S7:E6 Jessica Cohn Talks with Julie Murphy

Julie Murphy and  Jessica Cohn discuss Jessica's debut book of poems Gratitude Diary, exploring themes of nature, family, loss, and yes, gratitude. Cohn reads Jane Hirshfield's poem My Debtand the poets discuss amazement and appreciation of beauty and nature, but also gratitude for the more challenging and difficult aspects of life.A Michigan native, Jessica Cohn has made homes in Illinois, New York, and most recently, Aptos, California, where she started a poetry practice with the support of the Santa Cruz community of writers. In GRATITUDE DIARY, her first poetry collection, Cohn marks a path through our post-truth world with rocks, feathers, and observations in verse. This long-time editor and nonfiction author revels in the way poems say what cannot otherwise be said. For more, please visit jessicacohn.net or  [email protected].