Episode 156: Perry Janes

Perry Janes's debut poetry collection, Find Me When You're Ready , follows its speaker from childhood in Detroit to young adulthood in Los Angeles, a coming-of-age story in five acts, told through a series of lyric moments. The poems in this collection confront childhood sexual abuse and the story of what it means to be a man, ultimately reaching toward healing and love. In our conversation we talked about what poetry and prose do differently, how masculinity is presented in these poems, and why it was important to both include trauma but not dwell in it. For the second segment, we talked about attention and how hard it can be to focus. (Recorded November 12, 2024)

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Episode 156: Perry Janes is an episode from Keep the Channel Open by Mike Sakasegawa.

This episode is 01:11:48 long.

This episode was published on Nov 27, 2024.

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