Siri Pierce joins Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum in conversation and to read her poem "Plastic Palaces" featured in A NEW LAND, a poetry anthology from The Telling Room. Stuart and Siri discuss writing about seriousness and shock from the imagination of youth and the memories of today, the details of fantasy and mortality, and writing in isolation and sharing darker themes with trusted readers in a workshop environment. Siri is currently a student at Brown University.