Not Fit for Composition

Episode 008: The David Duchovny Files (w/ Steven Michael Holmes)

Hi everyone, hope 2025 was good! Sorry for the hiatus. I was busy. In this episode, we chat with friend of the pod Steven Michael Holmes about VHS archival work and our shared lore before we jump into a discussion of 2025's most viral TikTok poem, "I Met My Younger Self for Coffee" by Jennae Cecelia. At ~27:00, we begin our discussion of David Duchovny's new book of poetry, About Time, published by Akashic. Does Mulder's poetry have the X-factor? Or should we file it away? And are there any alien poems? (Nope.) Songs: "NFFC Theme" "drone strike" - Frozen Water "X-Files Theme" "Wrong Ones" - Plum Wooer Steve's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Tube.Time.T.V [https://www.youtube.com/@Tube.Time.T.V] August's new tunes: https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/ [https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/album/a-partial-list-of-my-flaws-wrong-ones] Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy [https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy] Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/ [https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/]

Episode 007: The Inauguration Poet Special

It's the new year! It's also inauguration day (boooo)! We're serving up something different for 2025's beefy first episode. First, we take a look at the year ahead with some literary predictions from writers across the lit space: Steff Yue Duhem, Tao Lin, Jill McDonough, Rachelle Toarmino, catch breath, Lloyd Schwartz, Kit Rosewater, Chelsey Minnis, and more contribute their forecasts. Then we analyze and rank every past inaugural poet before musing on whom Trump's should be. Songs: "NFFC Theme" "Bait the Hook (demo)" - Plum Wooer "Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping" - Grouper "Watching Star Wars (demo)" - Plum Wooer Follow along and make your own inaugural poet tier list here: https://tiermaker.com/create/us-inaugural-poets-17814399 [https://tiermaker.com/create/us-inaugural-poets-17814399] Buy August's book: https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith [https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith] Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy [https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy] Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/ [https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/]

Episode 006: Alright Alright Alright (w/ Stephanie Yue Duhem)

I bet you thought this podcast was dead. I bet the celebs thought they were safe from our scathing critiques. WRONG! To close out the year, we resurface like the dragons in "Reign of Fire" with guest Stephanie Yue Duhem to discuss: sweaty psychics, online lit journals, end rhymes, mulled wine, and the viral poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" by Joseph Fasano. Then we dissect the wisdom poetry of Matthew McConaughey's hybrid-memoir "Greenlights." Songs: "NFFC Theme" "Stay Away (demo)" - Plum Wooer "buchla jam 2" "My Song 2" - EVIL MTN Follow Stephanie: https://x.com/moonandmouth [https://x.com/moonandmouth] Buy August's book: https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith [https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith] Eleanor's Substack: https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy [https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy] Marcus's band: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/ [https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/]

Episode 005: Jewel Thieves (w/ Bob Sykora)

Our first guest episode! We welcome dear friend and poet-colleague Bob Sykora to the podcast, where we talk about his upcoming book, Ivanka Trump's quatrain, grade school poems, the relevance of journals, and 90s folk-pop artist Jewel's book of poetry, "A Night Without Armor," published in 1998 by It Books. Jewel discussion starts at ~33:00 and boy did we have lots to say. Songs: "NFFC Theme" "Ste. Helene (demo)" - Still Submarine "Sun Goes Down (benjamin remix)" - Plum Wooer "Intuition" - Jewel "WITFIN" - EVIL MTN "Rainbow Signs" - mewithoutYou Preorder Bob's book: https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/utopians-in-love [https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/utopians-in-love] Eleanor's latest: https://issuu.com/bryantuniversity/docs/blr2024-layout-final/44 [https://issuu.com/bryantuniversity/docs/blr2024-layout-final/44] August's new songs: https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/album/sun-goes-down-ithryn-luin [https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/album/sun-goes-down-ithryn-luin] Marcus's band insta: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/ [https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/]

Episode 004: Donna Ashworth, Coworker Poet

It's normie time. We talk about: ranking art forms (truncated convo), "coworker music," 2 viral poems about Gaza ("The Jesus Fridge" and "There's Laundry to Do and a Genocide to Stop"), and "Wild Hope" by bestselling/viral Scottish poet Donna Ashworth. Songs: "NFFC Theme" "Maples Ablaze (demo)" - Plum Wooer "The crudest thing Scarlett's ever said" - Hans Geiger "Window" - Donna M Ashworth August's poem: https://metatron.press/digipub/shopping-complex/ [https://metatron.press/digipub/shopping-complex/] Eleanor's newsletter: https://fanghoneyy.substack.com/ [https://fanghoneyy.substack.com/] Marcus's band: https://stillsubmarine.bandcamp.com/ [https://stillsubmarine.bandcamp.com/]