May Swenson on the Sad Men Podcast
March 23, 2019
The third episode of the Sad Men Podcast is up, exploring the Great Depression writings of the great poet, May Swenson.
Swenson worked for the Federal Writers Project, a radical piece of New Deal legislation that put hundreds of unemployed writers back to work creating city guidebooks, cultural essays, and oral histories in the mid 1930s.
Swenson joined the folklore unit of the Federal Writers Project, interviewing a series of department store workers, immigrants and factory employees at the National Biscuit Company.
I highly recommend checking out Swenson’s collected poems.
This episode also included music by Kevin MacLeod.
“Sneaky Snitch” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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“Moonlight Hall” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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