Denise Duhamel and Daniel talk about drawing the "spirit, emotion" and energy out of loss. Denise's recent book of poems is titled, "Blowout." The writers discuss divorce in parallel to other losses and the importance of writing throughout the periods of grief. Denise Duhamel says, "write and let time go by...it frees the monster" and 'later, once the words are written, once the "monster" or the mood of the painful experience has been captured, it will always be there, even if the content and direction of the poem changes.'

Denise contributes this week's Poem of the Week: "My Strip Club" from "Blowout."

Daniel reads a Poetic License about the distances between what we can see and what we have access to enter.