Check out the schedule of our upcoming conversations. Of course the list and dates are subject to change.
June 21st – Dasha Kelly
Dasha Kelly is a writer, performance artist and creative change agent. She has authored award-winning poetry, essays and fiction. She is a mainstage storyteller and host with The Moth, an alum of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Poet Laureate Emerita for both the City of Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin and a National Laureate Fellow with the American Academy of Poets. In 2024, Dasha was named a Living Legacy Honoree by the licensing agency for the legendary poet Gwendolyn Brooks. A skilled engagement practitioner and instructor, Dasha has facilitated initiatives in Botswana, Mauritius and Beirut as an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy. Her nationally-touring stage show, Makin’ Cake, serves audiences a unique conversation on race, class and equity. Her documentary film of the same title premiered in Spring 2026. Her nonprofit literary arts organization, Still Waters Collective, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
This will be Dasha’s first appearance on the program.
June 28th – Blair Trewartha
Blair Trewartha’s debut collection, Easy Fix (Palimpsest Press, 2014), was shortlisted for the Relit Award. He is the author of three chapbooks: Break In (Cactus Press, 2010), Porcupine Burning (Baseline Press, 2012), and Human Energy (Anstruther Press, 2022). Blair’s poems have recently appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire, and The Fiddlehead. Born and raised on a farm outside of Clinton, Ontario (Treaty 29 Territory), Blair now lives in London, Ontario with his partner, two children, and their hyper Beagle. Half-Earth is his second full-length collection.
This will be Blair’s first apperance on the program.
July 12th – Isabelle Correa
Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She’s the author of Good Girl and Other Yearnings (Write Bloody Publishing). Her next collection, Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Loves Away in Fear of Losing It (Arcana Press, September 2026) is available now for preorder. Her work has appeared in Pank, Hobart, and more.
This will be Isabelle’s first appearance on the program.
July 19th – Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock is a widely anthologized poet as well as a biographer. The author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, she is also the author of two biographies, Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door, and
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72.
As a poetry activist, Peacock was the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways and buses and the founder of The Best Canadian Poetry. A former Leon Levy Fellow, her biography of Mrs. Delany, The Paper Garden, was named a Book of the Year by The Economist, The Globe and Mail, Booklist, The London Evening Standard, The Irish Times, and The Sunday Telegraph. She lives in Toronto.
This will be Molly’s first appearance on the podcast.
July 26th – Grace Lau
Grace is a queer Hong Kong-born settler living on the traditional and Treaty territory of the Anishinabek people, now known as the Chippewa Tri-Council comprised of the Beausoleil, Rama, and Georgina Island First Nations. Her sophomore collection, Be Water, is out in summer 2026 with Anvil Press. Her debut poetry collection, The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak, is a Lambda Award finalist.
This will be Grace’s first appearance on the podcast.
August 9th – Maya Marshall
Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor. Winner of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love (2022) and the chapbook Secondhand (2016). Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision.
Raised in Texas and Georgia, Marshall spent the bulk of her adult life in Chicago, Illinois. Currently, she splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Decatur, Georgia.
This will be Maya’s first appearance on the podcast.
August 16th – Shelly Conley
Shelly Conley, is Milwaukee, WI newest Poet Laureate. She is a 7 time member of Milwaukee’s National Poetry Slam Team. Her talent has led her to numerous shows, panels, documentaries and musical collaborations with local and national talent.
With more than 20 years of experience working with youth and young adults in various capacities, Shelly encourages individuals to be honest and introspective in their writing, to forgive themselves and others, and to operate from a space of Love– especially when it’s difficult. Since 2014, Shelly has served as Program Director and Co-facilitator for My Sista’s KeepHer (MSK).
This will be Shelly’s first appearance on the Podcast.