This week we shine a spotlight on Lee Suksi’s delicious debut The Nerves, a book we published in 2020. Enjoy a sampling of 10 chapters from 8 different voices. Special thanks to Inez, Ami, Dillon, Vic, Aley, Asher, Zoe and Carmen for contributing readings to this episode. https://www.metatron.press/work/the-nerves/ The Nerves subverts the literary approach to sexuality by treating the erotic not as a site of anxiety but of reverie. Set in an imaginary world where our sense memories tell us who w...
Nov 01, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Join Aeon Ginsberg this week from Baltimore as we talk about being stupid vs being dumb, working in bars, cyborgs, movement, transition, and death, and most importantly Aeon's beautiful poetry book, Greyhound. Aeon also closes out this episode with a new poem from a new series. Aeon Ginsberg is a trans feminine agender bitch from Baltimore City, MD. Eir work 'Greyhound' was the 2019 Noemi Press Poetry Prize winner in 2019 and was a Lambda Literary award finalist for transgender poetry in 2020.
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Join Stephen Thomas this week from his apartment in New York as we talk about his work including his debut book The Jokes (Book*hug, 2016), his essay The Legion Lonely about the epidemic of loneliness for men, doing an MFA in Alabama, the difficulties of writing a novel, and weird Facebook. We also discuss taking a step back from writing, what it means to put too much pressure on yourself to produce and how it's healthy to have a life outside of writing. Stephen Thomas' website is http://www.ste...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Join Rollie Pemberton this week in Montreal as we talk about Rollie's memoir, Bedroom Rapper, which serves not only as a personal history but also as a history of rap and a documentation of creative communities in Edmonton and Montreal. We also talk about his music as Cadence Weapon, his time as the Poet Laureate of Edmonton, our mutual respect and admiration for Buck 65, what it's like to write memoir at a young age, the difference between the practices of writing songs and writing poems, and w...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode we sit down with Rachelle Toarmino, founder and editor in chief at Peach Mag and author of the poetry collection That Ex, to talk about poetry, community, and academia. Currently doing an MFA at UMass Amherst, Rachelle tells us about her last three years focusing primarily on poetry, we talk about the creation of Peach Mag and why it felt necessary at the time to do something against the mainstream with an ethics of care at its forefront, and we talk about being online and whethe...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Join Cody Caetano this week in Toronto. In this episode we talk about Cody's new book, Half-Bads in White Regalia, a memoir of growing up in a complicated and fraught family dynamic that is never the less light-hearted and filled with warmth. We also talk about his mentor, Lee Maracle, and how their relationship informed Cody's book as well as his essay, The Shadow Land: Indigenous Memoirs and the Question of ‘Trauma Porn.’ We also discuss writing as pleasure, how music is connected to writing, ...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Join Šari Dale this week in Prince George. In this episode we talk about Šari's debut poetry book, Para-Social Butterfly, in which the narrator, a young woman disillusioned with her life, decides to live in a digital space called The Ultra-Glam, blurring the lines between the reality experienced in physical and digital spaces. Šari also talks about how her work as a copywriter plays into the writing of her poetry, as well as early experiences in internet chat rooms and current experiences in soc...
Aug 18, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Join legendary Canadian poet bill bissett this week on Metacösm. Deemed The Godfather of Canadian Poetry, bill bissett is a prolific artist whose writing and painting span seven decades. In that time bill has published over seventy books as well as created countless paintings and albums of music, has performed hundreds of readings, ran blewointment magazine and blewointment press, was the subject of documentaries, was persecuted for his work by conservative politicians, received support from Jac...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Join Marlowe Granados this week in Toronto. Find out why Marlowe prefers hanging out with poets over fiction writers, or why she eye-rolled her way through her university creative writing program. We also get a behind-the-scenes peek at what it was like to publish and release Happy Hour, including being profiled in New York Magazine, hiding out in her hotel during her press tour in NYC, and what it's ultimately like to be perceived through your writing. Marlowe is a writer and filmmaker. She co-...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Join writer, actress and filmmaker Sofia Banzhaf in her living room in Tkaron:to/Toronto for the next episode of Metacösm. Her and Brad discuss bimbos, the void that writing fills, booby trapping your journals, how writing can reveal more things about the reader than the author, how writing is the art of asking impossible questions, the power of Jean Rhys, losing your archive and more. Music by Dana Gavanski. Sofia Banzhaf is a writer, actress, and filmmaker whose poetry and fiction have appeare...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Join writer and poet Ali Pinkney at her kitchen table for the latest episode of Metacösm this week. Ali Pinkney is a literary writer based on Tkaron:to/Toronto where she is a graduate student with the Department of English in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. She published her debut collection of poetry, Tampion, with Metatron Press in 2014. Ali holds a BA in English and Creative Writing (2017) and an MA in English Literature (2021) from Concordia University in Tiohtià:...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Join writer Lee Suksi this week for our third episode of Metacösm. Lee Suksi's debut book The Nerves (Metatron Press, 2020) won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Erotica. Their art writing accompanies and has been presented at exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Cooper Cole, Georgia Scherman Projects, Susan Hobbs, Towards, The Table, and Calaboose. They’ve presented at Doored, Images Festival and Blackwood Gallery....
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Join writer Fariha Roísín this week for our second episode of Metacösm. Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times ...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Join poet Ivanna Baranova this week for our first episode of Metacösm. Ivanna Baranova is the author of CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press, 2019) . Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming with Cixous72, Jubilat, Newest York, and Peace on Earth Review. She lives in Los Angeles and helps with communications at The Poetry Project.
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 1
