What We Are Listening To: Poured Over

October is a month for turning the page: we let go of summer, embrace sweater-weather and snuggle up indoors. The snuggling up part is unchangingly largest when washed-up with a book! We might be staying home, but we can still explore other worlds.

This month, the podcast that is helping us navigate these literary journeys is Poured Over. This is a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences, ideas, stories and characters. Follow for surprising riffs, unslanted conversations, a few laughs, and increasingly from big name authors and those on their way to stuff big names. New episodes post 2 – 3 times a week.

What we are looking forward to this month:

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

In this book, we meet Sneha, who is embarking on a new installment in her life.  We are completely drawn in by the rhythm of the writing, the vaticination and energy that trailblaze a coming-of-age story, and the moving telling of an immigrant’s journey.  Listen in to meet this young tragedian and learn increasingly well-nigh the writing of her debut novel.  Pairs well with a diy tea latte and your favorite pair of sweatpants.

Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay

Ross Gay’s recent work, The Typesetting of Delights, taught us how to observe and fathom the often overlooked details in our everyday.  Now we are looking forward to how we will learn to wits joy increasingly tightly with this next book, Inciting Joy.  Listen in to find new perspective and discover how marvel can lead you to the unexpected.   Pairs well with a journal and self-reflection.

Recent Favorite from the archives:

Ada Limon,  The Hurting Kind

This hodgepodge comes from the current, and first Latina, Poet Laureate of the United States.  Half of its poems were written during the pandemic and on the pages you will find the quiet that can come from reconnecting with the natural world.  Listen to this conversation to understand the “isness” of poetry, fathom Limon’s skill for imbuing a kinesthetic energy into her words and see how assembling individual poems into a hodgepodge is like returning stones into the river to get their colors back.  Pairs well with aromatherapy and gazing out the window.

Find your favorite episodes here.

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