O, Word?

O, Nonce!

A conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, The Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards Surprise Nick Martino [https://www.nickmartinopoetry.com/] is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book [https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/scrap-book] (from Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be published in June of 2026. His poems have been published in Best New Poets, Narrative [https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2023/poetry/leaving-gym-i-smoke-one-cigarette-then-another-nick-martino], Ninth Letter, The Boston Review [https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/three-poems-10/], and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe [https://oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

O, Joy!

A conversation with Jonny Teklit about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action Jonny Teklit [https://www.jonnyteklit.com/about] is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized in Poemhood: Our Black Revival [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/poemhood-our-black-revival-amber-mcbrideerica-martintaylor-byas] and The Gift of Animals: Poems on Love, Loss, and Connection [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alison-hawthorne-deming/the-gift-of-animals/9781635868579/]. He is currently working on his debut collection. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe [https://oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

e·pon·y·mous | "Black Bell" by Alison C. Rollins

Talking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-making Alison C. Rollins [https://www.alisoncrollins.com/] is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell [https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/black-bell-by-alison-c-rollins/] and Library of Small Catastrophes [https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/library-of-small-catastrophes-by-alison-c-rollins/]. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. Her work, across genres, has appeared in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe [https://oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

O, Prosody!

A conversation with Tariq Thompson about Rhythm, Hip Hop as a Guiding Force, and the Muscularity of Language Tariq Thompson [http://tariqthompson.com] is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He’s the author of the chapbook LONE LILY [https://www.tariqthompson.com/chapbook] (from Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine and elsewhere. Thompson was a finalist [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1468983/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2023-ruth-lilly-and-dorothy-sargent-rosenberg-poetry-fellowships] for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. You can find more of his work at tariqthompson.com [http://tariqthompson.com]. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe [https://oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

O, Repetition!

Talking with Summer Farah about Repetition, leaning into frantic energy, and the value of revisitation Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of the chapbook, i could die today and live again [https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/i-could-die-today-and-live-again], poems inspired by the legend of Zelda and published by Game Over Books in 2004. Her debut collection, The Hungering Years [https://hostpublications.com/products/the-hungering-years-by-summer-farah] is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026. She's calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe [https://oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]