Graywolf Press Literary Salon 2025
Graywolf Lab
This episode was recorded before a live audience at Glass House in Minneapolis, MN on September 25, 2025 as part of the Graywolf Press annual Literary Salon. -Welcome by Aimee Lagos (Board Chair) -Reading by Chaun Webster (Without Terminus) -Conversation with Chloé Caldwell (Trying), Joshua Wheeler (The High Heaven), and Carmen Giménez (Director and Publisher) -Closing by Aimee Lagos (Board Chair) and Ed McConaghy (Development Committee Chair) DONATE: BUY BOOKS:
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Writers and Visual Artists
Graywolf Lab
Carmen Jimenez, Executive Director at Graywolf Press in conversation with with Aisha Sabatini Sloan, author of Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, (Graywolf Press) and Roberto Tejada, author of Carbonate of Copper (Fordham University Press). Aisha is also the author of The Fluency of Light, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She's an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. Roberto Tejada is the author of numerous poetry collections and several books on art and media history.He is a professor of creative writing and art history at the University of Houston. ...
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Graywolf Lab - Nobody Loses (Games)
Graywolf Lab
Yuka Igarashi, editor at Graywolf Press, hosts this conversation with writers, scholars, and artists Stephanie Burt, Tracy O'Neill, Michael Salu, and Elissa Washuta all of whom are writing and thinking about games in various ways.
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Graywolf Lab - Cultural Criticism
Graywolf Lab
Our publisher Carmen Giménez speaks to Laura Marris, author of The Age of Loneliness, and Roger Reeves, most recently the author of Dark Days: Fugitive Essays about the role of the essayist and critic today. They discuss the intellectual’s engagement with publics outside the page——classroom as mutual aid society, community science, oral history——and the idea of gap gardening. “Can we make space in the essay for people to hear themselves think?”
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Literary Friendships
Graywolf Lab
Graywolf Lab: Literary Friendships Co-hosts Carmen Giménez and Mark Wunderlich with (9:32) Brenda Shaughnessy, (17:05) Ander Monson and Manuel Muñoz, (32:58) Jericho Brown and Michael Dumanis. Visit graywolflab. org to explore our first theme, Time. We're posting new poems, essays, stories, graphics, and interactive pieces every week. And later this year, we'll roll out the next theme for Lab Online, which is games. So please stay tuned. Our music is from expiation from the album terrain by Jacob Cooper. There's a short feature on Jacob Cooper's music on the lab site....
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Love as Time Travel
Graywolf Lab
In this inaugural episode, Graywolf's executive editor Yuka Igarashi explores the theme of time with an interdisciplinary group of artists. First, we hear from Kweku Abimbola —Graywolf published his debut poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm in April. Then Lisa Hsiao Chen, author of the 2022 novel Activities of Daily Living, followed by performance artist, theater artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones. Lastly we hear from Thao Nguyen, best known for her band Thao and the Get Down Stay Down. The podcast opens with an introduction by Graywolf Press publisher, Carmen...
info_outlineYuka Igarashi, editor at Graywolf Press, hosts this conversation with writers, scholars, and artists Stephanie Burt, Tracy O'Neill, Michael Salu, and Elissa Washuta all of whom are writing and thinking about games in various ways.