Maya Hawke

All you need to know about Maya Hawke's dedication to wordcraft is summed up in this memory: "The day I fell in love with my husband was the day we got into a fight about free verse poetry versus formal poetry." (Hawke's husband is singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, whom I interviewed last year.) Hawke is of course an actor ( Stranger Things , Inside Out 2 , among others) and a visual artist, but she's really a poet, first and foremost. Rarely have I encountered a songwriter with such passion for the literary artistry of the words on the page: how they sound, how they feel, how they look, what they mean. By the way, Hawke was on the side of formal poetry in that argument. Maya Hawke's latest album is Maitreya Corso on Mom+Pop Records.

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Maya Hawke is an episode from Songwriters on Process by Ben Opipari.

This episode is 57:38 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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