Episode 85 - Lock In and Understand with Madeline Blair

Dec 22, 2025
59 mins

Episode Description

On this episode, Madeline Blair, founder and editor of the literary magazine Sabr Tooth Tiger, talks about her development as a lover and writer of poetry, how balancing reading online publications can run up against her day job, and how she discovers new pieces to read. You also get to hear me have a bit of an existential crisis in real time which happens every time I think about how much content there is out there to read. 

 

Sabr Tooth Tiger

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Sisters by Jonas Hassan Khemiri 

There is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone

 

Books Highlighted by Madeline:

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath 

Ariel by Sylvia Plath 

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Monsters, Clowns, and the Holy Fool by Satori Na

The Poet’s Companion by Kim Addonizio 

Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath 

Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo 

The Diary of Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin 

The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith 

Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück 

Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara by Frank O’Hara 

Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson 

Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bzaterrica 

Dubliners by James Joyce 

The Idaho Four by James Patterson & Vicky Ward 

The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser

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