The Hive Poetry Collective

Mar 05 2025 233 ep. 58 mins 2
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Airing on KSQD 90.7 FM most Sundays at 8:00, the Hive Poetry Collective is a buzz of poets in Santa Cruz, California— a swarm of radio conversations, public readings, and writing workshops. Find us at hivepoetry.org And https://www.facebook.com/hivepoetry

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S7: E7 Dustin Brookshire and Dion O'Reilly read from When I Was Straight, A Tribute to Maureen Seaton

Mar 05 2025 59 mins  
Dustin Brookshire has gathered an impressive array of poetic emulations in When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton. They include free verse gestures, couplets, tercets, and prose poems. Maureen’s influence shines, though is never blinding—each of the poets in this anthology takes her title and makes the poem that follows their own. (From the forward by Denise Duhamel)

S7:E6 Jessica Cohn Talks with Julie Murphy

Feb 24 2025 59 mins  
Julie Murphy and Jessica Cohn discuss Jessica's debut book of poems Gratitude Diary, exploring themes of nature, family, loss, and yes, gratitude. Cohn reads Jane Hirshfield's poem My Debtand the poets discuss amazement and appreciation of beauty and nature, but also gratitude for the more challenging and difficult aspects of life.A Michigan native, Jessica Cohn has made homes in I

S7:E5 Naomi Shihab Nye Hosted by Julia Chiapella

Feb 11 2025 59 mins  
Tune in as treasured poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads her poetry, talks of her Palestinian father and ancestors, and recalls the challenging event that led to her popular poem, "Kindness". She also shares a poem by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Tofa from his bookForest of Noise. Listen to Naomi read poems from her books The Tiny Journalist, Fuel, Transfer, and Everything Comes Ne

S7 E4: Roxi Power, Julia Chiapella, & Dion O'Reilly on Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election

Feb 06 2025 57 mins  
With Julia Chiapella and Dion O’Reilly, Roxi Power discusses the just-published anthology she co-edited, Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election (Carbonation Press 2025) with 100+ amazing poets. This urgent, lightning-fast book was a collaborative effort by 8 editors between election and inauguration day to capture feelings about and implications of this critical

S7: E3 Sarah Pape joins Farnaz Fatemi

Jan 27 2025 58 mins  
Farnaz and Sarah Pape discuss the poet's new book, Forgive the Animal, (Cornerstone Press), exploring questions of memory, vulnerability and revelation in her poems, along with the complexity of personal fallibility. Pape thinks and talks eloquently about the process of putting together the manuscript regarding a range of craft issues including point of view, form, and genre-cr

S7:E2 Dane Cervine Chats with Julie Murphy

Jan 13 2025 60 mins  
Julie Murphy andDane Cervine discussDEEP TRAVEL – At Home in the [Burning] World(Saddle Road Press), Danes new book of contemporaryhaibun. The poems are rooted in a series of journeys, a pilgrimage, that culminates in the poet findinghome in this fragile, yet resilient, world.

S7: E1: Miller Oberman and Dion O'Reilly

Jan 06 2025 59 mins  
Miller Oberman and Dion O'Reilly read and discuss Omotara James's "My mother's nerves are shot." and then do a deep dive into Oberman's newest collection, Impossible Things⁠. Miller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things, forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2024 and The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017. He has received a number of awards for h

S6:E40 Tim Seibles Chats with Dion O'Reilly

Jan 01 2025 59 mins  
Tim Seibles reads and discusses Lucille Clifton's poem "Hag Riding." Then he reads from his newest collection Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems . Tim Seibles was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow. His seven books of poetry include Fast Animal, which was a fina

S6:E39 Christopher Buckley Chats with Julie Murphy

Dec 26 2024 58 mins  
SPREZZATURA, Christopher Buckley's 30th book, is due from Lynx House Press, January 2025. The sense of place in these poems-- whether its the foggy cliffs above the sea or the street of Fresno-- is vivid and immediate. Buckley examines friendship and the inevitability of change as he braids grief, love, and hope in these poems, many of which are dedicated to the great Fresno poets

BONUS EPISODE: Geneffa Jahan Chats with David Sullivan & Ignatius Valentine Aloysius about Their Poetry Collaboration--SALT PRUNING

Dec 17 2024 61 mins  
Listen here! Former HIVE member, Geneffa Jahan, returns to offer this salient conversation with beloved local poet and SC Poet Laureate Emeritus, David Sullivan, and his equally lauded friend, the Illinois poet and teacher, Ignatius Valentine Aloysius. They discuss their recently released collaborative poetry collection, Salt Pruning, as they reflect upon the unlikely parallels of