Date: December 16, 2025
Coming March 6, 2026: the 22nd installment of the Tournament of Books. …Here’s how the Tournament works. Each weekday, starting March 6, two books from the shortlist are read and […]
Date: December 9, 2025
Short Story Collection. Each of these fourteen stories pulses with a rhythm—jazzy or contemplative, staccato or silky, intricate or straightforward—that matches the histories, desires, even the geographies of the characters.
Date: December 3, 2025
Poet April Ossmann on changing perceptions to heal relationships. In this episode, we talk with April Ossmann, poet and independent editor, and author of WE… a collection of poems focused […]
Date: November 19, 2025
Facilitator Spotlight: Hannah Soyer on Identity, Storytelling, and Disability Hannah Soyer, a queer disabled writer and content specialist for the Reeve Foundation, shares how storytelling empowers identity and self-acceptance. Her […]
Date: November 12, 2025
Anger Management He conducts anger management by group chat,and then asks, Mirror, mirror on the wall,who’s the angriest pod-cast host of them all?There’s an angry man in the basement,there’s an […]
Date: November 12, 2025
“The nature of the writer is to observe the world, remaining at least somewhat detached. This poem, ‘Aperture,’ explores notions of vision. What happens when the writer becomes the object, […]
Date: November 12, 2025
In today’s episode, I talk with poet April Ossmann about her new book of poetry titled “We.” It’s full of poems that bridge divides and see the humanity of others. […]
Date: November 12, 2025
I believe the solution to ending our painful political division is a spiritual/emotional one, resolved not by reason, argument or verbal bullying, but by willingness to engage civilly. We can, […]
Date: November 4, 2025
Cai Emmons’ ‘The Bells’ releases posthumously as a documentary on her final months screens.
Date: October 28, 2025
Visual artist and photographer, Louise Wannier, author of the new children’s book TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD. Louise talks about inspiring children to open their imaginations and connect more meaningfully […]
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
Date: June 16, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Date: June 6, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]
Date: May 31, 2022
Are Jigdesh and Charlie, the brilliantly depicted leads in Carlos Allende’s new novel, gay caricatures? The author’s answer may surprise you.
Date: May 24, 2022
Date: May 23, 2022
Beware Kim Dower’s poetry. Again and again, this crafty writer invites you in for a casual chat and then wallops you. Her poem “Game Over” starts with a little comedy about […]
Date: May 17, 2022
