Epic, Personas, and Writing Across Disciplines: L. S. McKee

Poet and educator L. S. McKee tells us about poetry and personas, the joys of secret venues, writing across science and art curricula, and even relics. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Joan Crawford holding mask of herself (cropped). Photoplay, 1932. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and music!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   Elizabeth Arnold                                    The Reef Ingeborg Bachmann                              Elizabeth Bishop                                    Anne Carson                                          Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Rachel Carson                                        Silent Spring Paul Celan                                              "Death Fugue" Tyler Childers                                         Julio Cortázar                                         Blow-Up: And Other Stories Julio Cortázar                                         Hopscotch Julio Cortázar                                         The Winners Kurt Gödel                                             Frédéric Gros                                         The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation Gruppe  47                                             Luke Harding                                          "'It's the new normal': in Kiev's newest book store, readers fear how Ukraine's story will end" Hugh Haughton, ed.                              Second World War Poems Zbigniew Herbert                                   "The Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito" Homer                                                     The Iliad (transl. Emily Wilson) Homer                                                     The Odyssey Hope Jahren                                          Lab Girl: A Memoir Hope Jahren                                          The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here Brad J. Kallenberg                                 By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering Jack Kerouac                                          Yusef Komunyakaa                                Benjamín Labatut                                  When We Cease to Understand the World T. E. Lawrence                                       Doris Lessing                                         The Golden Notebook Primo Levi                                              "The Molecule's Defiance" in A Tranquil Star: Stories Primo Levi                                              The Periodic Table Janna Levin                                            A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Christopher Logue                                War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad Georg Lukács                                        The Theory of the Novel L. S. McKee                                            "Alva Watches the Previous President Fly Away" L. S. McKee                                            Creature Wing Heart Machine Haruki Murakami                                   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Maggie Nelson                                       On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint George Oppen                                       New Collected Poems William Shakespeare                             Jonathan Sumption                               The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God Greta Thunberg                                     The Climate Book Alan Turing                                            Jesmyn Ward                                         James Wright                                         Isabel Zapata                                         In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation