Good Poetry

Heidi Kidd is a poet with a lot to say. About love, about art, about how our own internal dialogues shape who we are. This conversation about her first book, Something Like Gravity, covers all that and more. It's an honest look at what self-worth and self-respect mean, and how poetry helps us make sense of the complexity that is our own hearts.

You can follow Heidi on her Instagram page @heidi_the_untold, where you can also purchase her book directly.

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Joey Doherty is a licensed professional counselor, certified wellness counselor, nature lover, and poet. He's on a quest to write a new book every year...and so far he's three for three. We talk about his newest collection of poems, Color the World, and about the importance of poetry and nature in our lives.

You can follow Joey on Instagram @joeydoherty, and at www.joeydoherty.com.

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Scott Edward Anderson is the author of FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances, DWELLING: an ecopoem, FALLOW FIELD, and WALKS IN NATURE’S EMPIRE. He has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and received the Nebraska Review Award. His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, The Wayfarer, and two anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in basalt, The Bloomsbury Review, Cleaver, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. For many years, he has worked in conservation, social enterprise, and clean energy consulting with such organizations as The Nature Conservancy, Ashoka, VerdeStrategy, and EY. In this conversation, we talk about his poetic influences, the importance of mentorship, and hear a variety of poems and essays from his works.

You can follow Scott on Instagram @greenskeptic, and at www.scottedwardanderson.com.

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Katie Anthonyson is an up-and-coming poet from Indianapolis. Her love of poetry has led her to found Youth Speaks, a non-profit organization that brings poetry and spoken word to schools in the Indianapolis area. In this conversation, we talk about her background and her discovery of her writing voice, her dreams for Youth Speaks, and the importance of relevancy in modern poetry.

You can follow Katie on Instagram @katieanthonyson_poet, and at www.facebook.com/KatieAnthonysonPoet. You can find out more about Youth Speaks at www.facebook.com/pg/youthspeakspoetry

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Heidi Barr is an award winning writer, health coach, and now poet. I visited her beautiful home in northern Minnesota to talk about her new collection of poems, Cold Spring Hallelujah, and how nature poetry is so much more than talking about a flower...

You can follow Heidi on Instagram @heidicbarr, or visit her website at heidibarr.com. You can purchase her new book, Cold Spring Hallelujah, at homeboundpublications.com/product/cold-spring-hallelujah-by-heidi-barr/

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