Jun 24, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
In this episode of *The Hive Poetry Collective*, host Julie Murphy and fellow Hive member Farnaz Fatemi explore the work of acclaimed poet Andrea Cohen in a conversation that moves through memory…
Julie MurphyHost
Farnaz FatemiHost
I'm going to read her bio and then let's chat about what drew us to her work and then we can dive into her poems.
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Three Penny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
Her new poetry collection, Sugar, came out earlier this year from Four Way Books.
Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Glimmer Trains Short Fiction Award, and several fellowships at McDowell.
Over the years, she has taught at the University of Iowa, Emerson College, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Merrimack College, where she was the founding director of the Writer's House.
She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches at Boston University.
And you can find her at www.andreacohen.org. And we'll list links in our show notes so you can follow up and read more of her work.
And that I, I didn't know that when I first discovered her, I, I, I can't remember exactly when I read my first Andrea Cohen poem, but it was probably 10 years ago.
And I remember just feeling like, wow, this is a poet who is accessible and so smart.
But also just, I felt moved by the way the language was recognizable somehow without ever being prosaic, I think.
And then a friend said, hey, have you handed me a book and said, hey, I bought this for you.
I'm going to read her bio and then let's chat about what drew us to her work and then we can dive into her poems.
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Three Penny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
Her new poetry collection, Sugar, came out earlier this year from Four Way Books.
Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Glimmer Trains Short Fiction Award, and several fellowships at McDowell.
Over the years, she has taught at the University of Iowa, Emerson College, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Merrimack College, where she was the founding director of the Writer's House.
She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches at Boston University.
And you can find her at www.andreacohen.org. And we'll list links in our show notes so you can follow up and read more of her work.
And that I, I didn't know that when I first discovered her, I, I, I can't remember exactly when I read my first Andrea Cohen poem, but it was probably 10 years ago.
And I remember just feeling like, wow, this is a poet who is accessible and so smart.
But also just, I felt moved by the way the language was recognizable somehow without ever being prosaic, I think.
And then a friend said, hey, have you handed me a book and said, hey, I bought this for you.
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