National Poetry Month: July Westhale Goes to the Moon's Moon

Episode notes
 

July Westhale ’13 imagines life in outer space with her
forthcoming poetry collection "Moon Moon." On this episode, she
gives us a preview with "the world as it is."
 


Find the transcript on our episode page.


About our guest


July Westhale ’13 holds an MFA in Poetry from Lesley. Westhale is
a novelist, translator, and the award-winning author of six
books, including "Via Negativa," which Publishers Weekly called
"stunning" in a starred review. Her most recent work can be found
in McSweeney’s, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner,
CALYX, and The Huffington Post, among others. When she’s not
teaching, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP Magazine. She
is represented by Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic. Learn more
at www.julywesthale.co.
 


Check out previous Poetry Month episodes:


"Memo to the Border Patrol Agent Who Poured Out the Water We
Left in the Desert" by Robbie Gamble

"The Translator" by Kevin Prufer

"As for the Heart" by Erin Belieu

"We Be Womxn" by U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

Cowboys and "The Dread" by Lydia Leclerc