We're talking in this episode to poet and editor Rachel Mennies, who tells us about writing into and through uncertainty, what keeps us writing, and what it's like to be part of a journal's editorial staff.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Filipp Malyavin, A Secret (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—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!
Ruth Awad / Rachel Mennies
The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry
Lucy Brock-Broido
Stay, Illusion
Roberto Calasso
Literature and the Gods
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Dust
Peter Hammond
Sapphire & Steel
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Odyssey
Lewis Hyde
The Gift
Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Mario Levrero
The Luminous Novel
David Lynch
Twin Peaks
J. D. McClatchy, ed.
Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets
Rachel Mennies
"Less than Certain: How to Teach Bewildering Poems"
Rachel Mennies
The Naomi Letters
Madeline Miller
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Christopher Nolan
Interstellar
Alice Oswald
Memorial
Ezra Pound
Mark Rothko
Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit
Elaine Scarry
On Beauty and Being Just
Talmudic stories
Chris Van Dusen
Bridgerton
W. B. Yeats
