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When It's Time to Go (Joy Sullivan)

Listen now (53 mins) | “What is that instinct that might be asking me to do something really unadvisable or radical or leap outside the bounds of my own life? And that's the space by which I think..."

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Elise Loehnen
Apr 19, 2024
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Joy Sullivan is the author of Instructions for Traveling West, which is a guidebook of poems for letting your life fall apart and remake itself as something new. In our conversation, Joy and I explore her early life: how she grew up in Africa, the child of medical missiona…

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