Poet and educator L. S. McKee tells us about poetry and personas, the joys of secret venues, writing across science and art curricula, and even relics.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Joan Crawford holding mask of herself (cropped). Photoplay, 1932. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and music!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Elizabeth Arnold The Reef
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Paul Celan "Death Fugue"
Julio Cortázar Blow-Up: And Other Stories
Julio Cortázar Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar The Winners
Frédéric Gros The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation
Luke Harding "'It's the new normal': in Kiev's newest book store, readers fear how Ukraine's story will end"
Hugh Haughton, ed. Second World War Poems
Zbigniew Herbert "The Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito"
Homer The Iliad (transl. Emily Wilson)
Homer The Odyssey
Hope Jahren Lab Girl: A Memoir
Hope Jahren The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Brad J. Kallenberg By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering
Benjamín Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
Primo Levi "The Molecule's Defiance" in A Tranquil Star: Stories
Primo Levi The Periodic Table
Janna Levin A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Christopher Logue War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
Georg Lukács The Theory of the Novel
L. S. McKee "Alva Watches the Previous President Fly Away"
L. S. McKee Creature Wing Heart Machine
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Maggie Nelson On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
George Oppen New Collected Poems
Jonathan Sumption The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God
Greta Thunberg The Climate Book
Isabel Zapata In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
