Poetry
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Episode 189: A Craft Discussion About Ferlinghetti’s Poetry as Insurgent Art, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 189 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 Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Poetry as Insurgent Art with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Alice Lowe writes about how Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Coney Island… Continue reading
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Episode 186: Nick Flynn!
Episode 186 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 and memoirist Nick Flynn, Plus I share the reading he participated in about 45 minutes after our interview, a reading that also included Ed Skoog and Denise… Continue reading
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Episode 183: Mary Karr!
Episode 183 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 Mary Karr, and share her talk at Miami Book Fair International 2015, plus I share a Miami Bookfair Event I was in, Tiffany Razzano’s Saved by the Sunshine State.… Continue reading
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Episode 177: Horror Movie Poetry Night 2!
Episode 177 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 for Horror Movie Poetry Night 2, starring The Drunken Odyssey All Stars, brought to you several days early for your Halloweening pleasure. On this occasion, The Drunken Odyssey… Continue reading
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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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