Viewless Wings – Celebrating the Art of Poetry

Viewless Wings provides a platform for poets to have their work published (on ViewlessWings.com) and heard (on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast). You can read (and hear) selected poets on our Featured Poets page. We review submitted poetry on a monthly basis.

Viewless Wings also publishes regular interviews with extraordinary poets and artists from around the world both on our website and on our podcast. Here are some of the interviews we’ve published:

• Olivia Gatwood, poet and author of “Life of the Party”
• Corey Van Landingham, poet and author of “Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens”
• Lisa Marie Simmons, poet and musician
• Angie Trudell Vasquez, Poet Laureate of Madison, WI
• Morgan Liphart, poet and author of “Barefoot and Running”
• Gaia Alari, director-animator of “tethered” (produced by Viewless Wings)
• Sean Singer, poet and author of “Today in the Taxi”
• Regina Harris Baiocchi, poet and author
• Jessica Sabo, poet and author of “A Body of Impulse”
• Bianca Amira Zanella, poet-in-residence at Phoenix Books (Rutland, VT)

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry, and the business of publishing, through interviews with poets and artists, and special features. Season 1 features interviews with poets including Olivia Gatwood and Regina Harris Baiocchi, artists including Kari Byron and animator/director Gaia Alari, and more.

Viewless Wings has published a series of articles on self-publishing collections of poetry, and interviewed experts in the field of design and publishing. Below are some of the resources we’ve created to help poets successfully publish their work.

• Getting started
• Professional writers write every day including an interview with poetry coach Ryan McRee
• Storyboarding the manuscript
• The value of poetry workshops and coaching
• Hire a copyeditor! including an interview with copyeditor Brittany Smail
• Imprint, ISBNs, LCCN, and barcodes
• Getting a professional profile photo
• Copyrights and art usage license agreements
• Choosing a cover and layout designer including an interview with designer Zoe Norvell
• Printing and distribution
• Publishing a book is a product management challenge
• Securing Blurbs, Advance Readers and PR

We also interviewed publishing industry expert David Wogahn and Wingless Dreamer founder Ruchi Acharya.

“These are poems to be savored, re-read, kept handy for those times when only poetry will do.” – W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History, University of Chicago

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“The rhythmic control is impeccable. The centerpiece of this collection, a long series of poems that chronicle a trip through the former Soviet Union, is a fast moving, impressionistic feast of imagery.” – Carmine Di Biase, Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus – Jacksonville State University

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