Michael talks with Janelle Cordero about painting, the library, poetry with a sense of return, her newest collection IMPOSSIBLE YEARS, a poem working or not, poetry as portraiture, fear of death, the natural world, clarity and conversation, genre confusion, and more.
Janelle Cordero is the author of four books of poetry: Two Cups of Tomatoes (2015), Woke to Birds (2019), Many Types of Wildflowers (2020), and Impossible Years (2022), the latter three all from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. She’s an interdisciplinary artist and educator who lives in Spokane, WA.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.