Episodios

  • First Draft - Ada Limón (and friends)

    First Draft - Ada Limón (and friends)
    Jul 15 2024
    Ada Limón the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. This episode also features Michael Kleber-Diggs and Erika Meitner, both of whom have poems in the collection and are former guests of First Draft. We talk about nature poetry, fear, hope and grief, creating a collection, and inspire people to write their own You are Here poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 11 m
  • First Draft - Tracy Chevalier

    First Draft - Tracy Chevalier
    Jul 8 2024
    Tracy Chevalier is the author of 11 novels and the editor of one short story anthology. Her books include Girl with a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels, Remarkable Creatures, At the Edge of the Orchard, and A Single Thread. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and lives in London. Her new novel is The Glass Maker. We talked about feeling writing in the body, Tracy’s research process, adding a touch of magical realism to her work, her writing influences for this novel in particular, her female protagonist, glass making, travel and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 10 m
  • First Draft - Tommy Orange

    First Draft - Tommy Orange
    Jul 1 2024
    Tommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts where he now teaches. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. His first book, There There, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. His new novel is Wandering Stars. He lives in Oakland, California. We talked about where creativity comes from, lightning strikes, creative writing, historical figures, music, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • First Draft - Lauren Camp

    First Draft - Lauren Camp
    Jun 24 2024
    Lauren Camp is the author of eight poetry collections including Worn Smooth between Devourings, An Eye in Each Square, Took House, and In Old Sky among others. She is the Poet Laureate of New Mexico and was awarded a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. We talked about being the Poet Laureate for New Mexico, dark skies in the Grand Canyon, the pressures of writing residencies, Lauren read some of her poems, adding photos to her collection, and seizing the day, when it finally arrives, to write. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • First Draft - Stacey D’Erasmo (Returns)

    First Draft - Stacey D’Erasmo (Returns)
    Jun 17 2024
    Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below, Wonderland, and The Complicities and the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy and The Long Run. She is a professor of writing and publishing practices at Fordham University. We talked about inspiration and creativity as lightning bolts and melting, abstract art, aging as an artist, breakthroughs, and longevity in art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 3 m
  • First Draft - Carvell Wallace

    First Draft - Carvell Wallace
    Jun 10 2024
    Carvell Wallace is a New York Times Bestselling author, memoirist, and award-winning podcaster who covers race, arts, culture, film and music for a wide variety of news outlets. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, the New Yorker and other publications. He co-wrote the nonfiction book The Sixth Man. His podcast Closer Than They Appear explored race and identity in America and his podcast Finding Fred was nominated for a Peabody Award. His new memoir is called Another Word for Love. We talked about growing up with unstable housing, how writing helped him look at himself and his life differently, acting and becoming a creative, self-forgiveness, depression and holding trauma in the body, sobriety, the vast topic of love, Star Wars, and being a sensitive human. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 7 m
  • First Draft - Claire Messud (Returns Again)

    First Draft - Claire Messud (Returns Again)
    Jun 3 2024
    Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her essay collection is called Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write. Her recent novel is called This Strange Eventful History. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family. We talked about her family history, Algerian independence, the wisdom of age, emphasizing character, distance from true subjects, colonialism, and her novel’s structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h
  • First Draft - Edward Hamlin

    First Draft - Edward Hamlin
    May 27 2024
    Edward Hamlin is the author of the short story collection Night in Erg Chebbi: Stories and the novel Sonata in Wax. His writing has been published widely and recognized with a number of awards, including the Nelson Algren Award and the Iowa Short Fiction Award. He lives in Colorado. We talked about writing family history, research for the historical novel, classical music, the power of creation and redemption, music recording, the possibility of a lost masterpiece, and serendipity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 m