Watershed Lit

About Watershed Lit

A podcast from the Fall for the Book Festival team - Director Kara Oakleaf, and Manager, Suzy Rigdon. Each season, they sit down with writers from across the genre spectrum. Visit the festival's site at https://fallforthebook.org/

Publisher

Fall for the Book

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Sept 2016

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 122 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Poetry in Conversation with Aldo Amparán & Ally Ang

   Host Christopher J. Lee interviews poets Aldo Amparán and Ally Ang about their gothic, visceral, and experimental poetry collections.

2. 

   8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   100 Years of World Literature with Daniel Simon

   Host Daniel Simon explores global literary genealogy and translation challenges in "A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of Literature."

3. 

   12 May 2026

   Poetry in Conversation with Matthew Nienow and Iain Haley Pollock

   Two poets gather to discuss their work in the final episode of the season. Iain Haley Pollock’s All The Possible Bodies examines the myths we tell about ourselves, our families and nation, as well as asks the questions: How do we make peace with our hypocrisy and complicity in a social order that harms us all? Can and should we? Matthew Nienow’s If Nothing is a reckoning of alcoholism, fatherhood, longing and loss, and the need for forgiveness.

Inside a recent episode

Poetry in Conversation with Aldo Amparán & Ally Ang

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's not perfectly round. And because of how the moon affects the tides, basically the tides kind of go in and out more depending on where the moon is in rotation. And now with the effects of climate change on the tides and the sea levels, the moon wobble is having kind of a more disastrous impact due to human effects on the environment. And a lot of this book is concerned with, among other things, climate change, environmental destruction and grief, but also it's very much preoccupied with wildness and kind of shedding constraints of shame and getting in touch with the sort of ungovernable animal aspects of yourself. […]

Who has been a guest on Watershed Lit

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Aldo Amparán
• Ally Ang
• Daniel Simon
• Greg Wrenn

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

51

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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