Episode 360: Poetry Jazz BBQ!

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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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.

Breaking down the show. Photo by Steve Erwin.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Kerouac Book of Haikus Mexico City Blues Kerouac Scattered Poems A Coney Island of the Mind

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Episode 350: Eleanor Matthews!

19 Saturday Jan 2019

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In this week’s episode, I speak with the Kerouac House’s fall 2018 resident, Eleanor Matthews about Victorian novels, characterization and plots, and the connections between physical activity and creative writing.

Photo by Katherine Parker.

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Episode 331: A Celebration of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums!

08 Saturday Sep 2018

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Episode 331 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 host a party in honor of the 60th anniversary of the publication go my favorite Jack Kerouac work, The Dharma Bums.

John King, Ellie Mathews, and Steve Erwin. Photo by Marilyn Erwin.

Josh Dull by Steve Erwin.

Bob Kealing and Geoff Benge by Steve Erwin.

Jared Silvia by by Steve Erwin.

Karen Priceby Steve Erwin.

Ciera McElroy by Steve Erwin.

Drew Barth by Steve Erwin.

Erik Deckers by Steve Erwin.

NOTES

If you live in Orlando, the city beautiful, considering a local trip to the top of Manhattan: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.

Alina Alcántara as Abuela Claudia in Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s production of In the Heights. Photo by Tony Firriolo

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Episode #222: Ryler Dustin!

03 Saturday Sep 2016

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In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Ryler Dustin near the end of his residency at the Kerouac House in Orlando, after a weeklong tour of weddings.

Ryler Dustin

We speak about the horrors of what happens to poetry in educational environments, the dawning sense of contemporary poetry as a form of play and life, as opposed to some kind of stillborn puzzle. Ryler also talks about the poetic impulse overtaking him before he even knew what poetry was, and walks me through his experience in slam poetry and MFA life, and the creative writing PhD, and the drive to move beyond genres. For some reason, I bring up my favorite bit of dialogue from the movie Major League despite Bull Durham being a much better movie. The role of honesty and novelty in writing also brilliantly come up. (We were both sober.)

NOTES

On September 30th, Richard Blanco is headed to Valencia College for its 2016 Winter Park Writers Festival.
Rest in peace, Mr. Sundrop (Episode 213), or else let your caterwauls join the heavenly chorus.

Mr Sundrop

The dialogue I referenced in Major League begins around 38 seconds in.

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Episode 137: Annemarie Ní Churreáin!

31 Saturday Jan 2015

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Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Will Garland

Episode 137 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 Annemarie Ní Churreáin about the Irish language, poetry, and the allure of nature,

Photo by Kimberly Lojewski.

plus Will Garland reads his essay, The Art of Telling a Story About Southern Family Living in a Small Southern Town.

NOTES

The music used with The Art of Telling a Story About Southern Family Living in a Small Southern Town is “Color Cave” by Noveller, a one person band, that band being Sarah Lipstate. Check out the link for more info on her upcoming show at The Tinnitus Music Series in Brooklyn.

Orlando Shakespeare Theaters production of The Merry Wives of Windsor begins this week.

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