Poetry
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694: Anne Waldman!

Episode 694 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, John interviews Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES On Friday, December 12th at 7 PM, Mamie Continue reading
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Episode 693: Emily Van Duyne!

Episode 693 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, John and Rachael Tillman interview the scholar and poet Emily Van Duyne about Sylvia Plath’s legacy as discussed in her remarkable Continue reading
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Episode 692: Fire x Fire x Fire 2025 with Tod Caviness and Dianne Turgeon Richardson!

Episode 692 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show: John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #141: Keeping Things Whorled

Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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Episode 685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)

On this week’s show, Rachael and John read the poems of Sylvia Plath’s first book, step 1 in trying to appreciate Sylvia Plath’s career as a poet and novelist as Plath herself experienced the creation and presentation of that work, not in the light of her mythology and hagiography. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Greg Continue reading
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Episode 684: A Pop Poetry Conversation about Megan Fox’s Pretty Boys are Poisonous!

Episode 684 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, John yanks a conversation out from behind the paywall to let you know what mischief you might be missing. NOTES If you are in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, August 26th, Continue reading
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Episode 677: A Discussion of The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, with Rachael Tillman!

Episode 677 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John and Rachael discuss the poetic output of Hannah Arendt’s poetry, newly translated into English in a new book from Norton, translated by Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill, plus Fred Continue reading
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Episode 676: Skye Jackson!

Episode 676 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with Kerouac Project of Orlando resident Skye Jackson about how to create a poetry collection that can be read in one sitting, how to balance the concrete and imaginative Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #125: The Split-Blade Verses

Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #124: The Gift That Severs

Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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