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Welcome to the official start of autumn. We’re two episodes into our Fall into Poetry series—this is the third—with a focus this season on poets who also write fiction.

Our primary question is How Writing Poetry Made our Guest a Better Fiction Writer, but I guarantee we will delve into a lot of other corners of writing as well.

Today’s guest is Michael Cody, a songwriter-poet who has added fiction to his repertoire, with short stories and novels. He finds poetry does more than enrich his words, deepening the work in a wealth of ways.

Here’s the Interview.

Bio: Michael Amos Cody is author of the novel Gabriel’s Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017) and the story collection A Twilight Reel (Pisgah Press, 2021), winner of the Short Story category in the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022.

His literary suspense novel Streets of Nashville appeared in April 2025 from Madville Publishing. He lives in Jonesborough, TN, with his wife Leesa and teaches in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University.

TIMINGS

00:40 Welcome and Introduction
01:35 Interview with Michael Cody
30:15 Last Words and Closing

Total Run Time = 31:36

LINKS
[email protected]

https://michaelamoscody.com/

https://michaelamoscody.com/michael-amos-cody/macblog/

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Michael-Cody/author/B001KHHWW6

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17352683.Michael_Amos_Cody

https://soundcloud.com/michael-cody-9

The Write Focus website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2025/10/639-fall-into-poetry-michael-cody.html

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