17 episodes

Each week we invite a new guest on to share some prose, poetry, college essays, and anything else they made during those awkward years. Part nostalgia, part comedy, all awkward, we take a trip back to the mental world of our younger wordsmiths, and learn to forgive ourselves for being 14.

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    • Arts

Each week we invite a new guest on to share some prose, poetry, college essays, and anything else they made during those awkward years. Part nostalgia, part comedy, all awkward, we take a trip back to the mental world of our younger wordsmiths, and learn to forgive ourselves for being 14.

    17. Tie Dye The Sky

    17. Tie Dye The Sky

    Florence is moved to poetry by a couple of breakups in high school, and then finds enlightenment in France. And then decides, eh, France was just okay.

    • 55 min
    16. Violets Are Blue Forever

    16. Violets Are Blue Forever

    Karen nearly fails a class in high school trying to finish her novel, in which a troubled young girl gets mixed up with speed.

    • 52 min
    15. War Bats

    15. War Bats

    Matt discovers poetry, looks at the Shakespeare's sonnets, and thinks, eh, I could do better. Also, politics.

    • 56 min
    14. The Music of the Heart

    14. The Music of the Heart

    Demka works out her orchestra-crush by writing her feelings into a novel. Her first boyfriend reads it, and marries her.

    • 48 min
    The Diamond Sword

    The Diamond Sword

    Briana's school assignment becomes a trilogy. Emotions run high as telepaths fight with demon swords.

    • 1 hr 6 min
    13: Memorial

    13: Memorial

    Ethan finds his voice in slam poetry, processes the loss of old friends, and finds some things work better on the page.

    • 36 min

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