Poetry
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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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Episode #209: The Ink Show!
Episode 209 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 the latest live performance of The Drunken Odyssey All Stars, in The Ink Show. This performance included your humble host, Teege Braune, Nicole Oquendo, Mistie… Continue reading
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Episode 203: Campbell McGrath!
Episode 203 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 interview poet Campbell McGrath about XX, his tenth book of poetry. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES All 7 panels from Litlando 2016 are now available on youtube here. Read Amy Watkins’s review… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #39: XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century
Buzzed Books #39 by Amy Watkins Campbell McGrath’s XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century “Epilogue: 2016,” the first poem in Campbell McGrath’s new book, XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (HarperCollins, 2016), emphasizes the idea of leaving a record, ”a scattering of crumbs,” not for subsequent generations, but for whatever inherits the earth after humanity… Continue reading
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Episode 200: Brian Turner!
Episode 200 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 memoirist Brian Turner, plus Heather Whited reads her essay, “Scotland Break Up.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES According to The Guardian, some readers were not amused by Calvin Trillan’s “Have… Continue reading
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