Poetry Between Friends

< < Full show notes and poems on Substack >> When profound grief bears astonishing gifts, how do we hold both truths at once? In the conclusion of this two-part mini-series, host Rachel Schroeder welcomes former students and current mentees — young women she’s mentored since 2020 across three continents, but never in the same room: Chiara Masci, a psychology graduate devoted to holistic wellbeing,...

**Full show notes and poems on ⁠ ⁠Substack⁠ ⁠** What if you&#39;re the friend you&#39;ve always longed for? In the first of a two-part mini-series, host Rachel Schroeder welcomes former students and current mentees she has known since 2020 but has yet to meet in person: Carlotta Campara, a graduate student engaged at the intersection of psychology and the performing arts in Assisi, Italy, and Vars...

**Full show notes and poems on ⁠ ⁠Substack⁠ ⁠** At the threshold between life and death, how do the dead look back at the living? And when we get there, how will we look back at ourselves? Host Rachel Schroeder exchanges poems with Hester Kamin — award-winning poet, director, choreographer, arts educator, and Rachel’s soul sister — about violence, civic grief, responsibility, and the power of pray...

**Full show notes and poems on ⁠ Substack ⁠** What if you grew up believing your father built both your house and the river beside it? Host Rachel Schroeder exchanges poems with Sheela Clary—storyteller, essayist, journalist, teacher of Italian and storytelling, wife, mother, cold-plunge enthusiast, and Rachel’s dear friend since the age of two—about inner and outer landscapes, fatherly authority,...

**Full show notes and poems on Substack **   What happens when a man dressed in pea soup floats into the ever after — and a voice whispers that we are not crumbs, not parts, but whole? Rachel exchanges poems with Jason Howard — actor, fight choreographer, writer, coder, and her dear friend since college — about amnesia, a mantra that echoes across lifetimes, and absurdity that just might be wisdom...

**Full show notes and poems on Substack ** What happens when home is both wound and origin — gravesite and garden, the place we leave and the place that won&#39;t leave us? Rachel exchanges poems with Derralyn Rennix — poet, veterinarian, Buddhist chaplain, hospice bereavement volunteer, and NVC facilitator — about childhood homes, ancestral memory, mourning, healing, and the alchemy of transforma...

**Full show notes and poems at Substack ** What happens when the ordinary world begins to shimmer — when a chicken, a droplet, a toothbrush, or a passing moment becomes a doorway into wonder? In the series premiere, Rachel Schroeder reunites with her dear friend Mathayu Warren Lane — poet, painter, screenwriter, grocer, and fellow high school theater kid — to exchange poems about hatching, becomin...

Before each episode, I send an original poem to someone I love. They write one in conversation with mine. During the episode, we read each other's work aloud, then follow the poems wherever they lead. Whether you've been writing in secret for years, yearn to write, or writing is your life's work, you are very welcome here. Hosted and produced by Rachel Schroeder, a New York–based playwright, poet,...