S1 Ep10: Jennie Linthorst: What is Poetry Therapy and How is it Different from Writing Class?
One of the fascinating application of the poetic medium is as a form of healing in therapy. Jennie Chapman Linthorst is a poet, expressive writing teacher and founder of LifeSPEAKS Poetry Therapy. She and Tresha talk in depth about poetry therapy, how she qualified to become one and what the treatment consists of. They explore the difference between the role of a therapist and that of a teacher...
59m Dec 17, 2019
59m
S1 Ep9: Tresha Faye Haefner and Kelly Grace Thomas: What We Learned from Saloncast Season One
Tresha and Kelly close out two months of amazing interviews with a discussion of what they’ve learned. They review their biggest takeaways from their conversations with poets Arminé Iknadossian, Hannah Gamble, Douglas Manuel, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Brendan Constantine, Alexis Rhone Fancher,  and one another. Then, both Tresha and Kelly offer a poem they edited over the last two months and explai...
1hr 3m Dec 05, 2019
1hr 3m
S1 Ep8: Tresha Faye Haefner - Finding the Form to Contain the Chaos of the World
In this podcast Armine’ Iknadossian and Kelly Grace Thomas ask Poetry Salon founder Tresha Faye Haefner when and how she decided to make a full commitment to her poetry. Tresha discusses feeling out of place in performing arts, but needing to reach out, needing to make sense of silence, mystery, chaos, the largeness of the world and the passage of time. What can we learn from silent animals and...
1hr 8m Nov 18, 2019
1hr 8m
S1 Ep7: Kelly Grace Thomas - Metaphors for the Body, Saying the Unsayable
In this podcast, Kelly Grace Thomas discusses how she uses poetry to explore issues that nobody talks about. Her latest book focuses on issues of the body, femininity, and changing conceptions of what it means to be a woman. A poet who has won Rattle’s Neil Postman Award, Kelly discusses how she comes up with metaphors, and how she uses them, not just in one poem, but as a way to hold an entire...
1hr 4m Nov 12, 2019
1hr 4m
S1 Ep6: Alexis Rhone Fancher: Work-Ethics, Sex and Power, and the Writing Community
In this interview Alexis Rhone Fancher discusses the value of a near Pavlovian work-ethic, and the ability to detach herself from her writing, even when writing about very personal subjects. Often referenced as an “erotic” poet, Alexis says she uses sex in her writing to explore power, to write for women who are like herself, and to encourage others to share their stories and poems with the wor...
1hr 9m Nov 05, 2019
1hr 9m
S1 Ep5: Brendan Constantine: Defending the Moon, Making Big Mistakes, and Finding the Momentum in a Poem
Why do poets still write about the moon? Should we stop? In this interview poet Brendan Constantine discusses the way the moon and the sea and other eternal markers act as a ground zero for discussing poetry. Art is a marker of our mortal consciousness. It is where we go to make mistakes, where we go to get things wrong. Constantine affirms his belief in making big mistakes in poetry, and there...
1hr 9m Oct 29, 2019
1hr 9m
S1 Ep4: Jeannine Hall Gailey: Having Fun Being Bad, Persona Poems, and Villains of the Poetry World
Do you like Persona Poems? Do you like villains? Do you think powerful women are misunderstood or misrepresented in art? So does Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Becoming the Villainess, X, Y, and Z. In this interview we discuss how female authors can use personas to speak up for themselves and others, and how writing from the persona of a villain can be liberating for the poet, the reader and t...
41m Oct 21, 2019
41m
S1 Ep3: Douglas Manuel: The Different Stages of Writing, Ruthless Revisions and Trusting the Collisions
Ph.D. student and teacher Douglas Manual discusses the different stages of writing a poem, from taking notes on his iPhone, to doing free-writes, to editing. He shares how his process has changed over time, why he switched from writing short stories to writing poems, and how he’s become more patient with the work over time.
1hr 36m Oct 14, 2019
1hr 36m
S1 Ep2: Hannah Gamble: Imagination, Discomfort and The Rolodex of Delight
What propels you to the page? Listen to Hannah Gamble talk about her creative writing process, how she lets feelings get cluttered until she is too vexed to procrastinate anymore. After that she scrolls through the Rolodex of Delights in her mind, flipping through options, experimenting with different possibilities, and finding the most fun ideas to fill her poems. Sometimes this comes easily. ...
53m Oct 08, 2019
53m
S1 Ep1: Arminé Iknadossian: Inspiration, Procrastination, and Giving the Poem Its Space
Does a poet have to write every day? In this podcast, Armine Iknadosian discusses what it means to be a “poet-in-the-world.” For her this means having a “poet-mind” instead of a “practical-mind.” She continuously scrolls through the world around her for stories that want to be told, whether they be her own stories, or stories from voices across the globe. In this way her work is a matter of bot...
55m Sep 12, 2019
55m