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!

Spark Birds and Poetry with Katie Manning – In Three Poems

We talk with poet and editor Katie Manning about poetry and Red Tailed Hawks, as well as being disappointed by our heroes. Poem 1: "On the Origin" by Katie Manning, read by DavidPoem 2: "At the Bird Rehab Facility in Vermont" Written and read by Katie Poem 3 "Family Portrait with Time Travel and Dirty Wings" by Sally Rosen Kindred, first published in Whale Road Review (see link), read by Katie. We thank Sally Rosen Kindred for permission to read her poem. Music by Brian P. Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/user/wbarreguyOther Links:Katie's Website, where you can find her books as well as news and information about her work. Sally Rosen Kindred's Website, where you can read selected poems by Sally and learn more about her book Where the Wolf, Book of Asters, and others. Katie's Bio:Katie Manning is the author of Hereverent (Agape Editions), Tasty Other (Main Street Rag), and six chapbook collections: How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press), 28,065 Nights (River Glass Books), A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books), and The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Wipf & Stock). Her poems have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including American Journal of Nursing, HAD, The Lascaux Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, Relief, So to Speak, Stirring, SWWIM, and Verse Daily. She has received the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, The Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and The Thimble Prize, among other honors and nominations. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review. Text the show!Support the show

1. Spark Birds and Poetry with Katie Manning 38:35
2. Common Sense, America 250 and Erasure Poetry with Crystal Simone Smith 35:55
3. Claudia Saleeby Savage on Ancestry, Motherhood, and Erotic Coping Mechanisms 44:22
4. Larks and Goats and Poetry with Han VanderHart 41:23
5. Epics and Couplets with Saddiq Dzukogi 44:41

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