This is Just to Say

September 10, 2018

Tarfia Faizullah

Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Tarfia Faizullah about, growing up in Texas, her first memories of writing poetry, and how the loss of her sister in a car accident influenced her poem “West Texas Nocturne.”

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August 29, 2018

Maggie Smith

Poet Maggie Smith talks about her poem “The Mother” with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain.

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July 16, 2018

Matthew Zapruder

Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Matthew Zapruder about the collaboration that inspired his poem “Frankenstein Love” from his collection Come On All You Ghosts (2010).

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July 3, 2018

Mahogany L. Browne

Poet Mahogany L. Browne joined poet and novelist Carrie Fountain to talk about how she came to poetry, to share one of her favorite poems by Hiwot Adilow, and to read her powerful poem, “Black Girl Magic.”  

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June 26, 2018

Sam Sax

Poet Sam Sax talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about poetry as biography, the history of medician, poetry as performance, and so much more. He also reads his poem “#Hypocondria” from his book Madness, and shares one of his favorite poems, “Katherine With The Lazy Eye. Short. And Not a Good Poet.” by Francine […]

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June 19, 2018

Roger Reeves

“[Poetry] is the only place that I can defy the world,” said poet Roger Reeves when he spoke to poet Carrie Fountain and producer Rebecca McInroy for this edition of This is Just To Say. Thinking of poetry as a place and a practice, rather than the attempt to create the “perfect poem” was just […]

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May 30, 2018

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Best selling poet, writer, and slam performer Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz reads her poem “The First Check-Up After My Mother Died” from her book How To Love The Empty Air, and talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about the possibility models  for her as a poet, what it means to grieve with an audience, and the […]

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May 21, 2018

Emmy Pérez

Poet Emmy Pérez reads her poem “Green Light Go” and talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about living on the border as an act of resistance, the beauty of writing from anger, the healing power of the natural world, and much more.

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