The Hive Poetry Collective

About The Hive Poetry Collective

Airing on KSQD 90.7 FM most Sundays at 8:00, the Hive Poetry Collective is a buzz of poets in Santa Cruz, California— a swarm of radio conversations, public readings, and writing workshops. Our theme music is "Drunk on Funk" by Top-Flow. Find us at hivepoetry.org And https://www.facebook.com/hivepoetry

Publisher

The Hive

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Apr 2019

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

313 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   S8: E40 Leila Farjami in Conversation with Farnaz Fatemi

   Farnaz Fatemi and Leila Farjami (https://www.leilafarjami.com) spend time with Leila's deeply resonant and highly-prasied poetry collection, Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026). Listen as they discuss: trusting poetry's source and the arrival of images, sounds, and meaning; Farjami's journey from her childhood in Iran to writing poetry in English in California., memory and displacement, and more. Leila reads 7 poems from the collection offering a preview of her appearance in Santa Cruz for The Hive Live! February 2027. Order Daughter of Salt (https://triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre-order-daughter-of-salt-by-leila-farjami?_pos=1&_psq=leila&_ss=e&_v=1.0) Here (https://triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre-order-daughter-of-salt-by-leila-farjami?_pos=1&_psq=leila&_ss=e&_v=1.0)

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   S8 E39: Zack Rogow Chats with Dion O'Reilly

   We read and discuss "Astronaut," by Simona Regina Adams (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Regina_Adams), then take a deep dive into Zack's amazing new book, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. Zack Rogow (https://www.zackrogow.com/poetry.html) is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His tenth book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging, (https://valleypressuk.com/products/the-kama-sutra-for-senior-citizens) is now available from Valley Press. Click here (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-kama-sutra-for-senior-citizens-and-other-poems-on-aging-zack-rogow/41c4253b3ec12895?ean=9781915606693&next=t) for USA orders, and click here (https://valleypressuk.com/products/the-kama-sutra-for-senior-citizens) for UK orders. Hugging My Father’s Ghost: A Memoir of a Shortened Life, Zack’s book about his writer dad, will be republished by Cirque Press on October 6, 2026. His previous books of poetry include Irreverent Litanies (https://regalhousepublishing.com/product/irreverent-litanies/), from Regal House. Zack’s play, Colette Uncensored  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qh4d7Prq0&t=17s)(coauthored with Lorri Holt), had its first public reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and has been staged in London, Catalonia, San Francisco, Indonesia, and Portland. Zack’s most recent book of translations is The Water Drinkers and Other Sketches of Paris in the Romantic Era (https://www.blackwidowpress.com/Book.php?title=134) by Henry Murger, the writer who inspired La Bohème. Zack is the editor of an anthology of poetry of the U.S.A., The Face of Poetry, from University of California Press. His song lyrics include “A Love for Just Part” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjBZ7nxCh58&list=OLAK5uy_mSWDNpIoykV7VFa4QUUXirTg9GflhJexQ) recorded by Carrie Wicks. He has taught in several MFA creative writing programs, and serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader (http://catamaranliteraryreader.com/). Zack has received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in Translation, the Celestine Award for Poetry from Holy Names University, and the Tanka Splendor Award. Simone Regina Adams (1967– ) is best known as a fiction writer, but her poetry is also excellent, dealing with provocative subjects. Her novel, Die Halbruhigen [The Half-Restless], was awarded the Werner Bräunig Prize. Adams lives in Freiburg, Germany, and works as a psychotherapist. Her poem “Astronauts” evokes the wonder and emptiness of going into space, perhaps as a metaphor.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   S8 E38: Pt 2: Winter in America (Still with Roxi Power, Julie Murphy, & Dion O'Reilly

   Roxi Power, co-editor of the new anthology,⁠Winter in America (Still: Poets, Writers, and ArtistsRespond to a Fractured World⁠ (https://www.winterinamerica.org/), talks with Julie Murphy and Dion O’Reilly about poems by Lynne Thompson, Marcella Durand, Carolina Ebeid, Bill Lavender, Gabriella Guttiérez y Muhs, Addie Mahmassani, and Brenda Cárdenas. We showcase the wide variety of styles and responses to the erosion of our democracy in this 430-page sequel to Winter in America (Again (2025) featuring 200 contributors and color art (Carbonation Press, 2026). From Ebeid’s “technologies of grief” to Thompson’s hope–“this poem about the wreck we have made of the world/cannotforget: the ewe drum, the tǎr, the seed-filled gourd”–we dive deep into the book’s prominent themes (ICE, oligarchs, Gaza, and more) in a sample of the book's many poets that include Joy Harjo, Cornelius Eady, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ellen Bass. Follow our events and order this important sequel anthology to Winter in America (Again (Carbonation Press) at ⁠⁠winterinamerica.org⁠⁠ (https://www.winterinamerica.org/) . Join our next Santa Cruz launch event at InterAct Open Mic October 6, 7pm at Satori Arts (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interact-open-mic-readings-from-winter-in-america-still-anthology-tickets-1995173265947)

Who has been a guest on The Hive Poetry Collective

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• Dorianne Laux
• Cynthia White
• Denise Duhamel
• Julia Chiapella

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Engagement

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