Update
If you’ve followed me here lately, you know that I’ve had a big project coming up. Unfortunately, I had an injury in the latter half of September that quickly turned to an infection and has been a bugger of a thing to recover from since. But if you’ve followed me a long time, you know that I’m a stubborn old bugger, and now that I can type, even with a third of my left hand being numb, I’m back at it! It has been a rough couple of months, so I’m thrilled to be able to finally continue what we started.
Episodes will go out on Thursdays for 2026, but during the holidays, we’re launching a couple of days early so you have plenty of time to sneak away from your annoying Uncle Ernie and pop your ear pods in. So, check out episode one on Tuesday, December 23 and episode two on December 30. You’ll find the podcast on Apple, Spotify, and later, on YouTube. You can also follow along on InThreePoems.com or subscribe here to get the updates.
Each episode will feature a chat with a different poet, some are friends, and some are friends I haven’t met yet. My long time followers here on WordPress know that I have a history of reading poems on YouTube and SoundCloud. In some ways, this project is an extension of those recordings as I get the opportunity to read a poem by our guest and hear them read one as well. Then we conclude with our featured poet reading a poem of their choice by someone else. In between we chat about poetry, craft and get to know our poets, as the name says, In Three Poems.
First Poet
Poet, memoirist, and essayist Judith Sornberger will be our first guest and what a delight she is. I’ll start off by reading a poem by Judith that was published in the recent Keystone Anthology. Then she’ll read a poem of her own called “Weaving,” based on Diego Rivera’s painting by the same name and found in her new book of ekphrastic poems, Sorority of Stillness: A Gallery of Women in Art.
In between, we’ll chat about how poems talk to each other and how poets inspire and influence each other. All that in about 20 minutes or so. I hope you’ll tune in wherever you listen to podcasts! Click here for a quick twenty second teaser of the discussion.
More about Judith Sornberger
She earned her B.A. in University Studies at the age of 30 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln while a single mother raising twin sons. Sornberger is the author of five full-length books of poetry (most recently Sorority of Stillness: A Gallery of Women in Art from Shanti Arts, 2025), six chapbooks, and a prose memoir.
She first taught creative writing and literature in Nebraska prisons and since then has taught in many venues, including the University of Colorado-Boulder where she taught in the Women’s Studies Program. She is professor emerita of Mansfield University of Pennsylvania where she created and taught in the Women’s Studies Program, as well as teaching creative writing. She lives on the side of a mountain outside Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.
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