{"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).--Read: \"Practice Elegy\" at Copper NickelPurchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021)Rachel 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.Reading Recommendations:\"Having it out with Melancholy\" by Jane KenyonPortrait of a Woman on Fire, Dir. Céline Sciamma (film)Aracelis Girmay's The Black MariaThis is How You Lose the Time Warby Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerGalatea by Madeline Miller[Eugenio] Montale in EnglishAdrienne RichAnne SextonVirginia WoolfAnaïs NinSylvia 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}