# Elisa Gabbert

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Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”

Recorded by Elisa Gabbert for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 21, 2025. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org

Endings: A Passage to India with Elisa Gabbert

We're joined by Elisa Gabbert (Any Person is the Only Self, Normal Distance) to discuss E.M. Forster's 1924 novel A Passage to India, and also to speculate wildly about why this was the last novel Forster ever wrote. You can find selections of Gabbert's work (and links to buy her books) on her web…

Episode 10: Janaka Stucky & Carrie Olivia Adams - “Hunger for Awe”

In this episode we talk with Janaka Stucky and Carrie Olivia Adams: poets, editors, and founders of Black Ocean, an independent publisher based in Boston and Chicago. We inquire about the press’s early success and how they manage to keep such lasting power under the tenuous conditions of the indie …

3.5 Mosaic Mosaic: You Take It from Here

It's not just the contradictions in the Hebrew Bible that puzzle and provoke readers—there are, throughout, passages of intense emotional or moral provocation. See, for instance, Ecclesiastes, which in the King James translation begins: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; a…

3.4 Mosaic Mosaic: Struggling with Disaster

From the book of Genesis on, the Hebrew Bible presents a struggle with language: a struggle to establish meaning, to figure out the right uses of words, to understand one's place in the world. The famous early scene of struggle in the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's wrestling match with the divine, goes as f…

3.2 Mosaic Mosaic: Laws of Emotion

“We regulate each other’s nervous systems,” says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of “Mosaic Mosaic.” “We are the caretakers of each other’s nervous systems.” So feeling—and thinking—and the regulations of law join together; the idea that laws exist apart from our nervous sys…

3.1 Mosaic Mosaic: Introduction

This season, we're rambling through and beyond a book sacred in multiple traditions, a book that keeps generating debate and commentary and tangents. It's the Hebrew Bible, home to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and his Ark, David and Goliath, and prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel. Here, in a sea…

Season 3 Trailer: Introducing Mosaic Mosaic

The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in …

1581: Stop Thinking & End Your Problems by Elisa Gabbert

Today’s poem is Stop Thinking & End Your Problems by Elisa Gabbert. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Myka Kielbon writes… “So often my mind feels crowded. Busy. Like a rush hour intersection of internal monologue. I’ve tried lots of strategies. I’m still trying …

S04:E11 | Reflect: 2025 Hits & Highlights, Books Edition

Revisiting the megasode that started it all: a massive reading roundup, featuring faves of 2025 in this belated bijou of big book energy, organized into three categories, plus an Honorable Mention section: Looking Back: The Lover by Marguerite Duras; Good Material by Dolly Alderton;  A Tree Grows …