S8: E30 Lisa Low Talks with Julie Murphy

What does it mean to inherit a story? How do memory, family, race, and identity shape the poems we write—and how do poems, in turn, reshape the stories we tell ourselves?In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective, host Julie Murphy welcomes award-winning poet Lisa Low to discuss her remarkable new collection, Replica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). The conversation begins with Tiana Clark's exuberant "Broken Ode for the Epigraph," opening a rich discussion about literary lineage, artistic permission, revision, and the transformative power of poetry.Together they explore the craft behind several poems from Replica, including "Replica," "People Who Look Like You," "Palinode," and "On Effort," examining how ordinary objects, sharp observation, humor, and self-interrogation become vehicles for profound emotional and philosophical inquiry.Lisa Low is the author of Replica and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside. A recipient of the 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.