What We Are Listening To: Poured Over

October is simply a period for turning the page: we fto spell of summer, clasp sweater-weather and snuggle up indoors. The snuggling up portion is ever amended erstwhile done with a book! We mightiness beryllium staying home, but we tin inactive research different worlds.

This month, the podcast that is helping america navigate these literate journeys is Poured Over. This is simply a amusement for readers who pore implicit details, obsess implicit sentences, ideas, stories and characters. Follow for astonishing riffs, candid conversations, a fewer laughs, and much from large sanction authors and those connected their mode to being large names. New episodes station 2 – 3 times a week.

What we are looking guardant to this month:

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

In this book, we conscionable Sneha, who is embarking connected a caller section successful her life.  We are wholly drawn successful by the bushed of the writing, the anticipation and vigor that travel a coming-of-age story, and the moving telling of an immigrant’s journey.  Listen successful to conscionable this young writer and larn much astir the penning of her debut novel.  Pairs good with a diy beverage latte and your favourite brace of sweatpants.

Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay

Ross Gay’s caller work, The Book of Delights, taught america however to observe and admit the often overlooked details successful our everyday.  Now we are looking guardant to however we volition larn to acquisition joyousness much profoundly with this adjacent book, Inciting Joy.  Listen successful to find caller position and observe however curiosity tin pb you to the unexpected.   Pairs good with a journal and self-reflection.

Recent Favorite from the archives:

Ada Limon,  The Hurting Kind

This postulation comes from the current, and archetypal Latina, Poet Laureate of the United States.  Half of its poems were written during the pandemic and connected the pages you volition find the quiescent that tin travel from reconnecting with the earthy world.  Listen to this speech to recognize the “isness” of poetry, admit Limon’s accomplishment for imbuing a kinesthetic vigor into her words and spot however assembling idiosyncratic poems into a postulation is similar returning stones into the stream to get their colors back.  Pairs good with aromatherapy and gazing retired the window.

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