Of Poetry Podcast

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025)

Read: "Dysmorphia (Autumn)" at Harpur Palate

Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Unrivered ( 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Recent work has appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Colorado Review, Harpur Palate, Baltimore Review, Salamander, and many other journals. Donna lives  in the western suburbs of Chicago and runs the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey. She is the co-founder/co-editor of Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.

Reading/Listening Recommendations:

Mary Ruefle’s essay “Pause”
Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets
John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1591)
Jane Hirshfield "Changing Everything"
Richard Wilbur, “The Beautiful Changes”
Joanne Kyger
Eileen Myles
Salvage by Heji Choi
Taylor Byas’s Resting Bitch Face
Dustin Brookshire, Wild and Precious Life Series
Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry
Lewis Hyde's The Gift

What is Of Poetry Podcast?

Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.