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  • Alissa Hattman talks to Siloh about her post-apocalyptic novel Sift, writing during crises and into blockages, fragmented literary form, and creative community.

    On the process of writing Sift during peak pandemic, Alissa says, “I had felt that whatever I could create in this time had to just be made out of the soil that we were in, in that moment.” And while it’s never not a good time to talk about making art during a catastrophe, this conversation (which was recorded at the end of September 2023) feels especially well-timed.

    Alissa Hattman is author of the novel Sift and the zine POST. Her writing has appeared in Carve, The Rumpus, The Gravity of the Thing, Propeller, Big Other, Surely Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and an MA in English Literature from Portland State University. Alissa has worked as a fiction editor, book reviewer, zine librarian, writing group facilitator, and teacher. She writes short essays for her monthly newsletter, MURMUR, which also features a small press spotlight with a book give-away and other literary updates. Originally from North Dakota, she now lives and teaches in the Pacific Northwest. More at www.alissahattman.com.

    Show notes and transcript available here. If you liked this episode, check out Siloh’s Substack for more reflections on the creative process (and podcast updates!). You can find Siloh on Instagram @silohrad.

    Outro music by Siloh. Audio mastered by Ethan Camp.

    Mentioned in this episode

    Sift by Alissa Hattman

    The 3rd Thing Press

    Riot grrrl

    The Evergreen State College

    Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Anne Carson's lecture on corners

    “No Place for Self Pity, No Room For Fear in the Nation” by Toni Morrison (essay)

    Milan Kundera

    Alison Bailey

    Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

    Renunciations by Donika Kelly

    Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

    Fred Moten

    Anne de Marcken

    Browsers Books in Olympia

  • Host Siloh Radovsky sits down with Selah Saterstrom to discuss literary form and divination, their intersections with uncertainty, and the powerful cross-pollination of different parts of ourselves.

    Selah Saterstrom is the author of five books–Rancher, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution. She teaches and lectures across the United States, is on faculty in the University of Denver’s English and Literary Arts program, and runs Four Queens, a platform celebrating Divination and Divinatory Poetics. You can stay up to date with her classes and offerings here.

    Show notes and transcript available here. If you liked this episode, check out Siloh’s Substack about experimental creative practice and daily life. You can find Siloh on Instagram @silohrad. Thank you to Ethan Camp for help with audio editing and mastering.

    Mentioned in this episode

    Slab and Rancher by Selah Saterstrom

    Four Queens platform

    Anne Waldman and the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University

    University of Denver’s Literary Arts program

    Dr. Mark Ledbetter at Millsaps College

    Dr. David Jasper at the School of Divinity at the University of Glasgow

    Rebecca Brown at Goddard College

    Bob Glück and his essay “Long Note on New Narrative”

    Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative a book by Gail Scott, Camille Roy, and Robert Glück

    Stephen D. Moore

    Autotheory

    Maria Goretti

    CD Wright

    Eleni Sikelianos

    Laird Hunt

    Julie Carr

    Tarot cards: Nine of Pentacles (“The Bird Lady”); Death, Five of Pentacles, and the World (divination)

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  • Miranda Mellis and host Siloh Radovsky discuss literary form and the relationship between Miranda’s writing practice, politics, and Buddhism. They also explore the tricky work of staying connected to one’s values in and through writing, and creative practice as a refuge.

    Learn more about Experimental Practice and host Siloh Radovsky here. Show notes, including a transcript of Siloh’s conversation with Miranda, are also available on Siloh’s website, or linked here.

    Siloh is on Instagram @silohrad.

    Audio edited and mastered by Ethan Camp.

    Mentioned in this episode

    The Revolutionary by Miranda Mellis

    Crocosmia by Miranda Mellis (forthcoming from Nightboat Books)

    The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

    Édouard Glissant

    Cynicism and Magic by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

    Pema Chödrön

    Naropa University (including some of its founders Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsburg)

    L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry

    New Narrative (I love Robert Glück’s “Long Note on New Narrative”)