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VerseCurious
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Account for VerseCurious, the podcast of new poetry reviews, featuring poetry from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women & debut poets. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/versecurious/id1625916560 https://redcircle.com/shows/c74b01b8-5f22-4e9c-827d-48bd96f2597a
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Nov 27
If you run a small or independent #poetry #press that produces physical galleys/ARCs & you are about to publish a #poet that fits VerseCurious’s emphasis (LGBTQIA+/BIPOC/women/debut), drop me a message. The TBR stack is getting low, & I am always looking for great new presses/ #books to review.
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 1d
✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social).

"I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest."

Listen/subscribe/rate/share!
Episode 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 10/07/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 16d
Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 29d
📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!
Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 09/09/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Sep 8
VerseCurious returns shortly from its customary summer holiday with new #poetry reviews of work by #LGBTQIA+, #BIPOC, #women and debut authors. Up next: a collection published by @fordhampress.bsky.social. Watch this space!
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jun 19
#Juneteenth is a day to celebrate Black excellence. Check out Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS, published by @triohousepress.org and reviewed recently on VerseCurious.
Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 05/31/2025 · 11m
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · Jun 5
We love the @versecurious.bsky.social podcast - 10 minute audio reviews of recent and forthcoming poetry books by @tagreathouse.bsky.social @martheaus.bsky.social Erin Marie Lynch and other poets we love. Please follow them and subscribe!!
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jun 4
Get a Listen of Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org)...

"Have grace, Perkins enjoins in the collection's titular poem—grace which is 'a story we keep / because we cannot keep each other.'"

Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books
Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 05/31/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jun 1
✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org).

"Perkins's [...] fierce debut [...] asks us to feel deeply, despite a world that attempts to deaden our ability to feel with unending indignities..."

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Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 05/31/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Apr 18
ICYMI This Week:

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social .

"[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper."

Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books #NationalPoetryMonth
Episode 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 04/13/2025 · 10m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Apr 14
✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social.

"[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper."

Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #NationalPoetryMonth
Episode 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 04/13/2025 · 10m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Apr 1
It’s pub day for Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT (Persea). Have a listen!

Also, of course, happy #NationalPoetryMonth.

#poetry #poems #poets #books #readers
Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Mar 28
Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, arrives from Persea Books next week. Hear all about it in Episode 34.

"[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, & the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty."
#poetry #poems #poets #books #readers
Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Mar 25
✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, from Persea Books.

"[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, and the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty."
#poetry #poems #poets
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Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m
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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · Mar 21
Benjamin Landry reviewed Rachel Trousdale's Five-Paragraph Essay on the Mind-Body Problem, winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize.

Hear the full episode: redcircle.com/shows/c74b01...

#Poetry #RachelTrousdale #CardinalPoetryPrize
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Mar 3
This week in the poetry blogs w/ @briankspears.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @angelatopping.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 9
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Mar 3
Not exactly a blog, but a new review is up this week on VerseCurious…

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Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 02/28/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Mar 3
✨📚New Release: Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM📚✨ @weslpress.bsky.social
"Rachel Trousdale's MIND-BODY PROBLEM is a steadying collection in our most turbulent of times." Listen/share/subscribe/rate. #poetry #poems #books
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Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 02/28/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jan 22
Good #Book News: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD is new in the world! Have a listen.
Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jan 21
Day after book recommendation (@harvardpress.bsky.social) for thinking people in increasingly cruel times:
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jan 14
Exciting! Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD (Milkweed) arrives in a week. Prepare by listening to the brief review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get pods. Rate/share/enjoy VerseCurious, the podcast of new #poetry #book reviews featuring the work of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, women and debut #poets.
Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m
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Annie Wenstrup @akwenstrup.bsky.social · Jan 8
It’s a joy to have Benjamin Landry’s close and thoughtful reading of The Museum of Unnatural Histories as the first full review of my debut collection.

Thank you @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social for taking such care in linking my book to the larger world w/ your review at @versecurious.bsky.social
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jan 6
✨📚NEW REVIEW📚✨Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES (@weslpress). "We need #poets and #poetry like Wenstrup’s to take these risks, to shock the archive, to make us see the unnatural tendencies of our current endeavors." Listen/share/rate! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 01/06/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Jan 6
✨📚NEW REVIEW📚✨Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES (@weslpress). "We need #poets and #poetry like Wenstrup’s to take these risks, to shock the archive, to make us see the unnatural tendencies of our current endeavors." Listen/share/rate! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 01/06/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Dec 3
We see you with that “What-books-do-I-buy-for-the-people-I-love?” December panic in your eye 👀 . VerseCurious has you covered, with brief reviews of great new #poetry titles. Have a listen, then make informed gift choices! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Dec 2
NEW REVIEW!
VerseCurious Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

"Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude."

Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate VerseCurious @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VC on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poems #poets #books #TBR
Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m
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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · Nov 29
📚✨NEW REVIEW RELEASED✨📚
VerseCurious Ep. 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

"Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude."

Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VerseCurious on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poetrybluesky #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #books
Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m
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