Celebrating Poetry - A Conversation with Heather Lanier and Katie Manning
Our Podcast Episode of the Week (and a few other relevant morsels)
In the heart of National Poetry Month, we’re celebrating poetry today…
In case you missed it,
offered our readers some superb ideas for engaging poetry this month (and throughout the year!)8+ Ways to Engage with Poetry
Since January 20, I’ve had Wendell Berry’s poem, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,” stuck to my refrigerator door and pinned to my work bulletin board. When I stand filling up my water bot…
Also, as part of our National Poetry Month celebration, we shared seven of our favorite poems by
on our website this week:
Pádraig Ó Tuama Poems –
Seven of Our Favorites by the Irish Poet
And on a different note, I recorded a delightful podcast conversation with
this week about my new book, The Virtue of Dialogue: Becoming a Thriving Church through Conversation. Give it a listen:
One of the new things that we’re doing here on Substack in 2025 is highlighting an episode from The Englewood Review of Books podcast each week.
The previous featured Podcast episode in this series:
On Creativity and Inspiration - A Conversation with Charlie Peacock and Carey Wallace
In this episode, I spoke with two first-time guests on our podcast, Carey Wallace and Charlie Peacock, about their careers and varied experiences of pursuing creative work. They consider the role of community in creativity, what it means to be “inspired,” and more.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we share this superb 2023 podcast conversation with poets
and Katie Manning. (Released as Episode 66 of The Englewood Review of Books Podcast).ERB Podcast host sat down with two first-time guests (and poets), Heather Lanier and Katie Manning to have our first-ever podcast conversation focused entirely on poetry! They discuss whether the distinction between “poet” and “writer” is legitimate, their own writing processes, and even read a few selections of their recent publications.
is a poet, essayist, teacher, speaker, and thrift-store shopper. An assistant professor of creative writing at Rowan University, she is the author of the memoir, Raising a Rare Girl (Penguin Press, July 2020), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her full-length poetry collection, Psalms of Unknowing, was released in 2023 from Monkfish Publishing. Learn more about Heather here: https://heatherlanierwriter.com/ Also, subscribe to her Substack, The Slow Take.
Katie Manning is author of Hereverent (Agape Editions), Tasty Other (winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award), and six chapbook collections. Her work has been featured on the Poetry Unbound podcast from The On Being Project. Learn more about Katie here: https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
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