The Hive Poetry Collective

Airing on KSQD 90.7 FM most Sundays at 8:00, the Hive Poetry Collective is a buzz of poets in Santa Cruz, California— a swarm of radio conversations, public readings, and writing workshops.Our theme music is "Drunk on Funk" by Top-Flow. Find us at hivepoetry.orgAnd https://www.facebook.com/hivepoetry

The Hive Poetry Collective is a arts podcast hosted by The Hive, with 309 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

The Hive hosts The Hive Poetry Collective, a arts show with 309 episodes published.

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  Episode #38

  S8 E38: Pt 2: Winter in America (Still with Roxi Power, Julie Murphy, & Dion O'Reilly

  Sep 29, 202659 minS8

  Roxi Power, co-editor of the new anthology, ⁠ Winter in America (Still: Poets, Writers, and ArtistsRespond to a Fractured World ⁠ , talks with Julie Murphy and Dion O’Reilly about poems by Lynne Thompson, Marcella Durand, Carolina Ebeid, Bill Lavender, Gabriella Guttiérez y Muhs, Addie Mahmassani, and Brenda Cárdenas. We showcase the wide variety of styles and responses to the erosion of our democracy in this 430-page sequel to Winter in America (Again (2025) featuring 200 contributors and color art (Carbonation Press, 2026). From Ebeid’s “technologies of grief” to Thompson’s hope–“this poem about the wreck we have made of the world/cannotforget: the ewe drum, the tǎr, the seed-filled gourd”–we dive deep into the book’s prominent themes (ICE, oligarchs, Gaza, and more) in a sample of the book's many poets that include Joy Harjo, Cornelius Eady, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ellen Bass. Follow our events and order this important sequel anthology to Winter in America (Again (Carbonation Press) at ⁠⁠winterinamerica.org⁠⁠ . Join our next Santa Cruz launch event at InterAct Open Mic October 6, 7pm at Satori Arts

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  Episode #37

  S8: E37 Jen Siraganian's debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead

  Sep 14, 202659 minS8

  Jen Siraganian joins Farnaz Fatemi for a conversation about her debut collection of poetry, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, a richly deep exploration of memory, identity, motherhood, & erasure. Jen reads six poems and they discuss the way her work rebuilds and un-erases people across lifetimes and inherited traumas. Order the book directly from the publisher , Perugia Press. Jen will join the Hive locally to celebrate her official launch date, Tuesday 9/15, 7pm at the Hive Live! at Bookshop Santa Cruz, reading along with Amber Coverdale Sumrall.

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  Episode #38

  S8: E36 Lexi Pelle and Dion O'Reilly Talk Strange Poetry

  Sep 8, 202659 minS8

  Lexi kicks off the interview by reading Susan Browne's, "Strange Ode. " Then we talk about Lexi's newest book, Let Go With The Lights On , Winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize Lexi Pelle was the winner of the Academy of American Poets Award and the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review , Plume , West Branch , Rattle , 32 Poems , and River Styx . She is the author of the poetry collection Let Go With The Lights On (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023).

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  S8: E35 Magpie on the Gallows: Poets Respond to Bosch and Bruegel

  Sep 1, 20261 hour

  Six local poets, including anthology editor David Allen Sullivan, join Hannah Tool to read and discuss poems from Magpie on the Gallows: Poems on the Art of Bosch and Bruegel (Carbonation Press). The anthology, co-edited by Allen Sullivan and his late mother, Margaret Allen Sullivan, is a celebration and exploration of the ubiquitous, unsettling, curious worlds of Hiernymous Bosch and Peter Bruegel the Elder. Jessica Breheny, Taylor Gorman, and Ken Weisner start the hour reading pieces that pick apart and zero in on the weird and unwieldy detail in the paintings they responded to, then Nancy Miller Gomez, Adela Najarro - who also reads a poem from the anthology by Natalia Treviño - and David Allen Sullivan join to share poems that weave the personal into the fabric of the pieces they responded to.

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  S8: E34 Amber Coverdale Sumrall Chats with Julie Murphy

  Aug 25, 202659 min

  Poet Amber Coverdale Sumrall joins Julie Murphy to talk about her new collection, That Other Song , and a writing life shaped by memory, landscape, love, loss, and close attention to the natural world. Amber reads poems from the new book and reflects on her mother’s influence, her many journeys to Ireland, the role of silence and writing retreats in her creative practice, and decades spent nurturing Santa Cruz’s literary community through In Celebration of the Muse and Hummingbird Press. The conversation begins with Marilyn Robertson's “You Say." Amber is the author of Litany of Wings and Refuge and has edited or co-edited thirteen anthologies. For twenty-eight years she co-produced In Celebration of the Muse , and she received a Gail Rich Award in 2010. Amber will read from That Other Song at Hive Live on September 15 , alongside Jen Siraganian , who will also be celebrating a new book.

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