LIVE! Wednesday, October 29 at 6 p.m.

Rice Pudding poetry logo with Exa Chrusciel and Guy Capecelatro

Rice Pudding Poetry presents Ewa Chrusciel with music by Guy Capecelatro III.

Hosted by Shelley Girdner, with community readers Tom Haines, Shane Morin, Vilmarie Sanchez-Rothkegel, and Amy Sauber.

The evening’s theme: Grief & Exile.

Ewa Chrusciel is a talented poet, translator, and educator. She has published four poetry collections in English. Currently, she serves as a Professor of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College.

All are welcome to this special evening of poetry, music, and conversation!

Episode 16

“Ephemerality”

Portraits of Jenna Rozelle and Steve Roy

Episode 17 of The Rice Pudding Poetry Podcast welcomes poet Jenna Rozelle, together with multi-instrumentalist Steve Roy on mandolin and upright bass. Community Readers Sonja Ahlberg, Sarah Flaherty, Cynthia Chatis, and Kate Gardoqui round out the show, which features poetry that celebrates the wild beauty of the late summer season.

Maine poet Jenna Rozelle is a forager, angler, homesteader, and wild foods educator. Her poetry and other writing have been published in Orion Magazine and Rustica Journal, and work is forthcoming in the anthology Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Poetry, Art, Ecology of the Gulf of Maine, by Storey Press. Her weekly newsletter, Appetites, can be found at http://jennarozelle.substack.com.

Multi-instrumentalist Steve Roy, also from Maine, plays and teaches upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and ukulele. As a sideman, he has toured nationally and internationally with many of the acoustic world’s top acts. Steve plays mandolin and upright bass on this episode of the podcast.

Listen to the episode above, or stream on Spotify and Podbean.