Poetry
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Episode 607: Brian Turner!
On today’s show, John talks poet Brian Turner about learning to write the thing we need to write rather than the thing we want to write, the long conversations we have with those we love, and the processes of nature, including grief. His trio of new poetry volumes is out now from Alice James Books.… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #99: B.H. Fairchild’s An Ordinary Life
Being a first-generation middle-class poet isn’t easy. I sit at a desk and peck at a laptop all day. Not poems; emails to colleagues, research summaries, proposed company policies. The Florida sun bakes the streets outside and I think back to the rural Midwest, the place I was apparently born, but don’t remember. I struggle… Continue reading
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#593: Ryler Dustin!
On today’s show, I speak with the poet Ryler Dustin about creating new forms of sanctification and representing rural landscapes with familiarity without fetishizing or satirizing the setting. We probably digressed into a discussion of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. TEXT DISCUSSED Episode 593 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature… Continue reading
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585: A Discussion of Leonard Nathan’s The Teachings of Grandfather Fox, with Brian Salmons!
On this week’s episode, I speak with Brian Salmons about Leonard Nathan’s 1976 book of poems, The Teachings of Grandfather Fox. TEXT DISCUSSED PLACE DISCUSSED Orlando’s brutalist masterpiece of a downtown library. NOTES If you are an amazon customer, one way to support this show is to begin shopping with this affiliate link, so that the… Continue reading
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Episode 573: David van den Berg
On this episode, I speak with the poet David van den Berg on the glories of tromping through swamps as a child, the knifeblade dialectic of cynicism and wonder, and discovering a sense of authentic voice. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link… Continue reading
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Episode 572: Meng Jin, Eileen Myles, and Paul Tran, interviewed by Chelsea Alice
Back in November, Chelsea Alice conducted three on-site interviews at Miami Book Fair. She discussed Self-Portrait with Ghost with Meng Jin, Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles, and All the Flowers Kneeling with Paul Tran. At long last, the interviews are now here. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to… Continue reading
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Episode 571: Mark Scroggins!
On this episode, I speak with the scholar and poet Mark Scroggins about poetry that simultaneously compels and eludes the reader with its strange music, those depths of unknowing, the literary analogues to punk, reverse engineering a sense of cultural history, the problematic nature of the poetic voice, and whatnot. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can… Continue reading
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Episode 570: Kathleen Rooney!
On this episode, I talk to Kathleen Rooney about finding the fun despite the end of The Great Enlightenment, the joys of mixing wit and earnestness in verse, the fun of exploring the landscapes of AWP locations despite mentally frying beneath fluorescent lights, the tactile pleasures of typewriters, and other important matters. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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Episode 564: Patricia Smith!
Episode 564 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). This week, I interview Patricia Smith about her latest collection of poems, Unshuttered. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #97: Fiona Benson’s Vertigo and Ghost
Buzzed Books #97 by Brian Salmans Fiona Benson’s Vertigo and Ghost In a bookshop interview a few years ago, Fiona Benson said, “I think I have always been a little bit violent.” The audience laughed, mildly, maybe as thrown off by her soft-spoken and questioning tone as I was. Did she mean that? After all,… Continue reading
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