The Kenyon Review Podcast

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A monthly podcast from esteemed literary journal The Kenyon Review, featuring interviews, discussions, author readings and much more.

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The Kenyon Review Podcast episodes:

09.15.2020
96. An Announcement from KR
We’d like to thank you, listeners, for your continued support and engagement with our podcasts. For more than six years, we have endeavored to bring you enlightening and entertaining conversations with some of the brightest lights in literature. After a...
08.03.2020
95. Nadia Reiman
Fiction Editor Kirsten Reach talks with Nadia Reiman ’05 about producing “The Out Crowd,” the episode of This American Life that was awarded the very first Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting; her latest reporting on immigration; her time at Kenyon...
07.09.2020
94. Ruth Awad
Kenyon Review's Andy Grace interviews poet Ruth Awad about interviewing her father about his immigration experience, poetry as a historical document, and finding language for our interior worlds.
06.01.2020
93. Dawn Davies
KR poetry fellow Molly McCully Brown interviews Dawn Davies, the GLCA’s 2019 New Writers Award winner about her draw to the unreliable narrator, our nimble relationship with time and her book Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces.
04.30.2020
92. T. C. Boyle
KR's Editor David Lynn sits down with T.C. Boyle, recipient of the 2019 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and talks about inhabiting questions through fictional characters, testing the limits of form, and creating art for art's sake.
04.01.2020
91. Analicia Sotelo
KR fellow Molly McCully Brown converses with poet Analicia Sotelo about poetry’s ability to address the rhetoric of power, produce empathy, and create a space for mystery without dogma.
03.02.2020
90. David Baker
KR's own Andrew Grace interviews poetry editor David Baker about eco poetry in light of today's cultural, political and environmental moment.
02.03.2020
89. Dinty W. Moore
Author and KR workshop instructor Dinty W. Moore sits down with KR's Elizabeth Dark to discuss creative nonfiction, the tackling of truth-telling, the evolution and significance of his work with the journal Brevity, and tension between being productive and slowing...
01.16.2020
88. Erick Gordon and Brad Richard
Brad Richard and Erick Gordon, seasoned writers, educators, and instructors of our KR Writers Workshop for Teachers, discuss their indelible workshop moments and the way creative writing brings wonder to language and excitement to communication.
12.20.2019
87. Carl Phillips
Poet Monica Sok, a Peter Taylor Fellow during the 2019 Writers Workshops, interviews poet and workshop instructor Carl Phillips about vulnerability, vision, and his process of letting go of a writing project.
12.09.2019
86. Stewart O’Nan
Editor at large Katharine Weber talks to Stewart O’Nan
11.25.2019
85. Lauren Winner
KR’s Elizabeth Dark talks with author Lauren Winner about spiritual writing, Image Journal, and Lauren's fascination with objects, practices, and disciplines.
10.31.2019
84. LGBTQ+ Lit Conversation 2019
In recognition of National LGBTQ+ History Month, Timothy Bussey, Assistant Director of Kenyon's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion interviews lecturer Bilal Tajildeen about Stoker's Dracula, Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and queer literature from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
10.18.2019
83. Tommy Pico
Kenyon students Claire Oleson and Brent Matheny talk with poet Tommy Pico about the similarities between poetry and screenwriting, what to do with writing advice, a his choice of his nickname/persona "Teebs."
09.20.2019
82. Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon and Eloisa Amezcua talk about failures as openings to possibilities, the poet's work of filling in history's gaps, and Emily's poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species.
08.23.2019
81. Shara McCallum
Poet Shara McCallum talks to KR’s Anna Duke Reach about memory as an afterlife and reconstructing those we’ve lost through the language we use.
08.08.2019
80. Ed Skoog
Want to know what the past felt like? Read the poems. Kenyon College Visiting Assistant Professor of English Matt Suazo catches up with Ed Skoog about New Orleans, cooperating with language, and the textures of poetry.
07.12.2019
79. Meg Freitag
Kenyon Review Associate and Intern Trudy Wrona interviews Meg Freitag about her new collection of poems, Edith, a book that explores grief and trauma through poems addressed to Freitag’s dead bird.
06.20.2019
78. Sarah Weinman
KR editor at large Katharine Weber talks with author Sarah Weinman about Nabokov's Lolita, our fascination with crime and our capability toward misdeeds.
05.09.2019
77. Proof Casts A Shadow: A Conversation
Kenyon Review fellow Misha Rai sits down with Gabrielle Bellot and Nay Saysourinho to discuss narratives that address the language of citizenship, colonialism, labels, and identity.
04.16.2019
76. Kimiko Hahn
Poet Kimiko Hahn talks about the significance of translation and conceiving words as portals and playgrounds with her Peter Taylor Fellow Sylvia Beato-Davis.
04.02.2019
75. R. O. Kwon
Best-selling author R.O. Kwon talks with Kenyon Review editor at large Katharine Weber about Kwon’s timely novel, “The Incendiaries.” They also discuss the many paths to becoming a writer and the multiple forms a writer’s life takes.
03.15.2019
74. Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night’s Dream, speaks with his KR Writers Workshop Fellow Jessica Kinnison about the primary imagination, the American worship of honing one’s craft, and writing from soul...
03.03.2019
73. Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth, the author of “Secret Identity” in the Mar/Apr Kenyon Review, speaks with Editor at Large Janet McAdams about the compartmentalization of narratives from marginalized communities and the value of creating art within multiple genres and modes.
02.25.2019
72. Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine
Writers Workshop fellow Robyn-Phalen Rayson converses with writer Ghassan Abou-Zeinnedine about the role of comedy, folklore, grief and politics in the crafting of a narrative.
02.04.2019
71. Hilary Plum
