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… this book is open—open about difficult subjects, open in the way its language operates, open in its willingness to create a psychological intimacy between the speaker and the reader.” —Morgan Levine for The Columbia … doula and childbirth educator.  Her awards include the Salt Hill Poetry Award, judged by C.D. Wright, the Barrow …

… Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … guest Ada Limón discusses her latest collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind, whose poems ask and explore what it means … So hills and valleys into singing break, And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue, While active winds and …

… Youn’s latest poetry collection From From engages with the history of anti-Asian violence in the United States but is always conscious of the ways this … episode is brought to you by Madelaine Lucas's Thirst for Salt. A debut novel that Leslie Jamison calls, “A love affair …

… Joe Sacco : Paying the Land Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, … himself, applying an exquisitely fine eye for detail to the urgent histories that define the world around us. . . . … once described as the Gentleman's Guide to the Rolling Stones, and another time as “a complete synthesis of Western …

… Poetry What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one’s life? Or for water to be one’s method, … did you go about it and what were some meaningful stepping stones along the way which emboldened, energized, or … being. I was hoping we could hear two poems “Wilno” and “Salt of the Earth.” Patrycja Humienik: Sure. [Patrycja …

… Cixous. Perhaps best known for her iconic 1976 essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Cixous thought for much of her writing life that … “Well-kept ruin, a wire mesh cage of neatly stacked blonde stones,” then in that book, it goes “Look at that, my son … Cixous. Perhaps best known for her iconic 1976 essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Cixous thought for much of her …

… with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, … of what it means to river, and to be rivered. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Virginia Woolf’s wave in the mind to … "So hills and valleys into singing break; And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue, While active winds and …