Graywolf Lab is an online platform for interdisciplinary conversations and new writing from Graywolf Press. The podcast hosts conversations with artists and writers that act as starting points for an exploration of a particular theme over several months. Between themes, it also hosts conversations led by Graywolf Press authors and other collaborators.
This episode was recorded before a live audience at Glass House in Minneapolis, MN on September 25, 2025 as part of the Graywolf Press annual Literary Salon.
-Welcome by Aimee Lagos (Board Chair)
-Reading by Chaun Webster (Without Terminus)
-Conversation with Chloé Caldwell (Trying), Joshua Wheeler (The High Heaven), and Carmen Giménez (Director and Publisher)
-Closing by Aimee Lagos (Board Chair) and Ed McConaghy (Development Committee Chair)
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8 Aug 2025
Writers and Visual Artists
Carmen Jimenez, Executive Director at Graywolf Press in conversation with with Aisha Sabatini Sloan, author of Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, (Graywolf Press) and Roberto Tejada, author of Carbonate of Copper (Fordham University Press).
Aisha is also the author of The Fluency of Light, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She's an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. Roberto Tejada is the author of numerous poetry collections and several books on art and media history.He is a professor of creative writing and art history at the University of Houston.
Today's lab will consider the relationships between writers and visual artists and consider how we write about art, race, and personal experience.
14 Mar 2025
Graywolf Lab - Games
Yuka Igarashi, editor at Graywolf Press, hosts this conversation with writers, scholars, and artists Stephanie Burt, Tracy O'Neill, Michael Salu, and Elissa Washuta all of whom are writing and thinking about games in various ways.
11 Nov 2024
Graywolf Lab - Cultural Criticism
Welcome to this episode of the Graywolf Lab podcast. Carmen Jimenez, director and publisher of Graywolf Press is talking with Laura Marris. a writer and translator, and author of the essay collection, The Age of Loneliness, published this year by Graywolf, and which Catherine Savage describes as reckoning with the loneliness of late capitalism.
And also with Roger Reeves, author of two poetry collections, King Me and Best Barbarian, and most recently, an essay collection, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, out this fall in paperback from Graywolf. Of dark days, Kathy Park Hong writes, Reeves declamations are riven with insights that have truly changed my way of thinking.
10 Jun 2024
Literary Friendships
Graywolf Lab: Literary Friendships
Co-hosts Carmen Giménez and Mark Wunderlich with (9:32) Brenda Shaughnessy, (17:05) Ander Monson and Manuel Muñoz, (32:58) Jericho Brown and Michael Dumanis.
Visit graywolflab. org to explore our first theme, Time. We're posting new poems, essays, stories, graphics, and interactive pieces every week. And later this year, we'll roll out the next theme for Lab Online, which is games. So please stay tuned.
Our music is from expiation from the album terrain by Jacob Cooper. There's a short feature on Jacob Cooper's music on the lab site.
Thanks to our podcast producers, Edie French and Paul Auguston of iDream.tv.
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28 May 2024
Love as Time Travel
In this inaugural episode, Graywolf's executive editor Yuka Igarashi explores the theme of time with an interdisciplinary group of artists.
First, we hear from Kweku Abimbola —Graywolf published his debut poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm in April. Then Lisa Hsiao Chen, author of the 2022 novel Activities of Daily Living, followed by performance artist, theater artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones. Lastly we hear from Thao Nguyen, best known for her band Thao and the Get Down Stay Down.
The podcast opens with an introduction by Graywolf Press publisher, Carmen Giménez.
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