Marie Antoinette and a poetry spiced latte: a reading with Elizabeth Sylvia

Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This episode features Elizabeth Sylvia. Elizabeth reads six poems form her new collection, Scythe: "Invitation to Marie Antoinette," "Pouf," "The Scythe," "On Learning that Kim Kardashian Exceeded her Water Allowance by 232,000 Gallons in June," "PSL" and "The Sitting: Marie Antoinette and her Children." Elizabeth Sylvia's second collection, Scythe (2026), is out now from River River Books. Her first book, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. Her chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties (2025), available from Ballerini Books, was a runner-up for the Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize. Elizabeth has been a semi- or finalist in competitions sponsored by the Burnside Review, C&R Press, DIAGRAM, Thirty West, Rare Swan and Wolfson Press, and is a reader for SWWIM Every Day. She has received fellowships from the New York Public Library, the West Chester University Poetry Center and the Longleaf Writers Conference. Elizabeth has led workshops at MassPoetry, Lit Youngstown, and Tell it Slant. She is the winner of the 2023 riverSedge Poetry Prize. Elizabeth grew up on Martha’s Vineyard and currently teaches in Southeastern Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and extravagantly demanding garden. Learn more at: elizabethsylviapoet.net This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Get in touch with us at: [email protected]