On this week’s episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod read some poetry — and discuss Lauren Shapiro’s poetry collection, Arena, which was published in 2020 to rave reviews.

Lauren Shapiro is the author of Easy Math (Sarabande, 2013), which was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Debut-litzer Prize for Poetry, as well as a chapbook of poems, Yo-Yo Logic (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2011). She is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

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