People and Their Poems

Sandy Carlson (https://sandycarlson.net) visits with UK writer Steve Walter, whose recent book A Lighter Metal was recently released by Orenaug Mountain Publishing."We are connected to all that have ever existed throughout evolution, from the beginning of life itself, the creation of earth, other planets, stars, and their elements, which have become an essential, living part of us," says Walter. "We need to appreciate the stillness of things, the nature of life, its essence, responding to the world through our senses, for instance, as we notice the angle of the light, cool breeze on the face, birdsong, contact with the earth, perhaps even the heady scents of summer."For more about this podcast, visit https://peopleandtheirpoems.net.

This is the August edition of the Orenaug Mountain Publishing reading and roundtable, a part of the People and Their Poems podcast, hosted by Sandy Lee Carlson.This month's participants are:Nancy Manning (1:02)Julie Cook (14:38)Steve Walter (23:18)Samuel Gluck (26:18)Charlotte Pyle (32:42)Susan Marie Powers (39:00)Naomi Bindman (41:2Betty Lou Bowles (45:07)Prithvijeet Sinha (46:50)Isabell VanMerlin (55:00)Julian Matthews (58:13)Links You May NeedSandy Lee Carlson - https://sandycarlson.netOrenaug Mountain Publishing - https://orenaugmountainpublishing.comPeople and Their Poems -https://peopleandtheirpoems.net

Host Sandy Lee Carlson talks with Prithvijeet Sinha, a poet from Lucknow, India, who has contributed widely to poetry journals around the world. He is a regular contributor to Orenaug Mountain Publishing's online e-zine, the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal. He has also contributed to Orenaug Mountain Publishing's anthologies, most recently Lost Love. Prithvijeet also is a regular contributor to the monthly People and Their Poems/Orenaug Mountain Publishing roundtable on Zoom.Read Prithvijeet's work on his blog An Awadh Boy's Panorama, in Pyssum Literaria, Everscribe, and Frontiers. He is on Instagram @prithvijeet08.

Poetry and discussion with Sandy Lee Carlson, Dee Allen, Naomi Bindman, Julie Cook, Amy D'Orio, Edward Dzitko, Nancy Manning, Prithvijeet Sinha, Sharon Smith, and Isabell VanMerlin.People and Their Poems is hosted by Sandy Lee Carlson. Learn more about Sandy’s poetry and her term as a local poet laureate in Woodbury, Connecticut, at ⁠https://sandycarlson.net⁠.People and Their Poems is presented by Orenaug Mountain Publishing. Check out all the seasons of the podcast at ⁠https://peopleandtheirpoems.net⁠ or view the Orenaug Mountain Publishing season at ⁠https://orenaugmountainpublishing.com/people-their-poems⁠Learn how Orenaug Mountain Publishing can help you become a published author, and how you can get a matching author website by visiting ⁠https://orenaugmountainpublishing.com/services⁠.

Host Sandy Lee Carlson talks with author Cindy Eastman, who edited a collection of stories about life after grief.People and Their Poems is hosted by Sandy Lee Carlson. Learn more about Sandy’s poetry and her term as a local poet laureate in Woodbury, Connecticut, at https://sandycarlson.net.People and Their Poems is presented by Orenaug Mountain Publishing. Check out all the seasons of the podcast at https://peopleandtheirpoems.net or view the Orenaug Mountain Publishing season at https://orenaugmountainpublishing.com/people-their-poemsLearn how Orenaug Mountain Publishing can help you become a published author, and how you can get a matching author website by visiting https://orenaugmountainpublishing.com/services.

In this episode, Mary Anne Abdo and Isabell VanMerlin take center stage as the featured poets. Joining host Sandy Lee Carlson are Edward Dzitko, Samuel Gluck, Naomi Bindman, Susan Marie Powers, Linette Rabsatt, Prithvijeet Sinha, and Sharon Smith.People and Their Poems is presented by Orenaug Mountain Publishing.

