Episode 1: Amanda
b'Amanda Dettmann joins Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum in conversation and to read her poems "Untranslatable Honeyed Bruises" and "When They Ask Me What Will Be the First Thing I Do after \'This Is Over,\'" featured in A NEW LAND, a poetry anthology from The Telling Room. Stuart and Amanda discuss revision and the microcosms of words, becoming a writer in 7th grade, writing in spurts, finding yourself, creating, adapting, and connecting to others in pandemic times, memorization and rhythm in performance, sound in poetry, and writing the universal and the weird. Amanda is now working towards an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU.'