EPISODE · May 12, 2026 · 37 MIN
I Don't Want to Talk About My Poems: Finding Your Writing Voice, Novel Length, and How to Revise a Poem
from First Person Present · host Hewes House
A bottle of heretical French wine, a five-year taste arc, and a 1,000-page German novel put down out of sheer pettiness. In this episode, Josh and Dasha trace the evolution of a writing sensibility: from angular Hemingway sentences to something velvety and unnecessary, like a Californian Pinot Noir. Then: an anonymous listener asks how you know when a poem is done, and whether every word has to hit.Call in with questions Visit our site for full show notesLinks: Les Hérétiques wineSpencer Wine, Ann Arbor Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Shout out to Gabe HabashSchattenfroh by Michael Lentz, trans. Max Lawton All Fours by Miranda July Zona Motel gossip column How long did it take to write Infinite Jest? Sylvia Plath's revised Ariel manuscript pages Virgil's unfinished lines in the AeneidTheme music: "1982" by See Jazz
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A bottle of heretical French wine, a five-year taste arc, and a 1,000-page German novel put down out of sheer pettiness. In this episode, Josh and Dasha trace the evolution of a writing sensibility: from angular Hemingway sentences to something velvety and unnecessary, like a Californian Pinot Noir. Then: an anonymous listener asks how you know when a poem is done, and whether every word has to hit.Call in with questions Visit our site for full show notesLinks: Les Hérétiques wineSpencer Wine, Ann Arbor Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Shout out to Gabe HabashSchattenfroh by Michael Lentz, trans. Max Lawton All Fours by Miranda July Zona Motel gossip column How long did it take to write Infinite Jest? Sylvia Plath's revised Ariel manuscript pages Virgil's unfinished lines in the AeneidTheme music: "1982" by See Jazz
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I Don't Want to Talk About My Poems: Finding Your Writing Voice, Novel Length, and How to Revise a Poem
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