Luther Hughes is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems in Luther’s debut collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, are tender, erotic, vulnerable, erudite, at times dark, and at times ecstatic. In our conversation, we talked about power dynamics in sexual encounters, different forms of love, and writing as a way of understanding oneself. Then in the second section, we talked about why so many sex scenes in popular media are so strange.

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Show Notes:

• Luther Hughes
• Purchase A Shiver in the Leaves: Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Brooklyn Poets Reading Series - Luther Hughes, Lynn Melnick, Carl Phillips
• The Poet Salon
• Lue’s Poetry Hour
• Luther Hughes - “On Power”
• Seattle Times - “Seattle poet Luther Hughes on ‘A Shiver in the Leaves,’ his debut collection”
• Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo