Episodes

  • 010 – Celebrating Cave Canem Part 2

    For our season finale, we’re celebrating more Cave Canem poets to honor their 25th anniversary!! With performances by the poets Lyrae Van Clief-Stefan, Evie Shockley, Kevin Young, and Dawn Lundy Martin. 

  • 009 – Breaking It Down with S. Brook Corfman

    We're breaking It Down with S. Brook Corfman. S. Brook Corfman is the author of My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020.They are also the author of the collection Luxury, Blue Lace.

    We'll be talking memory, absence, climate change, and the body as well as what we're reading and some thoughts for the road.
    (GUEST HOSTED BY MARISSA JOHNSON-VALENZUELA with Adriana)

  • 008 – Catching Up with Casandra López

    We're catching up with Casandra López. Casandra López is a Chicana, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Tongva poet and writer raised in Southern California and the author of the poetry collection Brother Bullet. We’ll be talking Brother Bullet, the importance of place, and how we get to choose what to call ourselves. Finally, we’ll talk about we’re reading and some thoughts for the road.

  • 007 – Chatting with Paisley Rekdal

    We’re chatting with Paisley Rekdal!! We’re featuring Rekdal's performance of West: A Translation at City of Asylum back in September 2019, as well as a recent interview with Rekdal in support of her newest book Appropriate. We're also talking The Ferrante Project, when it's okay to wear a sombrero, and how not to be a jerk about appropriation.