In Three Poems

David J Bauman
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Poetry read aloud by those who write it and love it. Each episode features a new guest poet and a lively discussion about how poems connect us and how they talk among themselves. We read two poems by our guest and one by a poet whose work they admire. David J. Bauman, your host, reads the first poem.   Sign up for the bonus Fourth Poem: https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inthreepoems/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inthreepoems BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/inthreepoems.bsky.social

  1. 2 days ago

    Whole, Holy, Hot: Poems with Chrissy Martin

    Welcome to In Three Poems, the show were we get to know today's poets three poems at a time. Today's guest is Dr. Chrissy Martin. Chrissy  is the author of Whole, Holy, Hot (Write Bloody, 2026). She is an Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana. She holds a PhD in poetry from Oklahoma State and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is the Poetry Director and a founding editor for Arcturus. Her work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Cherry Tree, Cream City Review, and the minnesota review.  Poem 1.  "Pasta Night with Diagnosis," from Whole, Holy, Hot (Write Bloody, 2026), written by Chrissy Martin and read by David Pasta Night Without Diagnosis The water is hot and well-oiled, your wide hand dropping salt. When we eat, we watch the melting butter pat on our noodles. I like to think quiet moments like this make me a better listener. You tell me you joined a gym and I make my face into a smile. I tell you the doctor says she still can’t find what’s wrong and you make a frown and eat a meatball. You don’t know how to talk about illness and sometimes I forget you have a body. I’d love to measure my body only by my body and your body by yours, but neither of us is that flexible, and besides, the bread in the oven is burning. We move to a table outside where there is plenty to look at behind each other’s shoulders. I tell you I don’t know how to mourn my body and celebrate yours at the same time so we break out the wine, toast to something.  Poem 2. "Nail Harmony," written and read by Chrissy Martin Nail Harmony Dolly Parton wrote “9 to 5” to the acrylic zip zip of her nails, like a washboard, a typewriter, a worn-out woman’s anthem. Wikipedia: Dolly Parton—lead vocals, nails. My friends and I talk how we’d fight off men. It’s a game but not. They say keys, pepper spray, knees, but I’ve always been partial to nails. When my mother left for the man with a cruel son, I kept my nails sharp for when he’d draw back, swing. I left deep moons on both his wrists. I watched diamonds redden across his back. When the police came to ask questions I said protection, smaller. I said fists. I didn’t say help. What would they take away when I was the weapon. Dolly loves her men earthy, rail thin. She loves her husband: The way he lets me be free. And lets me be me. He don’t try to choke me and demand anything from me. The cruel son passed away the cruelest way: farm equipment tip, teen body underneath, grandmother’s house. I am still so sorry. I am still so afraid to wear my nails short. Dolly and Patti LaBelle play their nails together on daytime TV, sing, Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’, shortnin’, Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread. Patti takes the high notes, voice and nails. Dolly’s nails are thicker; maybe she waited longer for a fresh set so her acrylics skewed alto. When my nails break to the quick, wear tissue thin: press-ons. When the press-ons split like the tongue of a snake: even better. When I go home there are so many truck-back window memorials to the cruel son. How do we mourn those who made us sharpen ourselves into weapons.  Links: BBHMM by Tiana Clark The Music Video Chrissy Martin's Website Order Whole, Holy, Hot Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  2. 27 Aug

    Between the Lines, Poetry with Daniel Lurie

    We talk about rural life, family tension, horror and grief, along with the things we don't or cannot say, today with poet Daniel Lurie. Guest Bio: Daniel is a writer, editor, and educator from eastern Montana. He holds an MFA from the University of Idaho. Daniel writes about the environment, Judaism, rural life, gentrification, and grief. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals and magazines like Pleiades, The Iowa Review, swamp pink, Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, and CutBank, among many others.  He’s the co-founder and co-editor of Outskirts Literary Journal. He served as the 2025-2026 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. If you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting it! Poem 1  “Letter I Wish My Father Wrote from Eastern Montana,” By Daniel Lurie, read by David, as it appeared in The Shore Poetry. Poem 2:  “Family Portrait: Featuring a Talala, Oklahoma Sunset,” written and read by Daniel Lurie. Published in Southwest Review Poem 3:  “You Guys,” by Ocean Vuong, read by Daniel Lurie From TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2022 by Ocean Vuong.  Thank you to Penguin Press for permission to read it here on the podcast. Don't forget to let us know what you think! Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  3. 20 Aug

    Nature, Parenting, and Poetry with Jessica Whipple

    Support the show Welcome to In Three Poems, where each episode, we talk with a guest poet, read two poems by them and one by a poet of their choice. And we explore what connections the works may have. Coincidentally, our guest today, Jessica Whipple has chosen a poem by first-season guest Grant Clauser. Jessica Whipple writes for adults and children. Her poetry has been published most recently in Paddler Press, Wild Roof Journal, Philadelphia Stories, Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, Anti-Heroin Chic, Pine Hills Review, and ONE ART. By the way, if you enjoy this podcast, help us get noticed by more people by giving us a review on Apple or Spotify. And if you just want to send us a message, click on the “Text the Show” link in the show notes.  Poem 1: "Poem on the Last Day of My Thirties," written by Jessica Whipple and read by David.  I find a can of beans in the kitchen. Great Northern, left there open the night before. They're past their prime now. Into the trash they go. I'm ashamed of the waste. I didn't intend to wake  wondering if I've spent well the years in this vessel  but sometimes a question needs to be left out on the counter  to know what should be done with it in the morning.  Poem 2: "Mother Coyote Explains a Wildlife Crossing," written and read by Jessica Whipple. It is new like you are new. Yet, it is again, and again is open. It is there like the water is there and always, like weather. Because of it, only is gone. It’s been replaced by over, which, before this, was something only mountains gave us. Yes, there will be lost. We’ll slink under its fog until we raise our heads to see all of where. And where is worth seeing. Where is quiet, but it will awaken and surge and you will, too Poem 3 "Watching a Flying Squirrel by Grant Clauser from his book Temporary Shelters Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  4. 6 Aug

