627. Megan Fernandes

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Megan Fernandes is the guest. Her new poetry collection, Good Boys, is available from Tin House Books. It was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize and the Saturnalia Book Prize. Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, The Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She is also the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). An Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College, Fernandes teaches courses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, the Other People podcast is offered freely all episodes of this program.
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0:18.2	Thank you.
0:37.7	Hey, everybody. How you doing? Welcome to the program. This is the Other People podcast. I am Brad Listy. I am in Los Angeles.
0:39.7	It is nice to meet you.
0:40.8	It is nice to meet you.
0:42.0	It's nice to be with you.
0:42.9	It's nice to meet you.
0:49.2	Megan Fernandez is my guest today.
0:52.1	She's a poet.
0:54.2	She has a collection out called Good Boys.
0:55.5	It's on Tin House Books.
0:59.0	It's nice to meet you, by the way.
1:01.8	And it was nice to meet Megan Fernandez.
1:11.3	She came over just this past week, actually, and sat down with me and we talked.
1:14.9	Her poetry collection is beautiful.
1:16.2	Again, it's called Good Boys.
1:19.3	You're going to hear from Megan Fernandez momentarily.
1:25.1	I had her read a poem, as I have been doing with poets on the program recently, and then you're going to hear us have our conversation.
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