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Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast — 394 episodes
Unraveling Threads by brenda Lin
I Have This Thing for Flowers by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Let All Our Ghosts Depart by Meghana Mysore
Triage by Claudia Rankine
Perfect Italian by Kiki Petrosino
Lucky Creatures by Joseph Trinidad
How It Feels to Be Alive by Megan O’Grady
The Double Dutch Fuss by Phill Branch
Mud on the Moon by Nita Noveno
Burnside by Devyn Defoe
Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla
Hope House by Joe Bond
The Memory Museum by M Lin
Rabbit, Fox, Tar by P.C. Verrone
Lucky Creatures by Joseph Trinidad
The Grief Shop by Alex DiFrancesco
Tending to Our Wounds by Edna Bonhomme
Scrap Book by Nick Martino
The Memory Museum by M Lin
The Evolution of Fire by Angela Pelster
Surety by Anna Zumbahlen
Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla
Kin by Tayari Jones
Mele by Kalehua Kim
Bees, and After by John Liles
True Mistakes by Lena Moses-Schmitt
Reality Checkmate by Daniel Ruiz
A Love Tap by Bernardo Wade
Beyond the Watershed by Nadia Alexis
Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin
Second Nature by Chaun Ballard
The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup
Death Does Not End at the Sea by Gbenga Adesina
The People Can Fly by Joshua Bennett
The Future by Monica Ferrell
Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Everything Lost Returns by Sarah Domet
Girls Play Dead by Jen Percy
If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust
Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne
This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz
The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel
Black Mestiza by Yael Valencia Aldana
This Here Is Love by Princess Joy L. Perry
The Book of Kin by Jennifer Eli Bowen
On Earth as It Is in Heaven by Vishwas R. Gaitonde
The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza
Sing Me a Circle by Samina Najmi
We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat
This Is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson
Second Life by Amanda Hess
Trying by Chloé Caldwell
Someone Else’s Hunger by Isabella DeSendi
Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos
Green of All Heads by Aracelis Girmay
Long Distance by Ayşegül Savaş
Last Day of My Face by James Shea
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
End of Empire by Marissa Davis
An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Sarah Yahm
Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore
Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis
Big Chief by Jon Hickey
The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord
The Best People by Robert Lopez
Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless by Tamara Dean
It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister
Salvage by Hedgie Choi
Waiting for the Long Night Moon by Amanda Peters
Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin
We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik
Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder
Besaydoo by Yalie Saweda Kamara
The Lengest Neoi by Stephanie Choi
Alt-Nature by Saretta Morgan
Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen
OSSIA by Jimin Seo
Yaguareté White by Diego Báez
The Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham
Greater Ghost by Christian J. Collier
Take My Name but Say It Slow by Thomas Dai
The World With Its Mouth Open by Zahid Rafiq
The Ocean in the Next Room by Sarah V. Schweig
If Nothing by Matthew Nienow
Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat
The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen
Inside the Mirror by Parul Kapur
The Liquid Eye of a Moon by Uchenna Awoke
In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsía Smith Silva
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Mysticism by Simon Critchley
Women Surrounded by Water by Patricia Coral
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang
Field Guide for Accidents by Albert Abonado
Little Seed by Wei Tchou
The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary
Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays From Georgia's Geechee Coast by Neesha Powell-Ingabire
The Exit Is the Entrance: Essays on Escape by Lydia Paar
Bones Worth Breaking by David Martinez
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
The Murmuring Grief of the Americas by Daniel Borzutzky
Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender by Joy Ladin
The Molino by Melani Martinez
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain by Nina Lohman
Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman by Taiyon J. Coleman
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin
All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz
Call This Mutiny: Uncollected Poems by Craig Santos Perez
Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda
The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera
Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
Little Seed by Wei Tchou
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Children in Tactical Gear by Peter Mishler
First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger
Good Monster by Diannely Antigua
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Each Knuckle With Sugar by Sarah Levine
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker
Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Master by Simon Shieh
