Emerging Form Podcast
1) Episode 153: Todd Mitchell on How a Breakdown Led to a Breakthrough
“I had to reassess how I approached creativity and life in general,” says author Todd Mitchell. In this episode of Emerging Form, we speak with the award-winning author about how to re-envision our cr...Show More
2) Episode 152: Julia Belluz on How to Have A Happy Collaboration
“There are enough talented people out there,” says Julia Belluz, “but only collaborate with people you really like.” This was the advice the writer followed when deciding to work with scientist Kevin ...Show More
3) Episode 151: Alison Luterman on Striving
“I’m a striver,” poet Alison Luterman, “still striving to grow.” In this interview with the beloved poet, we follow up on our conversation from episode 64 “It’s Okay to Not Feel Talented, Keep Going A...Show More
4) Episode 150 Bonus: The Medicine of Surrender, Poetry, and Metaphor With Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Can poetry be a form of medicine? In this week’s bonus episode, we share a guest podcast, the Wise Effort Show, hosted by our recent guest Dr. Diana Hill. In the bonus episode she did with Emerging Fo...Show More
5) Updated Episode 150: Filling the Well
How do we take care of our creative selves? How do we step off the wheel of production and find ourselves in the wide-open moment with room to wonder and wander? In this episode, hosts Rosemerry Wahto...Show More
6) Episode 149: Diana Hill on Genius Energy
Everyone has creative genius, says Diana Hill, PhD, and in her new book, Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, she explores how to best explore and nurture that genius. We...Show More
7) Episode 148: David Baron on Torturous First Drafts and the Pleasures of Historical Research
“The first draft is absolute torture,” says historical nonfiction writer David Baron. And yet, he persists and his newest book, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the...Show More
8) Episode 147: Michael Kleber-Diggs on the Role of the Artist in “dark times”
In this episode, we talk with Michael about the importance of mentors and how sometimes they transition to colleagues as we find our own footing in our creative work, stepping into our own creative id...Show More
9) Episode 146: Maria Kelson on Switching Genres
One day, nationally acclaimed poet Maria Kelson hit “a poetry wall” for no identifiable reason. “It was frustrating,” she says, “because I had devoted myself to poetry. For 15 years, it was my primary...Show More
10) Episode 145: Starre Vartan on What it Really Means to Be Strong
When Starre Varten sat down to write her book The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body, she came to the project with two things: an intellectual thesis and a very per...Show More