Hello! We are an international independent press that strives to inspire creativity, spotlight diversity, and encourage a love for poetry. We host poetry readings, workshops, and resources for writers to thrive. <br/><br/><a href="https://poetsinthepines.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">poetsinthepines.substack.com</a>
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Hello! We are an international independent press that strives to inspire creativity, spotlight diversity, and encourage a love for poetry. We host poetry readings, workshops, and resources for writers to thrive. <br/><br/><a href="https://poetsinthepines.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">poetsinthepines.substack.com</a>
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July 7, 2026
The Delirium Interviews: Dreams, Memory, & Emotional Truth in Poetry | Josh Stone
<p>Join us as we chat with poet, assistant principal, and Kentucky native Josh Stone. In our conversation, we learn about the ways our childhood home never leaves us—even after it’s demolished—how the perspective of our parents changes over time, and how poets delicately weave emotional truth, universal truth, and ambiguity together in order to create something worth connecting to. </p><p>He also reads one of his contributions to the anthology, a poem titled “Washed-Out Blue,” and gives insight into the inspiration behind it, as well as what’s coming up next for him. </p><p>~</p><p>More about Josh: </p><p>Josh Stone is a poet, percussionist, and assistant principal from Owensboro, Kentucky. He holds a BA in Education with an emphasis in English and an MA in School Administration from Western Kentucky University. Josh enjoys spending time on the marching band field and hiking with his family. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harrow House Journal, The Pensieve, Half and One, Made from Midnight: A Requiem, Wingless Dreamer, and elsewhere. He is currently working on his first poetry manuscript. </p><p><strong>You can connect with Josh on Instagram & Bluesky @joshstonepoetry. </strong></p><p>~</p><p>Timestamps: </p><p>1:00-3:00 “Washed-Out Blue” Reading</p><p>3:30-5:30 Turning Childhood Trauma into Something Beautiful & Dolly and Dali</p><p>5:30-6:30 A Collection of Surreal Images</p><p>6:30-9:00 House, Body, and Memory</p><p>9:00-10:30 Lullabies & Epiphanies </p><p>10:30-11:20 Playing with Tension in the Writing Process </p><p>11:30-13:30 Our Perspective of Our Parents Juxtaposed with Their Reality</p><p>13:30-15:00 Light Inside Demolished Houses</p><p>15:00-17:30 You Can Build A New Home</p><p>17:30-18:30 Teaching Our Children Resilience </p><p>18:30-20:00 Describing Our Mothers </p><p>20:00-23:00 Emotional Truth, Universal Truth, and Ambiguity in Poetry</p><p>23:00-28:00 Between Leaves and Light</p><p>~</p><p>Here’s some our favorite quotes from the episode: </p><p>“Beauty and brokenness can coexist.”</p><p>“The house has been bulldozed to the ground. But that doesn’t mean it’s not still there.”</p><p>“Don’t focus on how true it has to be. Focus on the emotional truth.”</p><p>“Things are going to get better, kiddo.”</p><p>~</p><p>Thanks for reading, watching, or listening! </p><p>You can find out more about the editors, the press, the anthologies, and the contributors on our socials:</p><p>IG: poetsinthepines</p><p>www.poetsinthepines.com</p><p>Kelly Miller’s Socials: </p><p>IG: kellymbooks</p><p>Anne Ramallo’s Socials: </p><p>IG: anneramallo</p><p>Leah Cass’s Socials:</p><p>IG: elleunchained</p><p>Josh Stone’s Socials:</p><p>IG: joshstonepoetry</p><p></p><p><p>Thanks for reading! It would mean a lot to us if you shared it <3</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://poetsinthepines.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">poetsinthepines.substack.com</a>
June 10, 2026
The Delirium Interviews: Music, Movement, & Embodiment in Poetry | Cypher
<p>Join us as we chat with poet, engineer, and multidisciplinary artist Cypher. In our conversation, we explore the intimacy of poetry, the connection between music and movement in the creative process, and what it means to create from a place beyond self-consciousness. Together, we discuss dream logic, swamp imagery, the tension between instinct and structure, and how poetry can capture a fleeting moment in time while still holding emotional depth and release.</p><p>Cypher also reads her contribution to the anthology, “Dancing in the Embers of Night,” and shares the inspiration behind the piece, her relationship with music and form, and details about her upcoming debut poetry collection, The Self is an Ocean.</p><p>~</p><p>More about Cypher:</p><p>Cypher is a self-taught brown and queer Tamizh diaspora poet living in Canada. Her work has been featured in DarkWinter Literary Magazine, the Ontario Poetry Society, Arcana Poetry Press, The Ophelia Gazette, and several others. She is currently working on her debut full-length poetry collection, The Self is an Ocean, slated for release in July 2026.</p><p><strong>You can connect with Cypher on Instagram @cypherspace_101.