The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June 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:
- Under by Scott Pleasants
- Fabrication by Jennifer Brown
- Faces by Kenya McDonald
- Harry’s by Olivia Qi
- Orderly by Hoyt Rogers
You can submit your poetry for consideration in a future Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast episode via our submissions page.
she was grown from the seed of strange fruit
that lay just beneath the decay of ashes...
Excerpt from Under
Scott Pleasants is the first and current Poet Laureate for the Township of Teaneck, New Jersey. He is originally from The Bronx, New York and is expressing his thoughts through the lens of a seasoned transportation executive and U.S. Air Force Veteran. A published poetry author who allows his words to rhythmically tell the story of our journey. Scott has been recognized on the local and state levels. He has performed poetry at many venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC, Busboy & Poets in D.C. and his poetry has been featured at Harvard University.
Text and textile, so easy to hear in English their kinship. Words and fabric, which comes from a root meaning “making”...
Excerpt from Fabrication
Jennifer Brown (she/her) lives with her partner and a funny-looking dog in Montpelier, VT, having recently left the too-hot south behind for good. She has taught creative writing and literature in high schools, colleges, summer programs, and festivals and has held residencies at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Orison Anthology, Cimarron Review, Zone 3, Twyckenham Notes, and Cinncinnati Review. Her first poetry collection, Natural Violence, was published by Brick Road Poetry Press in 2022.
We are the faces of many women
Recognize us?...
Excerpt from Faces
Kenya McDonald is a poet, writer and teacher living in Tennessee. She uses her voice to create poetry that values dignity, empathy, love, and life in inner cities all over the world. Kenya McDonald has a bachelors and master’s degree in liberal arts. She has received several awards for her poetry, one including the Lance F. Jeffers Creative Writing Award. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan.
I slough off former houses, former selves.
They molt and blur, still half-combined....
Excerpt from Orderly
Hoyt Rogers is a poet, translator, and novelist. He has published many books; he has contributed poetry, fiction, essays, and translations to a wide variety of periodicals. His edition of Yves Bonnefoy’s Rome, 1630 received the French-American Foundation’s 2021 Translation Prize. His latest collection of poems is Thresholds (MadHat 2023), his latest translation is Yves Bonnefoy’s The Wandering Life (Seagull 2023), and his latest novel is Sailing to Noon (Spuyten Duyvil 2023, volume one of The Caribbean Trilogy). Born in North America to an ethnically diverse family, he has spent most of his life in Latin America and Western Europe. He was educated at Columbia, Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford.
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