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One warm, sunny day I saw a crow squatting low on a large ant hill, head high, wingtips outstretched and fluttering softly on the ground. I had never seen this behavior before and I wondered if she might be injured. I watched her with concern before she stood up, briefly picked at her feathers, and flew away.

One afternoon while balcony-bird-watching, my attention was captured by a tiny black speck aggressively pursuing much larger birds, undeterred by the threat of sharp beaks and deadly talons. With equal measure, he intimidated crows, Osprey, eagles, vultures, and herons away from his territorial claim along the riverbank. With my binoculars and guidebook in hand, I identified him as a male Red-winged Blackbird after he flashed the telltale red and yellow striped epaulets on his shoulders, and loudly sang, “CONK-LA-REEEEE!” when he settled on a shoreline tree branch.

Many little creatures are decomposers and their lives depend on the death of others; such is the cycle of life. Recycling in its truest form!

In this encore broadcast, Chérie Newman speaks with novelist Chad Dundas about his debut novel, ‘Champion of the World’: Set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value.

In this encore broadcast, Sarah Aronson and Prageeta Sharma discuss the relationship between poetry and grief, both in regards to her loss as well as the collective uncertainty of COVID. The two also grapple with themes of misunderstanding, witness, and beauty in an effort to make sense of the what it means to be human.

This week on The Write Question, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with Shakespeare scholar Gretchen E. Minton; the two dive into, well, Shakespeare!

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we revisit Lauren’s 2021 conversation with Canadian poet, editor, and community organizer Rebecca Salazar.

This week, we’re revisiting Sarah Aronson’s conversation with poet Geffrey Davis. Davis’s award-winning second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Ada Limón, author of ‘The Hurting Kind’ (Milkweed Editions) and host of the poetry podcast, ‘The Slowdown.’

Chloe Caldwell’s ‘The Red Zone’ is a coming-of-age story; it’s a love story—it’s a book about periods. And this is a conversation about periods.