Poet Kimiko Hahn talks about the significance of translation and conceiving words as portals and playgrounds with her Peter Taylor Fellow Sylvia Beato-Davis.

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.

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 vs. writing from persona.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.