    Recklessness, Precision, and Poetry with Carl Phillips

    In Three Poems, where we get to know today’s poets through reading a couple of their own poems, as well as the works of others who have had an influence on them in some way. Without further delay, today’s poet is Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips Poem 1:  “Sunlight and Fog” by Carl Phillips from Scattered Snows, to the North, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, read here by David J. Bauman. Poem 2:  “And If I Fall” from Then the War, and Selected Poems, 2007 - 2020, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2023), written and read by Carl Phillips. Poem 3: “Chinese Bowls” by Stefanie Marlis, from her book Slow Joy, published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.  Carl Phillips is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022); and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (Oxford University Press, 2004). Links: Scattered Snows, to the North Then, the War My Trade Is Mystery Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  5. 31 Jul

    From Drowning to Joy: Poetry with Justin Strawser

    Welcome to the podcast where we talk with poets at various stages of their poetry craft and get to know them, In Three Poems. This episode we talk with journalist-turned poet, Justin Strawser about his book Those Who Wait.  Poem One:  “Tree Bark” by Justin Strawser, read by David J. Bauman Poem Two:  “Moments That Feel Big” by Justin Strawser Poem Three:   “January,” from Swallowtail (Button Poetry, 2019) by Brenna Twohy, read by Justin Strawser. Thank you to Button Poetry and Brenna Twohy for permission to read the poem on the podcast.  Links: Those Who Wait, by Justin Strawser Swallowtail, by Brenna Twohy And last, but not bad: The Fourth Poem! Support the podcast and get first access to bonus content. Thank you so very much! Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  6. 23 Jul

    Continental Drift, Poetry and Migration with Mai-Linh Hong

    In Three Poems is the poetry podcast where we read two poems by our guest and one by another poet of their choice. We talk about the poems and let the poems talk among themselves. If you want to help us, please visit our Ko-Fi page at  https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems or just click “support the show!" Guest Bio: Mai-Linh K. Hong is a Vietnamese American poet and literary scholar. Her work explores how refugees know, tell about, and creatively reimagine their worlds during and after migration.  She has been a Voices of Our Nation Fellow and Tin House Scholar. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Association of University Women, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.​​ ​ Poem 1: “Blue Ridge Elegy” from Continental Drift, written by Mai-Linh Hong, read by David Poem 2: “Plum Jam” also from Continental Drift, read by Mai-Linh Hong Poem 3: “ABC for Refugees” by Monica Sok, from A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Read by Mai-Linh. Thank you to Monica Sok and Copper Canyon Press for permission to read the poem on the show.  Links: Mai-Linh Hong's Website  Instagram for Continental Drift: @continentaldrift_poems "ABC for Refugees" by Monica Sok (on the Poetry Foundation Website) Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  7. 17 Jul

    Spark Birds and Poetry with Katie Manning

    We talk with poet and editor Katie Manning about poetry and Red Tailed Hawks, as well as being disappointed by our heroes.  Poem 1:  "On the Origin" by Katie Manning, read by David Poem 2:  "At the Bird Rehab Facility in Vermont" Written and read by Katie  Poem 3  "Family Portrait with Time Travel and Dirty Wings" by Sally Rosen Kindred, first published in Whale Road Review (see link), read by Katie.  We thank Sally Rosen Kindred for permission to read her poem.  Music by Brian P. Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/user/wbarreguy Other Links: Katie's Website, where you can find her books as well as news and information about her work.  Sally Rosen Kindred's Website, where you can read selected poems by Sally and learn more about her book Where the Wolf, Book of Asters, and others.  Katie's Bio: Katie Manning is the author of Hereverent (Agape Editions), Tasty Other (Main Street Rag), and six chapbook collections: How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press), 28,065 Nights (River Glass Books), A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books), and The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Wipf & Stock). Her poems have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including American Journal of Nursing, HAD, The Lascaux Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, Relief, So to Speak, Stirring, SWWIM, and Verse Daily. She has received the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, The Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and The Thimble Prize, among other honors and nominations. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show

  8. 9 Jul

    Common Sense, America 250 and Erasure Poetry with Crystal Simone Smith

    In Three Poems, the podcast where poets and poems talk among themselves. This is Season 2, episode 3. David chats with Crystal Simone Smith, author of seven books of poetry and nonfiction, most recently, Common Sense: Addressed to Today’s Citizens of America, published by Beacon Press (September 2025),  and upcoming Ghostwoman, Arising. Poem 1: "Induction" from Crystal's book Common Sense, read by David Poem 2: “Loose Ends” from Crystal's upcoming book Ghostwoman, Arising, due out in November.  Poem 3: “Cry Me a River,” was from Roberta Beary’s 2025 collection of haibun called Crazy Bitches, published by Macq books. We thank Roberta for her kind permission to share her poem on the Podcast. You can learn about all Crystal Simone Smith's books on her website at CrystalSimoneSmith.com. Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: JQEBU6547CH0DYBF Send us Fan Mail Support the show

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Poetry read aloud by those who write it and love it. Each episode features a new guest poet and a lively discussion about how poems connect us and how they talk among themselves. We read two poems by our guest and one by a poet whose work they admire. David J. Bauman, your host, reads the first poem.   Sign up for the bonus Fourth Poem: https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inthreepoems/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inthreepoems BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/inthreepoems.bsky.social

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  • Creator
    David J Bauman
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 In Three Poems
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