William Blake with Paul Pastor

Dec 12, 2025
50 mins

Episode Description

Today, Grace chats with the poet Paul Pastor on another poet, the revolutionary thinker and artist William Blake. 

Paul J. Pastor is Executive Editor of Nelson Books at HarperCollins, an essayist, critic, and poet, writer of The Rose Fire on Substack, and author of several books, most recently The Locust Years: Poems, from Wiseblood Books. He lives in Oregon. 

Grace is going to take a sabbatical from Old Books with Grace for a few months as she and her family are in the middle of several big projects and changes. You can keep up with her at gracehamman.substack.com while she's taking a break from the podcast, though!

Support Old Books with Grace

See all episodes

Never lose your place, on any device

Create a free account to sync, back up, and get personal recommendations.