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Let's Deconstruct a StoryLet's Deconstruct a Story featuring Shastri AkellaHi Everyone, During this episode, Shastri Akella discusses his Best American Short Story, “The Magic Bangle.” The podcast episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.Please read the story before listening to the podcast episode. It’s available here at The Fairy Tale Review.I hope you enjoy this discussion with Shastri as much as I did!Cheers,KellyPS: As always, I would love to hear about your favorite stories! Please send ideas anytime. ...
2026-02-0139 min
Poetry UnboundMaya C. Popa — They Are Building a HospitalSo much of what was once deemed impossible was found — during Covid — to be possible. Here, a poet watches a tent, a huge temporary hospital, be raised up on the green of Central Park, a place she’d previously walked her dog.Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022) and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), which was a recipient of the North American Book Prize and a runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong. She is also the author of two chapbooks, both from the Diagram Chapbo...
2023-07-2815 min
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre PodcastMaya C. Popa talks to Niall MunroMaya C. Popa is an American poet, researcher, editor, and teacher who has published two pamphlets: The Bees Have Been Canceled in 2017, and You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave in 2018. Most recently, her first full-length collection, American Faith, was published by Sarabande Books in 2019. The book was the runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and the winner of the 2020 North American Book Award from the Poetry Society of Virginia. She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Oxford Poetry Society, and Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, among others. Maya is...
2020-08-2252 min