National Poetry Month: Bonita Lee Penn finds joy in the "Death Doula's Song"

On our final National Poetry Month episode of the year, Bonita
Lee Penn shares a hopeful poem inspired by death (no
really). 


Find the transcript on our episode page.


Today's guest


Bonita Lee Penn is an alumna of our MFA in Creative Writing
program, a Pittsburgh poet and the author of Every Morning a
Foot is Looking for My Neck (Central Square Press). Her work
has been included in the anthology Where We Stand: Poems of Black
Resilience (2022 Cherry Castle Publishing); Taint Taint Taint
Literary Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Solstice: A Magazine
of Diverse Voices, and others. Penn is also Managing Editor, Soul
Pitt Quarterly Magazine, literary program coordinator with United
Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh, and Poetry Instructor for
Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshop (Carlow
University).


Check out previous Poetry Month episodes:


"Soft" by Staci Halt

"the world as it is" by July Westhale

"Memo to the Border Patrol Agent Who Poured Out the Water We
Left in the Desert" by Robbie Gamble

"The Translator" by Kevin Prufer

"As for the Heart" by Erin Belieu

"We Be Womxn" by U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

Cowboys and "The Dread" by Lydia Leclerc