"Mother" written and read here by Sally Bliumis-Dunn "For the Stranger" Carolyn Forché www.sallybliumisdunn.com Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and offers individual manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review,On the Seawall, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s  column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her two books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010. Galapagos Poems published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. Her third full-length collection, Echolocation, was published by Plume editions Madhat Press in March of 2018. Shortly afterwards she was interviewed by Nin Andrews for THE BEST OF AMERICAN POETRY.   In 2019, her third book, ECHOLOCATION, Plume Editions/MadHat Press:   Long-listed for the Julie Suk Award for Best Book of Poetry in 2018. Runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018 Runner-up for the Poetry By The Sea Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018.

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#19 Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Ravi Shankar is the author, editor or translator of over a dozen books, including most recently "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas Press, 2017) and "Andal: The Autobiography of A Goddess" (Zubaan Books/University of Chicago Press, 2016). He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, appeared on NPR, PBS, the BBC and in such publications as The New York Times, The Paris Review and Caravan, and been awarded many fellowships, including from the Rhode Island Commission on the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo. He founded Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, and he teaches and performs around the world, most recently for the New York Writers Workshop and as the Writer-in-Residence at Sun Yat-Sen University in Gwangzhou, China. His memoir-in-progress is entitled "Correctional" and he currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney.

#18 Ravi Shankar

reading one From the Calabrian Notebooks: Calabria - Providence by Peter Covino reading two "Ars Poetica" by Giorgio Bassani music from los duderinos https://www.losduderinos.com/ Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu92CzWMVpY

#17 Peter Covino

Jennifer Franklin (AB Brown, MFA Columbia) is the author of two full-length collections, Looming (Elixir, 2015) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Boston Review, Connotation Press, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She teaches poetry workshops and seminars at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, where she serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City. "My Daughter's Body" (Looming)byJ ennifer Franklin "Tulips" by Sylvia Plath music from Dier straits "walk of life" insramental Los Duderinos "?"

#16 Jennifer Franklin

Heather Lang Cassera—a poet, critic, literary editor, and educator—holds an MFA in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas' Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming with The Normal School, North American Review, Pleiades, South Dakota Review, and other literary journals, and have been on exhibit in the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. Heather curated Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace, an anthology of literature by Nevada women, funded by the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. She serves as World Literature Editor for The Literary Review, Faculty Adviser for 300 Days of Sun, and Co-Publisher for Tolsun Books. At Nevada State College, Heather teaches Composition, Professional Writing, World Literature, and more https://www.heatherlangwrites.com/ music: thelittlecomptonband.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/0j4U4PTrtqBEoRYVXIgtiU

#15 Heather Lang Cassera

In the spirit of back to school season, we have Mr. Aaron Coleman sharing his poem, "On Acquiescence," as well as his School Dose selection, "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes. Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar and Cave Canem Fellow from Metro-Detroit, Aaron has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain, South Africa, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kalamazoo. Aaron’s poems have appeared in journals including Boston Review, FENCE, and New York Times Magazine. As a poet and translator from Spanish, Aaron has received awards including the American Literary Translators Association’s Jansen Memorial Fellowship, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest, and the Cincinnati Review Schiff Award. Aaron is currently a PhD student at Washington University St. Louis, studying 20th Century literature of the African Diaspora and Translation Studies in the Comparative Literature Program’s International Writers’ Track. Music; "Another Brick in the Wall" by Richard Cheese

#14 Aaron Coleman

on this episode two readings from Maggie Smith Slipper by Maggie Smith & Fortress by Ann Sexton Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017. The title poem, “Good Bones,” was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio International and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received the Pushcart Prize, and fellowships and awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Believer, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. maggiesmithpoet.com music by The Horse Eyed Men horseyedmen.bandcamp.com/album/noah-h…-inch-series

#13 Maggie Smith

Tracy K. Smith is the author of the memoir Ordinary Light and four books of poetry: Wade in the Water, (April 2018); Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award; and The Body's Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award and a Whiting Award. She was the Literature protégé in the 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In June 2017 she was named the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the Library of Congress, and in March 2018 she was re-appointed to a second term for 2018-19.

