January 31, 2019
KR Podcast with Hilary Plum
Elizabeth Dark, KR’s associate director of programs, talks with prose writer Hilary Plum about documentary fiction, the experience of reading the news, and the stories we choose to keep in […]
January 15, 2019
KR Podcast with Katherine Hedeen and Elizabeth Lowe
Edgar Garbelotto and Katrine Øgaard Jensen converse with translators Elizabeth Lowe and Katherine Hedeen about literary translation as a creative discipline, the Kenyon Review’s Translation workshop, and how they came […]
January 3, 2019
KR Podcast with Katharine Weber
Elizabeth Dark, KR’s Associate Director of Programs, talks with Katharine Weber about her latest novel, Still Life with Monkey, and about writing fiction that poses moral questions involving loyalty and […]
December 14, 2018
KR Podcast with Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver is interviewed by his writers workshop fellow Alexandra Barylski. They talk about being cultural stewards, staying grounded amidst the machinery of getting attention, and viewing the writing […]
December 1, 2018
KR Podcast with Nabila Lovelace
Poet Eloisa Amezcua interviews poet Nabila Lovelace about the act of naming, the identification of violence, and the use of language to make sense of the places in which we […]
November 27, 2018
KR Podcast with Solmaz Sharif
Poet and Peter Taylor Fellow Nathan Lipps talks with poet Solmaz Sharif, one of our writers workshop instructors about a poem’s audience, staying in the discomfort of a poem, and […]
October 31, 2018
KR Podcast with Daniel Poppick
Daniel Poppick talks with KR’s own Andrew Grace about fragmented language, the life of a working poet, and his two collections of poetry, The Police and Fear of Description. Daniel […]
October 5, 2018
KR Podcast with Adam Cayton-Holland
Adam Cayton-Holland talks with KR’s own Katharine Weber about his new memoir, Tragedy + Time, his career as a comedian, his sister’s suicide, and the many influences, from comic books […]
September 3, 2018
KR Podcast with A.J. Verdelle
Yohanca Delgado, a Peter Taylor Fellow during the 2018 Writers Workshops, talks to novelist and workshop instructor A.J. Verdelle about facts, musical prose, and the ways in which the revision […]
August 3, 2018
KR Podcast with Phillip B. Williams
Phillip B. Williams speaks with KR Editor at Large Andrew Grace about poetry vs. capitalism, poets vs. celebrities, and why he is not writing any poems in 2018. Phillip B. […]
July 8, 2018
KR Podcast with Lewis Hyde
KR Editor David H. Lynn speaks with Lewis Hyde about his best-selling book The Gift, personal and cultural forgetfulness, and Hyde’s twenty-nine-year career at Kenyon. Lewis Hyde’s books include Common […]
June 4, 2018
KR Podcast with Margot Livesey
During a recent visit to the Kenyon College campus, novelist Margot Livesey talked to Visiting Thomas Professor of Creative Writing and Kenyon Review editor at large, Katharine Weber, about how […]