The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today.
Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast player and then read each below:
- A Defense of Vermin by Peter Carellini
- Kiting by t.m. thomson
- The Fallen by Edward Sankey
- Crow in Variations by Diane Sahms
- Her Name is Heather by Tobi Alfier
You can submit your poetry for consideration in a future Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast episode via our submissions page.
My heart weeps for shady vermin They who scurry in pre-war nooks not caulked And under the eyes of social climbers, dwindle How I loathe parameters of holy and hellish!....
Excerpt from A Defense of Vermin
Peter is a filmmaker, photographer, actor and writer based in NYC. His photography and poems, short stories, and essays have been published in over a half dozen publications – including Travel + Leisure, Bruxelles Art Vue, Mythos Magazine – while his directorial film debut “Hello, World!” had its public premiere at the Greenpoint Gallery in October of 2021. He currently works as a background extra actor in several NYC film and television productions, while workshopping upcoming screenplays, stage plays, and a full novel. In his spare time, Peter loves to disco roller skate, find new things to do with his prosthetic, and travel the world!
Sun slips down, disbanding its yellow over oak & maple as the wild blue of twilight raises its head shaggy with firefly gold & starlight sequins...
Excerpt from Kiting
t.m. thomson is co-author of Frame & Mount the Sky (2017), a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry, as well the author as Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019). She is a lover of animals, art, trees, surrealism, black and white movies, walking in autumn rains, feeding wild birds in winter, playing in spring mud, & bat-watching in summer. Her first full-length collection of poems, Plunge, has just been published by Uncollected Press.
Today, I met a jumper for the first time...
Excerpt from The Fallen
Edward Sankey is a Toronto-based prose poet focused on short, short fiction for spoken word events. He writes under the rubric of Rebel Digital.
Crow tells me it doesn’t know when God speaks but the voices it hears are the flavors of the rainbow & God’s voice would be February red, the taste of cherry-love...
Excerpt from Crow in Variations
Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, studies English translations of Chinese poetry. Author of seven poetry collections, most recently, Luna the lesser light, Moonstone Press, 2023 and City of Shadow & Light Philadelphia, 2022. Published in North American Review, Arlington Literary Journal, Northern Virginia Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Chiron Review, among others. She works full time for the government and is poetry editor at North of Oxford.
She’s one of those women who talks to strangers more often than friends— turns them into friends...
Excerpt from Her Name is Heather
Tobi Alfier is published nationally and internationally. Credits include War, Literature and the Arts, The American Journal of Poetry, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Washington Square Review, Cholla Needles, James Dickey Review, Gargoyle, Permafrost, Arkansas Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review.
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