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Airing on KSQD 90.7 FM most Sundays at 8:00, the Hive Poetry Collective is a buzz of poets in Santa Cruz, California— a swarm of radio conversations, public readings, and writing workshops.Our theme music is "Drunk on Funk" by Top-Flow. Find us at hivepoetry.orgAnd https://www.facebook.com/hivepoetry
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S8: E45 Cypher Chats with Hannah Tool
Cypher buzzes in to read Suchita Senthil Kumar’s “Angry Women: they don't yet have a slur for a woman like me” and shares poems from her debut collection The Self is an Ocean (DarkWinter Press). In this introspective and earnest interview, Cypher, for whom "vulnerability comes easy,” muses musically about the given and the found, the tension between poet and self, and how we perceive and express truth within and aside from our selves, family, and world.
- 1 weeks ago59 min
S8: E44 Cole Swenson and Dion O'Reilly Talk Poetry
A native of San Francisco, Cole Swensen is the author of twenty collections of poetry, most recently Veer (Alice James Books, 2026), and And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Prize. She has also published a volume of hybrid poetic essays on innovative landscape artists, Art in Time (Nightboat Books, 2021) and a volume of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise (University of Michigan, 2011). She has collaborated with visual artists on a variety of artists’ books, including with Karen Randall on The Leyden Jar, (Propolis Press, 2017) and with the painter Thomas Nozkowski on Flare (Yale University Art Gallery, 2009). She co-edited the Norton anthology American Hybrid (2009) and currently serves as the translation editor for Fence magazine and curates “Publishing in Transit,” a monthly program on the Brooklyn Rail that spotlights presses and organizations that enable contemporary poetry.Much of Swensen’s work is engaged with land, from urban park design to landscape painting to a kind of activist attention to the non-human world. Her books have been awarded the National Poetry Series, the Iowa Poetry Prize, Sun & Moon’s New American Writing Award, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and once for National Book Award. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she is also a translator of contemporary French poetry, prose, and art criticism. Her translations have won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation, the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award, and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Award. Recipient of the 2025 Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, she was the founding editor of La Presse, which ran from 2006 to 2020, publishing contemporary French poetry translated by English-language poets. She taught for ten years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and for twelve years in Brown University’s Literary Arts Department. She divides her time between Paris and California.
- 2 weeks ago1h 6m
S8: E43 Avia Tadmor and Farnaz Fatemi
Join Avia Tadmor and Farnaz Fatemi as they discuss Avia's Berkshire International Prize-winning debut, Song in Tammuz (Tupelo Press 2026). This episode includes five poems read by the poet and conversation which examines her "language of longing, of an urge for intimacy" (Fatemi) along with what Ellen Bass says about the book: "A brilliant exploration of displacement, migration and loss." Hear the poet read more along with Keetje Kuipers on Tuesday November 10 at Bookshop Santa Cruz for The Hive Live! Order Tadmor's book here. Also mentioned in the episode, Traci Brimhall's poem, "What They Found in the Diving Bell" and Brimhall's new book of prose, The Grief Artist.
- 3 weeks ago57 min
S8: E42 Kelly Grace Thomas Chats with Julie Murphy
Poet Kelly Grace Thomas joins Julie Murphy to discuss Future Tense (Alice James Books), a collection exploring infertility, the loss of her mother, and becoming a mother through adoption. With candor, humor, and vivid imagery, her poems hold grief and joy in the same breath. Kelly reads from the collection and discusses the craft of writing about the body, longing, and an uncertain future. The conversation opens with Keith Leonard’s “Spratchet.” Follow Kelly on Instagram and Substack.
- Oct 5, 202657 min
S8: E40 Leila Farjami in Conversation with Farnaz Fatemi
Farnaz Fatemi and Leila Farjami spend time with Leila's deeply resonant and highly-prasied poetry collection, Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026). Listen as they discuss: trusting poetry's source and the arrival of images, sounds, and meaning; Farjami's journey from her childhood in Iran to writing poetry in English in California., memory and displacement, and more. Leila reads 7 poems from the collection offering a preview of her appearance in Santa Cruz for The Hive Live! February 2027. Order Daughter of Salt Here
- Sep 30, 202659 min
S8 E39: Zack Rogow Chats with Dion O'Reilly
We read and discuss "Astronaut," by Simona Regina Adams, then take a deep dive into Zack's amazing new book, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His tenth book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging, is now available from Valley Press. Click here for USA orders, and click here for UK orders.Hugging My Father’s Ghost: A Memoir of a Shortened Life, Zack’s book about his writer dad, will be republished by Cirque Press on October 6, 2026.His previous books of poetry include Irreverent Litanies, from Regal House.Zack’s play, Colette Uncensored (coauthored with Lorri Holt), had its first public reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and has been staged in London, Catalonia, San Francisco, Indonesia, and Portland.Zack’s most recent book of translations is The Water Drinkers and Other Sketches of Paris in the Romantic Era by Henry Murger, the writer who inspired La Bohème. Zack is the editor of an anthology of poetry of the U.S.A., The Face of Poetry, from University of California Press. His song lyrics include “A Love for Just Part” recorded by Carrie Wicks. He has taught in several MFA creative writing programs, and serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.Zack has received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in Translation, the Celestine Award for Poetry from Holy Names University, and the Tanka Splendor Award.Simone Regina Adams (1967– ) is best known as a fiction writer, but her poetry is also excellent, dealing with provocative subjects. Her novel, Die Halbruhigen [The Half-Restless], was awarded the Werner Bräunig Prize. Adams lives in Freiburg, Germany, and works as a psychotherapist. Her poem “Astronauts” evokes the wonder and emptiness of going into space, perhaps as a metaphor.
- Sep 29, 202659 min
S8 E38: Pt 2: Winter in America (Still with Roxi Power, Julie Murphy, & Dion O'Reilly
Roxi Power, co-editor of the new anthology,Winter in America (Still: Poets, Writers, and ArtistsRespond to a Fractured World, talks with Julie Murphy and Dion O’Reilly about poems by Lynne Thompson, Marcella Durand, Carolina Ebeid, Bill Lavender, Gabriella Guttiérez y Muhs, Addie Mahmassani, and Brenda Cárdenas. We showcase the wide variety of styles and responses to the erosion of our democracy in this 430-page sequel to Winter in America (Again (2025) featuring 200 contributors and color art (Carbonation Press, 2026). From Ebeid’s “technologies of grief” to Thompson’s hope–“this poem about the wreck we have made of the world/cannotforget: the ewe drum, the tǎr, the seed-filled gourd”–we dive deep into the book’s prominent themes (ICE, oligarchs, Gaza, and more) in a sample of the book's many poets that include Joy Harjo, Cornelius Eady, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ellen Bass. Follow our events and order this important sequel anthology to Winter in America (Again (Carbonation Press) at winterinamerica.org . Join our next Santa Cruz launch event at InterAct Open Mic October 6, 7pm at Satori Arts
- Sep 14, 202659 min
S8: E37 Jen Siraganian's debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead
Jen Siraganian joins Farnaz Fatemi for a conversation about her debut collection of poetry, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, a richly deep exploration of memory, identity, motherhood, & erasure. Jen reads six poems and they discuss the way her work rebuilds and un-erases people across lifetimes and inherited traumas. Order the book directly from the publisher, Perugia Press.Jen will join the Hive locally to celebrate her official launch date, Tuesday 9/15, 7pm at the Hive Live! at Bookshop Santa Cruz, reading along with Amber Coverdale Sumrall.
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