Elizabeth Dark, KR’s associate director of programs, talks with prose writer Hilary Plum about documentary fiction, the experience of reading the news, and the stories we choose to keep in our collected memory.
01.21.2019
70. Elizabeth Lowe and Katherine Hedeen
Edgar Garbelotto and Katrine Øgaard Jensen converse with translators Elizabeth Lowe and Katherine Hedeen about literary translation as a creative discipline, the Kenyon Review’s Translation workshop, and how they came to fall in love with literary translation.
01.06.2019
69. Katharine Weber
Elizabeth Dark, KR Associate Director of Programs, interviews Katharine Weber, KR Editor at Large, about her newest book Still Life with Monkey and writing novels that pose moral questions about loyalties and secrets.
12.14.2018
68. Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver is interviewed by his writers workshop fellow Alexandra Barylski, and they talk about being cultural stewards, staying grounded amidst the machinery of getting attention, and viewing the writing workshop as meditation.
11.30.2018
67. Nabila Lovelace
Poet Eloisa Amezcua interviews poet Nabila Lovelace about the act of naming, the identification of violence, and the use of language to make sense of the places in which we find ourselves.
11.26.2018
66. Solmaz Sharif
Poet and Peter Taylor Fellow Nathan Lipps talks with poet Solmaz Sharif, one of our writers workshop instructors about a poem’s audience, staying in the discomfort of a poem, and revising one’s beliefs within a workshop experience.
11.05.2018
65. Daniel Poppick
Daniel Poppick talks with KR’s own Andrew Grace about fragmented language, the life of a working poet, and his two collections of poetry, Police and Fear of Description.
10.18.2018
64. LGBTQ+ Lit: A Conversation
In recognition of National LGBTQ+ History Month, we present this bonus episode in which Timothy Bussey talks to Richie Hofmann, Juniper Jordan Cruz, and Claire Oleson about the importance of LGBTQ+ literature. Topics of discussion include queer readings of traditional...
10.08.2018
63. Adam Cayton-Holland
Adam Cayton-Holland talks with KR's own Katharine Weber about his new memoir Tragedy + Time, his career as a comedian, his sister's suicide, and the many influences from comic books to television that have shaped his sensibility along the...
08.31.2018
62. A. J. Verdelle
Yohanca Delgado talks to AJ Verdelle about facts, musical prose, and the ways in which the revision process is like getting dressed.
08.03.2018
61. Phillip B. Williams
Phillip B. Williams talks to Andy Grace about poetry vs. capitalism, poets vs. celebrities and why he is not writing any poems in 2018.
07.05.2018
60. Lewis Hyde
KR Editor David H. Lynn speaks with Lewis Hyde about his best-selling book The Gift, personal and cultural forgetfulness, and Hyde’s twenty-nine-year career at Kenyon. In addition to The Gift, Hyde is the author of Common as Air, Trickster Makes...
06.04.2018
59. Margot Livesey
During a recent visit to the Kenyon College campus, novelist Margot Livesey talked to Visiting Thomas Professor of creative writing and Kenyon Review editor at large, Katharine Weber, about how we read novels, the teaching of fiction writing, and her...
04.30.2018
58. Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora, author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press) and currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, talks with Andrew Grace of the Kenyon English faculty about immigration, advocating for undocumented poets, and what Salvadoran poets Americans...
04.02.2018
57. Kim Blaeser
In this episode, Anishinaabe poet and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser speaks with Janet McAdams, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Poetry at Kenyon College, about picto-poems, watery places, and Native writing in the twenty-first century.
03.13.2018
56. Nate Marshall
In this episode, Andrew Grace talks to poet and editor Nate Marshall about Seamus Heaney's sense of place, poetry as a team sport, writing rap lyrics vs. lyric poems, and, of course, Chicago
02.28.2018
55. Katherine Hedeen
Andy Grace and Kate Hedeen discuss the special section on new Cuban poetry in the Jan-Feb issue of the Kenyon Review, literary translation, and the KR's summer workshop: "The Translator's Voice".
02.01.2018
54. Colm Tóibín
Acclaimed author Colm Tóibín talks to KR editor David Lynn about his research process, teaching, and the struggle for Catalan independence.
01.04.2018
53. Saskia Hamilton
Kenyon professor of religious studies, Royal Rhodes, speaks to poet, editor and Kenyon alumna, Saskia Hamilton, about Robert Lowell, the importance of silence, and Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan.
12.05.2017
52. Margot Singer
Earlier this fall, KR's own Elizabeth Dark sat down with Margot Singer to talk about Margot's book “Underground Fugue” and other subjects ranging from fear and the role of the fiction writer to a story's structure and fugues of all...
11.02.2017
51. Junot Diaz
In this episode, Pulitzer-prize winner Junot Díaz talks to Kenyon College Associate Professor of English Ivonne M. García about expressing his political views on Facebook, an emerging New America, the significance of ghosts and the Gothic, and the fukú or...
10.02.2017
50. Nick White
In this episode, novelist Nick White talks with associate editor Kirsten Reach about Possum Neck, snow cones, “Friday the 13th,” queer readings of slasher flicks, and why writing is “a constant act of lying to yourself.”
08.31.2017
49. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
In this episode, poet and critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib debates with Andrew Grace on whether or not song lyrics should be considered literature. Ranging from considerations of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Lil Yachty and 2 Chainz, Abdurraqib explains the...
07.31.2017
48. Val Brelinski
In this episode, Val Brelinski, author of The Girl Who Slept with God, talks with Zoë Kontes about naming her characters, “cooking with gas” with Tobias Wolff, and her best editor—surprisingly, her son.
07.06.2017
47. Thomas Swick
In this episode, travel writer Thomas Swick speaks with Dan Laskin about the art and craft of travel writing, the literary qualities that distinguish travel literature from journalism, and the ways that both planning and serendipity produce compelling travel stories....

