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

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 22 minutes
Episodes: 68
Years Active: 2023 - 2025

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How Art Helps Us Understand the World - Filmmakers, Writers & Artists Share their Stories

How do our personal lives influence the art we make? Benoît Delhomme, John Patrick Shanley, Jim Shepard, Anthony White, Laura Eason, Mark Gottlieb & Michael Begler explore their creative process.

00:11:52 | Thu 23 Jan 2025

THREE WOMEN starring Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise, Betty Gilpin: Conversation w/ LAURA EASON - Highlights

“I think the show conveys to the women watching that their lives matter. They don't have to be some gorgeous aspirational person, although Sloane absolutely fits that mold. But for others living in t…

00:12:43 | Tue 07 Jan 2025

Female Desire, Sex & Intimacy: Emmy-nominated Producer, Writer, Playwright LAURA EASON on THREE WOMEN

What is love? How do the narratives we internalize shape our understanding of relationships, intimacy, and family? Laura Eason is an Emmy-nominated producer, screenwriter, and playwright. Currently,…

00:52:43 | Tue 07 Jan 2025

How Does Art Shape Our Lives? Musicians, Writers, Filmmakers & Actors Share Their Stories

How do the arts help us find purpose and meaning? What role do stories play in helping us preserve memories, connect us to each other, and answer life’s big questions?

00:11:22 | Fri 03 Jan 2025

Can We Redefine Our Relationship with Nature? Scientists, Writers & Activists Share Solutions

What can we learn from whales, the ways they communicate, and how their life cycle affects whole ecosystems, absorbing carbon and helping cool the planet? How have we contributed to the ecological de…

00:14:13 | Fri 27 Dec 2024

Palestinian Poetry Reveals the Truth Institutions Silence w/ HUDA FAKHREDDINE & ANTHONY ALESSANDRINI

In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Huda Fakhreddine and Anthony Alessandrini about the unique manners in which literature can disclose the human s…

00:58:24 | Mon 23 Dec 2024

Voices for the Planet: Scientists, Activists, Farmers & Filmmakers Speak Out

How can we learn to speak the language of the Earth and cultivate our intuitive intelligence? What lessons can we learn from non-human animals about living in greater harmony with nature? How have …

00:14:12 | Mon 16 Dec 2024

Art, Creativity & Intuition - Filmmakers, Musicians & Artists discuss their Creative Process

Where does our intuition come from? How are lifelong creative partnerships formed and what role do friendship and personal connection play? How do our personal lives influence the art we make?

00:16:04 | Mon 09 Dec 2024

Highlights - David Farrier - Author of “Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils”

"Just thinking about how our actions play out over multiple generations who will have to live with the consequences of these decisions. I think we need to stretch our sense of time, and within that s…

00:10:48 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

Sonnet L’Abbé - Award-winning Poet, Songwriter, Author of “Sonnet’s Shakespeare”

Sonnet L'Abbé is a Canadian poet, songwriter, editor and professor. They are the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, and Sonnet's Shakespeare. Sonnet's Shakespeare was a Quill and Quire Book of th…

01:01:21 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

Max Stossel - Award-winning Poet, Filmmaker, Creator of "Words That Move"

Max Stossel is an Award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His Stand-Up Poetry Special Words That Move takes the audience through a var…

00:50:56 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

Highlights - MADELEINE WATTS - Author of The Inland Sea

"So the book is divided. In the first section, summer, the equivalent of summer is Heat. And then there is Flood, which in Australia does tend to happen sort of towards the beginning of autumn, parti…

00:13:04 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

Highlights - SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"So this was the decision to write in the second person. A lot of people ask me: why? There are not many examples of this technique. The reason I opted for that is I was trying to figure out intervie…

00:12:43 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage

Rob Verchick is one of the nation’s leading scholars in disaster and climate change law and a former EPA official in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair i…

00:51:15 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston

How can literature help us extend our empathic imaginations? How can writing and reading expand our curiosity and compassion for people in situations distant from our own? Jim Shepard is the author o…

00:48:09 | Sat 23 Nov 2024

The Art of Writing w/ Neil Gaiman, Ada Limón, Jericho Brown, E.J. Koh, Marge Piercy & Max Stossel

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