{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoices-of-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fepisode-9-lulu-HO5F9DON","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 9: Lulu","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e35cdbbb-cf98-47cf-a62e-0ad0d141b2dd/ae74f3ce-2c1c-42a3-85d2-de01207e9b01/6.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/ac9f2158-d3b3-481d-bd71-f74011cb1a8e\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Episode 9: Lulu\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Lulu Rasor joins Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum in conversation and to read her poem \"Grendel’s Mother Takes the Mic,\" featured in A NEW LAND, a poetry anthology from The Telling Room. Stuart and Lulu discuss authorial voice, character point of view, Beowulf, the anonymity of female characters, authentic characterization, Maine as a setting, and why she can’t stop writing. Lulu is now a student at Oberlin College. She published her poetry collection, “An Open Letter to Ophelia,” through the Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors Fellowship.\n"}