The Poetry Box LIVE – January Edition!
Saturday, January 13, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific)
[3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)]
Featured Poets:
- Wendy Erd (Alaska) – author of It’s a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers
- Steven Croft(Georgia) – author of At Home with the Dreamlike Earth
- Penelope Scambly Schott(Oregon) – author of gOD: A Respectfully Divergent Testament
Enjoy a Video from the Show:
About the Featured Poets
For twenty years, Wendy Erd traveled between Alaska and Asia supporting indigenous and seldom heard communities to voice their stories through exhibit and film. Now at home in Alaska, mornings begin in front of the wood stove with coffee, a stack of poetry books and her husband as they read poems aloud to begin each day.
Her writing appears as prose on road signs in Alaska’s Copper River watershed and as poems along an estuary trail in Homer, Alaska. She’s received several statewide literary awards. Her work has been published by the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Rivers Press, Cirque, and anthologized in Out on the Deep Blue: Women, Men and the Ocean They Fish. In collaboration with her dear friend, Lê Phương, their poetry translations were published in The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present. She envisioned and coordinated Poems in Place, a project that placed poetry by Alaskan poets on signs in Alaska’s state parks.
You can order Wendy’s new book HERE
Steven Croftlives on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia on a property lush with vegetation. He is the author of three previous chapbooks: Coastal Scenes (The Saltmarsh Press, 2002), Moment and Time (The Saltmarsh Press, 2015), and New World Poems (Alien Buddha Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in Willawaw Journal, San Pedro River Review, Chestnut Review, North of Oxford, Anti-Heroin Chic, The New Verse News, Soul-Lit, and other places, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
You can order Steven’s new book HERE
Penelope Scambly Schott worships daily by climbing Dufur hill and sitting on her favorite rock. From there she can see two states and five mountains. She is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry.
You can order Penelope’s new chapbook HERE
