#014 - Announcing Our FIRST Featured Poets

⭐ HEAR YOUR POEM ON OUR PODCAST: https://www.nathanhassall.com/submitSorry for the weird audio this week, folks! We'll be back to normal in our next video. 📚 RECOMMENDED READING:📕 ALL Recommended Books — https://shorturl.at/SOYRP⭐ FEATURED POET: Joshua Michael Stewart's work has appeared in Modern Haiku, Massachusetts Review, Brilliant Corners, New Flash Fiction Review, and many others. His latest book is, Welcome Home, Russell Edson—a graphic novel & prose poem hybrid created in collaboration with illustrators Bret M. Herholz and Aaron J. Krolikowski. He lives in Ware, Massachusetts.📕 BUY BREAK EVERY STRING: https://amzn.to/4lSAsBO 🌐 https://joshuamichaelstewartauthor.com/📦 MYSTERY BOX POET: Matt Jasper most vessel-related line fragment of poetry is: "As the broken vessel is more frightening than the clay it was made from..." The clay is so welcoming and soft yet when shaper and dried it becomes less primordial, more mortal. He worked as a human medical test subject during a year of mania, eventually using the study money to buy an apartment and a hundred-dollar car. Soon after, he took a position as weekend manager of a group home, despite being unable to make eye contact during the interview. Out of this experience, he wrote a series of poems about the elderly residents with schizophrenia, which went on to appear in several issues of Grand Street magazine. His work has been described by critic Susan M. Schultz as “documentary surrealism.”📝 "Why So Many MIT Students Are Writing Poetry" by Joshua Bennetthttps://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/08/what-mit-students-are-learning-poetry/683856/https://ca.news.yahoo.com/why-many-mit-students-writing-130000314.html🎯 FOLLOW FOR MORE:👉 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nathanhassall📸 Nathan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathanhassallpoetry/🌀 The Poetry Vessel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvessel📧 Business inquiries: thepoetryvessel@gmail.com🎥 THE FILM GEAR WE USE: https://shorturl.at/j9MTW🙏 ONLINE TIP JAR: https://www.nathanhassall.com/support-our-journey —FTC DISCLAIMER:Some of the links above may be affiliate links, which means that if you click on them I may receive a small commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The commission is paid by the retailers, at no cost to you, and this helps to support our channel and keep our videos free. Thank you!