Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast Now Streaming on All Major Platforms

DUBLIN, CA–A new podcast option for poetry lovers is now available on all major podcast streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and more. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast is hosted by James Morehead, Poet Laureate – Dublin, California and author of canvas: poems (Viewless Wings Press, 2021), and will feature poetry readings and analysis, a series on publishing targeted at first-time authors, and interviews.

Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW] – Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize. Laurentiis is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, BOMB, and poets.org. A 2018 Whiting Award winner, she lives in New Orleans. Below are excerpts from the interview with James Morehead on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.

1. Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW] 46:34
2. Five Poets Recite (Abel Saldaña, Diana Athena, Jason Palomino, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, John Grey) 13:53
3. Poet Sarah Green on Grief, Resilience, and Crafting "The Deletions" [INTERVIEW] 38:31
4. m. mick powell’s on crafting the Black feminist poetic “Dead Girl Cameo” [INTERVIEW] 34:51
5. Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz) 14:03

canvas Read and Analyzed Series

James Morehead reads selections from his book canvas and breaks down the inspiration for each poem.

Publishing Your First Book Series

First-time authors will learn how to self-publish a high quality book, covering all key stages of the publishing process:

• Getting started
• Cover art
• Book design + eBook conversion
• Portrait photo (for About the Author)
• Editing
• Copy editing
• ISBNs
• Self-publishing consulting
• Proofs / advanced reading copies / giveaway copies
• Promotion and marketing

Interview Series

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast will also feature interviews with artists and poets, starting with an interview with Italian animator Gaia Alari, discussing her collaboration with Morehead to create an traditionally animated short film for the poem tethered from canvas.

James Morehead is the Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, and his first collection of poetry, “canvas”, debuted June 2021 (Viewless Wings Press). “James Morehead’s ‘canvas’ opens itself to the poetry of everyday life, where stanzas are etched in sand, and poems end in sunset. Combining micro-narratives of Boston bullies cornering a young boy, with minute descriptions of time in quarantine, it draws us into moving tableaus of tenacious attention to what went down, what might come up, and where we might find ourselves. These are poems to be savored, re-read, kept handy for those times when only poetry will do.” ‒ W. J. T. Mitchell, Senior Editor of Critical Inquiry and Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History, University of Chicago