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Off The Bricks

Brick Street Poetry

Off The Bricks is a poetry Podcast Produced by Brick Street Poetry. Listen to explore and immerse yourself in the world of poetry with interviews of Poets Laureate and readings from newly published books of poetry.

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Ep. 62 Gilbert Allen

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2025/10/16

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! Joining us today is poet Gilbert Allen with his new book, Stanzas in America, published through Measure Press. The work is an exploration of events and culture in America and shows a heartfelt and authentic look into everyday life. You can learn more at measurepress.com/.

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Ep. 61 Stephanie L. Harper

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2025/09/18

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month, we feature Stephanie L. Harper. Harper is a neurodivergent (autistic & ADHD) poet, mother, and transplant from Oregon now living in Indiana with the world's most adorable husband, poet, Robert Okaji; cat, Lyra and puppy, Eleanor Rigby (Elly). In a former life, she earned her BA in English & German from Grinnell College, IA, and MA in German from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.Harper is the author of three chapbooks,

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Ep. 60 Karen Kovacik

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2025/08/21

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! Today's guest is Karen Kovacik, Poet, Translator, and Professor Emerita at Indiana University Indianapolis. Kovacik's latest work Portable City is a layered exploration of her experience with nationality as a concept of self and a feature of travel. You can find her poetry for purchase at itascabooks.com Please join us next month, September 4th, for our next Poetry on Brick Street open mic night at the Sullivan Munce in Zionsville,

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Ep. 59 In Memoriam: Kevin McKelvey

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2025/07/17

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers. This month, we remember our dear colleague and treasured community member, Kevin McKelvey, who passed in late June. We have included his obituary in the link below. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/indianapolis-in/kevin-mckelvey-12437780You can hear more of Kevin's work in episode 19 of Off The Bricks.

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Ep. 58 John Cardwell

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2025/06/19

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! Our guest this month is John Cardwell. John has had a long and complicated career that included public policy advocacy, research and writing, non-profit management, farming, construction, and academic assignments in Indiana and Nigeria. His poetry has been greatly affected by those experiences and contemporary events. He began writing poetry in 2009. His work has appeared in various publications. His sixth book of poems, essays, and short

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Ep. 57 Donald Platt

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2025/05/15

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This week, part two of our guest poet Donald Plat,t as interviewed by Joyce Brinkman. Donald Platt’s ninth book of poetry, Tender Voyeur, will be published by Grid Books in the fall. https://www.grid-books.org/donald-platt

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Ep. 56 Donald Platt pt.1

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2025/04/17

Welcome to Off the Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This week, Donald Platt as interviewed by Joyce Brinkman. Keep an ear out for part two next month! Donald Platt’s ninth book of poetry, Tender Voyeur, will be published by Grid Books in the fall.

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EP. 55 Dr. Lucy Park & Dale Ho Kim

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2025/03/22

Welcome to Off The Bricks Poets and Poetry Lovers. This week, we have Dr. Lucy Park and Dale Ho Kim, who are featured in the Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon. Join us for an episode of translation and Sijo/Sejong poetic form, a Korean style of poetry. The Firefly Blue Ghost lander is now on the moon!

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Ep. 54 Norbert Krapf

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2025/02/20

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers. Today we welcome back to the program Norbert Krapf who, in honor of black history month, is reading from his 2024 project, Ida Hagan of the Pinnkston Freedom Settlement. 14 years in the making Krapf, details in narrative poetry the bilingual, trailblazing life of Indianapolis local Ida Hagan. You can find more information about the project as well as links to purchase at krapfpoetry.net and additional historical information from The Dubois County

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Ep. 53 Robert Okaji

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2025/01/16

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and Poetry lovers, today's episode features Robert "Bob" Okaji and his new chapbook In The Garden of Wind's Delight.Learn about the Japanese bamboo flute - Shakuhachi which offers both challenge and inspiration through the path of learning Suizen, the practice of playing the Shakuhachi. As published by Illuminated Press, available for preorder now.

