July Westhale: The Truest Sense
July Westhale shares poems that unfold into moments of clarity and questioning. They introduce Carl Phillips’ reflection on truth (“Continuous Until We Stop”), Linda Gregg’s complex and hard-won simplicity (“What If the World Stays Far Off”), and Fanny Howe’s depiction of the human experience unde…
National Poetry Month: July Westhale Goes to the Moon's Moon
Episode notes
July Westhale ’13 imagines life in outer space with her forthcoming poetry collection "Moon Moon." On this episode, she gives us a preview with "the world as it is."
Find the transcript on our episode page.
About our guest
July Westhale ’13 holds an MFA in Poetry from Lesley. Westh…
Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham II
Radical Reversal is a program that installs performance and recording spaces in detention centers and correctional facilities where they conduct poetry workshops, seminars in music and music production, readings, and performances. Following up on a bonus episode from April 2023, Radical Reversal c…
National Poetry Month: Staci Halt imagines the wilds of New York City with 'Soft'
In our third National Poetry Month episode of the month, a visit to New York City expands Staci Halt's understanding of poetry and inspires her poem "Soft."
A transcript of this episode, info about programs at Lesley University, and more podcast stuff can be found on the episode page.
Today's gues…
National Poetry Month: Bonita Lee Penn finds joy in the "Death Doula's Song"
On our final National Poetry Month episode of the year, Bonita Lee Penn shares a hopeful poem inspired by death (no really).
Find the transcript on our episode page.
Today's guest
Bonita Lee Penn is an alumna of our MFA in Creative Writing program, a Pittsburgh poet and the author of Every Mornin…
S3 E27: Julie Murphy Interviews Poet July Westhale
The Hive Poetry Collective S3 E27: Julie Murphy Interviews award winning poet July Westhale. July reads "The Presence In Absence" by Linda Gregg as well as her own poems from Via Negativa and Moon Moon, and discusses the importance of negative capability in life as well as poetry.
July Westhal…
S2 E4: Instructions on Not Giving Up
Today we look at Ada Limon’s poem “Instructions on Not Giving Up” and discuss the strange idea of continuous living.
Season 2, Episode 3: generation of feeling
Today we look at Marwa Helal’s poem “generation of feeling” and talk isolation, connection, and verse.
S2E2: break your heart, break mine
Texture, white space, lyricism via Carl Phillips’ “Radiance versus Ordinary Light.
Season Two, Episode One: We Can May Share
We read Bob Hicok’s “What the great apes call the philosophy of life”
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