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Sandy Lee Carlson (https://sandycarlson.net) hosts People and Their Poems (https://peopleandtheirpoems.net), welcoming featured poets Prithvijeet Sinha and Susan Marie Powers.This podcast is presented by Orenaug Mountain Publishing (https://orenaugmountainpublishing.com). Check out our anthologies and find out how we can help you publish your next book.Music by Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabayhttps://pixabay.com/users/hitslab-47305729/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=303176

In this episode, Middlebury, Connecticut, artist/author/educator Steve Parlato discusses his creative process and motivation for crafting his 16-portrait collage series, They Are Not Disposable, with host Sandy Carlson. Each portrait depicts a Black American whose life was stolen due to racial violence. In memorializing these individuals in art and poetry, Steve seeks to promote necessary conversation around the topic of racism, with the goal of opening minds and fostering connection.Steve is the author of two young adult novels, The Namesake (which won the 2011 Tassy Walden Award for New Voices in Y.A Fiction) and The Precious Dreadful. Both explore grief, loss, and hope. Follow him on FB at Steven Parlato Author and IG at @stevenparlato.People and Their Poems is sponsored presented Orenaug Mountain Publishing.

This is a poetry reading and round table edition of People and Their Poems, with host Sandy Carlson and featured reader Thomasina Levy.Joining Sandy and Thomasina are Ed Dzitko, Susan Marie Powers, Samuel Gluck, Mary Ann Abdo, and Linette Rabsatt. People and Their Poems (https://peopleandtheirpoems.net) is presented by Orenaug Mountain Publishing (https://orenaugmountainpublishing.com).

Samuel Gluck tells host Sandy Carlson, that he is just an antenna, catching words, verses, and stanzas from the universe and putting them to paper. He says claims no ownership, in the grand scheme of things. He's simply a conduit.Check out Samuel's website to learn more about him and his book, Muse, released this past week by Orenaug Mountain Publishing.

Jo-Ann Iannotti, OP, a Litchfield, Connecticut, resident, Dominican Sister of Hope, and lifelong poet and photographer, has gathered her works into a collection titled I Know Myself as Thief. Asked why she decided to publish this book, Iannotti says, “People have been encouraging me for years to put my poetry and photography together in a book. Finally doing it, I’ve learned new things about the power of the word and the power of an image.”Hear more about the book, and some poems read by the author, as host Sandy Carlson guides us along.

In this episode, hear from Sandy Carlson and Ed Dzitko, managing partners at Orenaug Mountain Publishing, featured poet Linette Rabsatt, and Prithvijeet Sinha and Thomasina Levy.

For 22 years, Margaret Hunt was a high school English teacher.  Currently, she is a student teacher evaluator for the Alternate Route to Certification. She also teaches a GED prep course to adult learners. Margaret holds a BA from Smith College, and an MAT from Columbia Teachers College. A lifelong amateur and professional canoe racer and wilderness canoe paddler, Margaret is a contributing writer for the My Musings blog on the Friends of Topsmead State Park website.  Margaret started a poetry club when she taught at Torrington High School. She also created and taught courses in creative writing and poetry at Pomperaug High School.   EPISODE EXTRAS Dana Gioia Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins How to Eat a Poem - Eve Merriam

Sandy Carlson, poet laureate of Woodbury, Conn., talks nature poetry with Tom Nicotera and Sherri Bedingfield. Sheryll (Sherri) Bedingfield is a family therapist, psychotherapist, and a counselor with the Youth & Family Resource Center. She is the proud mother of two sons and twin grandsons. She has two poetry collections, Transitions & Transformations (Antrim House, 2010) and The Clattering, Voices from Old Forfarshire, Scotland (Grayson). Read more about Sherri here. Tom Nicotera has taught poetry classes and workshops in Washington, D.C., and in Maryland. In Connecticut, Tom ran a poetry series at Susan's Cafe in Granby, and for 25 years was involved as cofounder/coordinator of the Bloomfield Library's Wintonbury Poetry Series. He was editor of Charter Oak Poets II, an anthology of Hartford area poets, and was on the organizing committee for the 2001 Connecticut Poetry Festival at Middlesex Community College. For several years, he was a mentor for the student poetry collaboration between the American School for the Deaf and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. He has a book of poems titled What Better Place To Be Than Here? , and he has published poems in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. “Nathan Hall State Forest” previously appeared in Woodlands, the magazine of the Connecticut Forest and Parks Association.

