Ken Weisner's guest appearances

Ken Weisner

Talk About Poetry

The Hive Poetry Collective

David Allen

Naomi Shihab Nye

Morgan Parker

Patricia Smith

John McCarthy

Ellen Bass

Carl Phillips

Charles Simic

Rob Fisher

Edgar Allen Poe

Julie Murphy

Maggie Smith

Shara McCallum

Lisa Allen

Billy Butler

OwlTail

Ken Weisner chats with Julie Murphy about odes, owls and homages. Ken has published three volumes of poetry with Santa Cruz’s own Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010 and Cricket to Star in 2019.  Ken edits Red Wheelbarrow through De Anza College, where he also teaches. Ken coordinates, with Poetry Center San José, the annual Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize—this year’s final judge, Juan Felipe Herrera. In an earlier stage of life, Ken earned a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison, currently using remote lesson plans. Please join us to hear poems from Ken's new manuscript and a lively conversation. 

Ken Weisner chats with <a href="http://box5852.temp.domains/~juliemur/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julie Murphy</a> about odes, owls and homages. Ken has published three volumes of poetry with Santa Cruz’s own Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010 and Cricket to Star in 2019.  Ken edits <a href="https://www.deanza.edu/english/creative-writing/red-wheelbarrow.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Wheelbarrow</a><a href="https://www.deanza.edu/english/creative-writing/red-wheelbarrow.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>through De Anza College, where he also teaches. Ken coordinates, with Poetry Center San José, the annual Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize—this year’s final judge, Juan Felipe Herrera. In an earlier stage of life, Ken earned a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison, currently using remote lesson plans. Please join us to hear poems from Ken's new manuscript and a lively conversation.

S4:E 11 Ken Weisner Chats with Julie Murphy

Dion O'Reilly

Dion O'Reilly interviews Ken Weisner, De Anza College Community College English teacher and editor of Red Wheelbarrow, the DeAnza literary journal. He coordinates, with Poetry Center San José to hold the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. For fifteen years, Ken edited Quarry West out of Porter College, UCSC. Ken has published three  volumes of his own poetry with Santa Cruz’s Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010. and his most recent, Cricket to Star Ken’s poems have appeared most recently in Perfume River Poetry Review, Catamaran, Caesura, Nine Mile, Porter Gulch Review, and Phren-Z. Ken also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison.

Dion O'Reilly interviews Ken Weisner, De Anza College Community College English teacher and editor of <a href="https://www.deanza.edu/english/creative-writing/red-wheelbarrow.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Wheelbarrow,</a> the DeAnza literary journal. He coordinates, with Poetry Center San José to hold the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. For fifteen years, Ken edited Quarry West out of Porter College, UCSC. Ken has published three  volumes of his own poetry with Santa Cruz’s Hummingbird Press, including Anything on Earth in 2010. and his most recent, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-Star-Ken-Weisner/dp/0998672246" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cricket to Star</a> Ken’s poems have appeared most recently in Perfume River Poetry Review, Catamaran, Caesura, Nine Mile, Porter Gulch Review, and Phren-Z. Ken also teaches poetry writing at Salinas Valley State Prison.

S2:E7 Dion O'Reilly interviews Ken Weisner