</strong></p><p>~</p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>2:00-2:40 “Dancing in the Embers of Night” Reading</p><p>3:00-4:30 Bedroom Dance Parties, Lady Gaga, and Swamp Queens</p><p>4:30-5:40 Capturing Moments Instead of Explaining Them</p><p>5:40-7:20 Escaping the Gaze & Writing Without Self-Surveillance</p><p>7:20-8:40 Intimacy, Breath, and Creative Release in Poetry</p><p>8:40-10:10 Poetry, Creation, and the Liminal Space of Art</p><p>10:10-11:10 Being “A Poet in an Engineer’s Body”</p><p>11:10-13:30 Form, White Space, and Expanding Rooms</p><p>13:30-17:00 Pop Music, Musicality, and Sound in Writing</p><p>17:00-18:20 What Makes Writing Feel Alive</p><p>18:20-20:30 Childlike Wonder & Making the Familiar Strange</p><p>20:30-21:10 Learning the Rules, Then Throwing Them Away</p><p>21:10-23:00 Dreams, Shared Experience, and the 80/20 Rule</p><p>23:00-25:00 The Self is an Ocean</p><p>~</p><p>Here’s some of our favorite quotes from the episode:</p><p>“Sometimes it’s nice to just put a picture frame around a moment.”</p><p>“I am watching myself being watched.”</p><p>“Poetry is very intimate because it’s about breath.”</p><p>“Everything I’m saying has been said before. But I can say it in a fresh way.”</p><p>“I want you to reintroduce the world to me.”</p><p>~</p><p>Thanks for reading, watching, or listening!</p><p>You can find out more about the editors, the press, the anthologies, and the contributors on our socials:</p><p>IG: poetsinthepines</p><p>www.poetsinthepines.com</p><p>Kelly Miller’s Socials:</p><p>IG: kellymbooks</p><p>Anne Ramallo’s Socials:</p><p>IG: anneramallo</p><p>Leah Cass’s Socials:</p><p>IG: elleunchained</p><p></p><p><p>Thanks for reading! It would mean a lot to us if you shared it <3</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://poetsinthepines.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">poetsinthepines.substack.com</a>
May 20, 2026
The Delirium Interviews: Snails, Transcendence, and The Search for Meaning through Storytelling | Sylvie Althoff
<p>Join us as we chat with writer, editor, teacher, and jazz banjoist Sylvie Althoff. In our conversation, we explore ambiguity, dream logic, transformation, and the strange comfort of unanswered questions. We discuss transcendence through surreal imagery, the limits of language, the body as both home and self, and how writing can become a way of imagining gentler worlds in difficult times.</p><p>Sylvie also reads an excerpt from her contribution to Made from Midnight: Delirium, “The Other Side,” a surreal and strangely peaceful story about a woman who transcends reality only to discover herself reborn as a snail among countless others on a vast cosmic tree. She shares the inspiration behind the story, the role queerness and embodiment play in her work, and what’s coming next in her growing catalog of speculative fiction.</p><p>~</p><p>More about Sylvie:</p><p>Sylvie Althoff is a queer transgender woman who works as a writer, editor, elementary teacher, and jazz banjoist. Her Locus-recommended writing has appeared in venues including Harper’s Bazaar, Escape Pod, Small Wonders, and Lesbians in Space. Her novella Trivial Matters is forthcoming from Android Press.</p><p>She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her wife, musician and teacher Jen Thomas, their dog Nomi Malone, and their cat Pocket.</p><p><strong>You can find more of Sylvie’s work at sylviealthoff.com, on Bluesky at sylvie-althoff and on Substack at Sylvie Althoff.</strong></p><p>~</p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>2:00-4:15 “The Other Side” Reading</p><p>4:15-6:30 Snails, Transcendence, and the Search for Meaning</p><p>6:30-7:30 Carcinization, Trees, and Evolutionary Inevitability</p><p>7:30-9:00 Dream Logic, Ambiguity, and the Limits of Language</p><p>9:00-10:30 Funhouse Mirrors, Identity, and Transformation</p><p>10:30-12:30 Writing Optimism Through Strange Worlds</p><p>12:30-13:30 Why the Afterlife Should Be Weird</p><p>13:30-15:00 Story Qua Story & Reading Through the Author’s Lens</p><p>15:00-17:00 Queerness, Embodiment, and the Universal Through the Specific</p><p>17:00-18:00 Snails Carry Their Homes With Them</p><p>18:00-20:30 Retreating Inward During Difficult Times</p><p>20:30-22:00 Acceptance, Meditation, and Peaceful Resignation</p><p>22:00-24:00 Building Worlds Within Ourselves</p><p>24:00-27:30 Pirate Radio Stations, Robot Pirates, and other Trivial Matters</p><p>~</p><p>Here’s some of our favorite quotes from the episode:</p><p>“Life is great at prompting a lot of wonderful questions and not super long on answers to those questions.”</p><p>“The other side should be weird too.”</p><p>“We are all brains in our own jars trying to communicate what’s going on inside.”</p><p>“There are really no words to fully encapsulate what we’re thinking or feeling.”</p><p>“I’d rather be on a pirate ship than at Walmart.”</p><p>“It’s okay to have unanswered questions.”</p><p>~</p><p>Thanks for reading, watching, or listening!</p><p>You can find out more about the editors, the press, the anthologies, and the contributors on our socials:</p><p>IG: poetsinthepines</p><p>www.poetsinthepines.com</p><p>Kelly Miller’s Socials:</p><p>IG: kellymbooks</p><p>Anne Ramallo’s Socials:</p><p>IG: anneramallo</p><p>Leah Cass’s Socials:</p><p>IG: elleunchained</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for reading! It would mean a lot to us if you shared it <3</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://poetsinthepines.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">poetsinthepines.substack.com</a>
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