Sara Robke, an undergraduate at Northwest Missouri State University, shares an essay, "My Grandpa's Mechanical Bed."

SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast

Unchecked Feelings with Sara Robke

Tiffany Imperiale reads a couple of recent essays. Silver linings during a pandemic. Also: Richard learns about an app Tiffany used to read and then write One-Direction-inspired fan fiction.  

Time Really Stopped for a Long Time with Tiffany Imperiale

Richard Sonnenmoser talks with the poet John Gallaher about nostalgia and grief, nature and nurture, family trees and ghosts, mortality and free association. John reads a few poems from his manuscript-in-progress, My Life in Brutalist Architecture. 

Collapsing the Distance with John Gallaher

Richard Sonnenmoser talks with memoirist Heather Harpham about her book, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, and recalls the last lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Hobbling into the Light with Heather Harpham

Richard Sonnenmoser talks with his writing student and friend, Hayley Brown, about some of the differences between painting and writing, when it might be "too soon" to write about an experience, and the suspension of some social etiquette in a creative writing workshop. Richard thinks about but doesn't tell Hayley a story about the last time he sat in the gazebo at Coleman Hawkins Park in St. Joseph, Missouri.

"People Who Chose to Take Their Lives Seriously" with Hayley Brown

SHARE the MIC is a low-key, low-tech podcast about literary art. Each episode is structured as an audio "braided essays" about writing and features a conversation between Richard Sonnenmoser and a fellow writer.

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SHARE the MIC: a literary podcast

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