READ TO ME with Becky Karush

READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast where we listen for what we love. In this episode, we read a small piece of MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY by Mary Ruefle. These collected lectures are about poetry (the writing, reading, and living of it), and here Ruefle writes about secrets. And opera. And Osage stories....

READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast that trains us to listen for what we love. In this episode, we read DEMETER IN WINTER by Diana Whitney. It’s set in the brutal cold season, but the poem is hot, thick with imagery, thick with the mythic, climatic, and personal. We get to be inside a poem that makes...

READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast that trains us to listen for what we love. In this episode, we first pay homage to Toni Morrison with a short excerpt from the perfect SULA, in honor of The Free Black Women’s Library. Because Morrison shaped American literature, one reading isn’t enough — so we...

READ TO ME is the Gateless Writing-inspired podcast that trains us to listen for what we love. In this episode, we read from the first novel from Suzanne Kingsbury, the founder of Gateless Writing. We sink into the heat of a Mississippi summer. We get to hear the final notes of the symphony of a novel — the terrible...