#12 Tracy K Smith

Heidi Reszies A poem from her series titled "Illusory Borders." School Dose reading of “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity," by John Tobias. Heidi is a multidisciplinary artist living in Richmond, VA, and a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches letterpress printing at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, and manages Artifact Press, an independent micropress that publishes limited edition poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has recently appeared in literary journals including BOAAT, Daily Gramma, LEVELER, Fog Machine, Forklift Ohio, FORTH Magazine, Kelsey Street, La Vague Journal, SUSAN/the Journal, and Queen of Cups. Her chapbook "Recollections & Reenactments" was published by Zoo Cake Press in 2017.

#11 Heidi Reszies

"Only Sweetness" by Rosalynde Vas Dias "Stone" by Charles Simic Rosalynde Vas Dias is the author of Only Blue Body from Anhinga Press. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.

#10 Rosalynde Vas Dias

Readings: "On Coming Across Christina's World at the Museum of Modern Art" by Ginny Wiehardt School Dose reading of Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death." Ginny Wiehardt’s chapbook Migration won the 2016 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including Bellingham Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review,Subtropics, and Willow Springs and in the anthology Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity(Sundress Publications, 2016). She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. Originally from Texas, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.

#9 Ginny Wiehardt

Keegan Lester is the author of the collection of poetry this shouldn't be beautiful but it and it was all i had so i drew it,  selected by Mary Ruefle for the 2016 Slope Editions Book Prize. His work is published in or forthcoming from The Boston Review, Poem A Day for the Academy of Amercian Poets, Boaat, CutBank and Sixth Finch among others.  For more check out his website www.keeganlester.com   music by Spirit Night https://spiritnight.bandcamp.com/

#8 Keegan Lester

Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Tina Cane, and author Matthew Zapruder host a reading and discussion of poetry and its role in modern society lIve in front of an audience in the Woodman Center at the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI. Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry–his most recent, Come On All You Ghosts, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and his prose volume Why Poetry was released by Ecco Press/Harper Collins in August 2017. A 2011 Guggenheim fellow, Zapruder is also editor-at-large at Wave Books, and from 2016-7 held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. In Why Poetry, Zapruder examines what poetry—and poetry alone—can do, and argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. He explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. In addition to serving as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, Tina Cane is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. She is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017). In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry, from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Matthew Zapruder with Tina Cane at PODO Live

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. A new hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, comes out with Red Hen Press in the fall of 2017. In conjunction with Woolly Press, Matthews is currently serially publishing The Life & Times of American Crow, a “collage novel in 11 chapbooks.” Learn more at sebastianmatthews.com or americancrowgraphicnovel.com. this podcast includes "the Message" grandmaster flash it is produced by Tian cane & Atticus Allen

#7 Sebastian Matthews

Tina Cane on the creation of "Teacher, Teacher" I was commissioned by The Total Teacher Project at Bryant University to write an ode to teachers for their annual conference in August. While I loved the idea of celebrating teachers in a poem, I wasn't too keen on writing such a poem. Since I am a teacher myself. it seemed disingenuous to make the attempt. I do, however, have access to children through my program, Writers-in-the-Schools, RI and through the school that my children attend in East Providence. I chose to approach the teachers at our neighborhood school, Myron J. Francis Elementary. I gave a brief primer on odes and invited interested teachers to have their students write odes as a classroom or extra credit activity. In June, i received about a hundred odes and, during July, I read them all, pulling a line, word or phrase from each--it was important that every student be represented, even if they were to remain anonymous. Finally, I read the phrases I had collected, settled on a refrain and began arranging the words into lines to form a poem. The end result is "Teacher, Teacher," a poem composed entirely of children's own sentiments. Their candor and humor and love confirmed what I already knew: That they would write the better poem! I recruited my own children to record and take turns reading the poem. I think they did a wonderful job. I hope this ode helps to remind teachers, as we start the school year ,that they are valued by the people those who count the most. music: atticus allen outro, 38 Special "Teacher Teacher"

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