Sound Poetry – 2022

Sound Poetry with host David Gilmour – 2022

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  • Annual Holiday Compilation for Sound Poetry
    This is a variety of poets whom David has interviewed, reading poetry of the season.
    1. Joy Ladin – “Christmas Eve – OK” (:56)
    2. Derek Sheffield – “Obad” (1:28)
    3. Alan Walowitz – “Christmas at the Yoga Retreat” (2:08)
    4. Koon Woon – “The Mirage of Christmas” (:59)
    5. Jessica Gigot – “Christmas Mission Road” (1:10)
    6. Colleen Shoshana McKee – “German Pancakes” (2:46)
    7. David Gilmour – “Lean, Mean Santa” (5:05)
    8. Steve Nebel – “Covid 19 Christmas” (1:29)
    9. Katy E Ellis – “Soon” (1:22)
    10. Leslea Newman – “The Chanukah Game” (1:20)
    11. Michael Schein – “Lesson” (:44)
    12. Michael Daley – “First Snow on South Fidalgo” (1:57)
    13. Michael Schein – “New Year’s Day” (1:02)
    14. Bill Fay – “Holiday Haiku” (1:11)
    15. Paul Nelson – “Sonetos de Cascadia” (1:42)
    16. Rick Clark – “3 Christmas Haiku” (:37)
    17. Ann Spiers – “Christmas” (1:52)
    18. Thomas Thomas – “Christmas Present 1971” (2:40)
    19. Jill McCabe Johnson – “Vesica Piscis” (1:06)
    20. Martha Silano – “What I Hate Most About the Holiday Season” (1:47)

 

 

  • Paul E. Nelson interviewed by David Gilmour. Part 1 of 2. Paul E Nelson is a poet, interviewer, father and literary activist engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia. Paul Nelson founded SPLAB in Seattle and the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Author of Organic Poetry (essays), a serial poem re-enacting history, A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies. Co-editor of Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, he has interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ethelbert Miller, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Eileen Myles, George Bowering, Joanne Kyger, Brenda Hillman, presented poetry and poetics in London, Brussels, Qinghai and Beijing, China, has been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Work has been published in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and in other journals and online magazines. Engaged in a twenty year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia, he lives in the Cedar River Watershed, in Seattle, with his partner Bhakti Watts and youngest daughter Ella Roque. www.PaulENelson.com. Paul E. Nelson Part 2:
    A professional broadcaster from 1980 to 2006, on air at KNUA, KPLU, KMTT (the Mountain) and KZOK in Seattle, WMET and WXFM in Chicago, WGRX-Baltimore, WAPL, Appleton, Wisconsin, WWCT-Peoria among other stations, he earned his M.A. from Lesley University in Organic Poetry, a study of North American poets writing spontaneously, including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, Robin Blaser and others. He earned a B.A. in Communications from Columbia College in his hometown of Chicago in 1983.
    Find out more at: https://paulenelson.com/ 
      

 

  • Rick Clark – Haiku & Long Poems. Part 1 of 2. Rick Clark is a Seattle poet, writer, editor, and educator who has also dabbled in filmmaking, classical violin, birds, photography, Zen, and yoga. He is author of Bugeyed & Bird-brained: Small Creature Haiku (Red Moon Press), illustrated by Northwest sumi artist Fumiko Kimura. His Haiku are frequently included in anthologies and journals and have won international contests. He is also author of the creative travel memoir Journey to the River: India Travels (Pina Publishing). Rick has been involved in filmmaking, having worked as script consultant on Beauty of the Fight (directed by John Urbano), selected by 29 festivals and winning two prizes. He also worked as executive producer and writer on the short film “Rowing Smitty,” which depicts the Row to Canada ALS Fundraiser, an event that Rick spearheaded. The film can be viewed on The Seattle Channel online. His writings can also be appreciated online, at his blog Wrenzai Insight Journal. Presently, Rick is working on a partially fictionalized ancestry memoir. His education includes a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (poetry) from University of Washington. Rick Clark Part 1: David and Rick discuss Haiku with squirrels, butterflies, and more. Rick Clark Part 2: In Part II, Rick Clark regales us with more Haiku, plus longer work discussing parents, bears, building a house with his father, and his very first razor.  

 

  • Katy Ellis of Vashon Island with David Gilmour  – Katy Ellis takes you on a journey through her early years, excommunication from a church, college in Victoria, boyfriends, and nine eleven along with David Gilmour’s usual probing questions about her writing. She is an award winning, and well published poet. She says of herself: “I grew up under evergreen trees and high-voltage power lines in my backyard in Renton, Washington, a wilderness suburb of Seattle. My passion for writing developed in high school and continued into my university years where I earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and a Masters of Arts at Western Washington University.”

