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Working: A Rural Poet Looks for Community

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For this edition of Working Overtime, hosts Isaac Butler and Karen Han hear from a poet in rural Montana who wants to feel more connected to poetry communities in big cities. Isaac and Karen offer tips for how to make connections with people online, and they also discuss some of the benefits of being a rural writer living outside of the urban literary bubble. Do you have a question about creative work? Call us and leave a message at 304-933-9675, or email us at working@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0

Welcome back to Working Over Time, the advice driven Jake the dog to regular workings fin the human, I'm Isaac Butler.

0:55.0

And I'm Lady Reenacquired. Sorry, no, I'm Karen Han.

0:58.0

Karen, how is it going out there in Los Angeles? Are you making bacon pancakes and are you finding time to write?

1:04.0

I haven't made bacon pancakes yet, but now that you mention it, I do feel like I should be doing that, but I am finding time to write, which is good.

1:12.0

That's great.

1:13.0

And I'm very excited to record another episode of Working Over Time with You, which brings me to my question, what are we talking about today?

1:22.0

Today we are responding to another listener email.

1:27.0

This comes from Karissa and she has a question about being a rural writer when it feels like everyone else lives in the big city.

1:34.0

She writes, hello, a question for the pod.

1:37.0

I live in very rural Montana and feel so far from the poetry circles I creep on over the internet.

1:44.0

How can rural poets become connected to these country-wide opportunities and communities and find mentors and peers?

1:51.0

Is metropolitan life the only road to writerly success? Thanks for the work you do.

1:56.0

Karissa, thank you for the work you did in writing in.

2:00.0

And first of all, I just want to say, Karen, you and I, we're both city mice.

2:05.0

But I do not think it is necessary to live in New York or L.A. to have writerly success.

2:11.0

Yeah, I think you're totally right. And the existence of the internet has definitely made it a lot easier to achieve, quote unquote, writerly success.

2:19.0

Because you can do the job from anywhere and connect with people from anywhere.

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