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.
WBUR
Danté Stewart discusses Tyre Nichols’ death: “…more than police brutality. That was a lynching.”
Southeast Review
An interview with Sun Yung Shin on spells, workings of empire, boxes in churches and in the brain.
The New Yorker
An interview with Jorie Graham on distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of the medium of poetry.
LARB
A conversation with Meet Us by the Roaring Sea author Akil Kumarasamy on pushing against the self in fiction.
Literary Matters
On writing, teaching, and defeating the “shitbird” of self-doubt in this conversation with Philip Schultz.