Author. Journalist. Poet.
Wrapping up Season 9, an absolutely incredible season, this week. I felt so bad asking this question all season. But everyone delivered! So grateful to live and write in a world where these poets and their words exist.
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I’ve long been a fan of Toronto-based Pakistani poet Farah Ghafoor and was grateful to have the opportunity to speak to her about her utterly devastating debut collection SHADOW PRICE– out on April 1, 2025 from House of Anansi Press!
Topics include the challenges of writing and marketing such a book, the impact of economic theory, the critical role of poetry in addressing societal issues under capitalism, & Farah’s future projects!
SHADOW PRICE is available for preorder/purchase here!
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I recently enjoyed a lovely conversation with Haitian American (and now, fellow Mississippian!) poet Nadia Alexis!
Topics include the MFA and PhD at Ole Miss, the poetry faculty at Ole Miss, water & flight imagery, intersections of poetry and photography, a charmed submission experience, the effort of marketing and promoting poetry, & the promising future of young Mississippi writers!
BEYOND THE WATERSHED is available for preorder/purchase here!
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I had such a great time catching up with CD Eskilson, dear old friend and fellow Arkansas MFA, ahead of the release of their debut collection SCREAM/QUEEN!
Join us as CD shares some truly fascinating things about horror films and poetry, and I probably go on for too long about Edgar Allan Poe.
SCREAM/QUEEN is available for preorder/purchase here!
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I had such an inspiring conversation with Patrycja Humienik, polish-American author of WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES! Join us as we interrogate poetry’s boundless potentials and heartbreaking limitations in 2025 America.
WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES is available for preorder/purchase here.
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I had such a lovely, restorative conversation with Rawand Mustafa, the 2024 winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press– and our first featured guest of 2025!
This episode was co-hosted by Kathleen Sullivan, Arkansas MFA candidate in literary translation, translation editor of The Arkansas International, director of Arkansas’ Writers in the Schools program, and dear friend!
UMBILICAL DISCORD is available for purchase here from the University of Arkansas Press!
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I had such a lovely time talking to our final (scheduled) guest of 2024, University of Puerto Rico professor Dorsía Smith Silva! I learned so much about Puerto Rico and hurricanes!
IN INHERITANCE OF DROWNING is available for preorder here from CavanKerry Press!
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Hiba Tahir 