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Let Our Sundance-Winning Film Remind You What Love Is with Megan Falley
06 Feb 2025
383. Let Our Sundance-Winning Film Remind You What Love Is with Megan Falley Glennon, Abby and Amanda sit down with poet and friend, Megan Falley, to discuss the magic that is their Sundance Award-Winning documentary film, Come See Me in The Good Light. The documentary follows Meg and her partner, Andrea Gibson, as they navigate a year of life, love, and living through an incurable cancer diagnosis. -How to make a gift of your suffering -Why seeing yourself through the loving eyes of another can be life-changing -Why frat guys are finally relating to queer poets -What this movie has to do with body image and loving yourself On Megan Falley: Megan is a nationally-ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry – most recently her book “Drive Here and Devastate Me”. Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir-in-progress have won several first- and second-place national prizes. She runs an online writing workshop called “Poems That Don’t Suck” which has been heralded as “a degree’s worth of education in 5 short weeks.” On Andrea Gibson: Andrea is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time. Best known for their live performances, Andrea has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show”. Andrea’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health, and social justice. Andrea is the author of seven books, most recently “You Better Be Lightning”. Previous appearances on the pod: 215. The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson 245. An Unforgettable Double Date with Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley 265. Megan Falley Knows What Love Is To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Megan Fowley is a nationally ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry. Most recently, her book Drive Here and Devastate Me. Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir in progress have won several first and second place national prizes.
She runs an online writing workshop called Poems That Don't Suck, which has been heralded as a degree's worth of education in five short weeks. Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word artists of our time. Best known for their live performances, Andrea has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a poetry show.
Andrea's poems center around LGBTQ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health, and social justice. Andrea is the author of seven books, most recently, You Better Be Lightning.
Megan Fowley and Andrea Gibson are the subjects of the most beautiful doc we have seen, which hopefully you will see soon, called Come See Me in the Good Light, which just won the Festival Favorite Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that we were all at. Welcome, Meg Fowley.
Yeah, buddy! Fowley, Fowley, Fowley. Hi. Hi, Amanda. How are you? It's so nice to see your beautiful face, Megan.
It's so good to see you. All of you. Okay. Pod squad. How do we describe what's happening right now? Okay. Today's episode is going to be a conversation between us and our dearest love, Meg Fowley. who you might know from so many previous episodes.
I just really like to be here. I live here now.
Oh, God, that's my dream. So what we have to tell you, PodSquad, is I think the most beautiful creative story, one of the most beautiful creative stories we have ever been a part of as a team, which is a story of friendship and also a beautiful piece of art. that was made called Come See Me in the Good Light, which is a documentary about Andrea Gibson and Megan Fowley.
And I would say, no, no, you say what it is. Yeah, Meg. And then we're going to tell you, PodSquad, how this magical situation came into the world and the story of how we all ended up in a six-bedroom, house in Park City at Sundance full of lesbians plus Sara Bareilles because Sara Bareilles is always an honorary lesbian. I don't know how she's pulled this off, but she is.
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