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The Beat

In each episode of The Beat, host Alan May introduces a poet and we hear a few poems, usually read and recorded by the poets themselves. The Beat is produced by Knox County Public Library in Knoxville, Tenn. Rate and review The Beat: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-beat-1664614

  1. Mathias Svalina and Gerard Manley Hopkins

    NOV 14

    Mathias Svalina and Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Mathias Svalina is the author of seven books. His most recent, America at Play (published by Trident Press), is a collection of absurdist instructions for children's games. His poetry collection Thank You Terror was published earlier this year, and his first short story collection, Comedy, is forthcoming soon. Svalina was a founding editor of Octopus Books. He’s led writing workshops in universities, libraries, community spaces, and in prison. Since 2014, he has run a dream delivery service, traveling around the country to write and deliver dreams to subscribers. Through the Dream Delivery Service, Svalina has worked with the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Poetry Foundation, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson.    Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in the London suburb of Stratford Essex in 1844. He studied classics at Balliol College in Oxford and theology at St. Beuno’s College in North Wales. He was ordained in 1877 as a Jesuit priest, and he served in London, Oxford, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Stonyhurst. He also taught classics at Stonyhurst College and Greek literature at University College, Dublin. During his lifetime, most of Hopkins’ poems were read by only a few friends. In 1889, Hopkins died of typhoid fever, and he was buried in Dublin, Ireland. Hopkin’s first collection, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, was published in 1918.   Links: Read "Terrible Baby" by Mathias Svalina at The Tiny Read "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection" by Gerard Manley Hopkins at Poets.org Mathias Svalina Mathias Svalina's website Bio and poem at Poets.org "Mathias Svalina-Dream Delivery Service" video at by JustBuffaloLit Mathias Svalina reads from "Thank You Terror" at the Silo City Reading Series Gerard Manley Hopkins Bio and poems at Poets.org International Hopkins Society's website (poems, bio, study guides, video, etc). Photo Credit: Dean Davis

    11 min
  2. Jos Charles

    OCT 14

    Jos Charles

    Jos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018), and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She teaches as a part of Randolph College's low-residency MFA program and resides in Long Beach, CA. Links: Jos Charles' website Bio and Poems at Poets.org a Year & other poems and feeld at Milkweed Editions Two poems at The Adroit Journal Five poems at Frontier Poetry

    5 min
  3. Amish Trivedi

    SEP 3

    Amish Trivedi

    Amish Trivedi is the author of three books. His most recent is FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. Trivedi earned an MFA from Brown University and a PhD in English and Critical Theory from Illinois State University. He's an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Delaware. Links: Read this episode's poems (along with several others): "Green Boots" at The Brooklyn Rail "Watch the Corners" at Black Sun Lit "Number Nine" and "Dying" at The Kenyon Review Amish Trivedi's website Amish Trivedi above/ground press AWP offsite reading 2023

    6 min
  4. Anna Laura Reeve: A Reading and Conversation

    AUG 8

    Anna Laura Reeve: A Reading and Conversation

    Anna Laura Reeve is the author of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press, 2023). Winner of the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Salamander, Terrain.org, and others. She lives and gardens near the Tennessee Overhill region, traditional land of the Eastern Cherokee. Links: Anna Laura Reeve's website Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility at Belle Point Press "Sara Moore Wagner on Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility." a book review at Still "Look at Everything" and "Children of Asylum Seekers" at The Racket "Playing the Washboard" and "Sprouting Wand" at Canary "Desire" in Josephine Quarterly

    29 min
  5. Zachary Schomburg and Gertrude Stein

    JUL 3

    Zachary Schomburg and Gertrude Stein

    Zachary Schomburg is a poet, painter, and a publisher for Octopus Books, a small independent poetry press. He earned a BA from the College of the Ozarks and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of six books of poems including, most recently, Fjords vol. 2, published by Black Ocean in 2021 and a novel, Mammother, published by Featherproof Books in 2017.   Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874. She attended Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1903, she moved to Paris where she eventually began writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She became an influential figure in the worlds of art and literature, and her home became a gathering place for artists and writers like Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Max Jacob. She died near Paris in July of 1946. Links: Read "The Cliff Floats Low" at Sixth Finch Read "Tender Buttons [Apple]" at Poets.org Zachary Schomburg Zachary Schomburg's website Bio and bio at Poetryfoundation.org "Moving a Plane Around a Living Room: In Conversation with Zachary Schomburg" in Timber Two poems at Jellyfish Gertrude Stein Bio and poems at Poetryfoundation.org "Gertrude Stein - Author & Poet: Mini Bio" from Biography Bio and poems at Poets.org Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org. Rate & review on Podchaser

    8 min
  6. A Reading and Conversation with Linda Parsons

    JUN 3

    A Reading and Conversation with Linda Parsons

    Poet, playwright, and essayist Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Baltimore Review, Shenandoah, and others. Her sixth collection, Valediction, contains poems and prose. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Links: Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation "Poet Linda Parsons Launches Her Latest Work, 'Valediction'" in Inside of Knoxville "Valediction: Poems and Prose" in Southern Literary Review "Travels with My Father" in Still: The Journal Two poems at Terrain.org "Therapy Dog" at Verse Daily Two poems at Vox Populi Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org. Rate & review on Podchaser

    34 min
  7. Todd Davis

    APR 29

    Todd Davis

    Todd Davis is the author of seven books of poetry. His most recent collections are Coffin Honey and Native Species. His book Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Michigan State University Press in August of 2024. He has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Orion, Southern Humanities Review, and Western Humanities Review. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. Links: Read "For a Stray Dog near the Paper Mill in Tyrone, Pennsylvania" in 32 Poems Read "Burn Barrel" at Broadsided Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in August 2024 "A Nature Poet Grapples with Life at the Edge of the Climate Crisis," an interview in Allegheny Front Todd Davis' website Bio and Poems at the Poetry Foundation Two poems in North American Review Three poems at Terrain.org "Salvelinus fontinalis," a video poem Podcast archive for Notes from the Allegheny Front

    9 min
  8. Iliana Rocha and Delmira Agustini

    APR 1

    Iliana Rocha and Delmira Agustini

    Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez (Tupelo Press). Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, and many others. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo and MacDowell. She serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal, and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee. Delmira Agustini is considered one of the most important South American poets of the 20th century. She was born to upper-middle-class parents in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of 1886. She began writing poetry at the age of 10, and her first major work, El Libro Blanco, was published in 1907, when she was just 20 years old. She went on to publish several other books that were well-received by writers and critics. Links: Read "Still Life," "Houston," and "Landscape with Graceland Crumbling in My Hands" Read "Explosión" in Spanish and English Iliana Rocha Iliana Rocha's website Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website "The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez" in New York Times Magazine "Mexican American Sonnet" at Poets.org "Three Poems" in Latin American Literature Today “like the building that reflects his death in every window: A Conversation with Iliana Rocha about The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez” — curated by Tiffany Troy in Tupelo Quarterly Delmira Agustini Bio and "The Vampire" at Poets.org Six Poems by Delmira Agustini (translated by Valerie Martinez) at Drunken Boat

    11 min
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In each episode of The Beat, host Alan May introduces a poet and we hear a few poems, usually read and recorded by the poets themselves. The Beat is produced by Knox County Public Library in Knoxville, Tenn. Rate and review The Beat: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-beat-1664614

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    Knox County Public Library
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    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    44
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