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  • Episode 570: Kathleen Rooney!

    Episode 570: Kathleen Rooney!

    On this episode, I talk to Kathleen Rooney about finding the fun despite the end of The Great Enlightenment, the joys of mixing wit and earnestness in verse, the fun of exploring the landscapes of AWP locations despite mentally frying beneath fluorescent lights, the tactile pleasures of typewriters, and other important matters. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Continue reading

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  • Episode 364: Elisa Gabbert!

    Episode 364 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk with poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert about the excitement of short-form essays, the glories of book design, not reading Moby Dick, and other literary confessions.   TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading

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  • Episode 362: Whither, Life Balance? (An AWP Panel)

    Episode 362 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, Chelsey Clammer, David James Poissant, Rion Amalcar Scott, and I discuss how to survive in the writing life before an AWP audience in Portland, Oregon. NOTES If you are anywhere Continue reading

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  • Episode 304: Book Fight! vs. The Drunken Odyssey (AWP Edition)

    Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s special AWP program, Vanessa Blakeslee and I face off against Book Fight’s Tom McAllister and Barrelhouse’s Poetry Editor, Dan Brady. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 304 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast Continue reading

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  • Aesthetic Drift #10: Why I Go to AWP

    Aesthetic Drift #10 by Shawn McKee Why I Go to AWP Los Angeles is a metropolis unlike any other. After I got kicked out of a bar for allegedly being too drunk, I could have been back home in Orlando for all I knew. But I wasn’t in Orlando, I was somewhere else—a magical land of Continue reading

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  • 21st Century Brontë #15: AWPing

    21st Century Brontë #15 by Brontë Bettencourt AWPing Last week, I attended the AWP Conference & Bookfair. With my good friend Onyx and my boyfriend Alex, I braved the mountainous, eclectic city of Los Angeles by train, bus, Uber, and foot. I learned very quickly that high-heeled boots were a terrible choice for navigating terrain Continue reading

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