{"podcast":{"title":"Poetry Medicine for the Soul","slug":"poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-7076874","podcast_index_feed_id":7076874,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/62zzUhKH","website_url":"https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e304ec19-b717-45a1-8bd1-255bd36a38c8/63f54cb5-ede0-4257-b0af-6a1afb1a925e/3000x3000/poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-final-logo-use-for-web.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"John Gillespie","episode_count":70,"summary":"Poetry readings and conversation","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T22:19:06.570470+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-7076874"},"episode":{"title":"From the Archive: Adam O. Davis","slug":"from-the-archive-adam-o-davis","published_at":"2026-07-08T22:28:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-7076874/from-the-archive-adam-o-davis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-7076874","url":"https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/episodes/archive-adam-o-davis-3IUTJ4v0","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/ec16c8b0-4b48-473c-ba8a-5674fd00d3b6/c86f09d9-e15a-401d-8fb0-f6fd3fabf8ca/episodes/audio/group/0f776442-035a-4498-8e32-4836ee7c6df0/group-item/8fd91091-31fb-4204-a5ca-00559d4eae05/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=62zzUhKH","summary":"Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This summer in 2026, we are sharing some of our favorite episodes from the archives! Poetry Medicine for the Soul first began in 2020, in partnership with the Stockbridge Library in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. With the Stockbridge Library, over a hundred episodes were recorded over four seasons. This episode features Peter Kline and Brittany Perham from Season 4, and was originally recorded on recorded on April 11, 2023. Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and with Stanford University's Master of Liberal Arts Program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, James Merrill House, Artsmith Orcas Island, Marble House Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poems have won First Prize in the River Styx International Poetry Contest, Southwest Review's Morton Marr Poetry Prize, and the Poetry Prize from The Columbia Review, and have appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure, and Persea Books' anthology of contemporary self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange. He is director of the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon, which he founded in 2012. His first collection of poetry, Deviants, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2013. His newest collection, Mirrorforms, was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in the fall of 2019. Learn more at www.peterklinepoetry.com. Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portra…","meta_description":"Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This summer in 2026, we are sh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3768,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-7076874/episodes/from-the-archive-adam-o-davis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetry-medicine-for-the-soul-7076874/from-the-archive-adam-o-davis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}