<!-- cla-toc-start --><h3>In Conversation with Adrian Lürssen</h3> <h5>By C Culbertson</h5> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-25813" src="https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-600x600.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="600" srcset="https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-1800x1800.jpg 1800w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2022/11/AdrianLurssenHeadshot-crop-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p> <p class="text-build-content" data-testid="84cBLRLq3">In this audio installment of Con(verse), <i>CR</i>&#8216;s recurring interview series, C Culbertson sits down with Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Adrian Lürssen to discuss his book, <a href="https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/6245-human-is-to-wander" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Human Is to Wander</i></a>. Lürssen reads a few poems from the collection and talks about his inspiration for the work, the biography and personal history of the poems, and how he revisits these poems now—as a reader rather than a writer.</p> <p data-testid="84cBLRLq3"></p> <hr /> <p data-testid="84cBLRLq3">C Culbertson is a third year MFA candidate in poetry at Colorado State University, where they are a Gill-Ronda Fellow in Creative Writing and associate editor at <em>Colorado Review.</em> Their work appears or is forthcoming in <em>Nat. Brut</em> and <em>Posit</em>.</p> <!-- cla-toc-end -->