Poetry
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Episode 171: A Craft Discussion About Borges’s This Craft of Verse, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 171 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 about Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse with Vanessa Blakeslee, plus Jared Silvia performs Peter Seger’s “Hobo’s Lullaby.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the great perks for The… Continue reading
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Episode 165: Brian Spears!
Episode 165 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet Brian Spears, plus Eugenio Negro writes about the adventure of reading Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #30: Chain Link Fence
Buzzed Books #30 by Amy Watkins Patti White’s Chain Link Fence Some reviewers have called Patti White’s Chain Link Fence (Anhinga Press, 2013) a “post-apocalyptic” book, and it does have that sort of imagery. Most of the short, numbered poems include disjointed lists of objects either broken or hauntingly out of context: “a washtub, Pick-up… Continue reading
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Episode 161: Mailbag 7 (The Force Awakens)
Episode 161 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Amy Watkins reads her poem “Playa Linda.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES James Tate, rest in very weird peace. Episode 161 of… Continue reading
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Episode 160: Ciara Shuttleworth!
Episode 160 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 Ciara Shuttleworth, plus Don Royster writes about how Isaac Asimov helped him to appreciate Shakespeare. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES To read about Ciara’s post-residency road-tripping with Flat… Continue reading
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Episode 154: Caitlin Doyle!
Episode 154 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 the poet Cailtin Doyle, plus Jeremy Da Cruz writes about reading James Joyce’s “Eveline” on Amtrak. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES In Orlando, check out Wordier Than Thou, the open mic… Continue reading
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Episode 149: Chelsey Clammer!
Episode 149 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 memoirist, Chelsey Clammer, plus Susan Brennan shares her poetry sequence, Chromoluminarism, based on the last days of the pointillist, George Seraut. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you live… Continue reading
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Episode 147: Scott Bailey!
Episode 147 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 Scott Bailey, whose work is newly banned in South Korea… plus Chad W. Lutz writes about Stephen King’s novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.” TEXTS… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #24: Collage of Seoul
Buzzed Books #24 by Amy Watkins Collage of Seoul by Jae Newman I should tell you upfront that Jae Newman is my friend. I don’t want you to read the glowing review I’m about to write about his first poetry collection, Collage of Seoul (Cascade Books, 2015) and later feel you were tricked by a… Continue reading
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Episode 146: A Roundtable Discussion of MFA vs. NYC
Episode 146 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 host a roundtable discussion with Vanessa Blakeslee, David James Poissant, and Boris Fishman, in which we critique the essay collection, MFA vs. NYC, Plus J. Bradley reads a selection from his… Continue reading
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