Today on the show we have Felicia Zamora with her new book Interstitial Archaeology, an Editor’s Pick for the Wisconsin Poetry Series. Like the title says, it’s a book that digs down into undiscovered spaces; but it’s also one that pushes out, makes those spaces have a place in the surface world. There’s such a breadth of artistic craft in this book, and it’s incredibly smart and funny at times—any book that quotes from The Simpsons is going to have a special place in my heart.

Along with Interstitial Archeaology, Zamora is the author of eight books of poetry including the forthcoming Murmuration Archives, a part of the Akrílica Series with Noemi Press. Her work has won the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from The Georgia Review, Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, the C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International, and she served as the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, CO. Currently, she is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati, and a poetry editor for Colorado Review.

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Read more about Zamora here.

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Today on the show is Sandra Marchetti, author of the new poetry collection, Diorama. In addition to Diorama, Marchetti is the author of Aisle 228, the 2023 Winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year, and Confluence. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Pleiades, and other venues. She is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland.

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On the show today is Kansas State Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall. Her new book of poems, Love Prodigal, is recently out from Copper Canyon. Brimhall's previous books of poetry include Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Saudade, Our Lady of the Ruins, and Rookery. Brimhall’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Orion, Poetry, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. Through fellowships with the National Endowment of the Arts, National Park Service, and Academy of American Poets she’s taught writing workshops in farm schools, art museums, libraries, medical communities, and the outdoors.

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Today's show features poet Lesley Wheeler, and her wonderful new book of poems, Mycocosmic. It’s a fascinating book both in its individual poems and in its overall assembly. It takes us under the earth to the mycelia below, and under the skin to the heart inside.

Lesley Wheeler’s previous poetry collections include The State She’s In, Radioland, The Receptionist, Heterotopia, and Propagation. She has also published the novel Unbecoming and and a collection of essays, Poetry’s Possible Worlds. Wheeler edits poetry for the literary magazine Shenandoah and teaches at Washington & Lee University. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Breadloaf, and the Sewanee Writers Conference.

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Today on the show we have poet Christian Teresi, talking about his new book, What Monsters You Make of Them, recently published by Red Hen Press. Teresi has published poems in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Blackbird, and many other places. He has also translated Book 7 of Nonnus of Panopolis’s Dionysiaca, the longest surviving text from Ancient Greece, as a part of a collection from several translators. His work has been supported by a fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He holds degrees from Binghamton University and George Mason University.

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Read more about Teresi here.

Content note: There is a mention of suicide in the episode.

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On the show is poet Ava Nathaniel Winter, whose new book, her first full-length collection, is the National Poetry Series–winning Transgenesis.

Winter has also published the chapbook, Safe House, and her work has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal,Poetry International, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She served as a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and now teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the department of English and the women’s and gender studies program.

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I’ve always loved the poem "Year's End" by Richard Wilbur, and it is of course a great choice for the last day of the year, so here’s a short episode on this amazing poem. Wishing you all a wonderful New Year's Eve, and a great year to come!

Richard Wilbur, twice-winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, was the author of eleven collections of poetry, and was also the second Poet Laureate of the United States.

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In time for your holiday travels, here is a new episode to cue up! Today, Abbie Kiefer talks about her new book, Certain Shelter, which focuses on the loss of her mother and the loss of her home, a Maine mill town. We also talk about the poet, E.A. Robinson. Happy Thanksgiving!

Besides Certain Shelter, Kiefer is the author of the chapbook Brief Histories. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other places. She is on the staff of The Adroit Journal and lives in New Hampshire.

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