Rachel S. Donahue interviews Ben Palpant (creator of An Axe for the Frozen Sea and Letters from the Mountain) to have a conversation about conversations with seventeen powerful poets of the 21st century. These conversations cover an entire range of life experience, including grief, hope, culture, the writing craft, family life, and the imagination.

Mentioned in this episode:

* An Axe for the Frozen Sea: Conversations with Poets about What Matters Most

* Letters from the Mountain

* Brightwing Tales: Mole’s Misadventure

Also Mentioned in this episode:

* Dana Gioia

* Malcolm Guite

* Maurice Manning

* Li-Young Lee

* Scott Cairns

* “The Idiot Psalms” - Scott Cairns

* “Unreasonable Hospitality” by Will Guidara

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Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.”

Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork.

S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com

Diana Pavlac Glyer for our namesake book, Bandersnatch.

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