Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. All right, I'm not 100% bought in on this take yet, but I do wonder if poetry is the writing medium that's been most changed by the internet.

In a lot of ways, the internet, whether it be old blog spot pages or Tumblr or Instagram, has kept poetry alive and relevant to an audience

that isn't necessarily out here reading professional poets published on small presses.

And I think the author we've got on the pod today is an example of that.

Lindsay Rush made a name for herself publishing poetry on Instagram under the handle

Mary Oliver's drunk cousin that led to a book

out now titled A Bit Much. And in this interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, she talks about

why poetry always felt a bit out of reach for her and what changed that. That's coming up.

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If you do not like poetry, this next conversation is for you.

In fact, you're in good company because we are about to chat with Lindsay Rush, who didn't think she liked poetry either,

until she sat down and started writing it. She kept at it, and the result is a new book

called A Bit Much. Lindsay Rush, hi there. Welcome.

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

So I do have a zillion questions about how a person goes from not caring for poems to writing a whole book of them.

But I want to start just by giving people a taste of what kind of poems these are.

The first section is love poems.

A lot of them are very funny love poems.

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