The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast September 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:
- Genesis 1 by Kimberly Gibson-Tran
- Notes from the Margins of Your Press Release by Jason Palomino
- Listen to the Hotel Radiator by Abel Saldaña
- April Silver by Diana Athena
- Dancer by John Grey
แผ่นดินโลกนั้นก็ปราศจากรูปร่างและว่างเปล่าอยู่ ความมืดอยู่เหนือผิวน้ำ A world warps in the glass of proffered water...
Excerpt from Genesis 1
Kimberly Gibson-Tran is an emerging writer with over 40 published poems and essays—most within the last year. She studied linguistics at Baylor and the University of North Texas, writing critically, in her thesis, about poems with “Lines by Someone Else.” Her recent poems appear in Rust & Moth, Baltimore Review, Reed Magazine, Rowayat, and elsewhere. Raised by missionaries in Thailand, she now lives in Texas. Her first poetry manuscript is tentatively titled The Voyagers.
The arts scene unveiled a new initiative:
“Equity Through Installations.”
A soft-lit exhibit of glass teardrops
suspended mid-air—...
Excerpt from Notes from the Margins of Your Press Release
Jason Palomino is an abstract artist and poet exploring themes of faith, solitude, and transformation. Through layered textures and reflective verse, his work invites stillness and deeper connection to the unseen. Rooted in the landscapes of the Hudson Valley and the inner terrain of the soul, Jason creates to express what words or images alone cannot—offering a space for reflection, honesty, and renewal.
It clanks itself awake like a choir clearing throats,
then offers the old sermon: you will be cold, and then, in time, you will not.
On the sill, water in a glass leans into a faint steam...
Excerpt from Listen to the Hotel Radiator
Abel Saldana is a Latino poet and writer whose work explores trauma, endurance, and the search for renewal. His work appears in journals committed to contemporary poetry and the transformative power of language. He currently resides in Orange County, California with his wife and two cats.
un / done is an antecedent to rearranged
solved / to the beat of the running shoes ...
Excerpt from April Silver
Diana Athena’s writing is often inspired by her yoga and meditation practice exploring language alongside breath. Her poems stop and illuminate time inviting the reader to confront their own interiority against the outer limits of the body. Outside of poetry, Diana works as a yoga instructor and as an adjunct professor at LaGuardia Community College. Her first poetry collection “Echoes in Still Air” is forthcoming this November with Finishing Line Press.
The dancer
is all-day, all-night,
androgynously-beautiful,
always watching over me...
Excerpt from Dancer
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, River And South and The Alembic. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Rush, White Wall Review and Flights.
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