In Three Poems

Larks and Goats and Poetry with Han VanderHart

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.  Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems] 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: HanVanderHart.com [https://hanvanderhart.com/] Han's Books [https://hanvanderhart.com/books/] Dogwitch [https://bottlecap.press/collections/bottlecap-features/products/dogwitch] by Catherine Rockwood Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, NC. They are the author of Larks [https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425916/larks] (Ohio University Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the chapbook Hawk & Moon [https://bottlecap.press/products/hawk] (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and What Pecan Light [https://bullcitypress.com/product/what-pecan-light-by-han-vanderhart-signed/] (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 [http://www.ofpoetrypodcast.com/] and co-edits River River [https://web.archive.org/web/20240112142418/https://riverriverbooks.org/]Books [http://www.riverriverbooks.org/].  Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems]

Epics and Couplets with Saddiq Dzukogi

Welcome to In Three Poems, where we read three poems with a different guest poet each episode, and the third poem is always a work by another poet, chosen by our guest.  David talks poetry, faith, and folklore, method and mythology, with Nigerian poet and professor of English, Saddiq Dzukogi.  Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems] POEM 1. “Ring” First published in Poetry Magazine (September, 2021), read by David POEM 2. Excerpt from Bakandamiya: An Elegy (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), read by Saddiq. POEM 3. "Vows” by Gbenga Adesina from Death Does Not End at the Sea (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), read by Saddiq. Links: Ring by Saddiq Dzukogi, Poetry Magazine [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156305/ring-61095e89730c9] Saddiq Dzukogi [https://www.saddiqdzukogi.com/] Saddiq’s Books [https://www.saddiqdzukogi.com/books] Gbenga Adesina’ Death Does Not End at the Sea [https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496244772/death-does-not-end-at-the-sea/] Saddiq's Bio: Saddiq Dzukogi is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award-- and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, and most recently, Bakandamiya: An Elegy (Nebraska, 2025).His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem. Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems]

Poetry, Odes, and Uplift with Marjorie Maddox

David and poet Marjorie Maddox talk poetry, inspiration, loss, and transformation as they read poems together and discuss her latest collections, Hover Here, Small Earthly Space, and Seeing Things.   Welcome to In Three Poems, where we read three poems with a different guest poet each episode, and the third poem is always a work by another poet, chosen by our guest.  Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems] POEM 1  “How We Are Found” by Marjorie Maddox, from one of her recent collections, Hover Here. Read by David. POEM 2 “Ode to Everything” from Seeing Things by Marjorie Maddox. Read by Marjorie POEM 3 “Litany of Flights” by Laura Reece Hogan, read by Marjorie Maddox. Thank you to Laura Reece Hogan for permission to read her poem on the podcast.  Links: Marjorie Maddox [https://www.marjoriemaddox.com/]  Hover Here [ https://www.marjoriemaddox.com/new-page-15]  Small Earthly Space [https://shantiarts.co/uploads/files/mno/MADDOX_ELIAS_SPACE.html#gsc.tab=0]  Seeing Things [https://wildhousepublishing.com/seeing-things/] Keystone Poetry: [https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09990-3.html] Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania  Marjorie Maddox: Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, 2023 Monson Arts [https://monsonarts.org/] Fellow, a poetry editor of Presence [https://www.catholicpoetryjournal.com/], and radio host of WPSU-FM'’s Poetry Moment, [https://radio.wpsu.org/show/poetry-moment] Marjorie Maddox has published seventeen collections of poetry, including  Begin with a Question [https://paracletepress.com/collections/poetry/products/begin-with-a-question] from Paraclete Press [https://paracletepress.com/collections/poetry] (Illumination Book Award and International Book Award); How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks [https://www.amazon.com/Look-When-Dont-Know-Spelled/dp/1639805400/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UIKM1L83BCDH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.u9r7rdpPygJ42JrnpvhQPA5grcBHfawfjh-iR2MVnCj0lHhaZcj8mrnYmeeRbaCEHnLVtys1t9hAdbdp8aG_FJO9jYoyfGFeHIxqFPzByxkSaZ4_5Gl_Kf0pqILjIgshy7UdOrn8GL3fQVvCIbXsV4hMkHJazXMCo_VmdKj7piNkAzrvyp5Er44s-zQR1XKff2Apu33Aozd5GkI6PhDq4RhJv9qucJtNuvHcjuFw2L4.EPnZdohIGQTi6qdhEhgYqVPP1CI24j2tTPIUfyMr-kg&dib_tag=se&keywords=marjorie+maddox&qid=1732332815&s=books&sprefix=marjorie+maddox%2Cstripbooks%2C132&sr=1-1] (Kelsay Books [https://kelsaybooks.com/] 2024); Seeing Things [https://wildhousepublishing.com/seeing-things/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGi6ClleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaZXpnRKSlSSQbSFyKGKpsnIRPVzWd9QX8KvJK7i_33IXPMwbsbxksDXoA_aem_apc3rtwpg5XIOaIEtuoRLA] (Wildhouse Publishing [https://wildhousepublishing.com/] February 2024), Hover Here [https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/hover-here-poetry-by-marjorie-maddox] (Broadstone Books, January 2026);  Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania [https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09990-3.html] (Penn State University Press, 2025). Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems]

Choreopoems and Womanhood, with Monica Prince

David and Monica Prince have a fun but also heavy discussion about women and trauma, and about the writing of poetry and the production of choreopoems. The discussion ranges from word choice in poem to forms like lipograms and the distinctions between womanhood and motherhood.  Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems] POEM 1  “Political Poem as Prayer [https://1455litarts.org/movable-type-issue-no-16-monica-prince/]”, written by Monica Prince, published in Movable Type ( 2023), read by David. POEM 2 From “Hysteria,” a Choreopoem in Progress, written and read by Monica. POEM 3 “I am unfit to raise daughters,” written by Jessica Nirvana Ram [https://jessicanirvanaram.wixsite.com/writer], from Earthly Gods (2024, Variant Lit), read by Monica Prince.  Links: monicaprince.com [http://monicaprince.com] What Is a Choreopoem? [https://monicaprince.com/choreopoems] Monica Prince, Associate Professor of Activist & Performance Writing, serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Roadmap: A Choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, Instructions for Temporary Survival, and Letters from the Other Woman, with another choreopoem, FORCE, forthcoming in Janaury 2026. Her work appears in Twisted Tongue, In Short, Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. As one of the foremost choreopoem scholars, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation.  Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems]

The Carnival of Affection and Poet Philip F Clark

David reads poetry with his good friend and fellow poet Philip F. Clark. The first two poems are by Philip and from his book The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). The third poem was chosen by Philip and written by Cavafy.  Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems] POEM 1  “Lacrimosa” from The Carnival of Affection [https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/the-carnival-of-affection-by-philip-f-clark] (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017), read by David. POEM 2 “The Beggar's Welcome'” from The Carnival of Affection, read by Philip. POEM 3 “The Afternoon Sun” by C.P. Cavafy, read by Philip F. Clark. Originally published in "The City" from C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translation Copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Links: Order The Carnival of Affection [https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/the-carnival-of-affection-by-philip-f-clark] "The Afternoon Sun [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51298/the-afternoon-sun]"  Please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-three-poems/id1863505524] or giving a rating on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/64KI1Ior18pK6UEeCq6t7k]! Thanks for being an amazing listening audience.  Text the show! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516618/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://ko-fi.com/inthreepoems]