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Ep. 52 Alessandra Lynch

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2024/12/19

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! Today we have an interview with Alessandra Lynch regarding her fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, published by Alice James Books in 2024. She is the author of four other poetry collections: Pretty Tripwire, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Sails the Wind Left Behind. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Alessandra

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Ep. 51 George Kalamaras pt.2

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2024/11/21

Welcome to Off The Bricks Poets and Poetry Lovers. This week, we have PART 2 of our interview with George Kalamaras. The poet laureate of Indiana from 2014 to 2016 and professor emeritus at Purdue University Fort Wayne shares with us today his newest book, To Sleep in the Horse's Belly. You can find further information about Kalamaras's work at the ⁠Dos Madres website.⁠

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Ep. 50 George Kalamaras

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2024/10/17

Welcome to Off The Bricks Poets and Poetry lovers. This week we have PART 1 of our interview with George Kalamaras. The poet laureate of Indiana from 2014 to 2016 and professor emeritus at Purdue University Fort Wayne shares with us today his newest book, To Sleep in the Horse's Belly. You can find further information about Kalamaras's work at the Dos Madres website.

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Ep. 49 Nancy Chen Long

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2024/09/19

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we welcome poet Nancy Chen Long to the program. Nancy Chen Long is the author of Wider than the Sky, selected for the Diode Editions Book Award (Diode Editions, 2020) and Light into Bodies, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2017), as well as the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). Today in conversation with Joyce Brinkman, Nancy Chen Long discusses her poetry

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Ep. 48 Natalie Solmer - The Indianapolis Review

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2024/08/15

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! Today's show brings back our publishers' series with Natalie Solmer the founder and editor-in-chief of The Indianapolis Review. With a background in award-winning teaching at Ivy Tech for English, Solmer and Joyce Brinkman discuss the ins and outs of the vibrant Indianapolis Review how it all started, and what to know to have your best chance for submissions! https://theindianapolisreview.com/submit/

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Ep. 47 Holiday Special!

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2024/07/18

Welcome to Off the Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month we are proud to feature the poetic works of our Brick Street Poetry - poetry night participants who met for a live recording this past 4th of July. On the 1st Thursday of each month, Brick Street Poetry hosts enriching programming at the Sullivan Munce in Zionsville, Indiana. Today's episode showcases a diverse interpretation of the concept and celebration of Freedom. Please consider joining us next month, Off The Bricks

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Ep. 46 Curtis L Crisler

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2024/06/20

Welcome to Off The Bricks poets and poetry lovers! This month we have with us Curtis L Crisler the current Indiana Poet Laureate! Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received a BA in English, with a minor in Theatre, from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW, now PFW), and he received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. You can learn more about Curtis at his website, and find the works featured in this episode for purchase at C&R Press.

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Ep. 45 Tracy Mishkin

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2024/05/16

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! This month we have with us, Tracy Mishkin! Mishkin recently published her first full-length book of poetry, The Way The Salt Falls, with Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Tracy is also the author of three chapbooks, I Almost Didn't Make It to McDonald's (Finishing Line Press, 2014), The Night I Quit Flossing (Five Oaks Press, 2016), and This is Still Life (Brain Mill Press, 2018). A graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at

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Ep. 44 Lylanne Musselman & Mary Sexson

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2024/04/18

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! In this episode, we discuss selections from the collaborative works of Lylanne Musselman and Mary Sexson, who have both previously been featured on the pod, (Ep. 36 & 10!). Today we are discussing their works, Marriage Maps and Driven Destinies and Company of Women. If you enjoyed today's program consider joining Brick Street Poetry's Monthly in-person poetry events hosted by today's guest, Mary Sexson! We are at the Sullivan Munce

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Ep. 43 Marjory Wentworth

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2024/03/21

Welcome to Off The Bricks, poets and poetry lovers! On this episode, Brick Street Poetry Board Member Joyce Brinkman interviews Marjory Wentworth to celebrate the upcoming total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th. to find Marjory's work click here.

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