The Poetry Saloncast

The Poetry Saloncast

The Poetry Saloncast

Episodes 60
Avg. Duration 57m
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Since Sep 2019
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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Award-winning Poetry Saloncast hosts Tresha Faye Haefner and Douglas Manuel interview their favorite poets and poet entrepreneurs, asking them what got them started writing and what keeps them going. They focus on the creative process and the little-understood techniques of editing a poem to a finished piece. Then we put those techniques into practice and discuss how they helped us grow as poets and as human beings in our season wrap up.

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Recent Episodes

S5E60 S5 Ep60: Can Art Really Save Us? An Interview with Douglas Manuel about His Latest Book, TroubleFunk

Apr 10, 2025 54m

Troublefunk is an American Love story, and it’s also about the many things that “push against a relationship and against love.” In his book, Manuel investigates his parents’ love story, what brought…

S5E59 S5 Ep59: What You Refuse to Remember: An Interview with M.T. Vallarta

Apr 10, 2025 1h 11m

W. H. Auden says that poetry makes nothing happen. But how do you actually do that? How does a writer embody nothingness? In this interview MT Vallarta discusses her collection What You Refuse to…

S5E58 S5 Ep58: The Sailor Moon Transformation Sequence

Jul 19, 2024 12m

Why This Poem Matters: Listen to Tresha Faye Haefner discuss Rita Mookerjee's poem, "The Silor Moon Transformation Sequence." Hear her explain why it matters to her personally, and what it teaches…

S5E58 S5 Ep58: False Offering with Rita Mookerjee

Jul 19, 2024 2h 45m

Inspiration, mental health struggles and what to make with a giant bag of tapioca starch, this conversation has it all. Rita tells me about her new book, False Offering, and a bit about her upcoming…

S5E57 S5 Ep57: Sarah Browning: Poetry, Politics and Really Hot Priests

May 15, 2024 1h 12m

“If we can’t face it, we can’t change it.” In our interview, Sarah Browning discusses her latest book, Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). It tackles subjects such as racism and gun…

S5E56 S5 Ep56: Kelli Russell Agodon and Susan Rich: Demystifying the Manuscript

May 15, 2024 1h 27m

Please enjoy our interview with Kelli and Susan on their new book! Here are the key take aways I got from our discussion. You don’t necessarily need to go in chronological order. Start with the…

S5E55 S5 Ep55: Jose Hernandez Diaz: Realism and Surrealism

May 15, 2024 1h 1m

Jose calls his book, Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) “two books in one.” The first section is deeply autobiographical, but the second half is truly surreal. Jose and I talked about…

S5E54 S5 Ep54: Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo - How Love Leads to Revolutions

Apr 30, 2024 1h 1m

Audre LordePleasure Activism adrienne maree brownOctavia ButlerChen Chen, “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities”Khadija Queen’s “I’m so Fine” Take-Away Quotes“I thought about…

S5E53 S5 Ep53: Nadia Colburn: A Dawn Practice to Call Yourself Back

Jan 25, 2024 50m

In this interview Nadia discusses her second book of poems, I Say the Sky from published by University Press of Kentucky. You can take Nadia’s 7-Day New Year Writing and Meditation Program, starting…

S5E52 S5 Ep52: Lindsey Royce: Writing With and Without God

Oct 13, 2023 1h 7m

How do you process the passing of someone you love? In this interview, Lindsey Royce discusses her latest collection, The Book of John. Already an established poet, when her late husband, was…

S5E51 S5 Ep51: Angela Penaredondo - Layered Themes, Layered Voices

Sep 17, 2023 1h 12m

Tresha talks with Angela Penaredondo about her third collection, nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press, 2022). Angela discusses how personal and world history inspired her book. She relies…

S5E50 S5 Ep50: Jane Muschenetz - Writing Home

Aug 18, 2023 1h

We're born in a specific place with a specific history. How do these arbitrary facts affect us as artists? In this podcast I talk with Jane Muschenetz about her collection, All the Bad Girls Wear…

S5E49 S5 Ep49: DeShawn McKinney: The Value of Deadlines

Jul 24, 2023 1h 34m

Can a writer finish a book in time to meet a deadline? In our interview with DeShawn McKinney we discuss the genesis of his first chapbook, father, forgive me from Black Sunflower Press, 2003.…

S5E48 S5 Ep48: Joan Kwon Glass: The Tribe of Invisible People

Jun 16, 2023 1h 17m

How does a person deal with grief in poetry? In this interview Joan Kwon Glass discusses her first full-length collection, Night Swim, winner of the Diode Poetry Prize (2021), which explores the…

S5E47 S5 Ep47: Jon Pearson - A Creative Pep Talk

Jun 03, 2023 1h 23m

Do you struggle to make time for your creative self? In this episode, creativity experts and writers Tresha Faye Haefner and Jon Pearson discuss their different approaches to making time and finding…

S5E46 S5 Ep46: Heather Bourbeau: The Poetry of History

Apr 07, 2023 1h

-"We thought we knew a lot about our history. We were wrong." - Heather BourbeauHow do you write poetry about historical people and events? In this interview, Heather Bourbeau discusses the way she…

S5E45 S5 Ep45: Jessica Cuello: Does the Lyrical "I" Lie?

Feb 18, 2023 1h 13m

How do we know what other people know?In this interview Douglas Manuel and Tresha Faye Haefner talk with Jessica Cuello about her third collection, Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for the Barrow…

S5E44 S5 Ep44: How Seasons Stir the Imagination

Jan 19, 2023 1h 3m

In this interview, host Douglas Manuel gets his chance to interview Lois P. Jones, who interviewed him on Poet's Café. Lois discusses how winter stirs her imagination for poetry (as Wallace Stevens…

S5E43 S5 Ep43: Edward Vidaurre: Waving the Flag of Activism

Nov 18, 2022 51m

Get inside the mind of poet-activist, writer, and publisher Edward Vidaurre as Tresha and Douglas ask about his book Cry, Howl from PricklyPear Press and his work running FlowerSong Press. He talks…

S5E42 S5 Ep42: Kelly Cressio-Moeller: The Moon Wrote This Poem

Oct 06, 2022 49m

In this interview Kelly Cressio-Moeller discusses how music, art and cinema play into her writing. As a student of art history and a drummer, Kelly describes how she created flow in and between poems…

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