My guest this week is poet and prose writer Abby Walthausen, out now with a new poetry collection titled A Swale a Sort of Swaddle, a remarkable collection exploring and celebrating and, importantly, complicating the joys and challenges of domesticity, parenthood, and engagement of our region --- ecosystem, politics, place, history --- with language and the wonder that arrives with a new child. In addition to hosting the podcast A Lovely Wallpaper, her poetry has appeared in Public Domain Review, Paris Review Daily, the Atlantic, Zocalo Public Square, Atlas Obscura, Common-place, Mutha, Extra Crispy, LARB, and LitHub. Fiction has been published by Gigantic, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Made in LA anthology, Sycamore Review and Santa Monica Review. Here’s the link to A Lovely Wallpaper. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudioThe views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

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