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

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The Poetry Box LIVE – April Edition

April 10, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern)

Enjoy the video from the show:

April Featured Poets:

• Penelope Scambly Schott (Oregon), author of SOPHIA AND MISTER WALTER WHITMAN
• Sally Naylor (Florida), author of SYNAPSE FLIES INTO STARTLE
• David Belmont (New York), author of WORLD GONE ZOOM

ABOUT THE POETS 

Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry and author of a novel and several books of poetry, including her 2018 prizewinning chapbook November Quilt and most recently On Dufur Hill about a small wheat-growing town in central Oregon.

Sophia Schott Sweetdog is a four-year-old white goldendoodle, the niece of Lily Schott Sweetdog who co-wrote Lily and Rumi: A Lovestory.

Mister Walter Whitman is a greatly admired nineteenth-century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.

Order Penelope’s book HERE

A three-legged stool, Sally Naylor is poet, therapist & teacher, Sally, studied with Campbell McGrath in the FIU MFA program; she thrived in classes with Maxine Kumin, Gerald Stern, Ilya Kaminsky & Tony Hoagland.  Sally is associate editor of SOFLOPOJO, teaches community workshops for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, writes memoir as well as text and workbooks for neophytes & now offers Zoomshops for emerging poets.

Below is a cento from the manuscript by way of a concise introduction:

Bold, unrepentant, ready: a kind of ginger, myth buster & koan mistress,
rogue, free & holy skeptic, all snake hips & hiss, hyperbole’s own gadfly,
one quirky mechanic tuning the orgasmic     how her hymns buzz.

For more information about her classes visit her website at: www.writer’scatapult.com

Order Sally’s book HERE

David Belmont is a mixed media artist and community organizer living in New York City. He writes memoir, short fiction and poetry, as well as instrumental music. His work has appeared in The Poeming Pigeon, Wildflower Muse and FishFood Magazine. He is currently co-music director of the Castillo Theatre. He has been a professional musician for 50 years. His publicly available recorded output since 1999 can be found on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.  <https://davidbelmontwriter.wordpress.com>

Order David’s book HERE

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Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry.

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Please enjoy today’s selection: “Before They Reheat the Rod” by Penelope Scambly Schott, which appears in Of Course, I’m a Feminist!

Before They Reheat the Rod

In the ancient city, they heated iron rods
and blinded all the daughters.

Then they told the daughters Every man
is brave and beautiful.

In that city, they blessed the girls’ hands
and set them to spin in the dark.

Behind bronze gates, the daughters sang
the hymns almost as instructed,

but they sang in a language understood
only by birds of prey.

Listen. The wings of the blind daughters
summoned a wild sirocco wind

so that sand dunes buried the ancient city.
What endures now is the song.

Do you know it?
Whisper the words in your daughter’s ear.

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