Archive - Multi-Verse

Episode 16: Dancing in purgatory with Devon Walker-Figueroa

"Silences are as carefully plotted as each syllable"

Oct 10, 2024 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

20:21

June 2024

Episode 15: Philip Metres's nostalgia

"Here I am, in midlife, thinking about what is home—and knowing that all homes are sandcastles, in a way"

Jun 28, 2024 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

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21:36

May 2024

Episode 14: Barbara Tran raises the temperature

"Fever protects the way madness does"

May 14, 2024 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

21:33

April 2024

Episode 13: Eugene Ostashevsky on the holding pattern of revenge

"This war has been made public. Everyone’s invited."

Apr 2, 2024 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

34:39

November 2023

Episode 12: Timothy Liu's love triangles

Listen now | "People are not in agreement about what the word 'lover' means"

Nov 10, 2023

24:13

September 2023

Episode 11: Monica Youn on when "Euripides meets Margaret Cho"

What happens when a son is unrecognizable to his mother?

Sep 29, 2023 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

23:26

Episode 10: Niina Pollari on truth's heart of stone

In “How to Read This Poem,” the past is “always invisibly moving”

Sep 1, 2023 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

19:09

June 2023

Episode 9: J. Mae Barizo on the Rhythm of Tenderness

“Sunday Women on Malcolm X Boulevard” explores care across space and time

Jun 21, 2023 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

11:16

May 2023

Episode 8: India Lena González and the Frenzy of Performance

Listen now (17 min) | “ACT ! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)” challenges the confines of the stage

May 24, 2023 •

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

16:59

November 2022

Episode 7: William Archila on the Flicker of Thought

“Northern Triangle Dissected” and the psychological journeys of Central American minors seeking asylum

Nov 29, 2022 •

Evangeline Graham

27:19

October 2022

Episode 6: CM Burroughs on Not Being Gentle

In three “Dear Liver” poems, a grieving sister demands response

Oct 25, 2022 •

Evangeline Graham

16:14

September 2022

Episode 5: Amanda Gunn’s Forensic Imagination

Love, grief, and rhyme in “What You Meant”

Sep 30, 2022 •

Evangeline Graham

14:35

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