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Off The Bricks is a poetry Podcast Produced by Brick Street Poetry. Listen to explore and immerse yourself in the world of poetry with interviews of Poets Laureate and readings from newly published books of poetry.

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Off The Bricks is a poetry Podcast Produced by Brick Street Poetry. Listen to explore and immerse yourself in the world of poetry with interviews of Poets Laureate and readings from newly published books of poetry.

    Ep. 43 Marjory Wentworth

    Ep. 43 Marjory Wentworth

    Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! On this episode, Brick Street Poetry Board Member Joyce Brinkman interviews Marjory Wentworth to celebrate the upcoming total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th. to find Marjory's work click here.

    • 34 min
    Ep. 42 Dr. Adam Henze

    Ep. 42 Dr. Adam Henze

    Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! On this episode, Brick Street Poetry Board Member Thomas Kneeland interviews Indianapolis poet Dr. Adam Henze. Adam is a researcher, educator, and spoken word artist, and has shared his work in over 30 states, as well as Puerto Rico, Canada, England, and Ireland. He is the co-founder and former director of Slam Camp, a summer writing academy for teenage poets, and was the director of The Power of a Sentence, a writing workshop series at a women’s prison in Indianapolis. He currently contributes his talents to Flanner House's community programming.

    • 35 min
    Ep. 41 Norbert Krapf

    Ep. 41 Norbert Krapf

    Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and Poetry lovers! Our first podcast of 2024 features the new book "Homecomings: A Writer's Memoir".  In it, poet Norbert Krapf shares poems from the book and talks with host Joyce Brinkman about the three areas that have influenced his work over his long career. A prolific writer Norbert writes from the influences of his Franconian German ancestry, his long career teaching and living in New York, and his 'homecoming" to his birth state where he served as its second, official poet laureate. The memoir, published by the Indiana Historical Society Press, may be purchased HERE

    • 26 min
    Ep. 40 Holiday Special!

    Ep. 40 Holiday Special!

    Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we have a special episode for you featuring our very own members! This episode is a live recording of Brick Street Poetry's in-person poetry reading/ open mic held on the first Thursday of each month.

    Thank you for joining us, Off The Bricks!

    • 34 min
    Ep. 39 Samuel Peralta

    Ep. 39 Samuel Peralta

    Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month we have poet and physicist Samuel Peralta with us to share his astronomically themed poetry. We have linked Peralta's Amazon page here . This week's natural moment poem is The Freedom of the Moon by Robert Frost.

    • 31 min
    Ep. 38 Patricia Clark

    Ep. 38 Patricia Clark

    Welcome to Off the Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month's guest is Patricia Clark. Patricia is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Canopy and, before that, Sunday Rising. She has also published three chapbooks: Deadlifts (New Michigan Press), Wreath for the Red Admiral and Given the Trees. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and has appeared in The Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Slate, and Stand. She was a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and has completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center (in County Monaghan (Ireland), and the Ragdale Colony. Awards for her work include a Creative Artist Grant in Michigan, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize, and co-winner of the Lucille Medwick Prize from the Poetry Society of America. From 2005-2007 she was honored to serve as the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan where she worked for thirty years. you can find her contact info at www.patriciafclark.com.



    Our Natural moment poem today is The Milky Way, by Kathryn Sadakierski

    • 29 min

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