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  • Perry Nicholas: National Poetry Month 2026

    Perry Nicholas: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/05/05
    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features Perry Nicholas reading his poem “I’ve Forgotten the Moon” from his newest book, Island of Your Heart. Perry S. Nicholas is a professor emeritus of English at SUNY Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria College, Buffalo State College, Niagara County Community College, Medaille College, and at New York College in Athens, Greece. Perry has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. His poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Literary House Review, Caesura, Word Worth, Silver Birch Press, Snapdragon, Verse-Virtual, Slant, Feile-Festa, Louisiana Literature, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Chest, The Healing Muse, New York Quarterly, Great Lakes Review, Chronogram, and AHI. His poems have appeared on over twenty occasions in the Buffalo News. He has published approximately 200 poems in print and online. They also appear in the anthologies Right Here, Right Now, Resurrection of a Sunflower, Flash in the Dark and A Celebration of Western New York Poets. In February, 2013, Perry judged the Just Buffalo Annual Poetry Contest and the New York Poetry Out Loud competition at SUNY Erie. In 2013, he read in Greenwich Village's Cornelia Cafe in NYC. In 2016, he was featured at the well-known Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In 2017, he directed the Writers Workshop for Just Buffalo. He has edited local anthologies and written many book reviews for fellow poets. His first full-length book, The River of You, was published in September 2009 by FootHills Publishing. His second book of poetry, What the World Sees, was published by Saddle Road Press in July 2011. His third book, Small Crafts, was published by The Writer’s Den in March, 2012, and Perry's fourth book, Beginnings: Poems to Greece and Back, was released in early December, 2012. Perry has put out five chapbooks, Ancient History, in 2013 , Like Trying to Explain, in 2014, Emergency Visit in 2015, The Poet Upstairs in 2017 and Laundry in 2018. His poem "The Last Night We Heard Bob Dylan Play" was nominated for the Best of the Net in 2018. Perry's book, Why I Learned to Spell was published by The Writer's Den in 2019 and his newest book, as a man in the moon, was published by The Writer's Den in 2020. His new chapbbook The Unveiling was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. Perry Nicholas has co-hosted the Lewiston Arts Café in Lewiston, NY, the Screening Room Poetry Series, Empire State College's Poetry Series, the Center for Inquiry Poetry Series, the Buffalo Corner Series, and international readings at the Italian Cultural Center. Perry has read his poetry in Schenectady, New Paltz, Albany, Plymouth, Woodstock, Saratoga Springs, NYC, N.Y., Athens, Greece, and most-recently via Zoom for Stockbridge, MA and Queens College Libraries. Learn more at www.perrynicholas.com/ This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Get in touch with us at: info@poetrymedicineforthesoul.com
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  • Dane Cervine: National Poetry Month 2026

    Dane Cervine: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/29

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features Dane Cervine reading "IN ANY EVENT" by Dorianne Laux.

    You can read "IN ANY EVENT" by Dorianne Laux on the SALT Project's website.

    Dane Cervine is a Poet, Zen practitioner, and Therapist who lives in Santa Cruz, California along the Monterey Bay coast. Explore this website for his poetry, essays, published books, anthology & video selections, including free samples of his work. Dane Cervine’s latest book is a contemplative travelogue titled DEEP TRAVEL - At home in the [Burning] World (published by Saddle Road Press). Other books include The World Is God’s Language (published by Sixteen Rivers Press), Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, the Atlanta Review, Caesura, and been nominated for multiple Pushcarts. His work appears in The SUN, the Hudson Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, Pedestal Magazine, among others. Dane lives in Santa Cruz, California.

    Learn more at www.danecervine.com.

    Dorianne Laux is the author of several collections of poetry, including What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoke (2000); Facts about the Moon (2005), chosen by the poet Ai as winner of the Oregon Book Award and also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Book of Men (2011), which was awarded the Paterson Prize; and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected (2019). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a Pushcart Prize winner.

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

    Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

    Get in touch with us at: info@poetrymedicineforthesoul.com

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  • Andrea Deeken: National Poetry Month 2026

    Andrea Deeken: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/27

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features Andrea Deeken reading her poem “On Kindness."

    Andrea Deeken (she/they) is the author of Mother Kingdom, winner of the 2021 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize. Her writing has appeared in a variety of journals including The Blue Mountain Review, Mom Egg Review, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A 2025 Regional Arts & Culture Council grant recipient, Deeken is the cofounder of Lesbian Poets Society, an inclusive podcast about queerness and creativity, currently in production. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

    Find Andrea and her fellow cohost Darla Himeles online (Instagram) @lesbian.poets.society or send them an email at lesbian.poets.society@gmail.com.

    Learn more about Andrea at www.andreadeeken.com.

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

    Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

    Get in touch with us at: info@poetrymedicineforthesoul.com

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  • Karren LaLonde Alenier: National Poetry Month 2026

    Karren LaLonde Alenier: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/24

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features Karren LaLonde Alenier reading her poem "how we hold on" from her latest book by the same name, how we hold on, from Broadstone Books.

    Karren Lalonde Alenier is a poet, librettist and literary Leader She is editor of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and author of eight collections of poetry. Looking for Divine Transportation was 2002 winner of the Towson University Prize for literature. The Anima of Paul Bowles was 2016 top staff pick at Boston’s Grolier Books. Her eighth collection how we hold on launched spring 2021. She also authored The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas, a book that includes her essays and opera reviews first published in Scene4 Magazine.

    Her opera with William Banfield, Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, premiered 2005 by Encompass New Opera Theater under direction of Nancy Rhodes. It was favorably reviewed by Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times.

    Karren promotes other people's poetry with publication and public programs through The Word Works.

    Learn more at alenier.com.

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

    Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

    Get in touch with us at: info@poetrymedicineforthesoul.com

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  • Brooke Morgan: National Poetry Month 2026

    Brooke Morgan: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/22

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features Brooke Morgan reading "Ragged Island" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

    Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

    Get in touch with us at: info@poetrymedicineforthesoul.com

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  • Moth Allen: National Poetry Month 2026

    Moth Allen: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/20

    **SENSATIVE CONTENT WARNING: This episode references childhood sexual abuse. If you or someone you know needs support, call or text the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-422-4453. Please take care while listening.**

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features teen poet Moth Allen reading his poem "Your Hands."

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

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  • Bella Phinney: National Poetry Month 2026

    Bella Phinney: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/17

    **SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING: This episode references suicide. If you or someone you know needs support, call or text 988 in the U.S. Take care while listening.**

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features highschooler Bella Phinney reading her poem called "My Friend."

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

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  • Emily Pérez: National Poetry Month 2026

    Emily Pérez: National Poetry Month 2026
    2026/04/15

    Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This National Poetry Month 2026 bonus episode features Emily Pérez reading "Wildlife" by Ellen Bass.

    The poem "Wildlife" by Ellen Bass is available to read on the Poetry Foundation website.

    Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize and a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. She co-edited The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, also a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, she has received grants and scholarships from Hedgebrook, the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, and Summer Literary Seminars. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and her poems and criticism have appeared in journals including Copper Nickel, Fairy Tale Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Diode, RHINO, The Guardian, LARB, The Georgia Review, and DIAGRAM. She is a high school teacher in Denver where she lives with her family. Learn more at emilyperez.org.

    Ellen Bass’s most recent collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. She co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor Emerita of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.

    Learn more at ellenbass.com.

    This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/

    Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

    Get in touch with us at: info@poetrymedicineforthesoul.com

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    5 分