To Be Named Something Else by Shaina Phenix
Have You Been Long Enough at Table by Leslie Sainz
SOFT APOCALYPSE by Leah Nieboer
Saltwater Demands a Psalm by Kweku Abimbola
Grace Engine by Joshua Burton
Grand Tour by Elisa Gonzalez
The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani
Things I Didn’t Do With This Body by Amanda Gunn
Deliver Me by Elle Nash
The Shining by Dorothea Lasky
I Would Meet You Anywhere by Susan Kiyo Ito
The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump
English as a Second Language, and Other Poems by Jaswinder Bolina
Have You Been Long Enough at Table by Leslie Sainz
The Book by Mary Ruefle
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao
Witness by Jamel Brinkley
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Júnior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
So to Speak by Terrance Hayes
The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead by Madison Davis
Susto by Tommy Archuleta
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
Story of a Poem by Matthew Zapruder
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
West: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal
The Speak Angel Series by Alice Notley
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas
Welcome Me to the Kingdom by Mai Nardone
Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Faraway World by Patricia Engel
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K. Iver
How to Turn Into a Bird by María José Ferrada
Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor
How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave by Maya Salameh
Ask the Brindled by Noʻu Revilla
Sugar Work by Katie Marya
Prescribee by Chia-Lun Chang
Black Swim by Nicholas Goodly
Earth Room by Rachel Mannheimer
As She Appears by Shelley Wong
Indecent Hours by James Fujinami Moore
The Gardens of Our Childhoods by John Belk
LIberation Day by George Saunders
Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor
The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis by Emma Bolden
My Pinup: A Paean to Prince by Hilton Als
White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
Extinction Theory by Kien Lam
Selected Books by the Beloved by Gregory Orr
The Last White Man by Hamid Moshin
The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins by Juniper Fitzgerald
Fruit Punch by Kendra Allen
Bright by Kiki Petrosino
She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Mia Mercado
Togetherness by Wo Chan
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo Okparanta
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han
Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang
Sugar Work by Katie Marya
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay by Lars Horn
1,000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel
Human Resources by Ryann Stevenson
Heart First Into Ruin by Wanda Coleman
She Is Haunted by Paige Clark
God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Natalie Hodges
Dream of the Divided Field by Yanyi
The Red Zone: A Love Story by Chloe Caldwell
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
Line and Light by Jeffrey Yang
Ante body by Marwa Helal
Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Broken Halves of a Milky Sun by Aaiún Nin
Desgraciado (the collected letters)by Angel Dominguez
How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories by Daniel A. Olivas
Animal Person by AlexanderMcLeod
All Day Is a Long Time by David Sanchez
High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez
In the Antarctic Circle by Dennis James Sweeney
Philomath by Devon Walker-Figueroa
Dear Specimen by W. J. Herbert
Homes by Moheb Soliman
What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C Bailey
Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
The Almond and the Apricot by Sara Goudarzi
Mothers, Fathers, and Others by Siri Hustvedt
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Return Flight by Jennifer Huang
To Love an Island by Ana Portnoy Brimmer
Gumbo Ya Ya by Aurielle Marie
The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza
Mother/land by Ananda Lima
Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
The Perishing by Natasha Deón Mixdown
Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things in Between by Padgett Powell
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
Burying the Mountain by Shangyang Fang
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes by Albert Samaha
Requeening by Amanda Moore
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling by Blake Sanz
My Monticello by Jocelyn Johnson
The Nick of Time by Rosmarie Waldrop
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage by Eleanor Henderson
Blind Man's Bluff by James Tate Hill
Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
The Last Thing: New & Selected Programs by Patrick Rosal
Maroon Choreography by fahima ife
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs
After the Hunger by MaryEllen Beveridge
July by Kathleen Ossip
What Water Knows by Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka
Fox & I An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven
A Ghost In The Throat by Dorieann Ní Ghríofa
Wayward by Dana Spiotta
The Vault by Andrés Cerpa
Excerpt from Future Feeling by Joss Lake
Excerpt from Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
Excerpt from The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey by Craig Morgan Teicher
