The Hive Poetry Collective

Lexi kicks off the interview by reading Susan Browne's, "Strange Ode. " Then we talk about Lexi's newest book, Let Go With The Lights On , Winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize Lexi Pelle was the winner of the...

Six local poets, including anthology editor David Allen Sullivan, join Hannah Tool to read and discuss poems from Magpie on the Gallows: Poems on the Art of Bosch and Bruegel (Carbonation Press). The anthology...

Poet Amber Coverdale Sumrall joins Julie Murphy to talk about her new collection, That Other Song , and a writing life shaped by memory, landscape, love, loss, and close attention to the natural world. Amber reads poems...

Roxi Power, co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Winter in America (Still: Poets, Writers, and Artists Respond to a Fractured World , talks with Dion O’Reilly about poems in the book by Carolyn Forché, Maxine...

Jillian Stacia buzzes in to read Ellen Bass’s “ The Thing is ” and selections from her new collection Set the Bone ( Arcana Poetry Press ). Her work pulls threads from the outrage and awe of existing in these dystopian...

What transforms a grasshopper into part of a rapacious horde? Poet, essayist, playwright and activist Joel O'Connor uses his most recent work, Locust , as a bridge between science and politics, between our nature as...

Farnaz Fatemi interviews current Santa Cruz Youth Poet Laureate Vicky Tinnell, along with Bella Dowd, Felice Rickwald and Ash Raznick. Hear poems and insights from each of these fabulous teen poets, all members of the...

What does it mean to inherit a story? How do memory, family, race, and identity shape the poems we write—and how do poems, in turn, reshape the stories we tell ourselves?In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective...

Ally Ang buzzes into the hive to read poems from their book and also to share the poem "Friends with no Benefits" by Megan Fernandes. Ally is the author of Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). A National...

Flags Sprouting Everywhere. Join Hannah Tool and Farnaz Fatemi as we read poems which unpack iconic American language and make room for more of us in the current cultural landscape. Poems by: Jean Prokott, Ada Limón...

In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, host Hannah Tool and fellow Hive member Julie Murphy dig into the work of Andrea Gibson in a conversation that touches on Gibson’s penchant for radical vulnerability, their...

In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective , host Julie Murphy and fellow Hive member Farnaz Fatemi explore the work of acclaimed poet Andrea Cohen in a conversation that moves through memory, humor, loss, and the...

Loss sits at the crux of grief and growth. In her brilliant debut book of poetry, Splashed Things , Leigh Lucas charts a path through this crossroad with lyrical imagery both savage and excruciatingly tender. Hear her...

Tony Gloeggler reads and discusses a poem by Patricia Smith, "Undertaker." Then we read from his newest book. Poet Tony Gloeggler's latest book is Here on Earth . He is the author of the full-length poetry collections...

Rebecca Hart Olander buzzes into the hive, reads ⁠Nan Cohen's poem "Thirty Year Friendship⁠ ," and then from her new book, Singing from the Deep End. ⁠ ⁠Rebecca Hart Olander⁠ is a Women’s National Book Association...