Category: Episodes

Airdate: 22 December 2022

Poems by Hazel Hall (all links go to the Academy of American Poets website):

• “Heavy Threads“
• “Mending”
• “Hours“
• “Two Sewing“

Obituary in Poetry Magazine

Airdate: 15 December 2022

Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in Poetry, McSweeney’s, Nature, and Scientific American. Her new book is Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science.

Find out more at http://bit.ly/JessyRandall

Airdate: 8 December 2022

Poems by Alexander Posey (all links go to the Academy of American Poets website):

• • “On the Hills of Dawn“
  • “To Yahola, On His First Birthday“
  • “Coyote“
  • “On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf“
  • “A Vision of Rest“

Airdate: 1 December 2022

David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a retired paleontologist, has been writing speculative poetry and fiction since the 1970s. He won the 2006 Rhysling award for best long poem (for a collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986).

He has edited Star*line, an issue of Eye To The Telescope, and several Rhysling anthologies, David C Kopaska-Merkel has served as president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association , and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems (more than 1200 of them) have been published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Night Cry, Kaleidotrope, and more than 200 other venues.

Some Disassembly Required, his latest collection of dark poetry, is out from from Diminuendo Press (available from the author and from Amazon). @DavidKM on twitter. Blog: https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/

Poems read by Diane Severson.

Airdate: 24 November 2022

Ivor Gurney biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.

Poems read on this episode appear in Severn & Somme by Ivor Gurney, which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.

Airdate: 17 November 2022

Isaac Rosenberg biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.

Poems read on this episode appear in Poems by Isaac Rosenberg, which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.

 

Airdate: 10 November 2022

Wilfred Owen biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.

Poems read on this episode appear in Poems by Wilfred Owen, which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.

Airdate: 3 November 2022

Vera Brittain biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.

Poems read on this episode appear in Vera Brittain’s Verses of a V.A.D., which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.

Airdate: 27 October 2022

Poems by Edgar Allen Poe (all links go to the Academy of American Poets website):

• “A Dream Within a Dream“
• “Alone“
• “Lenore“

 

Airdate: 13 October 2022

Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD is a Black speculative poet, science fiction and fantasy author, visual artist, and retired chemistry professor living in the metro DC area. Two of his poems, “A Descendant’s Gift” and “Becoming,” were nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award in the Long Poem category by members of SFPA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.

In contrast to the generally serious tone of his poetry and prose is his mostly lighthearted paperback book of illustrated poems, Periodic Table of Alien Species (Elements 1-86), available from Barnes and Noble.

To find out more about his speculative poetry and visual artwork, visit his website: miguelmitchellsart.com