December is a special time of year and this is a special kind of podcast—two guests! Seasoned poet Nicole Brissette and self-taught painter Jason Baker talk art, poetry, the influence of the mind and our ever-changing world on creativity, and how each has grown into the artists they are today (spoiler, includes the work of a fortune teller). This month marks the beginning of Hearsay Poetry’s new monthly ekphrastic poetry challenge. Ekphrastic poetry is “a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.” This month features Jason Baker’s painting Cathedral Iterations. Share your ekphrastic writing at the Hearsay open mic or on Facebook!