Episode 104: Poetics of Dating with Tracey Anne Duncan

Episode 108: Ghost Stories

Past guest Brendan Lorber rejoins us this week to talk about ghosts and his ghost story novel he's been working. We talk about ghosts and how they relate to relics of the past in city's, lost love ones, and creativity and the subconscious.

Episode 107: A Chaos of Poet Ramblings

No guest this week, so we recount what's been going on with poetry in our world the past couple weeks, talk about Steve Dalachinsky and read a couple of his poems, the intersection between jazz and poetry, music and poetry in general, about bringing the historical into poetry, and we look at a Vice article about someone faking it as an instagram poet.

Episode 106: Composition, Horseshit, Magic

This week poet and novelist Travis Nichols talks about poets writing auto-fiction, the artifice-sincerity polarity, Ashberyists vs. O'Haraists, how Twitter has changed what makes poets popular, David Berman, and how poetry can gesture towards another world.

Episode 105: 4th of July Episode

This week we met up on the 4th of July, read some poems about America and got philosophical about the disappointment in the promise of America's beginnings that run through literature.

Episode 104: Poetics of Dating with Tracey Anne Duncan

This week poet/writer Tracey Anne Duncan joins us to share some poems & talk about advice columns, whether poets should date poets, personal ads, famous poets who got good poems out of their relationship.