Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Dan Beachy-Quick

Today's guest is Dan Beachy-Quick! He is a poet, essayist, and translator. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations, and longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. His poetry collections include North True South Bright, Spell, Mulberry, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry, This Nest, Swift Passerine, Circle’s Apprentice, and Variations on Dawn and Dusk. He is also the author of A Whaler’s Dictionary, a collection of linked essays responding to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and translations from Ancient Greek, The Thinking Root and Stone-Garland. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. Pick up a copy of Elements & Offerings here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/elements-offerings-dan-beachy-quick/2507cd009235e3fd?ean=9780807186039&next=t]. Read more about Beachy-Quick here [https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/dbeach/]. Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter! https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/ [https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/] Say hi to us online: Website: http://drunkasapoet.com [http://drunkasapoet.com/] Instagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday [https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/] BlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social [https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/]

Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Today's guest is Anna Lena Phillips Bell, and her new book, Might Could [https://www.waywiserbooks.org/new-releases], won the Anthony Hecht Prize from Waywiser Books. Anna Lena Phillips Bell is also the author of Ornament [https://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/bell-ornament/?utm_source=catalog/3739&utm_medium=301], winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs [https://www.stbrigidpress.net/books/smaller-songshttps:/www.stbrigidpress.net/books/smaller-songs], from St Brigid Press. Poems appear in journals including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Electric Literature, Orion, The Sewanee Review, 32 Poems, and Subtropics, and in anthologies including Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. She is an associate professor in UNCW’s MFA and BFA programs [https://uncw.edu/writers/] in creative writing and editor of Ecotone [https://ecotonemagazine.org/]. Pick up a copy of Might Could here [https://asterismbooks.com/product/might-could-anna-lena-phillips-bell]. Read more about Bell here [https://annalenaphillipsbell.net/]. Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter! https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/ [https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/] Say hi to us online: Website: http://drunkasapoet.com [http://drunkasapoet.com/] Instagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday [https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/] BlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social [https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/]

Lauren Camp

Poet Lauren Camp is the author of the new book, Is Is Enough [https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680034523/is-is-enough/], a collection of poems that face her father’s dementia and the way she and her family are affected by it. Camp is the author of eight previous poetry collections, including In Old Sky, which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. As New Mexico Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp created the New Mexico Epic Poem Project [https://nmstatelibrary.org/join-the-new-mexico-epic-poem-project/], a community-centered, crowd-sourced initiative designed to help people in rural and arts-underserved communities express themselves. Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Nation, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Orion, Missouri Review, and Poem-a-Day. Her work has been translated into Turkish, Mandarin, Serbian, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Pick up a copy of Is Is Enough here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/is-is-enough-poems-volume-43-lauren-camp/351013f2d8884f22?ean=9781680034523&next=t]. Read more about Camp here [https://laurencamp.com/index.html]. Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter! https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/ [https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/] Say hi to us online: Website: http://drunkasapoet.com [http://drunkasapoet.com/] Instagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday [https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/] BlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social [https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/]

D.M. Aderibigbe

Happy National Poetry Month! Today, poet D.M. Aderibigbe joins me to talk about his new book, 82nd Division. D.M. Aderibigbe was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to 82nd Division, he published his first collection of poems, How the End First Showed, which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the James Merrill House, Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, and Boston University. His poems have appeared in Tatu: New-Generation African Poets, The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and New England Review, among others. He teaches in the Written Arts Program as Senior Fellow in Ethics and Writing at Bard College. Pick up a copy of 82nd Division here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/82nd-division-d-m-aderibigbe/840b0df30df2b70a?ean=9781636142425&next=t]. Read more about Aderibigbe and 82nd Division here [https://heatherlanierwriter.com/]. Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter! https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/ [https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/] Say hi to us online: Website: http://drunkasapoet.com [http://drunkasapoet.com/] Instagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday [https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/] BlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social [https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/]

Heather Lanier

Today, I’m so pleased to present my conversation with my friend, the essayist and poet, Heather Lanier, about her newest chapbook, Erasing the Book of Pregnancy. She is the author of the memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and along with her award-winning poetry chapbooks, she has published the full-length poetry collection, Psalms of Unknowing [https://www.monkfishpublishing.com/product/psalms-of-unknowing/], which was called “a powerful poetic reckoning with motherhood and religion” by Kirkus Reviews. She is the recipient of a Vermont Creation Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a New Jersey Artist’s Fellowship. Her essays and poems have been published in The Atlantic, TIME, The Sun, Salon, and elsewhere. Her TED talk, “‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Are Incomplete Stories We Tell Ourselves,” has been viewed three million times and translated into 18 languages. Pick up a copy of Erasing the Book of Pregnancy here [https://sevenkitchenspress.com/editors-series-1/volume-six/heather-lanier-erasing-the-book-of-pregnancy/]. Read more about Lanier here [https://heatherlanierwriter.com/]. Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter! https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/ [https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/] Say hi to us online: Website: http://drunkasapoet.com [http://drunkasapoet.com/] Instagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday [https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/] BlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social [https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/]