Welcome to Poetry Medicine for the Soul, a podcast inviting poets to share, explore, and celebrate poetry, hosted by John Gillespie. This episode features John Reinhart, a poet whose work ranges from dark sci-fi to humorous scenes from his family life. He reads his poems "You Learn Something Everyday," "Dreamweaving," and "Unhappy Meals."
John Reinhart has been awarded the Dark Poetry Scholarship from the Horror Writers Association, Reinhart's poems and short works have been published internationally in print and online. He has been nominated for the Rhysling Award for best science-fiction poem in the previous year and the Dwarf Stars Award for the best short sci-fi poem of the previous year. He has won the Poetry Nook weekly contest seven times.
Reinhart's eight books to date span a wide range of his work, ranging from dark sci-fi/horror to humorous scenes from his family life, to experimental word compositions, and more serious social commentary.
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