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Hannah Tinti is a writer, editor, and teacher.  Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. She is now finishing a new novel.

Hannah has worked at bookstores, magazines, publishing houses, and literary agencies. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning magazine One Story and for the past 12 years has been its Editor in Chief. In 2009 she received the PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing and in 2014 One Story won the AWP Prize for Best Small Press. In 2011, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Commentator, interviewing authors and actors about the importance of literature and reading.

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First Cuts from First Draft - Hannah Tinti

ALL UP IN YOUR EARS is a monthly podcast discussing, extolling, deviating from and disagreeing about recent poems. Each month, two of us pick out a poem and all four of us talk, hoping, in the process, to learn something about the ways that poems can matter—about what is found there and what, sometimes, for some of us, is not. At the end, we all talk about things that have caught our interest recently, and then one of us calls another poet for a short interview. This month, we discuss poems by Joanna Klink and Jericho Brown, then chat with Carl Phillips about Twitter and poems-as-ephemera.

Episode 2, featuring Carl Phillips

In this episode, poet and critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib debates with editor-at-large Andrew Grace on whether or not song lyrics should be considered literature. Ranging from considerations of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Lil Yachty and 2 Chainz, Abdurraqib explains the importance of taking popular music seriously and notes how poets can enhance their craft by paying close attention to the lyric strategies of songwriters.

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, A Conversation

In this episode, Andrew Grace talks to poet and editor Nate Marshall about Seamus Heaney's sense of place, poetry as a team sport, writing rap lyrics vs. lyric poems, and, of course, Chicago

Nate Marshall, A Conversation

Phillip B. Williams talks to Andy Grace about poetry vs. capitalism, poets vs. celebrities and why he is not writing any poems in 2018.

Phillip B. Williams, A Conversation.

Poet and Peter Taylor Fellow Nathan Lipps talk with poet Solmaz Sharif, one of our writers workshop instructors about a poem’s audience, staying in the discomfort of a poem, and revising one’s beliefs within a workshop experience.

Solmaz Sharif, A Conversation

Poet Eloisa Amezcua interviews poet Nabila Lovelace about the act of naming, the identification of violence, and the use of language to make sense of the places in which we find ourselves.

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, A Conversation

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