ep. 33 - Ellen Bass

Episode #33 features Ellen Bass and her new book Indigo. Ellen has appeared in Rattle three times and was the featured conversation in issue #40. Ellen Bass’s other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the NEA, the California Arts Council, three Pushcart Prizes, The Lambda Literary Award, The Pablo Neruda Prize, The Larry Levis Prize and the New Letters Prize. She coedited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!, and her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass founded poetry workshops at Salinas Valley State Prison and the Santa Cruz, California jails, and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. For more information, visit: https://www.ellenbass.com/ Warm-up Poem: "You Moved Your Whole Town" by Paul T. Corrigan This Week’s Prompt: A motel with no windows. Must use the words “descent” and “twin.” Prompt Poems: Megan Green Carla Schwartz Next Week’s Prompt: A girl lying next to a radio in 1932. Suggestion: Sonnet.