For this month’s episode of mnartists.org’s literary podcast, comedienne and writer Colleen Kruse offers a very funny story about cannibal hamsters and the black heart of motherhood.

Artist Jennifer Nevitt profiles David Lefkowitz, a prolific, award-winning artist who conjures whole worlds with the simplest materials.

Jay Orff reviews Boarded Windows, an engaging tangle of competing stories and unreliable narrators with its own soundtrack (the accompanying new album Sings Bolling Greene) by musician and writer Dylan Hicks.

“Dance is not merely specialized movement, but also a way of seeing,” writes Lightsey Darst. “Dance is a lens”—one she takes outside the theater to the work-a-day world beyond, offering a guided tour through “the undance.”

Camille LeFevre offers a dispatch from her recent trip down South to Bentonville, Arkansas, reporting back on the recently opened and oft critically dismissed “Walmart art museum,” Crystal Bridges.

Carl Atiya Swanson digs into the film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and unearths death-defying creativity in the soccer-player’s game and in the power of the right shared moment in time.

Writer Jay Orff wanders the aisles of Ax-Man Surplus, musing on aesthetic evolutions, beautiful ugliness, creative ironies, and the irresistible invitation to put old things to new use.

Stephanie Xenos reviews Los Cuatro Ases, an exhibition of work by Douglas Padilla, Peter Martin Morales, Xavier Tavera, and Alonso Sierralta that kicks off Franconia In the City@Casket’s second season in its NE Minneapolis space.

Celebrating National Poetry month, the podcast welcomes Todd Boss, whose 2012 volume Pitch offers a series of variations on an overturned piano, and Paula Cisewski, whose Ghost Fargo was selected for the Nightboat Poetry Prize.