A Buffet of Poets from the Desert Rat Residency!
We had such a lovely discussion about poems by Jeff Walt, Abby E. Murray, Tommye Blount, and C. Dale Young—all past poets of Desert Rat Writing Residency in Palm Desert (run and founded by wonderful Jeff Walt!) Click on the image above to watch our conversation on YouTube above and make sure you subscribe to Poems You Need series so you never miss an episode! Also, during our Desert Rat episode, we somehow managed to read only half of C. Dale's poem (oops!). Thankfully, C. Dale was incredibly gracious about our mistake, and you can read the complete poem here. Several of you asked the best ways to support Poems You Need and well, that’s easy—
Adrian Matejka was also recently featured!
And if you want two more poems to fill you up today, do check out our discussion about Adrian Matejka’s stunning poems from his new collection Be Easy on YouTube! We hope these little conversations of poetry give you a little boost of joy today. Thanks for listening, watching, and/or just being here. With gratitude for this community and for the poets who inspire us every day, Melissa & Kelli
Poems You Need is created and hosted by Melissa Studdard and Kelli Russell Agodon—two poets who believe poems can steady us and occasionally save the day. We read the poems we love, talk craft, share prompts, even laugh a little all while trying to build a little corner of the internet where poetry matters. If you’d like to spend more time with our own poems beyond the screen, we’d love that:
Click on these links to find Melissa Studdard’s recent works: Siddhartha, She: A Ritual Music Drama in Seven Tableaux (libretto), Selection Committee, and Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings.
Kelli Russell Agodon’s newest poetry collection is out! You can order your copy of Accidental Devotions here. Thank you for reading, listening, and keeping poetry in your life. This post is public so feel free to share it for anyone you think could use some poetry in their lives. Thank you for celebrating poetry with us today. May you always have the poems you need.
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