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Episode 360: Poetry Jazz BBQ!

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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Episode 360 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, Karen Price, Erik Deckers, Terry Ann Thaxton and I read Jack kerouac’s poetry to the accompaniment of Ben Deckers’s walking bass.

Poetry Jazz BBQ

Breaking down the show. Photo by Steve Erwin.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Kerouac Book of HaikusMexico City BluesKerouac Scattered PoemsA Coney Island of the Mind


Episode 360 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 292: On the Road’s 60th Anniversary Show!

16 Saturday Dec 2017

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Episode 292 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, we return to September 5th, 2017, the 60th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. This celebration included Tod Caviness, Janna Benge, Bob Kealing, Erik Deckers, Suleika Jaouad, Karen Price, Holly Kapherr, Jared Silvia, Chris Cortez and Mark Piszczek.

On the Road Party Music by Peter Lanzarone

Chris Cortez and Mark Piszczek by Peter Lanzarone.

On the Road 60th Steve Erwin Tod

Todd Caviness, Chris Cortez, and Mark Piszczek by Steve Erwin.

On the Road 60th Steve Erwin Kealing

Bob Kealing by Steve Erwin.

On the Road 60th Steve Erwin Erik

Erik Deckers by Steve Erwin.

On the Road Party Suleika by Peter Lanzarone

Suleika Jaouad and John King by Peter Lanzarone.

On the Road 60th Steve Erwin

Karen Price by Steve Erwin.

On the Road Party John by Vincent

John King by Vincent Crampton.

On the Road 60th Steve Erwin Jared

Jared Silvia by Steve Erwin.

NOTES

Check out The Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts!

Learn more about The Kerouac Project residency program.


Episode 292 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 140: Marya Hornbacher!

22 Sunday Feb 2015

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J.J. Anselmi, Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher, Oscar Peterson, Philip Levine, Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power

Episode 140 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 to the memoirist and novelist Marya Honrbacher,

Photo © Mark Trockman, trockstock.com

Photo © Mark Trockman (trockstock.com)

plus J.J. Anselmi reads his personal essay, “Atrophy,”

JJ Anselmiand I offer a tribute to the late Philip Levine.

philip-levineTEXTS DISCUSSED

Madness

WaitingRead Marya Hornbacher’s wonderful Smithsonian profile of Oscar Peterson here.

Coming CloseNOTES

J.J. Anselmi’s “Atrophy” first appeared online in Cleaver Magazine.

Check out Chelsey Clammer’s essay about Marya Hornbacher’s Madness back on episode 49!

Rest in peace, Philip Levine.

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Abe Chang with Phil Levine.

Read Aaron Belz’s discussion of his correspondence with Philip Levine here.

Check out Orlando Shakes’ wonderfully colorful production of Merry Wives, which runs from February 4 to March 7, 2015.

Photo by Tony Firriolo.

Photo by Tony Firriolo.

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Episode 140 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 127: Mixtape #2 (A Distance Coat)

21 Friday Nov 2014

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Episode 127 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 offer TDO’s second mixtape. This one is vintage, from my M.A. years (circa 1996?). Enjoy!

Mixtape 2

Episode 79: Sharon Olds and Robert Pinsky!

04 Saturday Jan 2014

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Christopher Smart, Laurence Hobgood, Miami Bookfair International, Poemjazz, Robert Pinsky, Sharon Olds, Singing School, Stag's Leap

Episode 79 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 show, I present my interview with Sharon Olds,

Sharon-Olds

and my interview with Robert Pinsky,

Robert Pinsky

plus I share Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood’s performance of Creole.

Hobgood and Pinsky

TEXTS DISCUSSED

stags leap

Singing School

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NOTES

I am in the running for the “Best of 2013” show of Jesse Bradley’s reading series, There Will be Words. The current poll is here until midnight, January 6.

The Drunken Odyssey now has a youtube channel.

In the New York Times’s Bit blog, David Steitfield has wrung his hands about the analytics coming out of subscription services for ebook libraries. There is a nice still photo of Keria Knightly from the film of Pride and Prejudice.

Amiri Baraka seems to be recovering after his hospital visit last week, according to The New York Daily News.

The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.

The Heaven of Animals

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