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Poet and memoirist Carolyn Forche with Garvey writing fellow Nicole-Ann Lobo
The poet Carolyn Forche is also an editor, translator and human-rights activist. Her most recent book is What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Wit…
7 years, 5 months ago
Bonus Extended Segment: National Poetry Month Edition: Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America, Shane McCrae, poet and Guggenheim fellow, and poet and memoirist, Carolyn Forché
Season 1
On this episode, we’re marking National Poetry month by featuring conversations with three wonderful writers. Our associate editor Matthew Sitman tal…
7 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Extended Segment: Eula Biss with Assistant Editor Griffin Oleynick
Eula Biss is artist-in-residence in the English Department at Northwestern University, where she also teaches creative writing. She’s the author of O…
7 years, 6 months ago
Austen Ivereigh on the Vatican Summit on Clerical Sex Abuse, Eula Biss on "Whiteness", Hoffsman Ospino on the Latinx Church, and Tony Domestico with Novelist Kathryn Davis
Season 1 Episode 9
On this episode, Catholic journalist and papal biographer Austen Ivereigh talks with senior editor Matthew Boudway about the Vatican’s February summi…
7 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Extended Segment: A Wide-ranging Chat with Archetypal New York Personality Fran Lebowitz
Last winter, we sat down for a conversation with Fran Lebowitz, the writer, speaker, wit, and archetypal New York personality. Here you'll hear an ex…
7 years, 7 months ago
Marie Collins and Massimo Faggioli on Clerical Sex Abuse, Vinson Cunningham writes about hell, and Staffers on Swedish Abstractionist Hilma af Klint
Season 1 Episode 8
Dominic Preziosi sat down with Commonweal contributor Massimo Faggioli to get his thoughts about the upcoming bishops’ summit on clerical sex abuse, …
7 years, 8 months ago
Peter Steinfels on the PA Grand Jury Report on Clergy Sex Abuse, Allan Lichtman on Voting Rights in the U.S., and poet Danielle Chapman with Tony Domestico
Season 1 Episode 7
Peter Steinfels discusses the PA Grand Jury Report, a document he contends is "inaccurate, unfair, and fundamentally misleading" in its characterizat…
7 years, 9 months ago
"Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stayed.", Christmas Critics Roundup, and Cassandra Nelson on the Liturgical Calendar and Advent
Season 1 Episode 6
Senior editor Matthew Boudway introduces special feature "Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stayed" — with essays by converts, practicing cradle Catho…
7 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 5 Long Segment - Dominic Preziosi and Dan Barry
Reporter Dan Barry spent more than a decade crisscrossing the United States, chronicling ordinary lives and extraordinary moments for his column in t…
7 years, 10 months ago
Long Segment - Tony Domestico and poet Katie Ford
The poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection, If You Have to Go, implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention, for revelation, and, p…
7 years, 10 months ago