Of Poetry Podcast

Mar 03 2025 69 ep. 64 mins 9

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Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.

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upfromsumdirt (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture)

Mar 03 2025 91 mins

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 dreaming of romanticisms and revol

Sarah Carey (Of Sandhill Cranes, the Pleasure of Fresh Words, and Writing after Loss)

Feb 17 2025 66 mins

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-nominated poet. She holds a master’s degre

Corrie Williamson (Of Wilderness, Animal Bodies, and Ecotones of Harm)

Feb 05 2025 56 mins

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, which is newly out from River River B

Joe Wilkins (Of Pastoral, Tender Models of Masculinity, and the Sonnet-Haunted Prairies)

Jan 27 2025 60 mins

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 ReviewJoe 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 When I Die (2019) and The Entire Sky

Abbie Kiefer (Of the Minor, a Poet's Work Vs. Productivity, and the Poem's Record-Keeping of Ordinary Life)

Jan 13 2025 53 mins

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 FinchAbbie Kieferis the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has app

Carolyn Oliver (Of Alcestis, Space and Star Trek, and What Would You Give Up For Love?)

Dec 31 2024 59 mins

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Space Age" in Menagerie MagazinePurchase: 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 Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems

River River Books (Of Writing the Rural, New Book News, and the CAHABA River)

Dec 19 2024 56 mins

Preorder Corrie Williamson's Your Mother's Bear Gun and Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994River River Bookswas founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, at River River Books, two poetry editors join together to publish (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year. By limiting our press catalog, we commit

Violeta Garcia-Mendoza (Of Midwinter Poems, Rewilding, and Tercets)

Dec 08 2024 80 mins

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Midwinter" in The DodgePurchase: 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 from the Sustainable Arts Foundation.

Dana Delibovi and Molly Peacock (Of Literary Afterlives, Emotion and Color, and Material Connections in Women's Writing Across Time)

Nov 11 2024 67 mins

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 PeacockDana Delibovi is a poet, essayist, and translator. She began translating the poetry of St. Teresa of Ávila in 2019, after retiring

Junious 'Jay' Ward (Of the Field, the Mythic Perception of the South, and the Vulnerable Document)

Oct 30 2024 46 mins

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), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull Ci