Episodes
Helena and Nicholson Baker on drawing your loved ones, the horrors of the world, and finding your way back to beauty.
Published 08/27/24
Perry Janes on Hollywood, ego, and trying not to break his NDA.
Published 08/23/24
Dorothea Lasky on The Shining, writing what you fear, and the ferocity of color.
Published 08/08/24
Merlin Sheldrake on fungi, creativity, and the queerness of nature.
Published 08/08/24
Elisa Gonzalez on bisexuality, humor, and working in finance.
Published 08/08/24
E.J. Koh on distance, broken English, and writing poems that forgive.
Published 07/30/24
Camille Dungy on her garden, writing from the provinces, and the poetry of Anne Spencer.
Published 07/16/24
Joyelle McSweeney on sound, style icons, and the Ovidian landscape of her ear canal.
Published 05/21/24
Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief.
Published 05/07/24
Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.
Published 04/23/24
April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.
Published 04/09/24
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.
Published 03/26/24
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.
Published 03/12/24
Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic.
Published 02/27/24
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.
Published 02/13/24
Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.
Published 01/30/24
Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.
Published 01/16/24
Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and symbol of the resistance, Refaat Alareer.
Published 01/03/24
Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the fiddle festival.
Published 12/12/23
Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.
Published 11/30/23
Daniel Brock Johnson on risk, a T-shirt mantra, and life after the death of his friend James Foley.
Published 11/14/23
Sebastian Merrill on the voice of his former self, the underworld, and laughing during yoga.
Published 10/31/23
Sahar Muradi on cyclical time, leather butterflies, and saying goodbye to her father.
Published 10/17/23
Sean Cole on loneliness, fear of aging, and what poems can do.
Published 10/03/23