Latest Johngallaher Podcast Episodes

Unchecked Feelings with Sara Robke

SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast - May 16, 2020 17:04 - 27 minutes
Sara Robke, an undergraduate at Northwest Missouri State University, shares an essay, "My Grandpa's Mechanical Bed."

Time Really Stopped for a Long Time with Tiffany Imperiale

SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast - April 10, 2020 15:28 - 30 minutes
Tiffany Imperiale reads a couple of recent essays. Silver linings during a pandemic. Also: Richard learns about an app Tiffany used to read and then write One-Direction-inspired fan fiction.  

Collapsing the Distance with John Gallaher

SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast - March 27, 2019 04:57 - 31 minutes
Richard Sonnenmoser talks with the poet John Gallaher about nostalgia and grief, nature and nurture, family trees and ghosts, mortality and free association. John reads a few poems from his manuscript-in-progress, My Life in Brutalist Architecture. 

Hobbling into the Light with Heather Harpham

SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast - January 30, 2019 22:20 - 38 minutes
Richard Sonnenmoser talks with memoirist Heather Harpham about her book, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, and recalls the last lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost.

"People Who Chose to Take Their Lives Seriously" with Hayley Brown

SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast - December 31, 2018 15:24 - 30 minutes
Richard Sonnenmoser talks with his writing student and friend, Hayley Brown, about some of the differences between painting and writing, when it might be "too soon" to write about an experience, and the suspension of some social etiquette in a creative writing workshop. Richard thinks about but ...