The Hive Poetry Collective
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. Find us at hivepoetry.org And https://www.facebook.com/hivepoetry
Episodes
Recorded in June 2025, during the 6th month of the Trump administration, while American bombs rained down on Iran, Addie and Dion read war poems. They read "We Lived Happily During the War," by Ilya Kaminsky," Convergence," by Joseph Stroud, "The People of the Other Village," by Thomas Lux, "Anywhere you Look," Jane Hirshfield, Samuel Hazo's "Intifada," and Khải Đơn's "...
Francisco Aragón, Director of Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, talks about his most recent book, After Rubén, and the queering of iconic Nicaraguan poet, Ruben Darío. Hear Francisco’s exquisite voice bring his own and Darío’s words alive as we talk about the Neorealism movement, Federico Lorca, and giving new breadth and depth to Darío’s work. You can find After...
Dorianne Laux reads her poem "Fear" as well as poems from her new craft book Finger Exercises for Poets.
Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore M...
In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, host Julie Murphy talks with Santa Cruz poet Cynthia White about her award-winning chapbook Glossogenesis. The show begins with Cynthia's reading of Susan Firer's poem, Transubstantiation. They explore how language shapes experience, how poetry holds memory and transformation, and what it means to write with clarity and care. A rich conversation on craft, intimacy, and the powe...
Julie Murphy, Addie Mahmassani, and Dion O'Reilly read poems from En•Trance Journal , a journal dedicated to altered states and the lyric moment. We read and discuss poems by Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, Julie Murphy, Deborah Gorlin, Emily Ransdell, Jessica Cuello, and Jim Moore.
There are fifteen fabulous poets in the the first issue of Entrancejournel.net. We wish we could have discussed them all at length, but we had less ...
Nin and Dion read from her new book Son of a Bird, now available from Etruscan Press. They also read and discuss "Unrest," by Emily Fragos.
Nin Andrews is the author of the six chapbooks and ten full-
length poetry collections including The Last Orgasm (2020),
Miss August (2017), and Why God is a Woman (2015). She is
the recipient of two Ohio individual artists grants, the Pearl
Chapbook prize, The Wick Chapbook Prize, and...
Dion and Denise chat about her new book, Pink Lady. We read and discuss "His Terror" by Sharon Olds and also reference Olds's poem "Satan Says."
Denise Duhamel has published numerous collections of poetry, including Second Story (2021), Scald (2017), Blowout (2013), which was a finalist for a National Books Critics Circle Award, Ka-Ching! (2009), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (2001), all of whic...
Kirk Glaser's book, The House That Fire Built, has been 25 years in the making following a suspicious house fire and the characters both prior to and following the incident. Join us as we talk of ghosts, poet James Murray, and the many ways fire exists as metaphor. You can find the House That Fire Built at Mad Hat Press.
Adela Najarro's fifth poetry collection, Variations in Blue, was selected by the Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Collaborative for publication in March, 2025. The California Arts Council recognized her as an established artist for the Central California Region, appointing her as an Individual Artist Fellow. Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of the...
Rubén and Dion kick off the show by reading "Eating Together," by Li-Young Lee.
Then they read from Rubén Quesada's new book, Brutal Campanion.
Ruben Quesada, Ph.D is an award-winning poet and editor. He edited the groundbreaking anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, winner of the Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His poetry and criticism appear in The New York Times Magazine, Best...
Join Julie Murphy and Chicago poet, Christy Prahl, as they read and discuss Kwame Dawes' poem Sea and Rain from his book Nebraska. Then they dive into Christy's We Are Reckless (Cornerstone Press), a gorgeous collection of midwest poems that take a daring look into relationships, identity, pleasure, loss, and more. Sprinkled though the conversation is bits of craft, stories and laughter. The show concludes with an imaginative poem ...
Roxi Power chats with Dion O'Reilly about a new anthology, Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election that Power co-edited. With their usual mix of irreverence and in-depth close readings, they showcase the wide range styles in this collection of 100+ poets published by Carbonation Press. This urgent book was assembled by 8 editors between election and inauguration day and captures feelings about this critical ele...
Cassandra, Hildegard of Bingen, Virginia Woolf, Ann Sexton...the link between visionary minds and what classifies as 'mental illness' is key to opening doors of perception. Join Karen Marker as she talks with Julia Chiapella about her new book, Under the Blue Umbrella, and a family history of schizophrenia as both stigma and chimera. Beneath the Blue Umbrella can be found here.
Please join Julie Murphy as she chats with Santa Cruz County's new Poet Laureate, Nancy Miller Gomez, about poetry in the jails and her plans to bring poetry to our community. Nancy reads Ruth Stone's poem, Another Feeling, and talks about the importance of paying attention and how daily observations, memories and current events can ease the challenge of facing a blank page. Listen to Nancy read poems from her stunning deb...
Hear from four UCSC student poets who will be part of this year's In Celebration of the Muse at the Resource Center for Nonviolence. Farnaz Fatemi and Julia Chiapella talk to these up and coming poets, who read from their poems and talk about their inspirations, influences and passion.
Poets in the studio: Lilly Tookey, Reilly Newton, and Angel Sunlight. Sofia Nordvedt represented.
More about In Celebration of the Muse at hivepoetr...
Santa Cruz poet, journalist, and author, Addie Mahmassani, buzzes into the Hive to talk Irish poetry with Dion O'Reilly. We read William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett and Eamon-Grennan
Addie Mahmassani is originally from the East Coast, where she completed a PhD in American Studies. This spring she is finishing an MFA in poetry at SJSU. She covers Arts & Entertainment for Metro Silicon Valley and other ...
Dustin Brookshire has gathered an impressive array of poetic emulations in When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton. They include free verse gestures, couplets, tercets, and prose poems. Maureen’s influence shines, though is never blinding—each of the poets in this anthology takes her title and makes the poem that follows their own.
(From the forward by Denise Duhamel)
We read poems from: Kelli Russell Agodon, Sarah Coo...
Julie Murphy and Jessica Cohn discuss Jessica's debut book of poems Gratitude Diary, exploring themes of nature, family, loss, and yes, gratitude. Cohn reads Jane Hirshfield's poem My Debtand the poets discuss amazement and appreciation of beauty and nature, but also gratitude for the more challenging and difficult aspects of life.
A Michigan native, Jessica Cohn has made homes in Illinois, New York, and most recently, Aptos, Calif...
Tune in as treasured poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads her poetry, talks of her Palestinian father and ancestors, and recalls the challenging event that led to her popular poem, "Kindness". She also shares a poem by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Tofa from his bookForest of Noise. Listen to Naomi read poems from her books The Tiny Journalist, Fuel, Transfer, and Everything Comes Next.
With Julia Chiapella and Dion O’Reilly, Roxi Power discusses the just-published anthology she co-edited, Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election (Carbonation Press 2025) with 100+ amazing poets. This urgent, lightning-fast book was a collaborative effort by 8 editors between election and inauguration day to capture feelings about and implications of this critical election.
The call asked for compassionate but cour...
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