Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast

James Morehead
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The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. The podcast also features monthly submitted poetry, read by the poets. Host: James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California and author of "canvas", "portraits of red and gray", and "The Plague Doctor". Web: viewlesswings.com YouTube: @ViewlessWings Instagram: @viewlesswings Threads: @viewlesswings Facebook: @viewlesswingspress TikTok: @viewlesswingspress

  1. Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW]

    10/06/2025

    Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW]

    Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize. Laurentiis is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, BOMB, and poets.org. A 2018 Whiting Award winner, she lives in New Orleans. Below are excerpts from the interview with James Morehead on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.

    47 min
  2. Five Poets Recite (Abel Saldaña, Diana Athena, Jason Palomino, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, John Grey)

    09/29/2025

    Five Poets Recite (Abel Saldaña, Diana Athena, Jason Palomino, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, John Grey)

    The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast September submitted poems episode features five wonderful contributions read by five poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today.

    14 min
  3. Poet Sarah Green on Grief, Resilience, and Crafting "The Deletions" [INTERVIEW]

    08/25/2025

    Poet Sarah Green on Grief, Resilience, and Crafting "The Deletions" [INTERVIEW]

    Sarah Green is the author of a previous collection, Earth Science (421 Atlanta), and the editor of Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence (Ohio University Press.) She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at St. Cloud State University.

    39 min
  4. m. mick powell’s on crafting the Black feminist poetic “Dead Girl Cameo” [INTERVIEW]

    08/11/2025

    m. mick powell’s on crafting the Black feminist poetic “Dead Girl Cameo” [INTERVIEW]

    m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica and chronicle the body. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in RHINO, Muzzle, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. mick is a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut and an adjunct in Bay Path University’s MFA in creative nonfiction writing program. A former Tin House Resident, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love.

    35 min
  5. Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz)

    07/28/2025

    Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz)

    The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast player and then read each below: Age by David W. BernerSpring Cleaning by Desma SheererSurrender Wears a Summer Dress by Nicole DalcourtA.I am going now by River RipaThe Pull Over by Laurie Kuntz

    14 min
  6. Poet Hosho McCreesh on the art of crafting short poems for “Psalms from the Badlands”

    07/07/2025

    Poet Hosho McCreesh on the art of crafting short poems for “Psalms from the Badlands”

    Hosho McCreesh is currently writing, painting, & making stuff in the gypsum & caliche badlands of the American Southwest. His work has appeared widely in print, audio, & online. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets, songwriters, and artists including Safia Elhillo, Olivia Gatwood, Daniel Ash + David J, Kari Byron, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, and many more. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast is a must-listen for anyone who loves poetry, music, and art. Listen, be inspired, and subscribe today.

    41 min
  7. Four Poets Recite (Lauren Parker, Sarah Abbett, Wendy M Thompson, Robbi Nester)

    06/09/2025

    Four Poets Recite (Lauren Parker, Sarah Abbett, Wendy M Thompson, Robbi Nester)

    The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast June submitted poems episode features four wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Subscribe today. Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast player and then read each below: Hello Portland by Lauren ParkerLike the Ocean by Sarah AbbettBiomythography by Wendy M. ThompsonFake Food at the Japanese Market by Robbi Nester

    17 min
  8. Finding the Poem: Poet Adela Najarro on Form, Family, and "Variations in Blue" [INTERVIEW]

    04/28/2025

    Finding the Poem: Poet Adela Najarro on Form, Family, and "Variations in Blue" [INTERVIEW]

    Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. She serves on the board of directors for Círculo de poetas and Writers and works with the Latine/x community nationwide, promoting the intersection of creative writing and social justice. Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She is the author of four poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over, My Childrens, and Volcanic Interruptions, a chapbook that includes Janet Trenchard's artwork. The 2024 Int'l Latino Book Awards designated Volcanic Interruptions as an Honorable Mention in the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award category. The California Arts Council has recognized her as an established artist for the Central California Region and appointed her as an Individual Artist Fellow. The poems in Variations in Blue address the aftermath of domestic violence through the transformative power of language, leading to healing and empowerment via the author’s journey into her Latine/x culture. They cycle through the traumatic residue of dysfunctional relationships, the complexities of Latinx representation through a series of ekphrastic poems, and reimagine Nicaragua as a homeland set in a volcanic landscape. Each section contains a series of poetic variations on a theme, and the poems reverberate and rotate through the indeterminacy of language. Najarro’s Variations in Blue insists that the complexities of experience must be understood one version at a time, each distinctly unfolding its unique design.

    39 min
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The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Dana Gioia, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. The podcast also features monthly submitted poetry, read by the poets. Host: James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California and author of "canvas", "portraits of red and gray", and "The Plague Doctor". Web: viewlesswings.com YouTube: @ViewlessWings Instagram: @viewlesswings Threads: @viewlesswings Facebook: @viewlesswingspress TikTok: @viewlesswingspress

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