Episode 2: Rebecca Morgan Frank, Poet - Writing By Ear

Morgan joins "Doing the Thing" and guest host Ariana Strahl to talk about her writing process, collaborating with composers and mechanical robots. Check out the episode here.

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four poetry collections: Oh You Robot Saints!, Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country; and The Spokes of Venus, all from Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry), finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, 32 Poems, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Southern Review, Poetry Ireland, Crazyhorse, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Slowdown podcast, and elsewhere. Her collaborations with composers have been performed and exhibited across the country. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship, and fellowships from such places as the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Writers’ Room of Boston. She holds an MFA from Emerson College and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.

Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Memorious, Frank serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, she currently lives just outside of Chicago, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Prose & Poetry at Northwestern University and is the writer-in-residence at the Hemingway Foundation in Oak Park.

Find out more about our guest at rebeccamorganfrank.com.

Buy her latest book at Pilsen Community Books.

Rebecca Morgan Frank, by Brian McConkey