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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. If you haven’t yet, you’re going to want to. If you’ve already read Beast Meridian, you will love hearing Villareal dive into portions of it. We were moved by her rigorous, precise, and poetic mind and we know you will be too. Listen in to hear Vanessa Angélica Villareal read from her poems and talk deeply and passionately about the development of her book, Beast Meridian. She teaches ongoing workshops on Zoom, and soon, maybe, in her artsy messy house. Her work appears in American Journal of Poetry, Cincinnati Review, Narrative, The New Ohio Review, The Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Rattle, The Sun, and other literary journals and anthologies.
She is a founding member of the Right to Write Press and teaches poetry, as a volunteer, at Salinas Valley State Prison. Julie lives in Santa Cruz County, California.ĭion O'Reilly’s prize-winning debut book, Ghost Dogs, was published in February 2020 by Terrapin Books. She hosts radio programs for the Hive Poetry Collective on KSQD. A licensed psychotherapist, Julie developed Embodied Writing™. Julie Murphy’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Buddhist Poetry Review, CALYX, Massachusetts Review, The Louisville Review, and The New Ohio Review Online among other journals and anthologies. 3: Halal If You Hear Me and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, and numerous journals. Farnaz taught Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for over 20 years. You can find her work in several anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets Vol. Kennedy Poetry Prize and the Catamaran Literary Reader Poetry Prize, and is out in the world finding its long-term home. She received the Gail Rich Award in 2017 for creative contributions to Santa Cruz County.įarnaz Fatemi’s manuscript, Sister Tongue, was a finalist for the X. She is the retired director of the Young Writers Program, which she established in 2012, opening an after-school writing lab and adjacent gallery at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Avatar Review, I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, Perceptions Magazine, phren-Z and The Wax Paper. She teaches at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz. She has been published in the Portland Review, Welter, Vinyl, Saranac Review, Kweli, 491, and Apogee.
She is founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for experimental poetry, and founding editor of Jamii Publishing, a publishing imprint dedicated to fostering community service among poets and writers. She has served as Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018). Nikia Chaney is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). She is the recipient of the 2020 Porter Gulch Review Best Poetry Award and 2017 EOPS Instructor of the Year Award. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including The Acentos Review, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and more. Victoria Bañales teaches English at Cabrillo College, is founder and editor of Journal X, and a member of the Writers of Color Collective-Santa Cruz County. A critical mass of six Hive members buzz in to this episode to share new poems.