All right. How are you? Welcome to The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy. I have a bit of a cold. I don't know if you can hear it. So if I sound like I'm under the weather, I kind of am. But that is not stopping me from delivering to you a Sunday episode,

and I am very delighted to have Julie Poole on the program.

She is a poet who is originally from the Pacific Northwest,

but now lives in Austin, Texas.

She has a new collection out on Deep Vellum.

It is called Bright Specimen.

And it was inspired by the time that she spent in the Billy L. Turner Plant Resources Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

It's very much about plants, among other things.

Julie Poole has received fellowship support from the James Mishner Center,

the Helene Werlitzer Foundation, and Yado.

And in 2017, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature.

I had a nice time talking with her.

That is coming up in just a minute.

I do have a quick announcement.

If you are a journalist or a literary critic or a book blogger or a literary podcaster

and you would like an advanced copy of my novel, be brief and tell them everything,

please email me at Letters at OtherPPL.com.

That's Letters at OtherPPL.com and I will put you on the list for a galley.

My book comes out in May 2022, so we're getting galleys together and all the rest.

Today's episode is brought to you by Grey Wolf Press, publisher of the Swank Hotel, the new novel by Lucy Corrin.

Booklist says, quote, Corrin's novel unveils the madness that permeates society by scrutinizing trauma, cultural expectations, and the political and economic climate of the 21st century.

That's the Swank Hotel by Lucy Corrin, available now from Grey Wolf Press.

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