In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 08 contributors Sarah Smarsh and Jonathan Moody read and discuss Smarsh’s essay “Death of the Farm Family” and Moody’s poem “Dear 2Pac.”
SARAH SMARSH
National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her career writing memoir, essays, and journalism centered on the experience of the rural working class in the US.
JONATHAN MOODY
Like a booster detached from a shuttle, my body/ Ended up in an ocean while fog enshrouded my mind. / Xanax never made me feel that unsteady; it just didn’t / Agree with Lamictal.
JONATHAN MOODY
don’t feel ashamed after your lover has suggested / other ways to be intimate: like learning how to speak Urdu so that on sleepless nights / you can recite Ghalib’s ghazals to her while holding hands near the mango tree
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