In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Brian McAllister discuss Juliana Spahr’s 2005 poem, “Gentle Now Don’t Add to Heartache.” Brian McAllister is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. McAllister’s areas of expertise include modern and contemporary literature, poetry studies, environmental literature, econarratology, and rhetorical narratology. Among other topics, McAllister has published essays on Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, and Edwin Morgan. He served as the guest editor of the 2014 special issue of Narrative on narrative and poetry. McAllister also has an essay forthcoming in the October 2024 issue of Narrative: “Landscape Rhetoricity: Narrative, Ecology, and Topographic Form.”