Podcast Episode 055 – Poet Peter Joseph Gloviczki on the Power of Poetry

Last updated on November 26, 2023

Podcast Episode 0055; Season 04, Episode 19; February 9, 2021

On Poetry and Me

Discussing poetry with published poet Peter Joseph Gloviczki was another example of learning while recording a podcast. I take a lot of notes whenever I have a conversation with Peter. I must disclose, I consider him a friend, mentor, and colleague.

It was purely great fortune to plan this topic before Amanda Gorman reminded the world how powerful poetry can be.

Poetry is how I recorded my thoughts for many years. I began writing poetry and keeping the poems in journals while in elementary school. I have filled spiral-bound notebooks with nearly 2000 mediocre poems. I’m hoping to return to my journaling habit, from which I took a pause for nearly two decades. It isn’t that I stopped writing the poems. Instead, I stopped revising them and copying the “finished” works into the journals.

This year, 2021, I hope to make up for those lost decades somehow by spending a few hours each month transferring poems to the last journal I began. When I was young, I filled a 70-page book every two years. I wish to return to that pace not because I want to write quickly but because I want to have those journals organized to share with my daughters when they are older.

Episode Notes

Peter Joseph Gloviczki is the author of three collections of poetry: the weight of dandelions (Salmon Poetry, 2019), American
Paprika (Salmon Poetry, 2016), and Kicking Gravity (Salmon Poetry, 2013). His fourth collection, What’s Left to the Imagination is Everything, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2023. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.

Additional Links:

• Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate.
• Taylor Mali, Slam Poet
• The Power of Poetry, with Helena Bonham Carter
• Langston Hughes reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• David James Savarese, Autistic Poet
• Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize recipient
• Autism and Representation on Amazon
• Stephen Dobyns, Novelist and Poet
• Kim Addonizio, Novelist and Poet
• Philip Levine on The Writing Life
• Art of Autism, Autistic Poets
• David Miedzianik, Poet
• Publisher Salmon Poetry
• Boxcar Poetry: Review of Peter Joseph Gloviczki
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2009/10/16/october-16-2009-autistic-poet/4595/
• https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/28/Tito.autism/index.html

Transcription (still) in Progress

I am still working on completing some interview transcripts. I am sorry that they were not completed in a timely manner. I use transcription services, but the results are far from ideal unless you pay additional fees..