Sally is one of two of the Kalamazoo Poetry Fest 2019’s Keynote speakers E.T. gets blown away by this poet’s ability to braid serious research skills with deep compassion for the characters of history… and you will too! Check out and/or buy her new book Oculus to explore this historical,Read More ...
Kalamazoo Poetry Fest keynote speaker gets real about her life as a touring as a poet for seven years and the many changes her work and life has taken. Hosts: Denise Miller and E.T. Townsend Music: The Last Gasp Production: FREQ Flag Media
Block your calendars for Thursday, April 11, 2019 – Saturday, April 13, 2019 The Full 2019 Kalamazoo Poetry Festival Program
Interviewing Anne Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster had me believing in magic. I arrived at Oomen’s remote and northern ‘she-shed’, warmed with a wood-fire stove, filled with thousands of poetry books, and I believed in the magic of a writer’s life. We dialed up Oomen’s co-author Linda Nemec FosterRead More ...
There was so much goodness from our conversation with poet Keith Taylor that we unearthed a few more poems on his time teaching in the Upper Peninsula with University of Michigan Biostation, a French ex and his daughter’s travels through Denmark.
This month, ET sat down with well-known Great Lakes poet Keith Taylor, in his Ann Arbor kitchen for a reflective and riveting conversation on new found birds, the concept of grace, running away from home, desperately seeking bohemianism and of course, his poems. He read several pieces from The Bird-while,Read More ...
Episode is explicit with a few swear words. Once again, we are breaking the rules on KPP. This month we spoke with a fiction writer (scandal!), “who is often seduced by poetry,” as she puts it. Laura Citino read her own flash pieces including “Take a look at yourself” “APPLICATIONRead More ...
The Poetry Foundation lists this month’s guest, Traci Brimhall accolades as follows: “Winner of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry, Brimhall has also received grants and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Writer’sRead More ...
On this episode of the Kalamazoo Poetry Podcast, Denise and E.T. tell what’s occupying their present world, from new jobs to this post #metoo moment. Sit back and listen to words from their favorite poets, both the contemporary innovators and our poetry elders. Below is a list of actual footnotesRead More ...
Casey Grooten is a poet, fashion maker, collage artist and musician. She and I discuss what’s it like to live in a mid-size city as a non-bianary artist and her more recent forays into musical performance and the painting of hundreds of faces. Content warning: Grooten speaks about sexual assaultRead More ...
This month, your KPF Podcast hosts Denise Miller and E.T. have the great honor of speaking with Dana M. Hudson (she/her or them/they), also known as Great Dane. In every story, passage, poem and conversation, this local poet and national slam performer disarms her company through unflinching truth. In thisRead More ...
Some poets are cooks. Some poets are doctors. Some are telephone repairers. This poet is a playwright and a radical educator. Her name is Shawntai Brown. This month on the Kalamazoo Poetry Podcast we hear two of her poems rooted in her home, Detroit. Her work takes on topics likeRead More ...
href=”http://kalamazoopoetryfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/unnamed.jpg”> Kalamazooian, up and coming poet Brooke Dove shares poems and speaks about her process, her forays into slam poetry competitions and her time participating and volunteering at Fire, an arts nonprofit for youth. If you would like to submit ideas for future episodes or a sestina poem for thisRead More ...
In the inaugural episode of The Kalamazoo Poetry Podcast, Denise Miller shares her poem, “Speakeasy”, quotes James Baldwin and breaks away from reality with a delicious improv poem. Every week we will offer a prompt. This week, take three words from a book or friend and improv over music. RecordRead More ...