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EPISODE 29: Jehanne Dubrow
hosted by Hamilton Smith & Sydney Smith
Jehanne Dubrow reads an excerpt from her essay “Red Monsters” (NER 45.3), based on Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, and discusses bisexuality, and how hybrid literatures can teach us to face the monstrous parts of ourselves.
EPISODE 28: Trudy Lewis
hosted by Charlotte Roberts
Trudy Lewis discusses her short story, “Morado,” published in NER 45.2. Set in a fictional seed research institute in Kansas, “Morado” explores what it means to queer both our own bodies and the natural world in order to survive.
EPISODE 27: Soje
hosted by Hamilton Smith & Sydney Smith
Soje reads their translations of Song Seung Eon’s “To Dig in the Forest” and “Twisted Landscape Inside a Kind Heart,” followed by a brief conversation. Soje’s translations appear in NER 45.2‘s Korean Poetry Feature, which they edited, titled “Where on Earth Did You Come From?—Seven South Korean Poets and Their Translators.”
EPISODE 26: Caridad Svich
hosted by Katie Futterman
Caridad Svich discusses how she came to write plays, her approach to audience, and the multiple anxieties that influence her play Clara Thomas Bailey, which was excerpted in NER 44.3.
EPISODE 25: Joan Leegant
hosted by Gavin Richards & Cali Jantzen
Joan Leegant reads from her short story “Wild Animals” from NER 44.2, followed by a conversation about the volatile nature of family, Joan’s unique syntax, loyalty to the sentence, the writer as an “unconscious” medium, and the author’s advice on discovering one’s own process.
EPISODE 24: Nessa O’Mahoney
hosted by Cali Jantzen & Gavin Richards
Irish poet Nessa O’Mahony reads her poem “Cillín,” published in NER 44.2, followed by a discussion of the “hidden histories” of O’Mahony’s home country, the politics of memory, and the role of poetry in reckoning with the past. “Cillín” appears in NER‘s special feature “The Door Left Wide: Poets in Tribute to Eavan Boland.”
EPISODE 23: El Williams III
hosted by Yardena Carmi
El Williams III reads his poem “There Was a Brood,” first published in NER 44.1, followed by a discussion on writing about place and personal experience, and how car trouble, summer heat, and a brood of cicadas turn into poetry.
EPISODE 22: Katie Moulton
hosted by Becca Clark
Katie Moulton reads an excerpt from her essay “The Elvis Room” (NER 43.3), followed by a conversation about her writing and editing processes, memorializing her dad, her family’s fascination with Elvis Presley, and more.
EPISODE 21: A. E. Kulze
hosted by Andrew Grossman & Kate Sadoff
A. E. Kulze reads an excerpt from her short story “The Ladybugs” from NER 43.2 and discusses her writing process, the role of the unconscious in forming the whole, the failures of contemporary feminism, and the Desert Mothers, who’ve been largely forgotten to history.
EPISODE 20: Milia Ayache and Amina Hassan
hosted by Andrew Grossman & Kate Sadoff
Following an excerpted performance of Milia Ayache and Amina Hassan’s play “Splits/kin” (NER 43.2), the authors discuss their process of collaboration, the influence of fairy tales and founding myths, and the global love affair between fathers and their television sets.