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

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".

Acclaimed author Colm Tóibín talks to KR editor David Lynn about his research process, teaching, and the struggle for Catalan independence.

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.

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 kinds.

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 the idea of being “cursed.”

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.”

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 importance of taking popular music seriously, and how poets can enhance their craft by paying close attention to the lyric strategies of songwriters.

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.

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. Swick is the author, most recently, of The Joys of Travel—And Stories that Illuminate Them, published by Skyhorse Publishing.