• New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lisa Willis of Cave Canem on Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts Organizations

    Plus: Brittany Allen, Julia Hass, and Oliver Scialdone!

    A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard.

    We’re continuing our celebration of National Poetry Month this week with special guest Lisa Willis, executive director of Cave Canem! She’s here to tell Drew about the wide-reaching, first-of-its-kind field study Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts Organizations—it’s a must-read for anybody interested in any part of the literary arts ecosystem.

    Plus, Brittany Allen on some organizations and organizers pushing back against the Trump administration’s assault on the historical archive—and new poetry!! Julia Hass reads “Passerine,” an unpublished poem by Sophia Stid, and Oliver Scialdone reads one of their own poems, “Help, Am I Watching a Commercial Break or Just Living in One?” plus “The Garden” by H.D.


    The Lit Hub Podcast is a production of Lit Hub Radio and is available wherever you get your podcasts; music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn; Engineering and production by Stardust House. This week’s banner photo courtesy of the Cave Canem Digital Collection.


    The Lit Hub Podcast
    The Lit Hub Podcast
    A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests!





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