Spark Birds and Poetry with Katie Manning

July 17
38 mins

Episode Description

We talk with poet and editor Katie Manning about poetry and Red Tailed Hawks, as well as being disappointed by our heroes. 

Poem 1: 

"On the Origin" by Katie Manning, read by David

Poem 2: 

"At the Bird Rehab Facility in Vermont" Written and read by Katie 

Poem 3 

"Family Portrait with Time Travel and Dirty Wings" by Sally Rosen Kindred, first published in Whale Road Review (see link), read by Katie. 

We thank Sally Rosen Kindred for permission to read her poem. 

Music by Brian P. Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/user/wbarreguy

Other Links:

Katie's Website, where you can find her books as well as news and information about her work. 

Sally Rosen Kindred's Website, where you can read selected poems by Sally and learn more about her book Where the Wolf, Book of Asters, and others. 

Katie's Bio:

Katie Manning is the author of Hereverent (Agape Editions), Tasty Other (Main Street Rag), and six chapbook collections: How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press), 28,065 Nights (River Glass Books), A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books), and The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Wipf & Stock). Her poems have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including American Journal of Nursing, HAD, The Lascaux Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, Relief, So to Speak, Stirring, SWWIM, and Verse Daily. She has received the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, The Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and The Thimble Prize, among other honors and nominations. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review. 

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