Listen to me and poet/activist ellie swensson talk about her book SALT OF US. We cover everything from the patriarchy of the beat generation, to what it means to live in a white body, grow up queer in the South, and much more. Oh, and poetry, yeah, we talk about the craft a little bit, too. Not to be missed!

ellie recently published her first collection of poetry via Punch Drunk Press. She is a queer, southern ex-pat and earned her MFA from my alma mater Naropa University in 2015. She is the founder and co-director of Bolder Writers Warehouse, a mobile writers’ community resource. Her poems are published in a handful of places you may know, but she prefers her words alive in the mouth and the body.

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