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Elizabeth Hazen reads "Chaos Theory" "She harnesses the atoms and molecules of poetry like a Tesla coil, attuned to the science of our everyday lives, and leaves us sadder, wiser, and the better for it." Richard Peabody "All it takes for things to turn is a blip." The first-page poem from Elizabeth Hazen's debut collection, Chaos Theories, is a rumination on the reductive power of the human mind when facing grief, and the language we have developed in labs and classrooms to facilitate it. Recognizing laws and theories as little webs of possibility, as impossibly complex addenda to what … [Read more...]

  Grace Cavalieri reads "Safety" "The poet Grace Cavalieri is a…truly generous friend of poetry and poets. In her writing and all she does her large-minded generosity shines." Robert Pinsky In the folds and on the back cover of Other Voices, Other Lives, sits a few very special drawings —a rose, the dome of the capital building— by sculptor Kenneth Flynn, Grace's late husband. They were sketches made whenever Ken was waiting for Grace to return, and so he dubbed the series "Waiting for Grace." It makes sense then, since the sketches are rough, not overwrought, but meaningfully simple, … [Read more...]

Richard Peabody reads "Flea Wars"  "Not only is he a good writer, he is very entertaining and funny. And very  sexy, too." Michael Dirda When Richard Peabody came in-studio to record this excerpt from an absurd and frustrating story in The Reader, I was still in disbelief I hadn't read it in The New Yorker or The Atlantic or some other pedigree publication first. But, from the moment he uttered, almost farcical in his expressionlessness, "just dip the cats they say," he had me: I knew it belonged to Richard and to Richard alone. We recorded "Flea Wars" on the heels of recording "The … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Hazen's "Thanatosis" selected for Best American Poetry 2013, an interview and debrief In 2013 "Thanatosis", a poem from Elizabeth Hazen's debut collection Chaos Theories, was selected for publication in Best American Poetry. B. Boyd of The Baltimore Fishbowl sat down with Elizabeth to discuss the honor and to chronicle her evolving relationship with science, poetry, and chaos theory. Read the full interview here A long excerpt and "Thanatosis" reprinted: What was your process like, working and reworking this winning poem? I was reading about the principle of fight or flight … [Read more...]

Rose Solari reads "Achilles on Shore" "No one reads poetry like Rose Solari. She enters the essence of each word with a voice, making meaning become spirit. I think her great gift is the understanding that language can make you feel what the speaker experiences...so she proceeds to make you feel her passion, her wit, and love." Grace Cavalieri Rose Solari's upcoming poetry workshop at Politics & Prose is titled "Revise, Rethink, Reveal." "Rethink" holding, for Rose, an essential place in the poetic process. It makes sense then why she would gravitate toward poems about myth and family. … [Read more...]