Thank you for listening to the Blackbird Literary Podcast. Episode Two: Fledgling, Flight features “Pastoral” & “Without Warning” by Hannah Bonner, “Elegy with a Chinese Checkerboard” by Victoria Chang, “The Only Recipe My Grandma Ever Wrote Down” by Kivel Carson, “How Most of the Dreams Go” by Sara Elkamel, “Smithereen (1, 2, 3)” by Sarah Minor, a musical performance from the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, and interview excerpts with Blackbird’s faculty editor, Jessica Hendry Nelson.

The production of this episode was made possible by Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, the VCU MFA in Creative Writing program, the VCU English Department, the VCU Kinetic Imaging Department, the VCU School of Music, the VPM  ...