New Poetry from AE Hines Finds Meaning in the Everyday

Charlotte Readers Podcast

In this episode 379, we feature Adam in the Garden, the second collection from acclaimed local poet AE Hines. These poems touch on everything from current events and climate change to sexuality and relationships to the beauty of small moments in one’s own home or backyard. Pulitzer finalist Dorianne Laux calls Hines “a poet willing to risk sentimentality without collapsing into sentiment. A seeker willing to risk blasphemy in his personal search for truth.”
Show discussion highlights:
● How Hines found common threads in topics ranging from climate change to relationships and sexuality to health and aging
● The importance of finding surprise in a poem as you write it
● How to write poems that are specific and personal, but also resonant for a wider audience
● What makes a good love poem
● Why it’s never too early–or too late–to start writing
Brief author bio:
AE Hines is a poet living in Charlotte, North Carolina and Medellín, Colombia. He is the author of Adam in the Garden (Terrapin Books, 2024) and Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). He has won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize and Palette Poetry’s Love and Eros Prize, and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in such journals as The Southern Review, Rattle, The Sun, and Alaska Quarterly, and his literary criticism can be found in American Poetry Review, Rain Taxi, and Northwest Review.
Learn more about the author and his books HERE.
https://www.aehines.net/
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