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