"Mother" written and read here by Sally Bliumis-Dunn"For the Stranger" Carolyn Forchéwww.sallybliumisdunn.comSally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and offers individual manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review,On the Seawall, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUM…

Ravi Shankar is the author, editor or translator of over a dozen books, including most recently "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas Press, 2017) and "Andal: The Autobiography of A Goddess" (Zubaan Books/University of Chicago Press, 2016). He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie S…

reading one From the Calabrian Notebooks:Calabria - Providenceby Peter Covinoreading two"Ars Poetica"by Giorgio Bassanimusic from los duderinoshttps://www.losduderinos.com/Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregorihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu92CzWMVpYDi Poetry Dose

Jennifer Franklin (AB Brown, MFA Columbia) is the author of two full-length collections, Looming (Elixir, 2015) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Boston Review, Connotation Press, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.…

Heather Lang Cassera—a poet, critic, literary editor, and educator—holds an MFA in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas' Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming with The Normal School, North American Review, Pleiades, South…

In the spirit of back to school season, we have Mr. Aaron Coleman sharing his poem, "On Acquiescence," as well as his School Dose selection, "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes.Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Ful…

on this episode two readings from Maggie SmithSlipper by Maggie Smith&Fortress by Ann SextonMaggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017. The title poem, “Good Bones,” was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio…

Tracy K. Smith is the author of the memoir Ordinary Light and four books of poetry: Wade in the Water, (April 2018); Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award; and The Body's Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poe…

Heidi Reszies A poem from her series titled "Illusory Borders."School Dose reading of “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity," by John Tobias.Heidi is a multidisciplinary artist living in Richmond, VA, and a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches letterpress print…

"Only Sweetness" by Rosalynde Vas Dias"Stone" by Charles SimicRosalynde Vas Dias is the author of Only Blue Body from Anhinga Press. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.Di Poetry Dose

Readings:"On Coming Across Christina's World at the Museum of Modern Art" by Ginny WiehardtSchool Dose reading of Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."Ginny Wiehardt’s chapbook Migration won the 2016 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including Bellingham Review, Spoon River Poetr…

Keegan Lester is the author of the collection of poetry this shouldn't be beautiful but it and it was all i had so i drew it, selected by Mary Ruefle for the 2016 Slope Editions Book Prize. His work is published in or forthcoming from The Boston Review, Poem A Day for the Academy of Amercian Poets, Boaat, CutBank and Sixth Finch among others. For m…

Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Tina Cane, and author Matthew Zapruder host a reading and discussion of poetry and its role in modern society lIve in front of an audience in the Woodman Center at the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI.Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry–his most recent, Come On All You Ghosts, was a New York …

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. A new hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, comes out with Red Hen Press in the fall of 2017. In conjunction with Woolly Press, Matthews is currently serially publishing The Life & T…

Tina Cane on the creation of "Teacher, Teacher"I was commissioned by The Total Teacher Project at Bryant Universityto write an ode to teachers for their annual conference in August. While I loved the idea of celebrating teachers in a poem, I wasn't too keen on writing such a poem. Since I am a teacher myself.it seemed disingenuous to make the attem…

Here's a recording of Catherine Pierce reading her poem "Beach Town," and she talks about what went into writhing that poem. she also gives a reading (for School Dose)of E.E. Cummings's "since feeling is first".Di Poetry Dose

Andrew E. Colarusso was born and raised in Brooklyn. He is assistant professor of literary arts at Brown University and editor-in-chief of the Broome Street Review. His debut novel, The Sovereign, was just published by Dalkey Archive Press. www.iDoNotMove.comreading 1: "Rachel" by Andrew Colarussoreading 2: "Blue Dementia" by Yusef Komunyakaa…

Gary J. Whitehead reads his poem "Grey Water"as well as one of his favorites from William Blake called " The Tyger"Gary J. Whitehead’s poems recently appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Epoch, andThe Massachusetts Review. His third book of poetry, A Glossary of Chickens, was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Series of …

Amy Pickworth reads her poem "The Ohio Poem", followed by "Ithaka" by C. P. Cavafy.Amy Pickworth is the author of Bigfoot for Women. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. You can find more of her work at amypickworth.com.Di Poetry Dose

Matthew Lippman is the author of three poetry collections, AMERICAN CHEW, winner of The Burnside Review Book Prize (Burnside Review, 2013), Monkey Bars (Typecast Publishing, 2010), and The New Year of Yellow , winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize (Sarabande Books, 2007). He is the recipient of the 2010 Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from T…

Tina Cane is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI and is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, Tupelo Quarterly Jubliat and The Common. She is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painte…