!["I think in my writing, 1 am trying to use what I have...] am very interested in taking stock, - guess, and looking at what is worth preserving and how we can change the way we operate in order to make the most of what we have."
J.D. HO, EPISODE 85](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mexnbfjn7yqdsnr76bggh5m/bafkreibo4iayt723zf6uchrbdm3sgsoiliiaqtm4uaei6loakiy4ffszka@jpeg)
"I think in my writing, 1 am trying to use what I have...] am very interested in taking stock, - guess, and looking at what is worth preserving and how we can change the way we operate in order to make the most of what we have."
J.D. HO, EPISODE 85
Listen to Episode 85 (Of Mystery and Empathy, Cover Design, and Foraging in Winter) with J.D. Ho today! 💙📚🎙️
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25.02.2026 16:21
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Thank you, AJ! 🙏🥰📚
25.02.2026 14:18
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“It’s more complex to be in community than it is to be by yourself.”
I really enjoyed listening to this rich conversation.
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Book cover of Backyard Alchemy by J.D. Ho, featuring the image of a rusted fish tin, scrolled back/open, against a black background.
Cover design by Alban Fischer
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J.D. Ho author photo and book cover of Backyard Alchemy and the text:
Episode 85: J.D. Ho (Of Mystery and Empathy, Cover Design, and Foraging in Winter)
NONFICTION SERIES
PLAINWATER
BACKYARD ALCHEMY
on life with other creatures in a time of salvage
J.D. HO
J.D. Ho, author of Backyard
Alchemy (River River Books,
2026)
Of the genre spectrum of the essay, of rich & complex citation practices, of the senses, of screenwriting, of design, of book covers and middle age and time and so much more!
Listen to Episode 85 with J.D. Ho here: ofpoetrypodcast.com/2026/02/24/e... 📚💙🎙️
And HAPPY PUB DAY to Backyard Alchemy!
24.02.2026 19:09
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from "Briar"
Premature
nostalgia makes every berry metaphor
for loving a dying place.
Elizabeth Sylvia
Podcast graphic for Wpisode 84 with the text:
OF POETRY PODCAST
Elizabeth Gylvia
ELIZABETH SYLVIA
Feythe
(Of Gardens, Marie Antoinette, and Loving
What is Flawed)
EPISODE 84
Listen to Episode 84 with Elizabeth Sylvia here: share.transistor.fm/s/22789fa5
@esylviapoet.bsky.social’s new collection SCYTHE is out TODAY with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉
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24.02.2026 18:13
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Episode 84: Elizabeth Sylvia (Of Gardens, Marie Antoinette, and Loving What is Flawed)
Elizabeth Sylvia, author of Scythe (River River Books, 2026) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “On Learning that Kim Kardashian Exceeded her Water Allowance by 232,000 Ga…
Of gardens and violence, of Marie Antoinette and blueberries, of mothering and gendered labors, of climate crisis and poetic form and holding onto words you love and more.
Join @esylviapoet.bsky.social on Episode 84 and she reads from her new collection SCYTHE (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social!) 📚💙🎙️
16.02.2026 13:59
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from "Ghazal: Morning"
Do you remember those mornings we couldn't even morning?
MAJDA GAMA
Read “Ghazal: Morning” and listen to Episode 83 with @majda.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/204962e6
📚💜🎙️ #poetry #podcast
25.01.2026 14:35
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Yeees (we love a laundry-listen!!)
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Deep gratitude to the poet @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for curating a series that reinforces what a mighty cultural movement poetry is!
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Episode 83: Majda Gama (Of Arabic Oral Tradition, the Sonics of the Ghazal, and the Western Luxury of Telling the Truth in Your Poems)
Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “Ghazal: Morning” (The Offing) Purchase: In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls (Wandering Aengus Press, 2025)…
Of punk roots, of Arabic oral traditions, of the length of cultural memory, of the Sonics of the ghazal, of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and June Jordan and Empire, of gender and of family expectations and so much more.
Listen to Episode 83 with @majda.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/204962e6 📚💙🎙️
19.01.2026 15:04
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"In America, poetry is considered a luxury for the elite, not something that is done over tea every day. But a lot of my SWANA friends from Afghan backgrounds do these poetry battles, Shayr Jangi, where they challenge each other orally to top each other with poetic lines-it's really wonderful."
