Poetry
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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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Episode 664: Rigoberto Gonzales and Richard Blanco!
This week, John talks to editor and poet Rigoberto Gonzalez about the curation of the Library of America anthology of Latino Poetry. Then John talks to Richard Blanco, whose poem, “Como Tú,” appears in that anthology. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Residency applications are now open at The Kerouac Project of Orlando. There is a new video over… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #116: Froggy Days
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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Video: Robert Pinsky Interview
Back on episode 654, John spoke with Griffin Dunne at Miami Books Fair 2024. Here is a video of that interview. Continue reading
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Episode 663: A Discussion of Bill Knott’s The Naomi Poems (with Rachael Tillman)!
On this week’s episode, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the surreal paradoxes and sullen joys of Bill Knott’s debut collection of poetry, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans, which was recently reprinted by Black Ocean Press, with a worthy introduction penned by Richard Hell. TEXTS DICUSSED NOTES Residency applications are now open at The Kerouac Project of… Continue reading
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