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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

By: Mitzi Rapkin
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  • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, non-fiction, essay, and poetry writers. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. This weekly show hosted by Mitzi Rapkin is a celebration of creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.
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  • 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 hr and 2 mins
  • 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 hr and 3 mins
  • 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 hr and 7 mins
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Loved the soothing voices of the speakers

As a writer I really appreciated the insightful answers to the thoughtful questions asked by Mitzi. As a woman I struggle like all women for our true place in society and the constrained boxes we are put in by men and each other who judge our worth based on desireability. The more confined we are the more we have to look inward so in someways that confinement serves as a cocoon physically but forces us to mentally break free enabling us to use that body to express whats inside.

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