This week poet and editor Brendan Lorber joins us to talk about the poetic space of train travel and torturing a neighbor by reading Rimbaud's Drunken Boat, but the conversation really gets going when we discuss what white space can add to poetry, exploring different ways of using the page, and why more poets don't make use of it.
There's no guest this week as we explore the concept of abstraction in poetry. Writers often make a distinction between abstract and concrete language, and imply that concrete is best, but we look at how the distinction between concrete and abstract is actually much more complex and interesting than we usually think about. We talk about Dame Edith Sitwell, medium & content, Dada, Abstract Art, visual poetry, Emily Dickinson, techonology & physical media, Christian Dotremont.
Dr. Jeffery U. Darensbourg joins us to talk about the new zine Bulbancha is Still A Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans, share with us some poems by Native writers from the first issue, and talk about the too often forgotten and ignored contributions of indigenous culture to Louisiana culture.
This week we talk about giving poems titles. What strategies are there to titling poems? Why might a poet decide not to title their poems? How do titles set reader expectations?
Poet Zena Smith joins us to talk about 6 poets that are lesser known, and we read some of their poetry: Frank Stanford, Kate Sopko, David Schubert, Mike Lala, Matthew Timmons, and Corrado Costa.
This week is all about sonnets, both traditional and modern. We read and talk about sonnets by John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, e.e. cummings, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, and Terrance Hayes.
Rapper #FFFFFF of Sex Party joins us this week to talk about how performing rap and poetry intersect, we read a couple poems from the used copy Of Jim Tate's Viper Jazz that I just got in the mail, and Makkos shares a collaborative poem that he and Xena Smith wrote.
Aime'SansSavant and Shadow Angelina, hosts of the Esoterotica Reading Series, join us this week to talk about their reading series and erotic poetry.
In this episode we are joined by special guests Sidney Manuel and David Moss of the Parking Lot Movie Podcast to review another poetry flick: Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless Poetry. Spoilers abound, so if you plan on watching the movie, watch it before you listen.
Caroline Zimmer, poet and bartender, joins us to talk about 6 poets that are lesser known, and we read some of their poetry: Hannah Weiner, Paul Klee, Henri Michaux, Richard Hugo, Bernard Heidsieck, and Albert Goldbarth.
This week Todd Cirillo joins us to talk about his belief that poetry should be fun and accessible and that poets should be at home in barrooms, bowling alleys and truck stops. We discuss what accessibility in poetry might mean, what could be different about poetry readings, and how to expand poetry's audience, and Todd shares some of his own poems and some poems by other poets that he loves.
This week poet Lauren Burgess joins us to talk about her experience of making a videopoem, what videopoetry is, and all the aesthetic opportunities videopoetry offers as a medium.
This week we are back in the studio and talking about how to revise poetry, why revision is important, and what revision really means.
In Episode 66, we share with you some poetry recordings from earlier in July at the monthly Poetry Buffet, held on the first Saturday of every month and hosted by past guest and poet Gina Ferrara.
For episode 65, we share recordings from a poetry extravaganza at Siberia in New Orleans earlier this month organized by past guest Bernard Pearce, including poetry by Bernard and Laura Mattingly and music by Jim Trainer, Jerry Linder, and Lee Tiger & the broken blues band.
Rosalyn Spencer, writer and editor of Rigorous Magazine, joins us to talk about 6 poets that are lesser known, and we read some of their poetry: William Corbett, Pat Parker, Joan Murray, Carlyle Reedy, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Adam Cornford.
In this episode we look at the psychological research into higher rates of suicide among those in creative professions, especially poets, and why that might be. We look at the "Sylvia Plath effect," Janusian thinking, and the problematic romanticization of suicide among writers. We also celebrate and share the poetry of some poets who killed themselves, including Hart Crane, Lew Welch, Sylvia Plath, Elise Cowen, Richard Brautigan. The outro music for this episode is Songs for Sylvia Plath Volume...
In Episode 62 poet and editor Jonathan Penton joins us to talk about online literary magazines, publishing, and the 2oth anniversary of Unlikely Stories, then shares a couple of poems about his time in a nunnery in Toledo and how he found America in Juarez.
While in Cleveland, Joseph Makkos visited R.A. 'Rafiq' Washington at "Guide to Kulcher" and conversed about DIY publishing, the current state of Cleveland, poetry's place in the shifting culture, and his forthcoming book of poetry from Outlandish Press, Black Eunuch.
Joseph M. is in his hometown of Cleveland this week, and he sits down at a Greek diner with Zena Smith and Kyle J. Osborne of Outlandish Press, to talk about printing, making books, and Zena shares some poetry from her new chapbook.
A lot of people think poets read in an unnatural voice dubbed "Poet Voice." We talk about a new study that claims to have figured out what "Poet Voice" is by analyzing recordings of 100 poets. We talk about the study, what it means, and what it really says about the way poetry is performed.
At New Orleans Poetry Fest this year we sat down with Chicago poet Jennifer Karmin to talk about poets collaborating with each other and other types of artists, performance poetry, and she shares some of the poetry from Sexual Organs of the IRS which she wrote with Bernadette Mayer.
In episode 57, we look back at New Orleansd Poetry Fest 2018 with founders Megan Burns and Bill Lavender and we share an interview with Chicago poets Marcy Rae Henry and Melissa Almandina.
In Episode 56 founders of Poets Reading the News, Elle Aviv Newton and J. Spagnolo, join us to talk about the intersection between journalism and poetry, the panels they were involved in at New Orleans Poetry Fest, the current state of mainstream media, and how to bring new voices into the news cycle.
Comedian Paul Oswell joins us this week to talk about comedians who use poetry in their acts, poets who write comedic poems, and to preview the show Comedy Verses Poetry coming up tonight (Friday April 20) at Mags as part of New Orleans Poetry Fest.
Poet Christopher Louis Romaguera joins us this week to talk about the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference, writing poetry as a first generation American, his experience traveling in Cuba and South America, his love of Mate, and the upcoming New Orleans Poetry Festival.
At the start of Poetry Month, we look ahead to New Orleans Poetry Festival at the end of the month, and Megan Burns visits to give us a Poetry Fest Survival Guide.
This week we start out talking about those fake poetry ads in the in the subway and whether it's something poets should be upset about, but it gets us talking about the history of advertising and poetry in general, where the place is for poetry in public, teaching students to make dada poetry collages, why ad companies should hire poets, and what the future might hold for poetry in advertisements.
Joseph M. traveled to Tampa near the beginning of March to attend Whale Prom, an off-site book fair, held at the same time as the AWP conference. He interviews a couple of the event's organizers about why they started Whale Prom and what need it filled as well as several attendees who were selling books. There are also some great recordings of poet Dylan Krieger reading some of her poetry at an off-site reading.
Last week we recorded the podcast live from St. Joe Lofts in the Warehouse District of New Orleans. We are revisited by past guests, and a couple new guests join us too. Make sure that you play along with the Poetry Trivia near the end of the episode. Check out the show notes for the PDF of photos for the picture round.
