Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini

Welcome to Let’s Have a Renaissance, a podcast about literature and the arts, where where authors, editors, artists, composers, and other creative professionals come together to discuss what it takes to build a sustainable career in the arts in the twenty-first century. If you enjoy the pod, help us keep it going by making a donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=HE5EAYSMNWB34&no_recurring=0&item_name=Thank+you+for+keeping+the+creative+community+strong%21+¤cy_code=USD

Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini is a arts podcast hosted by The DateKeepers, with 126 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

The DateKeepers hosts Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini, a arts show with 126 episodes published.

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  Episode #145

  145: Finding Your Voice in a Mysterious State – A Conversation with Acie Clark

  Sep 28, 202634 minS2

  In this episode, we speak with multi-genre writer Acie Clark about finding his voice as a poet, how to curb disillusionment with MFA programs, and why Arkansas isn’t what you think it is (spoiler alert: it’s much weirder). Acie’s debut poetry collection, Small Talk , was released this month by Hub City Press, where it was selected by Derrick Austin (also a former guest on Let's Have a Renaissance) as the winner of the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize. Acie holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Rhode Island, and teaches film, theater, and creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

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  Episode #144

  144: Why Are Words Cheap Now, and What Can We Do About It? – A Conversation with Gwydion Suilebhan

  Sep 25, 202627 minS2

  In this episode, we speak with author, playwright, and cultural critic Gwydion Suilebhan about the cheapening of language in the digital age, the cost of political correctness for the marginalized, the joys of co-authorship, and more. Gwydion’s writes on topics ranging from the history of Jewish comedy to the intersection of technology and theatre, solo and in collaboration with his long-time friend, the philosopher Steven Gimbel. He’s been anthologized in Best American Short Plays and has received one Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maryland State Arts Council, who also honored him with a Larry Neal Writing Award, two from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and three from the Montgomery County Arts Council. Armed with an MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins University, he now serves as executive director of the Pen/Faulkner Foundation and as Project Director of the New Play Exchange.

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  Episode #143

  143: Is Craig Drennen Awful? – A Conversation with Craig Drennen

  Sep 23, 202618 minS2

  In this episode, we speak with visual and performing artist Craig Drennen about his years-long project to resurrect the full cast of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens— widely considered The Bard’s worst play — in various media, the generative function of satire and self-deprecation as artistic wellsprings, and the toxic market pressures inhibiting the creativity of today’s up-and-coming artists. Craig holds two MFAs, one in art history, the other in painting, both from Ohio University, and currently teaches at Georgia State University, where he’s received the Distinguished University Professorship, among other honors. He’s also a MacDowell fellow, an Art Matters grant recipient, an Idea Capital grant recipient, a Guggenheim fellow, and much more.

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  Episode #142

  142: Listen to This Before Submitting to Literary Magazines

  Sep 21, 202626 minS2

  In our first year of writing and submitting together, we published in over fifty literary magazines around the world and learned more about the magazine industry than either of us had in our graduate programs (an MA in journalism and an MFA in fiction, respectively). In this episode, we bring you a crash-course on what we learned that year conducting research, running IRL experiments, and fine-tuning a successful submission strategy, as well as more recently through conversations with hundreds of literary magazine editors, founders, and publishers, whom we’ve been vetting to bring on the podcast. If you enjoy this episode stay tuned: we’ve got more about litmags and publishing coming soon.

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  Episode #141

  141: How to Become Poet Laureate – A Conversation with Jennifer Militello

  Sep 18, 202624 minS2

  In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Militello about her journey to become the poet laureate of New Hampshire, what she’s doing to bring poetry to the people, her origin story, and her memoir, Knock Wood , winner of the 2019 Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. Jennifer has also published five books of poems and one hybrid collection, and her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, Poetry Magazine , and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and a PhD in creative writing from Bath Spa University in Bath, England, and she taught at Brown University, The University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design before stepping into her current post as director the MFA program at New England College in New Hampshire.

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