Michael talks with Erin Slaughter about her journey to finding community as a writer, figuring out a balance between disclosure and dignity in poetry, THE SORROW FESTIVAL (Clash Books, 2022), writing about emotion from the body, vulnerability, the impulse to write about the self, finding form, and her forthcoming story collection.
Erin Slaughter is the author of two books of poetry: The Sorrow Festival, which is out today from Clash Books, and I Will Tell This Story to the Sun until You Remember That You Are the Sun (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her debut story collection A Manual for How to Love Us is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in 2023. She’s the co-founder of The Hunger.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.