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Chris’s guest is the poet and fiction writer Sally Thomas, who shares a few of her poems and discusses some of her stories. Sally and Chris also talk about her development as a writer, why she enjoys writing formal poetry, and what she does when her short-story characters won’t leave her alone.
Sally is the author of The Blackbird and Other Stories (Wiseblood, 2024) and the forthcoming poetry collection Among the Living (Able Muse Press, TBA). She also co-edits the Poems Ancient and Modern Substack and co-edited Christian Poetry in America Since 1940 (Paraclete Press, 2022).
Show Notes
Here are the poems Sally read during the conversation:
And here’s one of the stories she discussed with Chris: “A Fire in the Hills.”
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Opening and closing music: Brendan Benson, “Spit It Out,” used with permission from the artist.
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As the Poet says, “If rhymes were a drug I’d sell it by the gram.” Despite being about a standard deviation more in favor of poetry than most I find that’s about the right rate to take the stuff.
Oh, and I have done math in the back of the class because it was more interesting than what they were teaching up front, usually that wasn’t in English class. Most recently I should have been learning about unemployment benefits.