129. J. Hope Stein Returns: Earth Day Poetry from Clo

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes back the poet J. Hope Stein, aka Jenny, aka Clo, aka Mike’s wife of fifteen years. A frequent collaborator on Mike’s comedy specials and movies, Jenny describes her favorite type of creative feedback and why she’s most impressed by poetry that crosses over to audiences who don’t always understand poetry. The couple shares candid and embrassing stories from the early days of their romance including two stories that might make it into Mike’s new live show. Plus, Jen reads two new poems in celebration of Earth Day and announces the audiobook of her poetry collection “Little Astronaut.”

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0:00.0	I thought in Little Astronaut you conveyed some really strong feelings about our marriage and the pain of childbirth and all these things that I remember when I first started sharing those poems I like sort of emailed them to you or like I emailed them as just like oh these
0:16.3	are some things I wrote and you're like it's good it hurts but it's good that you
0:22.3	it was painful.
0:24.0	But I think that that's good. I really do.
0:27.0	And I encourage you in the future to swing away.
0:31.0	You've encouraged me for sure. I just, I'm not a person that lets people in.
0:36.0	So if I am saying, if I am communicating something, it's usually pretty layered.
0:42.0	That is the voice. getting something it's usually pretty layered.
0:48.0	That is the voice of the great poet J. Hope Stein, aka Jen, aka Klau, also happens to be my wife,
0:52.0	often creative, collaboration. also happens to be my wife,
0:52.6	often creative collaborator.
0:55.6	This is a really cool episode.
0:57.6	It's, we talk a lot about poetry, a lot about comedy.
1:01.6	She's published work of her own poetry in the New Yorker, the New York Times,
1:06.2	Poetry International. She has her own book called Little Astronaut that is coming out on
1:11.5	audio book for Mother's Day.
1:14.0	It's going to be on Libro F.M.
1:16.0	It's going to be on audible.
1:19.0	I believe on a lot of those places.
1:21.0	You can pre-order it now. She has a wonderful voice and I'm her
1:26.1	husband and so I would say that even if she didn't have a wonderful voice but she
1:30.6	does have a wonderful voice so it leaves me in a little bit of a peckle.
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