Good news is sometimes hard to come by for poets, and what’s better news than a new book! Celebrate with us as Jason Gray hosts an interview podcast with poets discussing their new books. Each episode is a smart, fun look into the world of poetry, where the guests read several poems for their new work, and talk about how their books came to be, and how they write the way they do.
Today I have the pleasure of speaking to poet Austin Allen, about his recent book, The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-travels-of-blad-j-garamond-in-search-of-genevi-ve-sans-serif-austin-allen/3188b282509f6c9e?ean=9781939574411). A novel in verse about a love triangle and typography! Austin Allen is also the author of the poetry collections Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Books), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and Dissent, forthcoming from Ohio University Press as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, Smartish Pace, and other publications.
Pick up a copy of The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif here (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-travels-of-blad-j-garamond-in-search-of-genevi-ve-sans-serif-austin-allen/3188b282509f6c9e?ean=9781939574411).
Read more about Allen here (https://austinallenwriting.com/).
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12 Oct 2026
Kathy Fagan
It is an incredible delight to be back with today’s guest, Kathy Fagan, to talk about her new book, The Unbecoming (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324131397). It was my privilege to have Kathy as a teacher at Ohio State when I was earning my MFA, and also to work with her as a part of the literary magazine The Journal.
Kathy Fagan is the author of six previous collections of poetry, including, Bad Hobby (https://milkweed.org/book/bad-hobby), which won the 2023 William Carlos Williams Award (https://poetrysociety.org/award-winners/poetry-society-of-america-book-award-2023/william-carlos-williams-award). And Sycamore (https://milkweed.org/book/sycamore), was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. She was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and also been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram Merrill fellowship, residencies at The Frost Place, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and was named Ohio Poet of the Year for 2017. She co-founded the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where she taught poetry and co-edited The Journal (https://thejournalmag.org/) and the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for OSU Press.
Pick up a copy of The Unbecoming here (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-unbecoming-poems-kathy-fagan/0c115da35a8dbb6f?ean=9781324131397).
Read more about Fagan here (https://www.kathyfagan.com/).
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4 Jun 2026
David Baker
Today's guest is David Baker. Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. His new book is Transit, and he is the author of 12 previous collections of poetry, including, most recently, Whale Fall and Swift: New and Selected Poems, and six works of nonfiction. The first of those, Meter in English, I found incredibly important as a young graduate student. Baker is an Emeritus Professor of English at Denison University and for many years he was Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review, where he also curated the long-running annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine. Among his awards are prizes and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council.
Pick up a copy of Transit here (https://bookshop.org/p/books/transit-poems-david-baker/199e636f60ff5bc1?ean=9781324117476&next=t).
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