Miranda Mellis and host Siloh Radovsky discuss literary form and the relationship between Miranda’s writing practice, politics, and Buddhism. They also explore the tricky work of staying connected to one’s values in and through writing, and creative practice as a refuge.

Learn more about Experimental Practice and host Siloh Radovsky here. Show notes, including a transcript of Siloh’s conversation with Miranda, are also available on Siloh’s website, or linked here.

Siloh is on Instagram @silohrad.

Audio edited and mastered by Ethan Camp.

Mentioned in this episode

The Revolutionary by Miranda Mellis

Crocosmia by Miranda Mellis (forthcoming from Nightboat Books)

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Édouard Glissant

Cynicism and Magic by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Pema Chödrön

Naropa University (including some of its founders Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsburg)

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry

New Narrative (I love Robert Glück’s “Long Note on New Narrative”)