Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.
Of Poetry Podcast
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89 episodes
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Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.
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8/7/2021
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Recent Episodes
June 19, 2026
Elane Kim (Of Coming Home to Yourself, Calvino's Invisible Cities, and the Harmony of Science and Poetry)
Host Kimberly Grey interviews poet Elane Kim about her work, exploring themes of identity, science, and the profound connection between poetry and self-discovery.
April 22, 2026
Jennifer A Sutherland (Of Greek Myth as Muse, Building a Bearable Myth, and Silence as Agency)
<p><a href="https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/">Of Poetry</a> is hosted by <a href="https://hanvanderhart.com/">Han VanderHart</a>, author of <a href="https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425916/larks/">Larks</a> (Ohio UP, 2025).<br>--<br><strong>Read</strong>: <a href="https://arcturusmag.com/2025/08/19/two-poems-sutherland/">"Alcestis as the Dead Woman’s Auto-Roman à Clef" and "Alcestis as Peripheral | Swift | Ominous Movement in the House"</a> in Arcturus Magazine<br><br></p><p><strong>Purchase</strong>: <a href="https://riverriverbooks.org/store/House-of-Myth-and-Necessity-by-Jennifer-A-Sutherland-p804011494">House of Myth and Necessity</a>(River River Books, 2026)</p><p><a href="https://jenniferasutherland.com/"><strong>Jennifer A Sutherland</strong></a>is a poet, essayist, and attorney in Baltimore. She is the author of <a href="https://riverriverbooks.org/store/House-of-Myth-and-Necessity-by-Jennifer-A-Sutherland-p804011494">House of Myth and Necessity</a> (River Riverbooks, 2026) and the lyric-hybrid, book-length poem <a href="https://riverriverbooks.org/store/Bullet-Points-by-Jennifer-A-Sutherland-p552034038">Bullet Points</a>, also from River River Books (2023). Her work has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Cagibi, EPOCH, and elsewhere.</p><p><strong>Recommended Reading</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robin-robertson">Robin Robertson </a></p><p>Anne Carson</p><p>Claire Millikin’s <a href="https://www.unicorn-press.org/books/Millikin-Television.html">TELEVISION </a>(Unicorn Books, 2016)</p><p>Monica Youn’s <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/blackacre">Blackacre</a> </p><p>Carmen Maria Machado’s <a href="https://carmenmariamachado.com/in-the-dream-house/">In the Dream House</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/">Tron</a> (film, 1982)</p><p><a href="https://www.jameeladallis.com/">Jameela F. Dallis</a></p><p>Diane Seuss's essay <a href="https://www.pw.org/content/restless_herd_some_thoughts_on_orderin_poetry_in_life">"Restless Herd: Some Thoughts on Order—in Poetry, in Life"</a> (Poets & Writers, on building a bearable myth)</p>
April 2, 2026
Beth Gilstrap (Of Genre as a Place to Leave & a Place to Come Back to, Finding the River's Flow, and Grief & Healing in Writing)
<p><strong>Read</strong>: <a href="https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2024/07/24/gilstrap/">Four excerpts f</a>rom There Is News Along the Ohio River at Heavy Feather Review</p><p><strong>Purchase</strong>: <a href="https://riverriverbooks.org/store/There-Is-News-Along-the-Ohio-River-by-Beth-Gilstrap-p811906271">There Is News Along the Ohio River</a>(River River Books, 2026)</p><p><a href="https://bethgilstrap.com/">Beth Gilstrap</a> (she/her) is a multi-genre author, copywriter, editor, and educator. Her debut hybrid/flash CNF collection, <a href="https://riverriverbooks.org/store/There-Is-News-Along-the-Ohio-River-by-Beth-Gilstrap-p811906271">There Is News Along the Ohio River</a>, was released February 2026 from <a href="https://riverriverbooks.org/authors/">River River Books</a>. She is also the author of two story collections including: Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), winner of the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and finalist for the Foreword 2021 Foreword Reviews Awards in Short Fiction; I Am Barbarella: Stories from Twelve Winters Press (2015), and the chapbook No Man’s Wild Laura (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press. A true southern goth/punk gal at heart, she is the Publisher & Editor-in-chief of the goth/punk zine, Black Lily (find them on Instagram @blacklilyzine). Her essays, stories, and hybrids have appeared in Poets & Writers, Wigleaf, Craft, Bending Genres, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She lives with her husband and a bunch of cuddly fur muppets in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a neurodivergent human who lives with c-PTSD, she is open about her struggles and fearlessly vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.</p><p><strong>Recommended Reading<br></strong><br></p><p><a href="https://www.kathy-fish.com/">Kathy Fish </a></p><p><a href="https://www.rossgay.net/about">Ross Gay</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson">Maggie Nelson</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Davis">Lydia Davis</a></p><p>Terese Marie Mailhot, <a href="https://teresemailhot.com/book">Heart Berries</a></p><p>Terrance Hayes, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567051/american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin-by-terrance-hayes/">American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin</a></p><p><a href="https://www.stephaniefoo.me/about-us-mojave">Stephanie Foo,</a> What My Bones Know</p><p>Pete Walker - <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Complex_PTSD.html?id=32AQnwEACAAJ">Complex PTSD: from Surviving to Thriving</a></p><p><a href="https://tarawestover.com/bio">Tara Westover</a>, Educated</p><p>Jen Soriano, <a href="https://www.jensoriano.net/">Nervous</a></p><p>Rebecca Olander, <a href="https://cavankerrypress.org/products/singing">Singing From the Deep End</a></p>
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