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When she was in her twenties, Anne Haven McDonnell worked on an organic farm on an island in British Columbia. She made good friends and visited frequently in the years that followed. In her time there, she had some encounters with wolves, who live wild on the island, and she began to explore the tensions around co-existence with wolves.
As Anne turned her attention full-time to poetry, she began to write about wolves and the people who share space with them. On this episode, we dive into one of those poems: “The Study.”
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Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poems have been published widely, including in Orion Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, and The Georgia Review. She is the author of Singing Under Snow, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Breath on a Coal, winner of the Halcyon Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a MacDowell fellowship, and she has held residencies at the Andrews Forest and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
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This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series. I spoke with Anne on September 13, 2022.
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Here is Anne Haven McDonnell reading her poem, “The Study.”
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Credits
This episode was researched by Nina Bunn and edited by Sarah Westrich, Kathryn Fair, and Alice McClain. The podcast assistant is Domenica Klamm. Music is by Daniel Rodríguez Vivas. Mixing is by Morgan Honaker.
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