Cookie Hiponia — author, poet, and former lead editor of Destiny 2 and Mass Effect — joins to discuss the social simulation games Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing through the lens of poems about making and giving. Barbara Jane Reyes, "<a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Brown-American-Continuum/dp/1950774171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Track: 'Dahil Sa Iyo,' Pinay (1998)</a>" Pablo Neruda, "<a href="https://poets.org/poem/ode-my-socks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ode to My Socks</a>" <a href="https://twitter.com/titacookie1974" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cookie Hiponia</a> <a href= "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645848/we-belong-by-cookie-hiponia-everman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Belong</a> at Penguin Random House <a href="https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Third Place Books</a> and <a href= "https://www.elliottbaybook.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Elliot Bay Book Company</a> Music copyright by <a href="http://errnum.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Chandler Jr.</a>

A podcast exploring the impact of poetic imagination on videogame design and criticism.