Poetry
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Episode 63: Tim J. Myers!
Episode 63 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 show, I talk to the poet Tim J. Myers, Plus Dan Lauer explains the impact Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia had on him. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Walter Pater: “All art constantly Continue reading
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Versify #1: Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet
Versify #1 by Monica Wendel In Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005) some people don’t die, exactly; they are evaporated, or disappear as if they never existed, moving not from living to not-living but from something to nothing “as if even the idea of them were being / destroyed, stripped of form.” For this blog, Continue reading
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Episode 58: Philip Raisor!
Episode 58 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 show, I talk to the poet Philip Raisor, Plus Melissa Crandall brings us some Xmas in July! TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES J.K. Rowling is Robert Galbraith, the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling. Continue reading
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Episode 57: Functionally Literate!
Episode 57 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 show, I share a Functionally Literate event I participated in back in May with Monica Wendel and Philip Deaver. This was an accidental DO reunion, since Monica was a guest Continue reading
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Episode 53: Cheryl Strayed!
Episode 53 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 show, I talk to Cheryl Strayed, Plus I share the piece that first made me read Cheryl Strayed’s work, Deborah Weaver’s essay about Wild. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Pages from Continue reading
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Episode 51: Mailbag Episode 1, with David James Poissant
Episode 51 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 show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Cathy Day Addresses The Man Who Called Her On the Phone Asking for Advice About How to Get Published. Notes Continue reading
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Episode 49: Monica Wendel (Redux)!
Episode 49 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I interview my friend, the poet Monica Wendel, who is in residency at The Kerouac House, plus Chelsey Clammer writes about Marya Hornbacher’s Madness. Texts Discussed Notes Two great Continue reading
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Episode 48: Dylan Landis!
Episode 48 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I interview the fiction writer Dylan Landis plus the poet Eleanor Lerman writes about Leonard Cohen’s Spice Box of Earth. Texts Discussed Notes Harper Lee is suing her former Continue reading
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Episode 45: Richard Peabody!
Episode 45 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I talk to Richard Peabody, the editor of Gargoyle Magazine, Plus Kirsten Holt reads a beautiful elegy. Texts Discussed Notes The music for Last Call was “Night Flight” by the band Continue reading
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