S2 E8 Poetry and Odes

Kate and Michael discuss odes, noodles with heads, Jennifer Lopez, and “Ode for you Walking by” by Brian Simoneau.

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                   Michael Schmeltzer

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Brian Simoneau

https://www.briansimoneaupoet.com

“Ode for you Walking by” by Brian Simoneau

https://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/brian-simoneau-ode-for-you-walking-by/

“Small Kindness” by Denusha Lameris

https://grateful.org/resource/small-kindnesses/

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Brian Simoneau’s poems have appeared in Barn Owl Review, Boston Review, Boulevard, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Four Way Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, The Normal School, North American Review, Poet Lore, Red Rock Review, RHINO, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Indiana Review, Sugar House Review, Third Coast, Waxwing, and other journals. Originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, he lives near Boston with his family.

Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award. 

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S2 E7 Poetry and Joy Guest Matt Miller

Matt Miller joins Kate and Michael to discuss poetry and the cultivation of "joy" as well as Caitlin Cowan's poem, " Happy Everything".

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Matt Miller http://mattwmiller.com/poems

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Caitlin Cowan is the author of Happy Everything, forthcoming in February 2024 from Cornerstone Press. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Rumpus, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Missouri Review, Southeast Review, Denver Quarterly, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Account, and elsewhere. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Caitlin has been the winner of the Littoral Press Poetry Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, and an Avery Hopwood Award. Ilya Kaminsky also selected her poem, “Flight Plan,” to win the Ron McFarland Prize for Poetry. Her work has received support from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Matt W Miller is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. and the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Ward, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Narrative, Rhino Poetry, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Adroit Journal, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches English, coaches football, and coordinates the Assembly Program at Phillips Exeter Academy in coastal New Hampshire.

Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.

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S2 E6 Poetry and Place Guest Matt Miller

Matt Miller joins Kate and Michael at the table to talk “poetry and place”, and his new collection Tender the River.

Tune in to hear us talk about Lowell, Massachusetts, the Merrimack River, and the “words that come out of the land.”

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Matt Miller

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Silence: Big and Black,” by Major Jackson https://www.aprweb.org/

Mills on the Merrimack (postcard) Source: University of Massachusetts Lowell

Portuguese mill workers, c. 1910. Source: Camara Family Collection – Center for Lowell History

Greek immigrants at Kostas Vergados cafe on Market. Source: Center for Lowell History

Cambodia Town, Lowell Ma (photo) Source: Cambodia Town Lowell Inc. https://www.facebook.com/CambodiaTownLowell

Pawtucket Falls (image) Source: Public Domain

Mill Girls (image) Source: NPS.gov

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David Moloney
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Briant Paula
Caitlin Cowan
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Matt W Miller is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. and the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Ward, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include the The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Narrative, Rhino Poetry, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Adroit Journal, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches English, coaches football, and coordinates the Assembly Program at Phillips Exeter Academy in coastal New Hampshire.

Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.

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Season 2 Episode 5: Poetry and Dirt

Kate and Michael discuss poetry, bags of dirt, the rabid protectors of Pulitzer Prize winners, and Irène Mathieu's poem, "soil."

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"soil" by Irène Mathieu, found at Tabatha Yeatts' blog

https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/2018/06/soil.html

"orogeny" by Irène Mathieu

https://irenemathieu.com/orogeny/

"The Father" by Sharon Olds

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/124365/the-father-by-sharon-olds/

Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.

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Season 2 Episode 4: Poetry and Pop Culture

Kate and Michael discuss poetry and pop culture and Bree Rolfe's poem, "In the Waiting Room of the Dell Children’s Hospital CF Clinic at Age 40".

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Michael Schmeltzer

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“In the Waiting Room of the Dell Children's Hospital CF Clinic at Age 40"” by Bree Rolfe originally published in The Coachella Review http://thecoachellareview.com/two-poems-by-bree-a-rolfe/

Who's Going to Love the Dying Girl Poems by Bree Rolfe

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Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award. 

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Season 2 Episode 3: Poetry and Love

What constitutes a good love poem? Kate & Michael weigh in on Vincent Antonio Rendoni's poem, "Sexually Explicit Skywriting."

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“Sexually Explicit Skywriting” by Vincent Antonio Rendoni originally published in The Fourth River https://www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-newnature/2022/4/13/sexually-explicit-skywriting

“The Navy’s probe into sky penis” The Navy Times https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/05/14/the-navys-probe-into-sky-penis/

A Grito Contest in the Afterlife: Poems by Vincent Antonio Rendoni https://www.vincentrendoni.com/writer

Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.  Contact Kate or Michael: table4deuce@gmail.com

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