S8: E22 Rebecca Olander Chats with Dion O'Reilly

Rebecca Hart Olander buzzes into the hive, reads ⁠Nan Cohen's poem "Thirty Year Friendship⁠," and then from her new book, Singing from the Deep End.⁠ ⁠Rebecca Hart Olander⁠ is a Women’s National Book Association Poetry Award winner and the author of three poetry collections: Dressing the Wounds (dancing girl press, 2019), Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry and the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, and Singing from the Deep End (CavanKerry Press, 2026). Rebecca has taught writing at Amherst and Smith colleges, Westfield State University, and Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, and she works with poets in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is the editor/director of Perugia Press.