Bread & Poetry

"Good. Bread." & Odes with Lauren WB Vermette

Episode Summary

On this episode, we break bread with poet and crafty sad girl Lauren WB Vermette and talk about "good. bread.", mental illness, and Shira Erlichman.

Episode Notes

On this episode, we break bread with poet and crafty sad girl Lauren WB Vermette and talk about "good. bread.", mental illness, and Shira Erlichman. 

Guest: Lauren WB Vermette, Book: And the Form Falls Away, IG: @wbvermette

Bio: Lauren WB Vermette is an ink-slinger who makes her home in Dover, NH. Her work has appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Covid Spring Anthology, Edge, Global Poemic, Good Fat Zine, Hole in the Head Review, Lunation: An Anthology of Women Poets, Sledgehammer, Rat’s Ass Review Journal, and The Poets’ Touchstone. Her first collection of poetry, And The Form Falls Away (2018), was published by Bee Monk Press.

Poems discussed: "Odes to Lithium #140: Natural" by Shira Erlichman and "Umbilicus" by Lauren WB Vermette

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here

To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here

For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13

This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate