Stories, Poems & Music - The Creative Process: Novelists, Poets, Non-fiction Writers, Musicians, Screenwriters, Playwrights & Journalists on Writing
Stories, Poems & Music from the popular The Creative Process podcast. Listen to our interviews on The Creative Process - Arts, Culture & Society on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Writers include Neil Gaiman, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Roxane Gay, Jericho Brown, Marge Piercy, Alice Notley, Alice Fulton, Siri Hustvedt, George Pelecanos, Anthony Joseph, E.J. Koh, Hala Alyan, among others. Music by Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Plant, Dickie Landry, among others.
The podcast is hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition. www.creativeprocess.info
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights
“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice th…
00:19:13 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN - Highlights
“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, lan…
00:15:29 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON
“So I think that part of colonialism for Indigenous peoples has been this idea that Indigenous peoples aren't thinking peoples and that we don't have thought on a kind of systemic level. One of the t…
00:43:11 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN
“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an …
01:02:34 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
On Borges, Gore Vidal, Robert Frost & The Writing Life with Author & Filmmaker JAY PARINI
“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you…
00:30:47 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI
What happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in…
00:41:38 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights
“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going thr…
00:12:18 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
An Actor Prepares - SHARON LAWRENCE on Crafting Complex Characters - Highlights
“I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Moss, who I st…
00:20:42 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Exploring Family Dynamics & Fierce Female Friendships with Novelist MEGAN ABBOTT
“I think that it all goes back to childhood. I’ve always really been writing about family. I suppose we always are. I do think that it is the original wound, and it's where we are kind of wired and b…
00:16:23 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
All the Water in the World with Writer & Musician EIREN CAFFALL
“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnec…
01:00:18 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
How do our personal relationships affect political movements and activism? What can we learn from Native American tradition to restore ecological balance? How can transforming capitalism help address…
00:12:59 |
Fri 16 May 2025
PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights
"The country spoke Irish largely before it spoke English. Grammatically, the structure of Irish is different from English. As Ireland adopted the English language, this sort of hybridization started …
00:18:19 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH
“We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we d…
00:48:39 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
ADAM MOSS - Fmr. Editor of New York Magazine, Author, Artist on Creativity as a Process
“When I was working at the Times and the Times Magazine, on one Tuesday morning, the towers fell. September 11, 2001. The magazine had a 10-day lead time, so it was a weekly that was essentially 10 d…
00:14:23 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Art, Performance & the Illusion of Agency - KATIE KITAMURA on her new novel AUDITION
“This novel is the third in what I see as a little set of books that all feature unnamed female protagonists who have experienced varying degrees of passivity and agency in their lives. They're all w…
00:10:04 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Feminism in the 21st Century
How has feminism changed in light of the way we live now?
00:17:10 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Inside the Mind of PETER WELLER, Actor, Art Historian, Director, Musician, Author - Highlights
Peter Weller is a renowned theater and Hollywood actor. His performances in films such as RoboCop and Naked Lunch garnered him much critical and commercial success over the years. His television acti…
00:13:57 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
The Creative Process w/ JULIE ANDREWS, PAUL SCHRADER, JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY, ETGAR KERET, JOY GORMAN WETTELS, CHAYSE IRVIN, MANUEL BILLETER
JULIE ANDREWS (Oscar/Tony/Emmy Award-winning Actress & Singer · The Sound of Music · Mary Poppins) 0:04 · 9:30
Julie Andrews shares her experience working on Mary Poppins, revealing behind-the-scene…
00:14:03 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
The Art of Fiction with Author, Musician, Satirist T.C. BOYLE
“What I have done in my career is just try to assess who we are, what we are, why we are here, and how come we, as animals, are able to walk around and wear pants and dresses and talk on the internet…
00:11:35 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Language, Music, Memory with Writer, Philosopher PATRICK HEALY
“You have all the different languages interplaying with each other. Little scraps of Irish languages and idioms have stories that have been told, but how Ireland actually comes about as an idea, as t…
00:17:36 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
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