The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July 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:
- Age by David W. Berner
- Spring Cleaning by Desma Sheerer
- Surrender Wears a Summer Dress by Nicole Dalcourt
- A.I am going now by River Ripa
- The Pull Over by Laurie Kuntz
I’ve buckled in for the gales, the last of winter’s raging; long gone are the quivering...
Excerpt from Age
David W. Berner is the award-winning author of several books of fiction and memoir. HIs poetry and short stories have been published in the Wild Roof Journal, Southword from the Munster Literature Centre, and the MockingOwl Roost Literary magazine to name a few. He was honored as the writer-in-residence at the Jack Kerouac Project and the Hemingway Birthplace Home and Museum.
The things I could write are buried in hampers of unfolded laundry, if I went through all the pant pockets...
Excerpt from Spring Cleaning
Sheerer is a writer and poet living with her husband and daughters in Upstate New York. Her short stories and poems have been published in DASH, 34th Parallel, Adanna, and The Woven Tale. She is an avid trail runner who finds peace and renewal in under the canopy of trees.
I am in a field, my body flattening the soft grass.
Everything is green, like the house I grew up in...
Excerpt from Surrender Wears a Summer Dress
NICOLE DALCOURT is an award-winning Canadian writer and poet living on the outskirts of Toronto, Ontario. Her debut poetry collection, What Remains, uses a confessional voice to explore themes of grief, heartbreak, rebirth and belonging. Dalcourt’s work has appeared in Writerly Magazine and The King City Mosaic. When not writing, Nicole hosts and participates in open mics around the region and pursues her passion for teaching poetry skills through in-person and online workshops.
Before they take
my words
I will turn to
code...
Excerpt from A.I am going now
Steeped in mysticism and fueled by compassion, River Ripa sees poetry as a modality to connect humans back to nature. She has one published poetry collection entitled Of the Earth; another in the works; and has been featured in small works by The Walt Whitman Association, Philosopher’s Stone Poetry, The Winged Moon Literary Magazine, Poesia Salvaje (Peru) and more. She currently serves as Publicity Chair for the Connecticut Poetry Society.
In every town's August harvest,
maybe an officer of the law
pulls someone over who speaks little English...
Excerpt from The Pull Over
Laurie Kuntz is a four time Pushcart Prize nominee and two time Best of the Net Nominee. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize. She published six books of poetry. Her latest That Infinite Roar, published by Gyroscope Press. Her themes come from working with Southeast Asian refugees, living as an expatriate in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Brazil, and raising a husband and son.
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