Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the Weird Sister herself, Marisa Crawford!

Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Diary (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), Reversible, and The Haunted House. She is the editor of The Weird Sister Collection (Feminist Press, 2024), and co-editor, with Megan Milks, of We Are The Baby-Sitters Club: Essays & Artwork from Grown-Up Readers. Her next project, a poetry collaboration with Morgan Parker, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in 2025. Marisa’s writing about feminism, art and pop culture has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Dazed, BUST, VICE, Hyperallergic, Bitch, Ms., The Rumpus, Polyester Zine and elsewhere. Marisa is the creator and editor-in-chief of WEIRD SISTER, a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture, and co-host of the 90s rock podcast All Our Pretty Songs. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the legendary D.A. Powell!

D. A. Powell's most recent collections include Low Hanging Fruit (Foundlings Press, 2022) & Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020). Powell's awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kingsley Tufts Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, & the California Book Award. He has taught at Stanford, University of Iowa, & Harvard University. His poetry inhabits the intersections of land, body and popular culture.

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Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the magnificent Joyelle McSweeney! Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicidal ideations & infant mortality. Please take care of yourself, & feel free to skip or pause if you need to.

Joyelle McSweeney's collections of poetry include The Red Bird (2002), winner of the 2001 Fence Modern Poetry Series, The Commandrine and Other Poems (2004), Percussion Grenade (2012), Toxicon and Arachne (2020), a finalist for the 2021 Kingsley Tufts Award, and Death Styles (2024). She is also the author of the novels Nyland, the Sarcographer (2007) and Flet (2007); the prose work Salamandrine, 8 Gothics (2013); the critical volume Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2014); and the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks (2014), awarded the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She is a co-translator of Yi Sang: Selected Works (2020), winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation. Her honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Literature Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry.

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