Poetry
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Episode 476: Anahid Nersessian!
Episode 476 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). In this week’s show, literary scholar Anahid Nersessian & I discuss John Keats, the potential for personal observations in academic work, the sexual politics of… Continue reading
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Episode 468: Alfred Corn!
Episode 468 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). In this week’s show, I speak with the poet and translator Alfred Corn about Rainer Maria Rilke’s sublime Duino Elegies. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners… Continue reading
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Episode 467: Ciara Shuttleworth!
Episode 467 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). In this week’s show, I speak with Ciara Shuttleworth about poetry, telling factions, limerence, running with the Muses, being open to delight, and the importance… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #28: The Festival For Poets: O, Miami!
Aesthetic Drift #38 by Avery Coffey The Festival For Poets: O, Miami! Coming from someone who has been in Miami for a total of three years, I still haven’t explored all that the city has to offer. There simply isn’t enough daylight to experience the ins and outs of it. However, one event I’ve heard… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #92: Red Comet: Heather Clark’s The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Buzzed Books #92 by Jan Elizabeth Watson Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath at nineteen, smiling broadly, her face scrunched into what Ted Hughes once described as a “tight ball of joy.” It was the photo on The Bell Jar’s back cover that hooked me first. Below that, a paragraph-long bio… Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #11: Risk a Verse
The Perfect Life #11 Dear Dr. Perfect, My girlfriend always wants me to listen to her read her poetry. At this point, listening to her recitations takes up about ten hours every week. I don’t know how she can write so much verse. Frankly, the poems aren’t that bad, but her stentorian reading voice raises… Continue reading
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Episode 462: Denise Duhamel!
Episode 462 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). In this week’s episode, I speak with the poet Denise Duhamel about her latest book, Second Story, how to approach the long poem, the empathy… Continue reading
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453: Carolyn Forché!
Episode 453 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 talk to the poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché about her latest collection, In the Lateness of the World. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES TDO… Continue reading
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451: A Panel of Debut Poets, with Tommye Blount, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, & Joy Priest!
Episode 451 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 share a Miami Book Fair panel of poets with debut books: Tommye Blount, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, & Joy Priest! NOTES TDO Listeners… Continue reading
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The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #23 Transcribed by DMETRI KAKMI 15 December 2020 I think of death. What must it be like for mortals to die? How must it feel? Is it scary or do you simply wink out, like candlelight, never knowing what happened or what it all meant? To make sense of… Continue reading
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