A ghost and a girl: a reading with Summer J. Hart

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This episode features interdisciplinary artist and writer Summer J. Hart. Summer reads six poems: "More Rabbits" by Claire Wahmanholm and "8.5 x 11”  by Erin Marie Lynch, and her own poems "Dear Violet," "Salt for the Stain," "There's Something Irregular About this Rain" and "In the Story 'Survival' by Rita Joe." Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Maine living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author of two books of poetry: Boomhouse  (2023, The 3rd Thing Press), which won the 2024 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, and What Came Down in the Smoke (forthcoming in 2026 from JackLeg Press). Her creative work has been supported by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, MacDowell, NYSCA/NYFA, and Vermont Studio Center. Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current Press),  Allium, Ballast, Bedfellows, Grist, Heavy Feather Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Northern New England Review, Tyger Quarterly, Waxwing, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. Her mixed-media artworks have been featured in exhibitions across the United States. They are included in the permanent collections of The University of Hartford and The University of Southern Maine.  Summer is an enrolled member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. Learn more at www.summerjhart.com. This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website or Simplecast podcast feed for more episodes. Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more and get in touch: poetrymedicineforthesoul.com