As U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón has had a far-reaching affect. She has visited readers and writers throughout the nation, put in poems at majestic websites in nationwide parks, and he or she even wrote a poem that’s engraved inside a NASA spacecraft on its option to Jupiter.
At this time on the present, although, our host Anna Martin talks with Limón about one thing extra private and intimate: What occurs when writers fall hopelessly in love. She reads a Fashionable Love essay a few novelist whose debilitating crush on a poet provides her a foul case of author’s block (earlier than leaving her with a badly damaged coronary heart). Limón additionally tells Anna why feeling anger and grief after we’re despairing may be the trail to feeling extra alive, and he or she explains why a pair of outdated sweatpants belong in a love poem as a lot as bees and flowers do.
Ada Limón’s current e-book, “You Are Right here: Poetry within the Pure World” may be discovered here.
Lily King’s Fashionable Love essay, “An Empty Coronary heart Is One That Can Be Stuffed” may be discovered here.
Hyperlinks to transcripts of episodes typically seem on these pages inside every week.
“Fashionable Love” is hosted by Anna Martin and produced by Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Amy Pearl and Sara Curtis. The present is edited by Gianna Palmer and Jen Poyant, our govt producer. Manufacturing administration is by Christina Djossa. The present is blended by Sonia Herrero and recorded by Maddy Masiello and Nick Pitman. It options unique music by Pat McCusker, Elisheba Ittoop, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Carole Sabouraud and Rowan Niemisto. Our theme music is by Dan Powell.
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