In her new poetry collection Suddenly We (Wesleyan UP, 2023), Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more capacious "we." How do we navigate between the urgency of our own becoming and the imperative insight that whoever we are, we are in relation to each other? B ... Show More
Nov 19
Sharon White, "If the Owl Calls" (WTAW Press, 2025)
As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn. Then a body is discovered, and Sorensen has to delve into his own past and ... Show More
25m 2s
Nov 19
Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025)
Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends—an artist and curator couple, whom she now realizes stands for everything she detests—Happiness and Love (Scribner, 2025) is a piercing debu ... Show More
40m 57s
Nov 15
Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)
In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken ... Show More
43m 14s
Apr 2025
Re-release: How to enrich your everyday life with poetry (w/ Sarah Kay)
<p>Roses are red, violets are blue, has poetry ever been intimidating for you? For many people, this art form can feel unapproachable, but poet and educator Sarah Kay, suggests that people who don’t like poetry just maybe haven’t found a poem that really speaks to them. Sarah pro ... Show More
31m 28s
Oct 2024
Merve Erme on Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf
I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the writer, critic, and author, Merve Emre.
Currently the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University – and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism – ... Show More
49m 21s
Aug 2024
1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
<p>Today’s poem is In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown. Through her writing, which includes short- and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks and poetry; her music, which includes songwriting, singing and ... Show More
7m 58s
Mar 2025
Culturvator Conversations Podcast: Designing Harmony with Alia El Tanani
In this episode of Culturvator Conversations, and in light of Designer’s Circle, Shahd Osman sits down with interior designer Alia El Tanani, the visionary co-founder of Living In Interiors and Don Tanani, to explore the art of designing spaces that tell stories.Alia El Tanani is ... Show More
1h 26m
Aug 2024
102\\ Turning Challenges into Creative Fuel: Kelee Katillac's Journey in Helping Clients Manifest Their Dream Spaces PLUS Color Meditation
<p>An interior designer's role is to partner with clients to manifest and bring their dreams to life through personalized designs.</p>
<p>I love how Kelee, my special guest, illustrates that role.</p>
<p>Kelee Katillac, an acclaimed interior designer and author shares her rem ... Show More
43m 9s