On this two-part episode, we break bread with dynamic poetry duo Sara Deniz Akant and Adrienne Raphel and talk about braided breads, twin language, and the complexity of memory. 

Guest 1: Sara Deniz Akant, IG: @sdenizakant, Twitter: @sdenizakant, Website: https://www.saradenizakant.com/

Bio: Sara Deniz Akant is the author of three books – most recently, Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022), which was a New York Times and Boston Globe book of the year – as well as Babette (Rescue Press 2015), and Parades (Omnidawn 2014). She teaches poetry as a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University, and co-curates the Kan Yama Kan reading series in Brooklyn. @kan.yama.kan.bk  

Guest 1: Adrienne Raphel, IG: @adrienne.raphel,  Twitter: @adrienneraphel,  Website: https://www.adrienneraphel.com/

Bio: Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Penguin Press, 2020), and the poetry collections Our Dark Academia (Rescue Press, 2022) and What Was It For (Rescue Press, 2017). Raphel has taught in the Princeton Writing Program and the Berlin Writers' Workshop, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective.

Poem(s) discussed: "And When It Rained" by Sara Deniz Akant & "Trebek No. 5" by Adrienne Raphel

Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com

Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast

Twitter: @breadpoetrypod

Production: Kula Production Company

Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby

Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes

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This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.