Today we have poet Donika Kelly in the studio! We discuss drawing curtains and dressing chickens, growing up in Compton, the English teachers of Arkansas, and more.

Tim Johnston is a graduate of the University of Iowa English Department, with an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s the bestselling author of Descent, The Current, the O. Henry prize-winning story collection Irish Girl, and the Young Adult novel Never So Green. His latest book is Distant Sons.