The Lives of Writers

Jim Reese

Episode Summary

Michael talks with Jim Reese about teaching writing at a prison, teaching writing at a college, the midwest, his first collection of essays Bone Chalk, the ways working in poetry previously helped or didn't help him in prose, and more.

Episode Notes

Michael talks with Jim Reese about teaching writing at a prison, teaching writing at a college, the midwest, his first collection of essays Bone Chalk,  the ways working in poetry previously helped or didn't help him in prose, and more.

Jim Reese is a writer and teacher from the midwest. He’s the author of the essay collection Bone Chalk and three previous collections of poems. A fourth collection, Dancing Room Only, is forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.