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Podcasts, Interviews & Features In the News.
Artists on Artists: Susan Comninos. Featured in an article of poets who write with “Jewishly self-aware humor, intimacy with endurance, and signature voice.” Posted 11/3/2021. Read here.
Interview with Ellen Feld at Feathered Quill, where I talk about my writing process, my book, and the need for more discourse about motherhood in literature. Posted 9/1/2021. Read here.
VPR: Between The Lines: Poetry Moments For Vermonters, By Vermonters. Featured with a 22 second audio clip on this list of Vermont poets. Listen here (scroll down to the “K” poets).
Interview with Barney Smith of Story Comic for podcast episode 97, in which I babble incessantly about books, writing, books, editing, books, publishing, books, and darkness. Watch below.
Gold winner, 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards, Realistic Poetry category! Full awards list here.
I was interviewed on Face the Book TV episode #18 about marketing your indie-published book. Watch the 30-minute show below.
Read to Me Podcast: “READ TO ME talks to...Samantha Kolber,” an interview with Becky Karush, March 2, 2021. We talk about how darkness can make you happy. Listen here.
Read to Me Podcast: “READ TO ME from...Birth of a Daughter by Samantha Kolber,” Becky Karush reads my poem and asks, “In birth, who is born? The child? The mother? The space between the two? Or the poem she will write?” Listen here.
Truer Words Podcast: In the 46th episode Melissa and Kathryn speak with Samantha Kolber about poetry, motherhood, and indie bookselling in a pandemic.
Listen here.
The Times Argus: “For the love of poetry: Montpelier poet publishes first collection” by Peter Cobb Correspondent, Sept. 10, 2020. Read here.
Burlington Free Press: “Leonard Cohen? ‘Hadestown’? Steve Martin? Big names attached to new Vermont books” by Brent Hallenback, Dec. 1, 2020. Read here.
The Dave Gram Show: Montpelier poet Samantha Kolber talks about her new collection, “Birth of a Daughter” on WDEV radio. Listen here.
Electric Poetry: Kelsey May interviews Vermont poet Samantha Kolber for WYCE 88.1 fm radio. Poetry reading also included. Listen here.
The Montpelier Bridge: “Announcing the Publication of Montpelier Poet’s Debut” Read here.
New England Poetry Club: “Congratulations to NEPC Poet Samantha Kolber on the publication of her debut collection!” Read here.
Seven Days VT: “The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, October 8 to 14.” Read here.
Seven Days VT: “Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Books.” Read here.
KidsVT: “Two New Books by Vermont Authors.” Read here.
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