poetry

December 3, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Re-set, re-adjust, & Hibernate Poet John Compton talks about how the line can transform into beauty, his new poetry collection, and
November 3, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Mark Haber on his new release, LESSER RUINS, how he likes the early-morning dream state for writing; plus me in 6th grade English, time and residencies
June 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Writing rituals, the meaning of home, recommending books to writers, and what’s behind the rejections + Sheila Sundar on HABITATIONS
May 7, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: You know…you really should…plus imposter syndrome, what rejections teach, Amy Shearn on her new epistolary novel, DEAR EDNA SLOANE, shopping local (for books!), art + architecture
February 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Robin Oliveria turns her daughter’s room into an office, reads her work out loud while pacing the foyer of her home, and says all writers need life experience and determination, plus her new historical fiction A WILD & HEAVENLY PLACE–oh, and my tips on starting a new writing project
December 4, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Jami Nakamura Lin prefers longhand horizontal writing in large unlined notebooks (same!), plus checking-in on your writing goals, wrapping up 2023, book recs, honing your craft, more
August 31, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: How to prep your manuscript and your beta-readers, plus Una Mannion on writing in long stretches, dreaming about the work, and more in TELL ME WHAT I AM, plus Girls Write Now, the creative life, where to submit, more
June 6, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Christy Warren talks about writing in coffee shops–and being displaced–also PTSD, letting others see us in moments of tenderness; plus a revision workshop, another on obsessions, a big book of summer, recently published poetry, more
March 21, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A spring re-set for writers, designing interiors of tiny homes–Julie Carrick Dalton on her new book, THE LAST BEEKEEPER, found family, going home; poetry prize judged by Maggie Smith, Corporeal Writing’s Tree Retreat, Courtney Maum, fragments & more
February 24, 2023

MUSINGS & MEANDERINGS the host of podcast ‘The Only One in the Room,’ Laura Cathcart Robbins talks about her memoir on addiction, STASH; plus micro-memoir classes, visual writing, time management for the writer/creative, Story Studio happenings, Complete Sentence, and more