Hosted by Erynn Crittenden · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 168 episodes
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Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy some Poems! Tune in every Wednesday to learn about a new poet, hear five of their poems read aloud (with permission), and explore the relevant links provided in the show notes. It's the perfect podcast for people who love poetry and want to discover someone new, so follow and subscribe today! IF YOU ARE A POET, You can request an episode through the submission form at Present-Poetry.com. We'd love to read your work!
Erynn Crittenden hosts Present Poetry, a arts show with 168 episodes published.
Roberta Batorsky is a poet, science journalist and college educator. She is in several online and in-person poetry and fiction writing critique groups and has put a poetry book together called Perihelion , published last
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Adair Heitmann, BFA, is an award-winning poet, storyteller, educator, and artist. Her poems are published in We are Here; Lost Love by Orenaug Mountain Publishing; Connecticut Bards Poetry Review 2025 ; and the Fourth Vo
Enas Rashid is a contemporary artist from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a multidisciplinary who grew up with a passion for all forms of art and enjoys illustration, painting, creative writing and sculpting. She believes i
Zaha Al-Hmoud is a Jordanian-Canadian poet based in Canada. Born in Jordan, he moved to Canada at six years old. His first collection, The Ache Is What Moves Me, traces the arc of a psychiatric break and the rebuilding t
Loralee Clark has a fourth chapbook forthcoming: Neolithic Imaginings: Mythical Explorations of the Unknown (Kelsay Press, 2026). Clark has been nominated for three 2026 Pushcart Prizes. She resides in Virginia; her webs
Clint Frakes is a poet, writer, teacher, and ceremonialist living in Sedona, AZ and the Verde Valley since 1992. His poetry, prose and narrative non-fiction has appeared in nearly 200 journals, magazines and anthologies
Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over 600 stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering St
Lindsay Soberano Wilson is a mother, teacher, and author. "The Japanese Red Maple" from Hoods of Motherhood: A Collection of Poems (Prolific Pulse Press, 2023), a bittersweet reflection on motherhood, was nominated for a
Maria Tosti was born in 1965 in Perugia, Italy, and lives in a small Umbrian town crossed by the river Tiber. She writes poems since she was a teenager. She participated at several national and international poetry award
Eddie D. Wilcoxen is a retired radio broadcaster who worked in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, and Ohio before settling in for a thirty year career in Altus, Oklahoma. Selected by Governor Brad Henry as Oklahoma
Hafiz Muhammad Qasim has a unique taste and talent for writing poetry. He has written more than 100 poems on multitudinous issues ranging from love, Adolescent, Mother Nature, etc.
Phillip is a disabled Veteran who lives in Western Colorado with his family. When not at his blue collar job, he enjoys birthing creativity into this world through his writing. Phillip has been published by Black Coffee
I am 32 years young I love, fashion makeup, deep, love, spirituality, my family, children, and spirit to earth and we have a really deep passion for writing. It just comes to. I have a way with words.
Iustin Floroiu, 25, is a teacher, scientist, poet, music producer and published philosophy writer from Bucharest, Romania, looking to help through his creative endeavors. Poems in this episode are: I see the ceiling... (
Michael is a husband, father and grandfather. He is also a veteran of the Northern Irish troubles. When writing, he takes inspiration from his surroundings and his life experience.
Angela Fields is a poet and storyteller, writing with emotional depth about love, loss, memory, and heartache. She is drawn to the spaces between life and its echoes, to the human experience at its most intimate and raw.
Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, an award-winning member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild. She released three titles in 2024: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" (Wild Ink), "Apprentice
Mimi Bordeaux is a published writer for Medium.com with 3K followers. She also makes photogenic imagery.
LEE PENNINGTON is the author of 23 books including I Knew a Woman (1977) Thigmotropism (1993) and Appalachian Newground (2016)–each nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His book, Daughters of Leda (2017) was selecte
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