Poetry
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Episode 653: Dobby Gibson
On this week’s show Chrissy Kolaya talks to Dobby Gibson about his latest poetry volume, Hold Everything, now out with Graywolf Press. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Chrissy’s interview with Li-Young Lee. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Society. Follow artist (and show editor) Jeff Wilfong on IG. If you are an amazon customer,… Continue reading
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Episode 649: Ezza Ahmed!
In this week’s show, John speaks with recent writer-in-residence at the Kerouac Project of Orlando, the poet Ezza Ahmed. NOTES Miami Book Fair will take place November 22-24. To learn about the Kerouac Project of Orlando, go here. On December 3rd, The Drunken Odyssey’s writers take over the reading spots in the Loose Lips reading series… Continue reading
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Episode 647: Billy Collins
On this week’s show, John King talks to the two-time former poet laureate Billy Collins about his latest collection, Water, Water, and how, if the window doesn’t open up for the composition of poetry, one should strive to find a trampoline in the woods, and how one can learn from the poetic breakers of decorum.… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #96: Looking Through Ghosts To See The Stars
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 warning and a… Continue reading
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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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