Kate and Michael discuss poetry, bags of dirt, the rabid protectors of Pulitzer Prize winners, and Irène Mathieu's poem, "soil."
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Kate Hanson Foster
Michael Schmeltzer
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Links to content mentioned in this episode:
"soil" by Irène Mathieu, found at Tabatha Yeatts' blog
https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/2018/06/soil.html
"orogeny" by Irène Mathieu
https://irenemathieu.com/orogeny/
"The Father" by Sharon Olds
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/124365/the-father-by-sharon-olds/
Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.
Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.
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