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National Poetry Month: Staci Halt imagines the wilds of New York City with 'Soft'
Why We Write
English - April 19, 2022 04:05 - 6 minutes - 6.14 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBooks Arts Education writing authors university books literature interview lesley university higher education mfa creative writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: National Poetry Month: July Westhale Goes to the Moon's Moon
In our third National Poetry Month episode of the month, a visit to New York City expands Staci Halt's understanding of poetry and inspires her poem "Soft."
Today's guest
Staci Halt is an MFA candidate at Lesley University and mother of six super cool humans and an unseemly number of fur children. Her poems were longlisted for Palette Poetry's Love & Eros Prize (2022), and her work can be found in McSweeny's and is forthcoming in Salamander Magazine.
Check out previous Poetry Month episodes:
"the world as it is" by July Westhale"Memo to the Border Patrol Agent Who Poured Out the Water We Left in the Desert" by Robbie Gamble"The Translator" by Kevin Prufer"As for the Heart" by Erin Belieu"We Be Womxn" by U-Meleni Mhlaba-AdeboCowboys and "The Dread" by Lydia Leclerc