Major Jackson is a poet, author, and professor who is the recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts works Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, he has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Witter Bynner foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, awarded the Pushcart Prize, has been published in American Poetry Review, the New Yorker, Paris Review, Orion Magazine, is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review, and is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. We touch on stewardship, curiosity being emblematic of being human, art in a time of upheaval, human expression, AI, art monsters, and a whole lot more.

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• Major Jackson
• Ep 96 - Maggie Smith
• Parnassus
• Peabody Institute
• Robert Frost
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Marcel Duchamp
• “A Love Supreme”
• Ezra Klein & Rebecca Winthrop - ‘Rethinking Education’
• Humanities Tennessee
• Michaela Anne - “Is This What Mama Meant?”
• Hunter S Thompson
• Michael Ruhlman

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Seth Walker is singer/songwriter, guitarist, author, and painter who grew up on a commune in North Carolina, has released 12(+) records, has toured and collaborated with The Mavericks, The Wood Brothers, Paul Thorn, and Raul Malo, amongst others, and wrote a book titled 'Your Van is on Fire," about the life of a touring musician. This conversation centers around mindfulness, presence, and awareness, and we touch on his nomadic creativity (having lived in NC, Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, and NYC), listening closely because peace speaks much quieter than anxiety, shedding the energy from the audience after the show, pointing towards the joy, and a whole lot more.

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• Seth Walker
• Gladys Knight
• Willie Nelson
• Guy Clark
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• Gary Nicholson
• Ep 28 - The Wood Brothers
• Ep 60 - Lori McKenna
• Gabor Mate - When the Body Says No

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Caitlyn Smith is a singer and songwriter who has released 3 records via Sony and is now releasing music independently, she has a publishing deal with Universal (UMPG) and her songs have been recorded by Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, Miley Cirus, Avicii, Lady A, Rascal Flatts, and Chris Isaak amongst others, and she has been nominated or won a Critics Choice Award, ACM and CMT Music Awards. We talk to Caitlyn about not moving from a major label to independence, not believing in writer's block, everyone's horrible first drafts, telling a massive star that they line they came up with just isn't good, and a whole lot about the business of songwriting.

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• Caitlyn Smith
• Sony Nashville
• Tristen
• Vanessa Carlton
• Miley Cyrus
• Anne Lamott
• Jason Aldean
• Tim Mcgraw
• Ep 46 Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Ep 100 Rosanne Cash
• Ep 63 Lori McKenna

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