{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 156: Perry Janes","description":"Perry Janes\u2019s debut poetry collection, Find Me When You\u2019re Ready, follows its speaker from childhood in Detroit to young adulthood in Los Angeles, a coming-of-age story in five acts, told through a series of lyric moments. The poems in this collection confront childhood sexual abuse and the story of what it means to be a man, ultimately reaching toward healing and love. In our conversation we talked about what poetry and prose do differently, how masculinity is presented in these poems, and why it was important to both include trauma but not dwell in it. For the second segment, we talked about attention and how hard it can be to focus. (Recorded November 12, 2024) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;Pocket Casts |&amp;nbsp;Goodpods | TuneIn |&amp;nbsp;RSS Support: Support our Patreon&amp;nbsp;| Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Connect: Email&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;Facebook&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;Twitter&amp;nbsp;| Instagram | YouTube Show Notes:  Perry Janes Purchase Find Me When You\u2019re Ready: Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org Natalie Eilbert - Indictus Alexander Chee - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Peter Ho Davies Linda Gregg - \u201cWe Manage Most When We Manage Small\u201d Monster (2023 film)   Transcript Episode Credits  Editing\/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo  ","author_name":"Keep the Channel Open","author_url":"http:\/\/www.keepthechannelopen.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/34123141\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/34123141"}