MAJDA GAMA, EPISODE 83
Monday morning, we have some brightness coming your way 🎙️☀️
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17.01.2026 16:24
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Of Poetry Graphic featuring author photo and cover of Another Life and the text:
OF POETRY PODCAST
Frances Kein
I HAVE NEVER
WANTED
ANOTHER LIFE
Frances Klein
(Of the Alaskan Rural, the Quantifying Work That Poets Do Best, and the Emotional Intensity of Writing Labor)
EPISODE 82
Hope you spend time with Episode 82 featuring @fklein907.bsky.social this week, if you haven’t yet—maybe the break you need from the news. Poets are good company. 🎙️📚💜
Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
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Such a dream to be on @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social! Loveliest way to spend a snowy Sunday morning ❄️🎙📚
04.01.2026 17:04
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from "Schoenbar Road, Midwinter"
LOVE DROVE US OUT, SLED-LADEN: LOVE OF SPEED, OF ICICLES SNAPPED FROM GUTTERS, THEIR IRON TINT FILMING OUR TONGUES, LOVE OF OUR FATHER AND HIS LOVE OF AN EMPTY KITCHEN.
FRANCES KLEIN
Listen to Episode 82 with @fklein907.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8
Read “Schoenbar Road, Midwinter” here: www.culturaldaily.com/frances-klei...
19.12.2025 13:55
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Episode 27: Poet Han VanderHart, Visual Artist Mare McClellan and Benjamin Vogt, Author of Prairie Up
Really glad to have had this conversation with @annwallace.bsky.social on The WildStory last week (!!) 🎙️📚💜 Mountains and image and silence and Milton and Thoreau and more 🏔️
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Your reading is so good, Frances 🥹🙏💙💙
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And of course this is wonderful timing, because my book (and all @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social are on soon-to-end sale!
riotinyourthroat.com/product/anot...
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Listening to this podcast is likely your only chance to hear me read my book’s title poem, which is struggle to get through without choking up
11.12.2025 16:19
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Episode 82: Frances Klein (Of the Alaskan Rural, the Quantifying Work That Poets Do Best, and the Emotional Intensity of Writing Labor)
Frances Klein, author of Another Life Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: Three Poems by Frances Klein at Cultural Daily Purchase: Another Life (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2025) …
Of the poets writing new forms best, of lemons the size of limes, of Terrance Hayes and Jericho Brown and Joshua Bennett, of humor and not writing “stone cold bummers,” of deep reading and so much more! Join poet Frances Klein on Episode 82!
@fklein907.bsky.social
@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
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I DO MY BEST WRITING WHEN I'M REALLY READING.
FRANCES KLEIN, EP 82
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Episode 81: Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Nicole Cooley, author of MOTHER WATER ASH (LSU Press, 2024) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org) Purchase: MOTHER WATER ASH (Louisiana S…
Multi-award-winning poet and five-time LSU Press author Nicole Cooley appeared on the Of Poetry Podcast to discuss her new book, "Mother Water Ash." Tune in for a great convo about hurricanes and floods, mothers, grief, and breaking the rules as a writer: https://bit.ly/44OQVBe
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Blue graphic with photograph of poet Nicole Cooley, book cover of MOTHER WATER ASH and the text:
OF POETRY PODCAST
MOTHER
WATER
ASH
poems
NICOLE COOLEY
(Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
EPISODE 81
Tune in to Episode 81 (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules) with Nicole Cooley today!
Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
04.12.2025 14:23
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![Image of White House in a flood
Text:
from "Mother Water Ash"
I...] is it any wonder I've followed
her advice
to subtract myself Good daughter always
till I'm not
Nicole Cooley](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mexnbfjn7yqdsnr76bggh5m/bafkreifr55jxgp7lg3yowkc4nucsjtnqmoludr4j47gdphnulzavkzdu7i@jpeg)
Image of White House in a flood
Text:
from "Mother Water Ash"
I...] is it any wonder I've followed
her advice
to subtract myself Good daughter always
till I'm not
Nicole Cooley
Episode 81 with Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org)
poets.org/poem/mother-...
Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry 💙📚🎙️
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Episode 81: Nicole Cooley (Of Form and Flood, the Documentation of Grief, and Poetry That Violates Rules)
Nicole Cooley, author of MOTHER WATER ASH (LSU Press, 2024) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “Mother Water Ash” (Poets.org) Purchase: MOTHER WATER ASH (Louisiana S…
Of drafting in a flood of writing, of real floods and hurricanes, of mothers, of audience, of disobedience in our writing, of confronting death, and so much more.
Listen to Episode 81 with Nicole Cooley here: share.transistor.fm/s/2fb8d4c8
#poetry #booksky 💜📚🎙️
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