Episode #30
S8: E30 Lisa Low Talks with Julie Murphy
What does it mean to inherit a story? How do memory, family, race, and identity shape the poems we write—and how do poems, in turn, reshape the stories we tell ourselves?In this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective , host Julie Murphy welcomes award-winning poet Lisa Low to discuss her remarkable new collection, Replica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). The conversation begins with Tiana Clark's exuberant "Broken Ode for the Epigraph," opening a rich discussion about literary lineage, artistic permission, revision, and the transformative power of poetry.Together they explore the craft behind several poems from Replica , including "Replica," "People Who Look Like You," "Palinode," and "On Effort," examining how ordinary objects, sharp observation, humor, and self-interrogation become vehicles for profound emotional and philosophical inquiry.Lisa Low is the author of Replica and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside . A recipient of the 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review , and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.
