Poetry
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Episode 246: Erotic Poetry Night V (Smut, Actually)!
Episode 246 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week features our 5th annual Erotic Poetry Night, featuring… Naomi Butterfield Ephraim Scott Sommers Diane Turgeon Richardson Wilson Santos Stephanie Rizzo Brian Downes Rachel Kolman Lisa Roney Madison Strake Bernath & your host, John… Continue reading
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Episode 243: Joy Harjo, Kim Addonizio, and Paul Lisicky!
Episode 243 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 poet Joy Harjo, the poet and fiction and creative nonfiction writer Kim Addonizio, and the memoirist Paul Lisicky. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Sunday, February 5th, The Drunken Odyssey will be… Continue reading
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Episode 239: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky!
Episode 239 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 poets Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky, and share the reading they gave together at Miami Book Fair International. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Listen to my previous interview with Robert… Continue reading
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Episode 226: Vidhu Aggarwal!
Episode 226 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 poet Vidhu Aggarwal, plus Adelia Johnson writes about Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Here is Ned Vizzini’s obituary from The… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #46: Solmaz Sharif’s Look
Buzzed Books #46 by Amy Watkins Solmaz Sharif’s Look In a September 2014 feature for the Kenyon Review Online, “A Poetry of Proximity,” Solmaz Sharif calls poets “the caretakers of language.” She writes: The State exerts (or at least attempts) authority over us in many ways, including its use of language: passive construction, missing subjects,… Continue reading
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Episode #222: Ryler Dustin!
Episode 222 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 poet and novelist Ryler Dustin near the end of his residency at the Kerouac House in Orlando, after a weeklong tour of weddings. We speak about the… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #43: The Emperor of Water Clocks
Buzzed Books #43 by Amy Watkins Review of Yusef Komunyakaa’s The Emperor of Water Clocks Yusef Komunyakaa’s latest poetry collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2015) is stately. I know, that’s an awful word, but it describes a book that is measured, dignified, elegant, and profound. The poems have the weight… Continue reading
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Episode 213: The Pink Fire Revue
Episode 213 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 share a recording of a joint production of The Drunken Odyssey, The Functionally Literate Reading Series, and the In Between Series: an experimental show called The Pink Fire Revue.… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #41: English Kills
Buzzed Books #41 by Amy Watkins Monica Wendel’s English Kills Monica Wendel’s chapbook, English Kills (winner of the 2015 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize) elegantly meditates upon the themes of birth, language, history, and survival. The speaker of these poems is a teacher contemplating becoming a mother, but the book doesn’t slap you in the face… Continue reading
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