We talk to folks in and around the children's literature (kidlit) industry, from authors to illustrators, art directors, editors, agents, and everywhere in between. Usually for an hour and usually focused on helping all of us understand how to navigate this confusing industry in better ways.

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The title of this podcast comes from the Walt Whitman poem 'O Me, O Life,' pasted below for your reading convenience:

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O Me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.