Episode Description
Welcome to In Three Poems, where we read three poems with a different guest poet each week, and the third poem is always a work by another poet, chosen by our featured poet.
This episode David talks with poet, editor and podcaster Dr. Han VanderHart about the influences of rural life on childhood as well as poetry, and how a poet can bridge the gulf of experience from one reader to another.
POEM 1
“Invocation” by Han VanderHart, read by David.
POEM 2
“Ode to Knowing,” written and read by Han.
POEM 3
“Boston Seaport, July 2024” Catherine Rockwood," published in Moist Poetry Journal.
More Links:
Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood
Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, NC. They are the author of Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021), and have poetry and essays published in Poetry Daily, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and co-edits River River Books.