 

  • Derek Sheffield with David Gilmour, Part 3 of 3 – Childhood, wood rats, fish, and life of a teacher. “When Derek Sheffield isn’t writing, teaching, or editing, he can often be found in the mountains of North Central Washington. He has published two collections of poetry, Not for Luck and Through the Second Skin, and co-edited the anthologies, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (forthcoming from Mountaineers Books in 2023). He is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.”

 

  • Derek Sheffield with David Gilmour, Part 2 of 3 –  “When Derek Sheffield isn’t writing, teaching, or editing, he can often be found in the mountains of North Central Washington. He has published two collections of poetry, Not for Luck and Through the Second Skin, and co-edited the anthologies, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (forthcoming from Mountaineers Books in 2023). He is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.”

 

  • Derek Sheffield, Part 1 of 3 – Derek Sheffield with David Gilmour. “When Derek Sheffield isn’t writing, teaching, or editing, he can often be found in the mountains of North Central Washington. He has published two collections of poetry, Not for Luck and Through the Second Skin, and co-edited the anthologies, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (forthcoming from Mountaineers Books in 2023). He is the poetry editor of Terrain.org.”

 

  • Florence Sage Part 2 of 2 – David Gilmour having fun discussing poetry about men’s white underwear, dreams, and dad, written and read by Florence Sage. “Florence Sage is a poet in Astoria, Oregon, supporting area poetry mics, magazines and events since she began writing poetry in 1998. She was a founding member of the production committee for the FisherPoets Gathering from 1997 to 2020, and produced Monday Mike for Spoken Word at the River Theater for its four-year run in the early 2,000s. She now writes a poetry column for the regional paper, HIPFiSH (hipfishmonthly.com) and is on occasion called on as a workshop presenter and judge. What she likes best is reading poems to an audience. She is MC and a regular reader at the monthly Ric’s Poetry Mic in Astoria. Sage has two poem collections published: Nevertheless: Poems from the Gray Area, 2014, and The Man Who Whistled, The Woman Who Wished: A Polish-Canadian Story, 2021, a collection of 62 narrative poems about her young years with her immigrant family. Her third collection, What to Do with Night is scheduled for the end of 2022.

 

  • Florence Sage Part 1 of 2 – David Gilmour having fun discussing sensual poetry written and read by Florence Sage. “Florence Sage is a poet in Astoria, Oregon, supporting area poetry mics, magazines and events since she began writing poetry in 1998. She was a founding member of the production committee for the FisherPoets Gathering from 1997 to 2020, and produced Monday Mike for Spoken Word at the River Theater for its four-year run in the early 2,000s. She now writes a poetry column for the regional paper, HIPFiSH (hipfishmonthly.com) and is on occasion called on as a workshop presenter and judge. What she likes best is reading poems to an audience. She is MC and a regular reader at the monthly Ric’s Poetry Mic in Astoria. Sage has two poem collections published: Nevertheless: Poems from the Gray Area, 2014, and The Man Who Whistled, The Woman Who Wished: A Polish-Canadian Story, 2021, a collection of 62 narrative poems about her young years with her immigrant family. Her third collection, What to Do with Night is scheduled for the end of 2022.”

 

  • Sylvia Byrne Pollack was raised in a music-loving family in Batavia, NY. In the wake of Sputnik, she chose to study science. She earned a B.A. in Zoology from Syracuse University, a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.A. in psychology from Antioch University-Seattle. She is Research Professor Emeritus after a long career in cancer research at the University of Washington. Following a trip to Antarctica in 2007, Sylvia began to focus on poetry. Her poems appear in Floating Bridge Review, Crab Creek Review, Clover, and Antiphon among other print and online journals. She is a two-time Pushcart nominee, won the 2013 Mason’s Road Winter Literary Award, was a 2019 Jack Straw Writer and a 2021 Mineral School resident. She lives in Seattle, WA. About Sylvia Pollack’s book “Risking It”: “These smart, funny, beautifully crafted poems show us a whole life lived wholeheartedly…” – Sharon Bryan, author of Sharp Stars.

