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Of Poetry Podcast

Nicholas Molbert (Of Nostalgia and Work, Southern Boyhood, and Storm Season on the Gulf Coast)

Broadcast on:
02 Oct 2024

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "Men Working Above: demolition" and "Parable of Baiting" (UCity Review)

Purchase: Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024)

Nicholas Molbert Born and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of Spine and Fraction(Northwestern University Press, 2024) and two poetry chapbooks from Foundlings Press: Goodness Gracious (2019) and Cocodrie Elegy (2024). You can find his work in places like The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, and Missouri Review among others. He holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

Recommended Reading:

Martha Serpas

Dear Memphis by Rachel Edelman

Night Angler by Geoffrey Davis

Lures by Adam Vibes

Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

Beyond Katrina by Natasha Trethewey

The Room Where I Was Born by Brian Teare

Larry Levis

Phillip Levine

Wanda Coleman

Unmanly Grief by Jess Williard