Molly Spencer Keep the Channel Open

Molly Spencer is a poet based in Michigan. The poems in her collections In the House and Hinge engage with chronic illness, divorce, domesticity, motherhood, and the ways that our lives don’t always work out the way we expected them to. In our conversation, we talked about dissolution, the uses of poetry, ways of knowing, and speaking unlovely truths. Then for the second section, we talked about attention—both the kind of attention we’d like to cultivate in our own lives, and what kind of attention we ask of our readers.
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Show Notes: Molly Spencer Purchase If the House: Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop Purchase Hinge: Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop Emily Dickinson - “Make me a picture of the sun” Etel Adnan - Sea and Fog Wallace Stevens - “The Snow Man” Susan Glaspell - “A Jury of Her Peers” Molly Spencer - “On ‘Most Accidents Occur At Home’” Mary Oliver - “Yes! No!” Solmaz Sharif - Customs Dionne Brand - Nomenclature Transcript Episode Credits Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo