April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.
44:38
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable...
46:52
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.
54:46
Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic.
01:09:50
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father's ashes.
45:53
Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.
50:25
Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.
01:00:25
Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and...
44:54
Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the...
36:44
Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.
53:45
Daniel Brock Johnson on risk, a T-shirt mantra, and life after the death of his friend James...
46:14
Sebastian Merrill on the voice of his former self, the underworld, and laughing during yoga.
46:46
Sahar Muradi on cyclical time, leather butterflies, and saying goodbye to her father.
53:04
Sean Cole on loneliness, fear of aging, and what poems can do.
54:54
Eric Sneathen on queer utopia, bad writing, and San Francisco in the ’70s.
58:19
Irène Mathieu on pediatrics, suburbs without a TV, and our body's unknown terrain.
01:02:20
Natalie Shapero on Wheel of Fortune, babysitting for her landlord, and pretending not to grieve.
45:02
Rosanna Young Oh on her parents’ grocery store, leaving poetry, and the duties of the firstborn.
31:47
Airea D. Matthews on self-interest, starry skies, and her parents’ fateful wedding day.
56:05
Sophus Helle on empire, Calvin and Hobbes, and the world's first author.
53:42
Premium
Plus