Margaret Atwood Visits New Yorker Poetry Podcast

For the New Yorker's Poetry Podcast, hosted by Kevin Young,  Margaret Atwood chose to read and discuss Saeed Jones's poem, "A Stranger," as well as her own poem, "Flatline." Regarding the latter, Young asks Atwood: "Is there anything you'd like to say about the poem? Anything you want readers to know or hear before we hear it?" From there: 

Margaret Atwood:
Not particularly, except that I write all my poetry in long hand. How about that?

Kevin Young:
And do you write novels long hand as well?

Margaret Atwood:
I usually kick them off long hand, but ever since they invented the computer. It's somewhat easier from the legibility standpoint.

Kevin Young:
Sure. I'll tell you a secret. Sometimes I write poems, only poems, on my phone, which is very strange thing that's just happened recently.

Margaret Atwood:
Do you do it in the app called Notes?

Kevin Young:
I do. Notes is much better because, you know, your phone, you almost always have, and sometimes you don't have a piece of paper. Anyway you can get there, I think is all right. 

Listen in (or read the transcript) at the New Yorker.