What's The Kenyon Review Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Kenyon Review Podcast episodes:

96. An Announcement from KR

95. Nadia Reiman

94. Ruth Awad

93. Dawn Davies

92. T. C. Boyle

91. Analicia Sotelo

90. David Baker

89. Dinty W. Moore

88. Erick Gordon and Brad Richard

87. Carl Phillips

86. Stewart O’Nan

85. Lauren Winner

84. LGBTQ+ Lit Conversation 2019

83. Tommy Pico

82. Emily Jungmin Yoon

81. Shara McCallum

80. Ed Skoog

79. Meg Freitag

78. Sarah Weinman

77. Proof Casts A Shadow: A Conversation

76. Kimiko Hahn

75. R. O. Kwon

74. Rodger Kamenetz

73. Eric Gansworth

72. Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine

71. Hilary Plum

70. Elizabeth Lowe and Katherine Hedeen

69. Katharine Weber

68. Afaa Michael Weaver

67. Nabila Lovelace

66. Solmaz Sharif

65. Daniel Poppick

64. LGBTQ+ Lit: A Conversation

63. Adam Cayton-Holland

62. A. J. Verdelle

61. Phillip B. Williams

60. Lewis Hyde

59. Margot Livesey

58. Javier Zamora

57. Kim Blaeser

56. Nate Marshall

55. Katherine Hedeen

54. Colm Tóibín

53. Saskia Hamilton

52. Margot Singer

51. Junot Diaz

50. Nick White

49. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

48. Val Brelinski

47. Thomas Swick