Date: January 6, 2026
Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers.The guest: In vivid, poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, […]
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 19, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Date: October 19, 2026
A delightful aspect of historical fiction is the way the present gives way to the past, shifting our knowledge of the modern world into what it once was. In Marivi […]
Date: October 19, 2026
In 2003, the United States attacked Iraq, ostensibly to rid the country of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The war destabilized the Middle East and resulted in Hussein’s death […]
Date: October 15, 2026
In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story […]
Date: October 7, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Date: October 1, 2026
Date: October 1, 2026
In this hands-on manifesto, Ramirez, host of The Kitchen Activist podcast and author of Eat Less Water, encourages readers to prepare meals in ways that lower food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Explaining that […]
Date: October 1, 2026
The journey into The Opposites Game enters the sometime surreal, sometime witty, sometime irreverent world of Brendan Constantine. All is not joy as the dark lays just under the thinly veiled poems […]
Date: September 28, 2026
Mason’s achievements in verse narratives surpass those of other Expansive Poets, spanning multiple subgenres. His best early short-stories in verse are the tetrameter poems “Gusev” and “The Next Place” and […]
Date: September 15, 2026
The possibilities in form throughout one poetry collection feel unimaginably wide. But consistency of form can reveal the true beauty of language, particularly for readers who are otherwise disinclined toward […]
