Poetry
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Episode #251: Ephraim Scott Sommers!
Episode 251 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 the poet Ephraim Scott Sommers. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Litlando 2017 will take place on March 25th at The Gallery at Avalon Island. Buy tickets now here. Check out Ephraim’s… Continue reading
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Episode 249: Ashley Inguanta!
Episode 249 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 the poet Ashley Inguanta, plus Daniela Chamorro writes about how Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 249 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #50: Ari Banias’ Anybody
Buzzed Books #50 by Amy Watkins Ari Banias’ Anybody Ari Banias’ debut collection, Anybody (Norton, 2016), begins with a poem titled “Some Kind of We.” In it, his reason for writing is laid out as plainly as a thesis statement in a freshman composition class: I am trying to write, generally and specifically, through what… Continue reading
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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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