Poetry
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Episode 284: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV
Episode 284 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV. We enter the dark rubicons of Saw, Annabel, Child’s Play, The Lady in White, Phantasm, Return of the Living Dead, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Omen,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #55: Bob Hicok’s Sex & Love &
Buzzed Books #55 by Amy Watkins Bob Hicok’s Sex & Love & In the first episode of the FX comedy series Louie, the main character (single dad Louie CK, playing a fictionalized version of himself) goes on a date with a woman he does not know. When she asks about his children, he answers candidly… Continue reading
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Episode 278: Brittany Perham!
Episode 278 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 talk poetry with Brittany Perham! TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out my interview with Brittany Perham’s chapbook collaborator, Kim Addonizio. RIP, Jerry Pournelle and J. P. Donleavy. Episode 278… Continue reading
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Episode 276: Tina Giannoukos!
Episode 276 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 speak with the poet Tina Giannoukos about the glorious visibility and flexibility of sonnets, plus Sabrina Napolitano writes about how reading Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay changed… Continue reading
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Episode 275: A Craft Discussion of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 275 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 Vanessa Blakeslee about Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous Letters to a Young Poet, plus we pay homage to Rilke’s poetry with readings by Craig Moreau, Hyejung Kook, David Foley, Jason Myers, David… Continue reading
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Episode 272: Henry Hughes!
Episode 272 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 talk to the poet and memoirist Henry Hughes about how to get over rejection, poetry, the freedom of ekphrastic work, memoirs, and fishing, Plus Todd Boss reads his poem,… Continue reading
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Episode 270: The Slam Summit!
Episode 270 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 Curtis X. Meyer and Caleb Zachary Matthews about the Slam Nationals that Team Orlando will be attending, the upsides and downsides of Slam Poetry, plus they perform their work!… Continue reading
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Episode 265: Todd Boss!
Episode 265 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 talk to Todd Boss, whose new book, Tough Luck, includes a poem sequence inspired by the disaster of the I-35W Bridge’s collapse in Minneapolis, plus Malcolm Kelly reads his poem,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #52: The Atheist Wore Goat Silk
Buzzed Books #52 by Amy Watkins Anna Journey’s The Atheist Wore Goat Silk Much art is made to elevate mundane things. Think of Georgia O’Keefe demanding that we look again at humble flowers. Think of Neruda gazing at a slice of lemon and seeing a cathedral window, or finding the poetry in a suit or… Continue reading
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Episode 255: Holly Tavel!
Episode 255 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 fiction writer Holly Tavel about the urge to experiment in fiction, the need to subvert grand narratives, and the joys of the avant-garde and children’s schlock and obsessions of… Continue reading
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