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About Andrea Blythe

Andrea Blythe bides her time waiting for the apocalypse by writing speculative poetry and fiction. She is the author of three chapbooks, Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale (Interstellar Flight Press), Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (Kickstarter funded, 2018), and the collaboratively written Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018), authored alongside Laura Madeline Wiseman. She cohosts the New Books in Poetry podcast and is the creator of Once Upon the Weird.

Andrea Blythe bides her time waiting for the apocalypse by writing speculative poetry and fiction.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Andrea:

Poetry January 21, 2022

The Sign of the Dragon

Mary Soon Lee

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
First place winner of the 2021 Elgin Award, The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee (Jaberwocky, 2020) is an epic fantasy about a young king who must defend …
Poetry July 7, 2021

A Camera Obscura

Carl Marcum

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
A Camera Obscura (Red Hen Press, 2021) by Carl Marcum is a lyrical exploration of external and internal worlds. The heavens described in these poems could be the stars glittering above …
Poetry April 13, 2021

Hotel Almighty

Sarah J. Sloat

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty (Sarabande Books) is a book-length erasure of Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and …
Poetry December 2, 2020

Catrachos

Poems

Roy G. Guzmán

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Roy G. Guzmán’s Catrachos (Graywolf Press, 2020) is a stunning debut collection of poetry that immerses the reader in rich, vibrant language. Described as being “part immigration narrative, part elegy …
Poetry July 24, 2020

The Spinning Place

Chelsea Wagenaar

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In The Spinning Place (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019), Chelsea Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express. As a being with …
Poetry April 14, 2020

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster

Octavia Cade

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In Octavia Cade's brilliant collection of poetry Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press, 2019), the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants …
Poetry February 25, 2020

Soft Science

Franny Choi

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Franny Choi’s book-length collection of poetry, Soft Science (Alice James Books 2019), explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence. As she notes in …
Poetry November 15, 2019

Brute

Emily Skaja

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award, Emily Skaja’s Brute (Graywolf Press, 2019) is a stunning collection of poetry that navigates the dark corridors of trauma found at the end of …
Poetry October 15, 2019

Locus

Jason Bayani

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani, discussing his new book Locus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019), which blends memoir and poetry into a …
Poetry September 20, 2019

The Gates of Never

Deborah L. Davitt

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Drawing on the author’s deep knowledge of classical literature, Deborah L. Davitt’s book of poetry The Gates of Never (Finishing Line Press, 2018) explores the intersections of myth, science …
Poetry June 21, 2019

As One Fire Consumes Another

John Sibley Williams

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
John Sibley Williams’ As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Books, 2019) presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale. The newspaper-like columns …
Poetry May 22, 2019

Oculus

Sally Wen Mao

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology …
Poetry April 9, 2019

The Devil’s Dreamland

Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes

Sara Tantlinger

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes (StrangeHouse Books, 2018), Sara Tantlinger intertwines fact and speculation to examine inner workings of H.H. Holmes, a man who committed ghastly …
Poetry March 15, 2019

all this can be yours

Isobel O’Hare

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies. These poems offer fierce explorations of the truth …
Poetry January 16, 2019

Born Again

Ivy Johnson

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
The poetry and prose in Ivy Johnson’s Born Again (The Operating System, 2018) beautifully dives into the ecstatic expression of religious experience. With its confessional style, this collection gives power …
Poetry December 7, 2018

A Cruelty Special to Our Species

Emily Jungmin Yoon

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
In her first full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018), Emily Jungmin Yoon examines forms of violence against women. At its core these poems delves into …