Listening

I discovered two new-to-me podcasts this month: #AmWriting (from writers Jess Lahey and KJ Dellantonia) and Print Run (from agents Laura Zats and Erik Hane). I know I'm really digging both of these because I am knee deep in their archives. They're both consistently good: well-paced, conversationally transparent and insider-ish. We have also been asking Alexa to play and replay the La La Land soundtrack and Little Eva's Locomotion. (Both hold up in the car.) Raising kids in the era of anger on the Brian Lehrer Show. Also from WNYC: female stand-up comedians, actors, and writers discuss consent in the age of #MeToo.

“The most remarkable thing about poetry’s unpopularity isn’t that it exists, but that it exists in the wake of a period in which poems were not merely popular, but embraced with a fierce and unembarrassed joy. That period, of course, is childhood.” - David Orr