From Madrid to New York City, Charlie and Juliana discuss ecopoetry, living in a city environment, and the idea of the anthropocence.

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Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠

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Charlie Baylis is from Nottingham, England. He is the editor of Anthropocene. His poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize. His first collection of poetry A fondness for the colour green is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in June 2023. He spends his spare time completely adrift of reality.

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Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, ⁠Final Curtain Call⁠, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.