Chantal Gibson on ancestors, laundry, and Franz Fanon for Beginners.

Chantal Gibson on ancestors, laundry, and Frantz Fanon for beginners.

Nina Mingya Powles on muscle memory, Haka tutorials, and the shock of home.

Niina Pollari on sunflowers, redemption, and the most depressing phone note in the world.

Victoria Chang on bonsai trees, witticisms, and the wisdom of not giving a crap.

Tom Sleigh about his romance with experience, fancy jackets, and one last visit to the dog beach.

Sylvie Kandé and her translator Alexander Dickow on the courage of migrants, the limits of language, and an epic without a nation.

Kim Moore on playing the trumpet, misogyny, and the men we love.

Tommye Blount on transformation, Kids Incorporate, and the joy of drowning in diction.

Oksana Maksymchuk and Oksana Lutsyshyna on life as a refugee, the God of comfort, and the deep roots of the war.

Julie Enszer and Elena Gross on community care, the AIDS epidemic, and OutWrite, the conference that shaped queer literary history.

Hoa Nguyen on photographs, her mother's past with the motorcycle circus, and the quiet ways to talk to ghosts.

Poet and playwright Malcolm Tariq on listening, field trips with his brother, and the perils of dating while Black.

Kaveh Akbar on human wondering, fat squirrels, and the best spouse in the world.

Bianca Stone on family trauma, wrinkled towels, and the case against self-improvement.

Remembering the life, poetry, and activism of Janice Mirikitani, plus a few words on love by bell hooks.

Keats Conley on smelly ducks, spiders, and the limits of the human perspective.

Steven Espada Dawson on possibility, toothpaste, and the grief of cosmic aloneness.

Noor Hindi on home ownership, evictions court, and her father's grief.

Clint Smith on being human, healing on a plantation, and the difference between Jefferson and Grant.

Isabel Duarte-Gray on town gossip, folk remedies, and the music of Kentucky.

Poet and priest Spencer Reece on his cousin's murder, the AIDS epidemic, and bearing witness to a moment.

Chen Chen on nourishment, homophobia, and breaking free of the fear of failure.

Zohra Saed on cooking, culture, and the volunteer-led rescue operation to get Afghans to safety.

Mary Jo Bang on her 15-year long translation effort to remake Dante?s Divine Comedy for the modern ear. 

Tracy Fuad on Yelp reviews, mortality, and the weather in her mind.

torrin a. greathouse on public transport, horror, and the love of a chosen family.

Raymond Antrobus on forgiving his dad, becoming a father, and poetry dubs on late-night BBC.

Natasha Trethewey on writing a memoir about her mother?s life and murder.

Vievee Francis (part 2) on beauty in a racist world.

Vievee Francis on dark corners, an encounter with a bear, and the promise of the north.

Translator Emily Drumsta geeks out about the poetic patterns in the work of Iraqi modernist Nazik al Mala'ika.

Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison on Gmail poems, pot roast, and the legacy of pain.

Famous Polish poet Adam Zagajewski remembered by friend and Translator Clare Cavanagh.

Cornelius Eady on Sterling Brown?s South: his porch, banter, and barbershop.

Kimiko Hahn on tie-dying on the stove, puns, and her father's things.

C. Dale Young on sugar cane fields, his favorite saint, and the machinations of the mind.

Poet and founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River Lewis MacAdams, in the words of his friend Kevin Opstedal.

Hafizah Geter on shelves full of Black writers, forgiveness, and knowing your history.

Meg Day on the poetry and activism of the late Laura Hershey, lip reading in a masked world, and the joy of connection.

A look back at the early days of the pandemic?eight poets about Zoom calls, the egg shortage, and being stranded abroad.

How a Victorian and a Harlem Renaissance poet struggled with poverty and the publishing world?while facing racism and classism?to become widely read and legends to us. Featuring interviews with experts Dr. Gene Jarrett, Dr. Tara Betts, Dr. Elizabeth McHenry, Dr. Joe Trotter, and Dr. R. Baxter Miller.

Lilly Rosenberg Fellowship winner Khaty Xiong on intergenerational trauma, a chicken's neck, and the long wave of grief.

Lilly Rosenberg Fellowship winner Luther Hughes on crows, processing trauma, and the allure of the wind.

Alexandria Hall on farm sounds, solo time, and the way into a difficult poem.

EJ Koh on distance, broken English, and writing poems that forgive.

Will Harris on mixedness, intimacy, and the music of difficult poems.

Camille Dungy on words, home, and motherhood in times of climate collapse.

Joy Ladin on the failures of language, courage, and the trans parable of Jonah and the Whale.

Remembering Irish poet Eavan Boland, with her friends Jody Allen Randolph and Paula Meehan.