 

  • Kristin Berger is the author of six poetry collections, including Changing Woman, Changing Man: A High Desert Myth (Nightjar Press, 2022). Refugia (Persian Pony Press, 2019), Echolocation (Cirque Press, 2018), How Light Reaches Us (Aldrich Press, 2016), and Earthwork, forthcoming from The Poetry Box in August, 2022. Recipient of residencies from Playa, OSU’s Shotpouch, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and Starkey Experimental Forest and Range, Kristin’s work is influenced by all Pacific Northwest’s wild and interconnected landscapes. A former member of the women-identified editorial collective, VoiceCatcher, and co-host of The Lents Farmers Market Poetry Series, Kristin believes in the resiliency and impact of art and writing through, and sustained by, community. Kristin lives in Portland, Oregon. More at kristinbergerpoet.com
  • Part II of David Gilmour interviewing Seattle poet Susan Rich. Susan Rich is the author of five poetry collections including Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry), Cloud Pharmacy, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, named a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue, winner of the PEN USA Award. She edited, along with Brian Turner and Catherine Barnett, The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders (McSweeneys).
  • Part I of David Gilmour interviewing Seattle poet Susan Rich. She talks optimistically about young people and poetry, her father, and a stint in the Peace Corp which took her to Niger as a young teacher. Susan Rich is the author of five poetry collections including Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry), Cloud Pharmacy, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, named a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue, winner of the PEN USA Award. She edited, along with Brian Turner and Catherine Barnett, The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders (McSweeneys).
  • Sound Poetry Welcomes Rena Priest https://www.renapriest.com/ Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She is the incumbent Washington State Poet Laureate and Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing Fellow. Priest is also the recipient of an Allied Arts Foundation Professional Poets Award and fellowships from Indigenous Nations Poets and the Vadon Foundation. Her debut collection, Patriarchy Blues, received an American Book Award. Her second collection, Sublime Subliminal, was published as the finalist for the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her most recent book, Northwest Know-How: Beaches, includes poems, retellings of legends, and fun descriptions of 29 of the most beloved beaches in Washington and Oregon. Priest’s nonfiction has appeared in High Country News, YES! Magazine, Seattle Met, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

 

  • Maria McLeod reads on Sound Poetry. Maria McLeod is a writer of poetry, prose and works of documentary theatre. She has worked as an interviewer, professor, PR consultant, and oral historian. She has taught multiple genres of writing, working with writers of all ages, from first graders to octogenarians in settings that have included after-school programs, community colleges, public libraries and universities. Kim Stafford on Maria McLeod’s poetry: “These poems tell what can’t be told, trusting images and sensations to convey us into life’s mysterious past, and then to emerge unburdened by crippling vows of silence. Love is told as truth here, line by line,” said Stafford in his review of “Mother Want.”

 

  • Poet T. Clear for Sound Poetry. From T. Clear about herself:“I was born sixth of seven children, into a noisy, crowded and loving household, in a house bumped up against Pacific Northwest second-growth woodlands, open fields and orchards. My earliest memories are of wandering among Douglas firs and alders, my legs skirted in bracken ferns, ever-wary of stinging nettles. My five sisters and I harvested hazelnuts and apples, blackberries and rhubarb, the promise of pie luring us back into the kitchen where all nine of us gathered each evening for supper. It was a gentle life, and provided the landscape from which my writing has grown.” Find out more at: https://tclearpoet.com/

 

  • Shin Yu Pai is the author of several books, including Ensō (Entre Rios Books, 2020), Aux Arcs (La Alameda, 2013), Adamantine (White Pine, 2010), Sightings (1913 Press, 2007), and Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003). From 2015 to 2017, she served as the fourth Poet Laureate of The City of Redmond, Washington. Her personal essays have appeared in City Arts, Tricycle, Seattle’s Child, and YES! Magazine. Shin Yu received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She’s been a Stranger Genius Award nominee in Literature and lives and works on the ancestral tribal lands of the Duwamish.  For more info, visit www.shinyupai.com.

 

 

 

 

  • Ted McMahon – DR. TED MCMAHON is a Seattle pediatrician and poet. A graduate of Williams College and Duke University School of Medicine. Poet’s statement: “With regard to poetry and healing, I think that the discipline of writing poetry demands the cultivation of a certain kind of attention to story, of attention to detail. I strive to bring this kind of attention to my clinical encounters in medicine. I believe that for most of us who become ill, the healing process begins with the realization that we have been fully listened to, and truly heard. Time stopped as we waited in the wind.”Ted McMahon Part 1: Ted McMahon Part 2:

 

 

  • Lydia K. Valentine – Tacoma’s Poet Laureate for 2021-2023 Lydia K. Valentine is a playwright and poet, director and dramaturg, editor and educator. She has been the recipient of various awards and recognitions with the most recent being named the 2021-2023 City of Tacoma Poet Laureate. Lydia seeks to amplify the voices of those who are often stifled, ignored, and marginalized in what has been the accepted narrative of the United States, Find out more at: https://www.lyderaryink.com/

 

 

 

 

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