Poets & Writers
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Poets & Writers".
Sep 9, 2026
Mary AdkinsHOST
And I said, she has not been an agent for two years.
Mary AdkinsHOST
And the reason for this is a lot of times when you find these blogs of agents, these blog posts about agents to query, it's this kind of game of telephone, a blog citing a blog citing a blog that is reaching back to a 2006 Poets and Writers article.
Mary AdkinsHOST
is not going to be a good source of information on who is working now, who is buying books now, and who is still in the industry.
Mary AdkinsHOST
There's a lot of turnover in publishing.
Joshua Michael StewartGUEST
How did this situation come to be? Well, back around what must have been year 2000, she was doing a workshop.
Joshua Michael StewartGUEST
And I think I just I think it was actually advertised in Poets and Writers magazine, you know, this
Joshua Michael StewartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
workshop in Amherst.
Joshua Michael StewartGUEST
And I had no idea who she was.
Joshua Michael StewartGUEST
But once I knew it was time to do edits, she was my first choice of sending it to.
Elizabeth McDuffieHOST
Yeah, of course.
Elizabeth McDuffieHOST
Now, this workshop, was that offered to Amherst poets and writers? Was it through that system of workshops?
Joshua Michael StewartGUEST
I don't know.
Brian GreskoHOST
Though persistent, this myth is not true.
Brian GreskoHOST
As Uttama Patel put it recently in Poets and Writers magazine, rare or rich is the writer without another profession.
Brian GreskoHOST
So I wanted to know from the panelists, how can writers find inspiration in the other roles that they play in their life? Whether that be working a job or jobs, or being a parent or caregiver.
Brian GreskoHOST
First up is Edgar Gomez.
Yance WyattGUEST
And I now have a five-year-old son.
Yance WyattGUEST
And It was very reassuring, I guess, because it said that at least this author, who wrote the article for Poets and Writers, said they did not become less productive once they became a parent.
Yance WyattGUEST
They actually just became more economical with their words.
Yance WyattGUEST
Like they became more minimalistic.
Katie Wills EvansGUEST
Like I didn't have time to learn what I didn't know.
Katie Wills EvansGUEST
You know, I did subscribe to Poets and Writers.
Katie Wills EvansGUEST
I like did what I could do, but I was also like responsible for grading and, you know, just surviving as a public educator in this country.
Katie Wills EvansGUEST
And so I only applied for two programs.
Shasta GrantGUEST
Yeah.
Shasta GrantGUEST
She was in my Poets and Writers, um, Get the Word Out cohort, and her book came out in June, um, like a week or two after mine, I think.
Shasta GrantGUEST
And it's about a woman who has fled Singapore.
Shasta GrantGUEST
She's on the run for committing a crime, and then during the pandemic, she starts a podcast to confess her crimes.