My Poet/My Novelist

What’s it like to practice the same line of work as your spouse? What if you’re both writers, but one is a novelist — in love with plot and character — and one is a poet — obsessed with words? Novelist Naeem Murr wrote about that marriage for the Poetry Foundation. We brought him together with his wife, Averill Curdy, for both sides of the story.

Music Playlist

  1. My Cherie Amour

    Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
    Album: Cornucopia (Vinyl)
    Label: Solid State Records
  2. Il Vecchio Castello

    Artist: Anatol Ugorski
    Album: Pictures at an Exhibition
  3. Les Tuileries

    Artist: Anatol Ugorski
    Album: Pictures at an Exhibition
  4. Sur Une Lanterne

    Artist: Aldo Ciccolini
    Album: Erik Satie: Works for Piano, Vol. IV: Fantasist Works
    Label: EMI
  5. Lent

    Artist: Aldo Ciccolini
    Album: Erik Satie: Works for Piano, Vol. IV: Fantasist Works
    Label: EMI
  6. Descriptions Automatiques

    Artist: Aldo Ciccolini
    Album: Erik Satie: Works for Piano, Vol. IV: Fantasist Works
    Label: EMI