In this episode, we will be speaking with Matt Thies, a recent graduate of UNCW’s Creative Writing MFA program and local musician in the band Open Wire. Matt is a poet who draws inspiration from environmentalism and North Carolina history. His thesis collection, entitled Oceanicity, uses the hydrosphere as a centralizing theme through which he explores emotion, relationship to place, and untold histories. Matt generously agreed to read and discuss three poems from his collection. Stay tuned at the end of the episode to hear "Wake," Open Wire’s latest yet-to-be-released single!