The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features four 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:
- Hello Portland by Lauren Parker
- Like the Ocean by Sarah Abbett
- Biomythography by Wendy M. Thompson
- Fake Food at the Japanese Market by Robbi Nester
Nine days on the road & you Thunder through my body like An injury, tight as a fist...
Excerpt from Hello Portland
Lauren Parker is the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods (Bottlecap Press, 2023), Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, 2025), and Spells for Success (Simon Element, 2025). She teaches workshops on spellwork and psychic development through poetry, and she’s the winner of the Vachel Lindsey Poetry Prize.
like the ocean I am boundless roaring, crashing on the shore with wave after wave...
Excerpt from Like the Ocean
Sarah Abbett is a published poet and playwright. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and when she isn’t writing, she enjoys playing Trivial Pursuit, doodling on her iPad, and the sweet, sweet joy of slaying dragons in Skyrim.
Birthstone, astrological sign, blood type:
I was born in Oakland, California in 1981 to
a black American father & Chinese immigrant mother...
Excerpt from Biomythography
Wendy M. Thompson is a poet, scholar, and writer from Oakland, California. Her debut poetry collection, Black California Gold (Bucknell University Press, 2025), maps out life in the Bay Area following the trajectory of the Second Great Migration and the changes it brought to families, racial identity, community, and the environment. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Hoxie Gorge Review, Poetry South, and Juked. She is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at San José State University.
At the food court, I stroll, as through a gallery, to see what each
of the ten stalls sells...
Excerpt from Fake Food at the Japanese Market
Robbi Nester is a retired college educator and author of 5 books of poetry. She has also edited three anthologies and hosts two monthly poetry readings on Zoom. Poems recently in Catamaran, One Art, Vox Populi, A Golden State anthology. Forthcoming in Cider Press Review, Spillway, Nature of Our Times, Keystone Anthology of PA Poets. Essay in Manna Songs.
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