Peter Hoag News Today

Join host Lauren Korn in this encore broadcast of her conversation with essayist Elissa Washuta; they ‘conjure’ a conversation about pop culture parallelism and about maintaining control over one’s narrative.

This week during an encore broadcast of ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren chats with Greg M. Peters, author of ‘Our National Forests: Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands’ (Timber Press).

This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor’s tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Ada Limón, author of ‘The Hurting Kind’ (Milkweed Editions) and host of the poetry podcast, ‘The Slowdown.’

Chloe Caldwell’s ‘The Red Zone’ is a coming-of-age story; it’s a love story—it’s a book about periods. And this is a conversation about periods.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Eloisa Amezcua, author of ‘Fighting Is Like a Wife’ (Coffee House Press), a collection of poems that reveal the love story and tragedy of two-time world boxing champion “Schoolboy” Bobby Chacon and his first wife, Valerie Ginn.

What is a divinatory poetics? Can texts be haunted? This week, we return to Lauren‘s 2021 conversation with Toronto-based poet Hoa Nguyen, in which the two dive into the narratives that prompted and sit within Nguyen‘s new book of poetry, ‘A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure’ (Wave Books).

From the freedom of her parents’ house and her grandmother’s flourishing garden, to the streets of Zhifu, China, and the saving grace of a modest calligraphy school, small Daiyu is taken to America, first to a California brothel and then to a small market in Idaho.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Bill Vaughn, author of ‘The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families’ (Bison Books), the story of the Burke and Herrin families, brought together by marriage.

In this encore broadcast, Lauren chats with Colorado-based poet and scholar Khadijah Queen, author of ‘Anodyne’(Tin House Books). Their conversation covers a lot: imagining change, our dying planet, “confessional” poetry, the ethics of care—plus much, much more!