Nashville artists and writers are great at collaboration, and nowhere is this more evident than in the podcast Versify, in which people sit down with writers to talk about their lives, with the writers subsequently transforming the people’s stories into poetry. A collaboration between Nashville Public Radio and The Porch Writers’ Collective hosted by Joshua Moore, the podcast showcases some of the best poets Nashville has to offer, among them Ciona Rouse, Destiny Birdsong, Susannah Felts and Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay. The fourth season of Versify features some of the Nashville Freedom Riders — Rip Patton and Etta Marie Simpson Ray among them — and renders their spellbinding history as verse. Versify shows the versatility of poetry, and the art form’s ability to imbue both ordinary and extraordinary stories with meaning. ERICA CICCARONE
Best Podcast
Versify
Daniel Meigs
