Tag: Palestine

Poet & Journalist Mandy Shunnarah, my final Season 10 guest!

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In our final Season 10 episode, I had a great conversation with Appalachian & Palestinian-American poet and journalist Mandy Shunnarah!

Topics included: the role of poetry and journalism in 2025 America, the challenges of Arabic translation, the integration of ancestral research in poetry, the bustling poetry community in Columbus, and the ubiquitous influence of Waffle House!

WE HAD MANSIONS will be released on July 1 and can be preordered here.

I’ll be back with our first episode of Season 11 on July 3! Featuring Tram Colwin & Bea Apple at the Bentonville-based textile shop Hillfolk!

Interested in being a future featured guest? Let me know!

Poet & scholar Rawand Mustafa, my first guest of 2025!

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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!

Interested in being a future featured guest? Let me know!