Two friends try to figure out what it means to write poems and stay sane while putting one foot in a poetry world that seems to baffle us all.
No actual advice is given.
A 12-part podcast series spanning two continents, hosted by Alice Allan and Jonathan Farmer. New episodes weekly.
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Alice Allan lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she previously produced the podcast Poetry Says. She is the author of The Empty Show (Rabbit Poets) and the chapbook Blanks (Slow Loris). She is also a co-host on the SLEERICKETS podcast.
Jonathan Farmer is the author of That Peculiar Affirmative: On the Social Life of Poems and Lyndon Johnson: A Poem, which will come out from LSU Press in the spring of 2027. He teaches middle and high school English, and he lives in Durham, NC.