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  • Episode 570: Kathleen Rooney!

    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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  • Episode 560: A Discussion of Philip Schultz’s Comforts of the Abyss with Rachael Tillman!

    Episode 560 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, Rachael Tillman and I discuss the art of persona writing through Philip Schultz’s recent book, Comforts of the Abyss. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO… Continue reading

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  • Episode 559: Laurie Rachkus Uttich

    Episode 558 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 have a long overdue convo with the poet Laurie Rachkus Uttich. TEXTS DISCUSSED Return to a Place Lit by a Glass… Continue reading

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  • Episode 556: Lynn Melnick!

    Episode 556 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). _______ The poet and memoirist Lynn Melnick talks with me about the cleverness and heart of Dolly Parton, who can serve as more than a… Continue reading

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  • Episode 555: Julia Koets (interviewed by Rochelle Hurt)

    Episode 555 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). _______ Rochelle Hurt interviews Julia Koets about romantic desire and loss, the villanelle form, the layouts of poetry volumes, growing up with the policing of… Continue reading

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  • Episode 554: Chrissy Kolaya!

    Episode 554 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 program, I talk to the poet and novelist Chrissy Kolaya about the creative process, psychology, and the multitudinous tensions of being an American. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20%… Continue reading

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  • Episode 553: Robert Pinsky!

    Episode 553 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 program, I talk to Robert Pinsky about his playful, exquisite, earthy, reverence memoir about his relationship to Long Branch and the rest of New Jersey too. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners… Continue reading

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  • Episode 526: Rochelle Hurt!

    Episode 526 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 poet Rochelle Hurt about her latest book, The J Girls: A Reality Show. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to… Continue reading

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