The Millions
Camille Dungy discusses Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden: “gardening offers me a space where I see patience pay off.”
NPR
Best-selling fiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses his new novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.
McSweeney’s
A short conversation featuring Deborah Landau: “Deborah Landau is a poet of the urban body, the urbane.”
BOMB Mag
Nuar Alsadir interviewed by Cathy Park Hong: “Racism is a form of perversion.”
McSweeney’s
An interview with Brenda Hillman: “I like the idea of utterances that push through things.”
PBS Newshour
Check out this podcast, “How poetry lets you be so many things at once, with Chen Chen” wherever you listen.
US Institute of War & Peace
Pádraig Ó Tuama knows artistic insight can speak directly to conflict, addressing important systemic factors such as identity, race, gender and ability.
WUSF
Listen to this interview with Brian Broome: “My story is probably one that Governor DeSantis would want to ban.”
Brooklyn Rail
Akil Kumarasamy with John Keene: “There are many moments where we feel the weight of a lifetime in an instance.”
PBS
Airea D. Matthews and Wes Matthews, her son, are both poet laureates working to inspire others.