Listen to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S4E10-Erica-Gillingham-hosted-by-Farnaz-Fatemi-e1gcks6 For this Hive podcast, guest Erica Gillingham was hosted by Farnaz Fatemi. Perhaps the most appropriate guest ever on The Hive: former Santa Cruzan Erica Gillingham discussed her debut poetry chapbook, The Human Body Is a Hive, a rich collection about queer love and queer family-making. Listen to Erica read from the book and share her pursuit of telling lesbian love stories in poems, “making a baby with science,” and other revealing topics. With a guest cameo from her newborn son ..read more

Listen to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S4E10-Erica-Gillingham-hosted-by-Farnaz-Fatemi-e1gcks6 For this Hive podcast, guest Erica Gillingham was hosted by Farnaz Fatemi. Perhaps the most appropriate guest ever on The Hive: former Santa Cruzan Erica Gillingham discussed her debut poetry chapbook, The Human Body Is a Hive, a rich collection about queer love and queer family-making. Listen to Erica read from the book and share her pursuit of telling lesbian love stories in poems, “making a baby with science,” and other revealing topics. With a guest cameo from her newborn son ..read more

Your browser does not support the audio tag. An hour of live curated poetry, read by host Dennis Morton. The Poetry Show is broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz; 3rd Sunday of each month at 8:00 pm ..read more

Host Julia Chiapella in conversation with Gary Young: https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S4E9-Gary-Young-interviewed-by-Julia-Chiapella-e1fnpe6 The Hive Poetry Collective is broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz ..read more

Listen HERE Sally Ashton chatted with Dion O’Reilly about prose poetry. Sally Ashton is a writer, teacher, and editor in chief of DMQ Review, an online journal of poetry and art. Publishing in three genres, she’s the author of 4 books including her latest The Behaviour of Clocks, WordFarm. Sally won first prize in the international Fish Flash Fiction contest and work appears inProse Poetry: An Introduction, and in A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Actually Flies: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poems. She taught at SJSU for ten years in the undergraduate creative writing and ..read more

Host Julie Murphy conversed with Kathryn Pertuccelli about loving language and life’s unexpected journeys. Kitty reads from her manuscript God of Sea. God of Salt. Her poems are full of images of the natural world, surprising turns and fresh language as they explore relationships, loss, and the deep life.  Listen here! Foe information on Kathryn’s classes click here. The Hive Poetry Collective is broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz ..read more

Your browser does not support the audio tag. An hour of curated poetry reading, with host Dennis Morton. The Poetry Show is broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz; 3rd Sunday of each month at 8:00 pm ..read more

https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S4-E6-Writers-of-Color-Santa-Cruz-County-Collective-Hosted-by-Victoria-Baales-e1ec9v4 Listen to poets from the Writers of Color-Santa Cruz County Collective read & discuss their poems, touching upon themes of ancestry, culture, death, trauma, and healing. The group talks about their Día de los Muertos poetry event (Nov. 2021), during which they were targets of a racist Zoomboming. Featured poets include Sonya Pendrey, Shirley Flores-Muñoz, Claudia Ramírez Flores, Vivian Vargas, Chloe Gentile-Montgomery,  Bob Gómez, and Victoria Bañales. ——- Sonya P ..read more

Dion O’Reilly chats with Dustin Berkshire, the editor of Limp Wrist Magazine, and Denise Duhamel, his co-editor of the upcoming issue, which will feature poems about BARBIE! Listen to poems from the all-Barbie issue, including poems by Dorianne Laux,Gregg Shapiro, Caridad Moro-Granlier, and also a couple by both Denise and Dustin. The inspiration for this issue was Denise’s 1997 book, Kinky–a collection of poems all about the Mattel superstar. Listen HERE: The Hive Poetry Collective is broadcast on KSQD Santa Cruz ..read more

Kelly Cressio-Moeller Join host Erin Redfern as she talks with Kelly Cressio-Moeller about Kelly’s first book, Shade of Blue Trees (Two Sylvias, 2021; Wilder Prize finalist). Enjoy the lush images of Kelly’s poems and hear thoughts on grief and the poem as portent, train rides in Germany and her approach to form, painting and music as creative spurs, and heeding what in us “is making the most noise” to get our creative attention. Listen to the podcast at: https://anchor.fm/the-hive8/episodes/S4E3-Kelly-Cressio-Moeller-interviewed-by-Erin-Redfern-e1dd6c9 The Hive Poetry C ..read more