Poetry
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Episode 640: Alex Gurtis!
On today’s show, John talks about poetry and bookselling and MFA programs and AWP conferences with Alex Gurtis, whose latest chapbook, When the Ocean Comes to Me, is now out with Bottlecap Press. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link,… Continue reading
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Episode 637: Tiffany Midge!
On this episode, John speaks with the poet Tiffany Midge about the vibrant, often overlooked roles of humor and entertainment in poetry. They also talk about James Cameron’s Aliens, popular culture as metaphor, and serial killers. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping… Continue reading
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Episode 634: A Discussion of Jewel’s A Night Without Armor!
On this week’s episode, Rachael Tillman, Samantha Nickerson, and John King join the nocturnal jousting in a conversation about Jewel’s A Night Without Armor. This is a taste of what will be coming to my Patreon content, once I launch a Patreon page for this podcast. NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way… Continue reading
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Episode 632: A Discussion of Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist
In this week’s episode, Rachael Tillman and I break some standards of academia as we discuss the poetry insights of Paul Chowder, the narrator of Nicholson Baker’s 2009 comic novel, The Anthologist. Since this is novel is a novel and not, strictly speaking a craft book or a scholarly treatise, we shouldn’t be treating this… Continue reading
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Replay: Episode 295: Charles Simic & Richard Blanco!
On this week’s program, I talk to Charles Simic about James Tate, Kansas surrealism, humor in poetry, and embracing the unconscious, plus I talk to Richard Blanco about the accidents that turn us into artists, the grind of editing, and the joys of finding new forms and challenges. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Be sure to check… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #100: Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems
You know how it is: when you aren’t the church-going type, but find yourself at Sunday service anyway—maybe you’re visiting your grandma, or maybe it’s Easter—and the pastor says, “I invite you to share the peace with your neighbor”, and everyone around you unexpectedly turns and greets the person seated to their left, and then… Continue reading
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Episode 629: Li-Young Lee!
On this week’s show Chrissy Kolaya talks to Li-Young Lee about his latest collection of poems, The Invention of the Darling. Together they explore the rooms of poetry, the systems of the human imagination, and the voice of angels. BOOKS DISCUSSED NOTES The Society for Speculation presents: The World Ahead: a talk on a new collaborative project… Continue reading
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Episode 627: David McLoghlin!
On this week’s show, I talk to the poet David McLoghlin about his newest collection of poems, Crash Centre, history, religion, rugby, boarding school, trauma, and exiting the comforts of metaphor. TEXT DISCUSSED Buy Crash Centre here. NOTES Check out our earlier conversion back on episode 309. Check out David reading Rilke’s “Presentiment” back on episode… Continue reading
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Episode 626: Ian Patterson (Redux)!
In this week’s show, Chelsea Alice interviews translator Ian Patterson again. This time they discuss The Theory of the Four Movements by the 19th century French utopian thinker Charles Fourier, as a way of thinking about 19th century history, science, and philosophy. They also discuss Ian’s recent poetry collection Shell Vestige Disputed. The last time these two discussed Ian’s translation of… Continue reading
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Replay: Episode 278 with Brittany Perham!
On this week’s replay episode, I talk poetry with Brittany Perham! TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 278 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Continue reading
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