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S8:E7 Cate Lycurgus Talks with Julie Murphy

Episode 7 of the The Hive Poetry Collective podcast, hosted by The Hive, titled "S8:E7 Cate Lycurgus Talks with Julie Murphy " was published on February 19, 2026 and runs 62 minutes.

February 19, 2026 ·62m · The Hive Poetry Collective

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In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, poet Cate Lycurgus opens the show with a reading of “Jacaranda” by Shirley Kaufman, setting the tone for a conversation attuned to beauty, impermanence, and change. Host Julie Murphy then speaks with Cate about her chapbook Seacliff and her new manuscript, Radiance, Despite.Moving poem by poem, they explore erosion and belonging, caregiving and grief, fractured faith, and the intimate question at the heart of her work: what is care but where we put our hands?Cate’s poems are precise, unflinching, and luminous — attentive to the ways love reshapes us, and to how even what has been broken may still shine.

In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, poet Cate Lycurgus opens the show with a reading of “Jacaranda” by Shirley Kaufman, setting the tone for a conversation attuned to beauty, impermanence, and change. Host Julie Murphy then speaks with Cate about her chapbook Seacliff and her new manuscript, Radiance, Despite.

Moving poem by poem, they explore erosion and belonging, caregiving and grief, fractured faith, and the intimate question at the heart of her work: what is care but where we put our hands?

Cate’s poems are precise, unflinching, and luminous — attentive to the ways love reshapes us, and to how even what has been broken may still shine.

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