You Don't Have to Explain

You Don't Have to Explain•www.youdonthavetoexplain.com

A podcast that traces the process behind writing a single poem, from the moment it begins to whether it ever ends. Featuring one poem and one poet every other week, and hosted by James Fujinami Moore. For full text of the poems and show notes, visit <a>youdonthavetoexplain.com</a>.

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Episode 03: “Interior vs. Exterior” - Sarah Sala

“Interior vs. Exterior” was first published in SWWIM , 2019. For more of Sarah M. Sala’s work, visit sarahmsala.com . Interior vs. Exterior At my worst, I control the boundaries of my form, and yet, when divine, the self permeates the physical world. It’s true: the atoms of our bodies grieve each other in death just like a color doesn’t occur alone— but takes meaning from other colors. The moon was a changeable star that ruled men’s fate. Water was green and not blue to medieval cartographers. T...

Feb 27, 2021•19 min•Ep. 3

Episode 02: “Doing Donuts in an ’87 Mustang 5.0, After My Homie Chris Gets Broken Up With” - Michael Torres

“Doing Donuts in an ’87 Mustang 5.0, After My Homie Chris Gets Broken Up With” was first published in The Offing, October 2019. For more of Michael Torres’s work, visit michaeltorreswriter.com . Doing Donuts in an ’87 Mustang 5.0, After My Homie Chris Gets Broken Up With I want to argue for the stars but I find them missing through this window splattered with mud. Tonight, I sit shotty and do not ask Chris if he’s okay. This is the kind of loyalty I know—how the Mustang makes eights across a soc...

Jan 29, 2021•16 min•Ep. 2

Episode 01: “Dead Horse Bay” - Suzanne Highland

“Dead Horse Bay” by Suzanne Highland was first published in Iron Horse Literary Review #21.2, Summer 2019. For more of Suzanne Highland’s work, visit suzannehighland.com . Dead Horse Bay I plead into my phone for you to pick up your phone. Meanwhile, branches draped in Spanish moss and beaded garlands glint from the gathering of pine trees, outposts at the edge of the land where slaughtered horses keep their graves. You pick up glass from the sand: brown bottle necks, broken amber ware, bluish s...

Jan 15, 2021•14 min•Ep. 1

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