla…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Invitatory" at Poetry Daily Purchase: Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024) Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, editor, and writing instructor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A se…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Dawn's Fool" (author's website), also "[your mind that beautiful country]" at Malarkey Books Purchase: But Then I Thought by Kyla Houbolt (above/ground press, 2023) Kyla Houbolt writes poems and occasional reviews, and takes care of two goats, 11 chickens, and 8 ducks…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Disambiguation" at Poetry Daily Purchase: Asterism by Ae Hee Lee (Tupelo Press, 2024) Ae Hee Lee--born in South Korea and raised in Peru--is the author of ASTERISM, which was selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || River…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap's There is News Along the Ohio River (Cincinnati Review), and Lee Potts' "A Time of Splinters" (Moist Poetry Journal) Purchase: Deadheading & Other Stories (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Beth Gilstrap and We Will Miss the Stars in the Morningby Lee…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "I'd Rather Be" by Mitchell Nobis and "After the Last" by Jared Beloff, both published in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase: Who Will Cradle Your Head by Jared Beloff (and be on the lookout for Mitch Nobel's Beginning to Sense, forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2025) Jared …

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" (The Sun) Purchase: No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Awar…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Dream, with an interior" in Moist Poetry Journal Purchase: World's End (ARP Books, 2023) and groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently l…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve" Purchase: Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024) Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akr…

Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cotton Xenomorph, Whisk(e)y Tit, Kicking Your Ass, Cracked.com, and elsewhere. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is ½ of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels. You can find more Chris on…

Read: Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's "Larks"(Up the Staircase Quarterly) Purchase: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-…

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025). -- Read: "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey Mag Purchase: A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024) Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark…

Read: "A Poem for Retired Lighthouses," Little Blue Marble Purchase: And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (Ethel Zine Press, 2023) Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Their poetry chapbooks, And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for …

Read: Neutral Spaces, for more of Tom Snarsky's poetry Purchase: Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). He lives in the m…

Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020 Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appe…

Read: "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.org Purchase: Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023) Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Dear Memphis, their debut collection of poems, will be published by River River Books in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepe…

Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature. Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Disappearance, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concr…

Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in Scalawag Purchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020). Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fe…

Read: "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn Quarterly Purchase: Flutter, Kick by Anna V. Q. Ross (Red Hen Press, 2022) Anna V.Q. Ross's previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press);…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry Daily Purchase: An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) Lauren Mukamal Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate, is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2…

Read: "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion Review. Purchase: Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023) Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or will appear in Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, I-70 Review, Cagibi, Appalachian Revie…

Purchase: Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine Rockwood Moira J Saucer is a disabled poet living in the Alabama Wiregrass. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her worked has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United State…

Read: Read "Eucharist" in Diagram Purchase: Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point Press Jason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & (Belle Point Press, 2023) and A Place for the Genuine (Eerdmans, 2024). Myers is a National Poetry Series finalist and has published poetry and essays in The Believer, Image, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Paris Review, and n…

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock) Purchase: motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023) Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Call…

Read: "Psychology for Black Folk" at Jasper Project Purchase: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023) Len Lawson is author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also co-editor of The Future of …

Read: “put ur phone down for a sec” from night mode in Blush Lit Purchase: night mode (Everybody Press, 2023) Caelan Ernest is a poet and a performer. They are the author of two forthcoming collections: night mode and ICONOCLAST, being published in 2023 and 2024 respectively by Everybody Press. They received their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institut…

Read: "Whale Watch" at Turbine Purchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022) Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to R…

Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City, and Tinderbox among others. Read: "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird,"…

Read: "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The Common Purchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023) K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved…

Read: "War Machine" at The Tiny Mag Purchase: Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022) Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based…

Listen: On the web, or at your favorite player (Google, Apple, Spotify) Read: "Flowers as Mind Control" at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Purchase: Flowers as Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021) Laura Minor’s critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Arkansas Pr…

Read: "Moon Without Possible Approach" at Tin Fish Press. Purchase: The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Books, 2021) Bronwen Tate teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore and a contributor to the collabo…