Writing into Uncertainty: Rachel Mennies

We're talking in this episode to poet and editor Rachel Mennies, who tells us about writing into and through uncertainty, what keeps us writing, and what it's like to be part of a journal's editorial staff. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Filipp Malyavin, A Secret (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—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! Agni  Ruth Awad / Rachel Mennies  The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry Booktalk  Lucy Brock-Broido                               Stay, Illusion Roberto Calasso                                   Literature and the Gods Arkadii Dragomoshchenko                  Dust Peter Hammond                                  Sapphire & Steel HomerThe Iliad Homer The Odyssey Lewis Hyde                                           The Gift                                                Stephen King                                        On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft      Mario Levrero                                      The Luminous Novel                            David Lynch                                         Twin Peaks                                           J. D. McClatchy, ed.                             Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Rachel Mennies                                   "Less than Certain: How to Teach Bewildering Poems" Rachel Mennies                                   The Naomi Letters Madeline Miller                                   Circe Madeline Miller                                   The Song of Achilles                             Christopher Nolan                               Interstellar Alice Oswald                                        Memorial                                             Ezra Pound Mark Rothko Jean-Paul Sartre                                   No Exit Elaine Scarry                                        On Beauty and Being Just Talmudic stories Chris Van Dusen Bridgerton W. B. Yeats