The Kenyon Review Podcast

We’d like to thank you, listeners, for your continued support and engagement with our podcasts. For more than six years, we have endeavored to bring you enlightening and entertaining conversations with some of the brightest lights in literature. After a good deal of deliberation, the KR team has decided to take a six-month hiatus from our podcast offerings in an effort to better address these changed and changing times. It is our hope that the podcast will return in 2021 refreshed and revitalized. In the meantime, please stay in touch via our newsletter, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or, as our good friend Natalie Shapero once said, “Just float down the Kokosing and look up!” We’ll see you again in 2021.

Fiction Editor Kirsten Reach talks with Nadia Reiman ’05 about producing “The Out Crowd,” the episode of This American Life that was awarded the very first Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting; her latest reporting on immigration; her time at Kenyon working for WKCO; and how she “baby bird-ed” an indie rock radio show in Costa Rica.

Kenyon Review's Andy Grace interviews poet Ruth Awad about interviewing her father about his immigration experience, poetry as a historical document, and finding language for our interior worlds.

KR poetry fellow Molly McCully Brown interviews Dawn Davies, the GLCA’s 2019 New Writers Award winner about her draw to the unreliable narrator, our nimble relationship with time and her book Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces.

KR's Editor David Lynn sits down with T.C. Boyle, recipient of the 2019 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and talks about inhabiting questions through fictional characters, testing the limits of form, and creating art for art's sake.

KR fellow Molly McCully Brown converses with poet Analicia Sotelo about poetry’s ability to address the rhetoric of power, produce empathy, and create a space for mystery without dogma.

KR's own Andrew Grace interviews poetry editor David Baker about eco poetry in light of today's cultural, political and environmental moment.

Author and KR workshop instructor Dinty W. Moore sits down with KR's Elizabeth Dark to discuss creative nonfiction, the tackling of truth-telling, the evolution and significance of his work with the journal Brevity, and tension between being productive and slowing down.

Brad Richard and Erick Gordon, seasoned writers, educators, and instructors of our KR Writers Workshop for Teachers, discuss their indelible workshop moments and the way creative writing brings wonder to language and excitement to communication.

Poet Monica Sok, a Peter Taylor Fellow during the 2019 Writers Workshops, interviews poet and workshop instructor Carl Phillips about vulnerability, vision, and his process of letting go of a writing project.