Making It Up with Erin Hoover, author of No Spare People
Carter Wilson's Making It Up
English - December 15, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingArts carter wilson author interview thriller authors writing conversation series Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Making It Up with Stephen Michaud, author of Robert’s Story
Erin Hoover is the author of two poetry collections, Barnburner and No Spare People. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and Best New Poets, and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Florida Review, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah. She lives in rural Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Tennessee Tech.
Among other things, Erin and Carter discuss how Erin found herself writing and relating to poetry, the differences between prose and poetry, and the process of putting a collection of poetry together that combines emotional intensity variation but remains coherent. At the end of their conversation, they make up a mysterious little tale starting with a sentence from The Princess Bride by William Goldman.