An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike
Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins
Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems by Arthur Sze
The Renunciations by Donika Kelly
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism and Treason by Gina Frangello
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel Moniz
A Little Devil In America by Hanif Abdurraqib
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
Model Citizen by Joshua Mohr
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
Who's Your Daddy by Arisa White
Tethered to Stars by Fady Jadouh
Outlawed by Anna North
Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong
Deluge by Leila Chatti
Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán
Inheritance by Taylor Johnson
Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount
Wound From the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse
Heaven Beneath by Anne Marie Macari
Now It's Dark by Peter Gizzi
Mama Phife Represents by Cheryl Boyce Taylor
The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington
Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void by Jackie Wang
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
These Bodies by Morgan Christie
Arsenal with Praise Song by Rodney Gómez
Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody
Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett
Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party by Chessy Normile
Upend by Claire Meuschke
Grieving: Dispatches From a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza
Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong
Particulate Matter by Felicia Luna Lemus
Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald
You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love by Yona Harvey
Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes
Inferno by Catherine Cho
Luster by Raven Leilani
Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Under the Aegis of a Winged Mind by Makalani Bandele
Pricks in the Tapestry by Jameson Fitzpatrick
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
This Is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah
Seeing the Body by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Other People's Pets by RL Maizes
Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino
Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsessions by Marcia Trahan
F*ckface by Leah Hampton
Descent by Lauren Russell
Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans
Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
After Rubén by Francisco Aragon
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
Trust Me by Richard Z. Santos
Don't You Know I Love You by Laura Bogart
Thinking Inside the Box by Adrienne Raphel
Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett
Little Envelope of Earth Conditions by Cori A. Winrock
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Bell I Wake To by Patty Crane
Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi
Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
The Inheritance of Haunting by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson
Invasive species by Marwa Helal
American Faith by Maya C. Popa
Everything Must Go by Kevin Coval
Arias by Sharon Olds
Bodega by Su Hwang
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s by Tiffany Midge
Suicide Woods by Benjamin Percy
The In-Betweens by Mira Ptacin
Poem For Doom by Matthew Zapruder
Erou by Maya Phillips
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar
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Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Costalegre by Courtney Maum
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am by Jimmy Santiago Baca
I Am a Stranger Here Myself by Debra Gwartney
Ampersand Episode 24: Marlon James, Ilya Kaminsky, Valeria Luiselli
Ampersand Episode 23: Ross Gay, Justin Phillip Reed, Fatimah Asghar
Ampersand Episode 22: Susan Orlean, Barbara Kingsolver, Natasha Trethewey
Ampersand Episode 21: Ada Limón, Rebecca Solnit
Ampersand Episode 20: Lauren Groff, Terrance Hayes, A. M. Homes
Ampersand Episode 19: Leslie Jamison, Carmen Giménez Smith, Leesa Cross-Smith
Ampersand Episode 18: Langston Hughes, Tayari Jones, Tarfia Faizullah
Ampersand Episode 17: Jane Hirshfield, Kaveh Akbar, Layli Long Soldier
Ampersand Episode 16: David Sedaris, Clint Smith, Victoria Chang
Ampersand Episode 15: Salman Rushdie, Nicole Sealey, Dawn Lundy Martin
Ampersand Episode 14: Sherman Alexie, Zinzi Clemmons, Jess Arndt, Erika L. Sánchez
Ampersand Episode 13: Gwendolyn Brooks, Lidia Yuknavitch, Writers Resist
Ampersand Episode 12: George Saunders, Patricia Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera
Ampersand Episode 11: Colson Whitehead, Roxane Gay, Debut Poets
Ampersand Episode 10: Michael Chabon & Brit Bennett
Ampersand Episode Nine: Dear President, MFA Programs, & Tracy Sherrod
Ampersand Episode Eight: Literary Agents, Yaa Gyasi, Imbolo Mbue, & Rumaan Alam
Ampersand Episode Seven: Adam Haslett, Leigh Stein, Brenda Shaughnessy & Tyehimba Jess
Ampersand Episode Six: Jhumpa Lahiri, C.D. Wright, Melissa Broder
Ampersand Episode Five: Saeed Jones, Morgan Parker, Barry Lopez
Ampersand Episode Four: Liu Xia, Camille Rankine, Donald Hall, Li-Young Lee
Ampersand Episode Three: Ann Beattie, Parneshia Jones, Fiddling Poet
Ampersand Episode Two: Kay Ryan, Rowan Ricardo Philips, Jesse Browner
Ampersand Episode One: Mark Doty, Elizabeth McCracken, Benjamin Percy