April 30, 2018
KR Podcast with Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora, author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press) and currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, talks with Andrew Grace of the Kenyon English faculty about […]
March 29, 2018
KR Podcast with Kimberly Blaeser
Anishinaabe poet and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser speaks with Janet McAdams, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Poetry at Kenyon College, about picto-poems, watery places, and Native writing in […]
March 13, 2018
KR Podcast with Nate Marshall
In this episode, Andrew Grace talks to poet and editor Nate Marshall about Seamus Heaney’s sense of place, poetry as a team sport, writing rap lyrics vs. lyric poems, and, […]
February 28, 2018
KR Podcast with Katherine Hedeen
In this edition, Andrew Grace talks with Kenyon College Spanish professor and translator Katherine Hedeen about the special section on new Cuban poetry in the Jan/Feb issue of the Kenyon […]
February 2, 2018
KR Podcast with Colm Tóibín
In this edition, acclaimed author Colm Tóibín talks to KR editor David Lynn about research process, teaching, and the struggle for Catalan independence. Colm Tóibín is an acclaimed Irish novelist, […]
January 4, 2018
KR Podcast with Saskia Hamilton
In this episode, poet, editor, and Kenyon alumna Saskia Hamilton talks to Kenyon Professor of Religious Studies Royal Rhodes about Robert Lowell, the importance of silence, and Nobel Prize winner […]
December 5, 2017
KR Podcast with Margot Singer
In this episode, KR’s own Elizabeth Dark sits down with Margot Singer to talk about Margot’s book Underground Fugue and other subjects ranging from fear and the role of the […]
November 2, 2017
KR Podcast with Junot Díaz
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz talks to Kenyon College Associate Professor of English Ivonne M. García about expressing his political views on Facebook, an emerging New America, […]
September 28, 2017
KR Podcast with Nick White
In this episode, novelist Nick White talks with associate editor Kirsten Reach about Possum Neck, snow cones, “Friday the 13th,” queer readings of slasher flicks, and why writing is “a […]
September 1, 2017
KR Podcast with Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
In this episode, poet and critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib debates with editor-at-large Andrew Grace on whether or not song lyrics should be considered literature. Ranging from considerations of Bob Dylan and […]
July 31, 2017
KR Podcast with Val Brelinski
In this episode, novelist Val Brelinski, author of The Girl Who Slept with God, talks with Zoë Kontes about naming her characters, “cooking with gas” with Tobias Wolff, and her […]
June 28, 2017
KR Podcast with Thomas Swick
In this episode, travel writer Thomas Swick speaks with Dan Laskin about the art and craft of travel writing, the literary qualities that distinguish travel literature from journalism, and the […]