When it's Time to Go (Joy Sullivan)
b"\\u201cWhat is that instinct that might be asking me to do something really unadvisable or radical or leap outside the bounds of my own life? And that's the space by which I think we move forward in life. And that's the space in which I think we move forward honestly on the page and in writing. And I tell people, you know, what is it that you want to explore in your writing? Like the page is this beautiful opportunity to start taking some big risks, whether it's persona poetry, where you're literally writing in a different voice, or you're naming something that cannot be held in any other space available to you, or you're testing out just an idea that you're not ready to say out loud. The page is this really beautiful field that gives us a lot of courage to then apply that, I think, to our actual lives.\\u201d\\nSo says Joy Sullivan, the author of Instructions for Traveling West, which is a guidebook of poems for letting your life fall apart and remake itself as something new. In our conversation, Joy and I explore her early life: how she grew up in Africa, the child of medical missionaries, bound tight by evangelicalism and purity culture\\u2014and her relationship to religion and faith now that she\\u2019s left that behind. Eve is a central figure in Joy\\u2019s poetry, and you will hear why.\\xa0\\n\\nMORE FROM JOY SULLIVAN:\\nInstructions for Traveling West\\nFollow Joy on Instagram\\nJoy\\u2019s Newsletter, \\u201cNecessary Salt\\u201d\\nJoy\\u2019s Website\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices"