{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Of Poetry Podcast","title":"Rachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others', and Having It Out With Melancholy)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4208,"description":"Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).\n--\nRead: \"Practice Elegy\" at Copper Nickel\n\nPurchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021)\n\nRachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021); The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, the 2014 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award; and No Silence in the Fields, a chapbook from Blue Hour Press. Her poetry has recently appeared at Poetry Magazine, The Believer, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Rachel's essays, criticism, and other articles have appeared, or will soon, at The Millions, The Poetry Foundation, LitHub, and numerous other outlets.\nReading Recommendations:\n\n\"Having it out with Melancholy\" by Jane Kenyon\nPortrait of a Woman on Fire, Dir. Céline Sciamma (film)\nAracelis Girmay's The Black Maria\nThis is How You Lose the Time Warby Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone\nThe Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller\nCirce by Madeline Miller\nGalatea by Madeline Miller\n[Eugenio] Montale in English\nAdrienne Rich\nAnne Sexton\nVirginia Woolf\nAnaïs Nin\nSylvia Plath","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C_3iRDpviix2e1C6k3X2VoCWRIenXQVKuF75ttfn6q0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMzk1/Zjk2ZTQwMjBhNjFi/NjA5YjdlNzZhZTAx/MThmNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}