We're talking in this episode to poet and editor Rachel Mennies, who tells us about writing into and through uncertainty, what keeps us writing, and what it's like to be part of a journal's editorial staff.

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: Filipp Malyavin, A Secret (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Agni

Ruth Awad / Rachel Mennies The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry

Booktalk

Lucy Brock-Broido Stay, Illusion

Roberto Calasso Literature and the Gods Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Dust Peter Hammond Sapphire & Steel HomerThe Iliad Homer The Odyssey Lewis Hyde The Gift Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Mario Levrero The Luminous Novel David Lynch Twin Peaks J. D. McClatchy, ed. Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Rachel Mennies "Less than Certain: How to Teach Bewildering Poems" Rachel Mennies The Naomi Letters Madeline Miller Circe Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles Christopher Nolan Interstellar Alice Oswald Memorial Ezra Pound Mark Rothko Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just Talmudic stories Chris Van Dusen Bridgerton W. B. Yeats