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Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

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Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

    Style All the Way Down

    Style All the Way Down

    Joyelle McSweeney on sound, style icons, and the Ovidian landscape of her ear canal.

    • 52 min
    The Fire in Which We Burn

    The Fire in Which We Burn

    Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief. 

    • 53 min
    My Heart and Its Borders

    My Heart and Its Borders

    Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    My Awesome Stoma

    My Awesome Stoma

    April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.

    • 44 min
    Working-Class Superheroes

    Working-Class Superheroes

    Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.

    • 46 min
    All the Shiny Knives

    All the Shiny Knives

    Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.

    • 54 min

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