Poetry
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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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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #114: Contemporary Living?
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 in Conversation with Campbell McGrath
Former U.S. Poet Laureate ROBERT PINSKY reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Proverbs of Limbo, he mines and maps limbal regions both demographic and personal – clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and… Continue reading
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Episode 659: Duy Đoàn!
In this week’s show, John talks to poet Duy Đoàn about his latest collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs; the poetic provocations of horror films like Let the Right One In, A Girl Walks Home Alone in the Night, and A Chinese Ghost Story; and experimenting with erase and fragmentation. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES There is a… Continue reading
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