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Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet D. A. Powell on episode 000 of The Quarantine Tapes. D. A. Powell and Paul dig into film, living through pandemics, inspiration, and so much more on this incredible two-part episode.

Powell talks about his experience of the early days of the pandemic and delves into how he approaches writing about grief and loss. They discuss Iris Murdoch, John Cage, Mark Strand, and much more before Powell ends the episode by reading the brilliant poem he wrote back in March of 2020, “Palm Sunday.”

D. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry, including Chronic, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Repast: Tea,Lunch, and Cocktails. Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco.

Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.