Sandy Carlson, poet laureate of Woodbury, Conn., visits with Vyacheslav (Slava) Konoval, a Ukrainian poet and lawyer whose creative works have been translated into six languages. A writer of poetry for the past two years, Slava's poems have appeared in more than 60 literary magazines and anthologies. He is a member of the Scottish Writer's Federation and has a wide interest in the arts. EPISODE EXTRAS Slava on All Poetry Slava on Linked-In Slava's reading in "Poetry of Struggle and Solidarity" (Takoma Park City TV) Slava's reading in War Art Project for Ukraine Slava Konoval reads his poem ДО ВОДИ (Trukhaniv’s Island) with The Allingham Arts Festival Ukrainian Poet Slava Konoval - Translatit Intae Scots - with the Scots Language Centre Learn more about Sandy as a local poet laureate and learn more about the People and Their Poems podcast.

Rick Magee, poet laureate of Bethel, Conn., and an English professor at Sacred Heart University, grew up in California and moved to the East Coast to work on his PhD. His wife Rebecca is also an English professor, and their son Cormac wants to be a writer when he grows up. Rick has published in a variety of online journals and has just recently signed with a publisher for his poetry chapbook. EPISODE EXTRAS VIDEO: An Evening with New Connecticut Poet Laureates - Ridgefield Library Opinion: Proud members of the Cool Weirdos Club Opinion: My son taught me how to write life’s next act Opinion: People think they hate poetry, but aren’t we all poets?

Chris Gaffney is a stay-at-home dad to a 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old boy residing in Wolcott, Connecticut, where he also serves on the board of education. Chris has won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best humor column in its category (2019) and served as a keynote speaker at the National At-Home Dad Network’s annual convention (2022), where he presented a talk titled “What Do You Do All Day? Sharing Your Story with Authenticity and Humor.” Currently, he is working on a book called Baby Bump: Poems for and About Expectant Parents. This is the cornerstone of Chris’s initiative to get fathers involved with their childrens’ development at the earliest possible moment in their child’s development. EPISODE EXTRAS Chris Read His Work National At-Home Dad's Network

Listen as Sandy Carlson, poet laureate of Woodbury, Conn. (https://sandycarlson.net,) talks with Nicole Caruso Garcia, whose full-length debut poetry collection is Oxblood (Able Muse Press, 2022). Oxblood was named a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award and the Richard Wilbur Award. Educated at Fairfield University, Nicole holds a BA in English and Religious Studies. After seven years in the corporate sector, she earned her MS in Education from the University of Bridgeport and taught English at Trumbull High School for fifteen years. Nicole's poetry appears in Best New Poets, Light, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. Garcia serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, Conn. EPISODE EXTRAS Nicole Caruso Garcia Poetry by the Sea Light, a Journal of Light Verse Wonder Woman as a Rap Star Able Muse Poets Triple Book-Launch Event One Art: A Journal of Poetry

Jack Powers taught high school special education, English and writing for 38 years. He won the 2015 and 2012 Connecticut River Review Poetry Contests and was a finalist for the 2014 and 2013 Rattle Poetry Prizes. Jack earned MFAs in fiction and poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a BFA in Painting from Syracuse University.  He has two poetry collections: Everybody's Vaguely Familiar (2019) and Still Love (2023).  Jack has published scores of poems in various journals, including Rattle, The Cortland Review, and The Southern Review.  EPISODE EXTRAS Jack Powers Website Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking Connecticut Writing Project Hudson Valley Writers Center Everybody's Vaguely Familiar by Jack Powers on Amazon