David J Bauman

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At some point I should get back to actual updates about my own writing and birding activities here, but as you can imagine, I’ve had my hands full with getting the poetry podcast off the ground. Frankly, it’s been a lot of work, but it’s also been a blast. I don’t think I’ve gotten this much enjoyment out of a project for a very long time.

Writing Poems

Meanwhile, I’m meeting about once a week with Micah, my youngest son, to work on our next collection of poems, and I’ve been meeting with three friends every other Sunday evening to workshop poems with each other. Once I start submitting them and getting works published again, I’ll update you on that here.

Birding

In the birding world, I have continued to help with the third edition of the Pennsylvania Bird Atlas, but I just didn’t get out much this winter. I may post a few of the late winter photos I took. Are people still interested in that sort of blog sharing now, in these days of Instagram and Facebook? Let me know your thoughts below in the comments. I mostly treat these posts now as a sort of subscription email newsletter without having to learn how to use Substack (I really don’t like Substack).

Podcast

When it comes to the podcast, we’ve put out four more episodes since I last posted here, so go over to inthreepoems.com or wherever you listen to podcasts and catch up. Or you can just click on the episodes below. You can even watch on YouTube, if that’s your jam. However you tune in, please know that I am so grateful to you for being part of it. We’ll be wrapping up season one in a few weeks and are already lined up for season two!

Larks and Goats and Poetry with Han VanderHart – In Three Poems

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!Support the showThis 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.comHan's BooksDogwitch by Catherine RockwoodHan VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, NC. They are the author of Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and What Pecan Light (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 and co-edits River River Books. Text the show!Support the show

1. Larks and Goats and Poetry with Han VanderHart 41:23
2. Epics and Couplets with Saddiq Dzukogi 44:41
3. Poetry, Odes, and Uplift with Marjorie Maddox 28:32
4. Choreopoems and Womanhood, with Monica Prince 34:56
5. The Carnival of Affection and Poet Philip F Clark 28:41

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