On the 5/17/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:
Four excellent guests! First, poet and radio host Lois P. Jones talks with Dr. Andy about her radio show Poets Cafe and the hidden figures who elevate artists to their full potential, then shares a poem on the latter subject. Quadruple threat (poet, translator, writer and editor) William O’Daly shares thoughts on mythopoetic poetry and translating Pablo Neruda, then a poem from his new book The New Gods. Poet Anastacia-Renee discusses her new book Sidenotes from the Archivist, finding the balance between community and personal growth, and sharing passion with an audience. Finally, local student and National Scholastic Gold Medal awardee Juna Brothers joins Dr. Andy in the studio to talk Poetry Night and finding inspiration. She reads a poem about a Clementine.
Lois P. Jones won the Bristol Poetry Prize, the Lascaux Poetry Prize for a single poem, and the Tiferet Poetry Prize. Jones’ work appears or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets – Poem A Day, Poetry Wales, Verse Daily, Tupelo Quarterly, Narrative and others. Jones’s first collection Night Ladder was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2017 and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the Lascaux Poetry Prize. Since 2007, Jones has hosted KPFK’s Poets Café, co-produced the Moonday Poetry Series, and acted as poetry editor for the prize-winning Kyoto Journal.
William O’Daly has translated eight books of the late-career and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda and then Neruda’s first volume, Book of Twilight, a finalist for the 2018 Northern California Book Award in Translation. O’Daly’s chapbooks of poems include The Whale in the Web, The Road to Isla Negra, Water Ways, and Yarrow and Smoke. His first full length volume of poems, The New Gods, was published by Beltway Editions in 2022. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and in September 2021 received the American Literary Award from the bilingual Korean American journal Miju Poetry and Poetics. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press, he has received national and regional honors for literary editing and has served on the national board of Poets Against War.
Anastacia-Renee (She/They) is a queer writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, speaker and podcaster. She is the author of (v.) (Black Ocean) and Forget It (Black Radish) and, Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere and Sidenotes from the Archivist from Amistad (an imprint of HarperCollins). They were selected by NBC News as part of the list of "Queer Artist of Color Dominate 2021's Must See LGBTQ Art Shows." Anastacia-Renee was former Seattle Civic Poet, Hugo House Poet-in-Residence, Arc Artist Fellow and Jack Straw Curator. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications.
Juna Brothers is the founder and president of Davis Senior High School's creative writing club and the rising editor-in-chief of Spoke, her school's literary and art magazine. In 2022, she directed a creative writing program for elementary students at the Davis Library. She was recently awarded a National Scholastic Gold Medal in poetry.
Lois P. Jones and William O’Daly read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on May
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