HeyJaredThe Hive Poetry Collective
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.Our theme music is "Drunk on Funk" by Top-Flow.
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S8: E37 Jen Siraganian's debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead (opens the original)
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Jen Siraganian joins Farnaz Fatemi for a conversation about her debut collection of poetry, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, a richly deep exploration of memory, identity, motherhood, & erasure. Jen reads six poems and they discuss the way her work rebuilds and un-erases people across lifetimes and inherited traumas. Order the book directly from the publisher , Perugia Press. Jen will join the Hive locally to celebrate her official launch date, Tuesday 9/15, 7pm at the Hive Live! at Boo
S8: E35 Magpie on the Gallows: Poets Respond to Bosch and Bruegel (opens the original)
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Six local poets, including anthology editor David Allen Sullivan, join Hannah Tool to read and discuss poems from Magpie on the Gallows: Poems on the Art of Bosch and Bruegel (Carbonation Press). The anthology, co-edited by Allen Sullivan and his late mother, Margaret Allen Sullivan, is a celebration and exploration of the ubiquitous, unsettling, curious worlds of Hiernymous Bosch and Peter Bruegel the Elder. Jessica Breheny, Taylor Gorman, and Ken Weisner start the hour reading pieces that pick
S8: E36 Lexi Pelle and Dion O'Reilly Talk Strange Poetry (opens the original)
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(STRANGE IN THE BEST WAY!!) Lexi kicks off the interview by reading Susan Browne's, "Strange Ode. " Then we talk about Lexi's newest book, Let Go With The Lights On , Winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize Lexi Pelle was the winner of the Academy of American Poets Award and the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review , Plume , West Branch , Rattle , 32 Poems , and River Styx . She is the author of the poetry collection Let Go With The Li
S8: E34 Amber Coverdale Sumrall Chats with Julie Murphy (opens the original)
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Poet Amber Coverdale Sumrall joins Julie Murphy to talk about her new collection, That Other Song , and a writing life shaped by memory, landscape, love, loss, and close attention to the natural world. Amber reads poems from the new book and reflects on her mother’s influence, her many journeys to Ireland, the role of silence and writing retreats in her creative practice, and decades spent nurturing Santa Cruz’s literary community through In Celebration of the Muse and Hummingbird Press. The con
S8 E29: Winter in America (Still with Roxi Power & Dion O'Reilly (opens the original)
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Roxi Power, co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Winter in America (Still: Poets, Writers, and Artists Respond to a Fractured World , talks with Dion O’Reilly about poems in the book by Carolyn Forché, Maxine Chernoff, Andrew Schelling, Gary Copeland Lilley, Brenda Hillman, Rodrigo Toscano, and Donna de la Perrière. With their usual verve and humor, Power and O’Reilly highlight the book’s depth and variety of styles. Featuring color art and the work of 200 writers–Joy Harjo,Cornelius Eady, An
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