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!

Choreopoems and Womanhood, with Monica Prince – In Three Poems

David and Monica Prince have a fun but also heavy discussion about women and trauma, and about the writing of poetry and the production of choreopoems. The discussion ranges from word choice in poem to forms like lipograms and the distinctions between womanhood and motherhood. POEM 1 “Political Poem as Prayer”, written by Monica Prince, published in Movable Type ( 2023), read by David.POEM 2From “Hysteria,” a Choreopoem in Progress, written and read by Monica.POEM 3“I am unfit to raise daughters,” written by Jessica Nirvana Ram, from Earthly Gods (2024, Variant Lit), read by Monica Prince. Links:monicaprince.comWhat Is a Choreopoem?Monica Prince, Associate Professor of Activist & Performance Writing, serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Roadmap: A Choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, Instructions for Temporary Survival, and Letters from the Other Woman, with another choreopoem, FORCE, forthcoming in Janaury 2026. Her work appears in Twisted Tongue, In Short, Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. As one of the foremost choreopoem scholars, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation. Text the show!Support the show

1. Choreopoems and Womanhood, with Monica Prince 34:56
2. The Carnival of Affection and Poet Philip F Clark 28:41
3. Unrivered In Three Poems with Donna Vorreyer 36:24
4. Steam Poetry, Joel Showalter Reads Lisel Meuller 35:15
5. Civilians and the Wounded Line, Poetry with Jehanne Dubrow 36:44

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