Emily Van Duyne discusses her remarkable tome of scholarship on Sylvia Plath, including a literary history of how Plath’s legacy has been shaped. Emily also guides Rachael and John’s attempts to de-Hughes-ify the available texts.

John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough  to withstand randomization of theme and topic 'til our drunken voices and ears escape beyond the hurly-burly of the everyday and enter the ethereal mindscape of friendship. Here is one's nights Fire x Fire x Fire for your listening pleasure, featuring the verses of Dianne Turgeon Richardson and Tod Caviness.

On this week’s show, John speaks with fiction writer A.J. Rodriguez, the June-July 2025 Kerouac Project of Orlando resident.

On this week's show, John speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House.