Sat, 28 October 2017
This week is a live show: Horror Movie Poetry Night IV. We enter the dark rubicons of Saw, Annabel, Child's Play, SawII, The Lady in White, Phantasm, Return of the Living Dead, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Omen, Saw II, The Descent, The Bat, Dead Waves, Lair of the White Worm, and Terminator. The TDO All Stars included Joshua Begley, Elise McKenna, Jeff Shuster, Shawn McKee, Jax Shelton, and Amy Watkins. NOTE Special thanks to Wilson Santos and Vinyl Arts Bar!
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_284.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 12:30am EDT |
Sat, 21 October 2017
On this week’s show, I talk about discovering character in the process of novel writing with Jay Baron Nicorvo! TEXTS DISCUSSED
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_283.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:31am EDT |
Fri, 13 October 2017
Episode 282 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, with special guests Erik Deckers, Whitney Hamrick, Joe Snyder, Mary McGinn, and moi. NOTES Join us on October 21st at Vinyl Arts Bar in Orlando! Read Ta-Nehisi Coates's The First White President. Episode 282 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_282.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 8:04pm EDT |
Fri, 6 October 2017
In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Colum McCann's Letters to a Young Writer. Books Discussed NOTES Colum McCann hosts a lovely Bloomsday reading every year at Ulysses Folk House in downtown Manhattan. Check out my interview with the late Charlie Bethel, an amazing playwright and performer, back on episode 39.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_281.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 11:56pm EDT |
Fri, 29 September 2017
Episode 280 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, David James Poissant and I offer words of advice for 12 new writers and their questions. I probably swear more than I should in a classroom. NOTES Read Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The First White President." Check out Orlando Shakespeare's production of Man of La Mancha. Congrats to the finalists for Poet Laureate of Orlando: Curtis Meyer, Susan Lilley, and Terry Anne Thaxton. Check out the music of The Bambi Molesters, an extraordinary surf rock outfit out of Croatia. Episode 280 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_280.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 9:05pm EDT |
Sat, 23 September 2017
On this week’s show, I talk editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas. TEXTS DISCUSSED
NOTES Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_279.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:22am EDT |
Sat, 16 September 2017
On this week’s show, I talk poetry with Brittany Perham! NOTES Check out my interview with Brittany Perham's chapbook collaborator, Kim Addonizio. RIP, Jerry Pournelle and J. P. Donleavy.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_278.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:33am EDT |
Sat, 9 September 2017
On this week’s show, I have a fun conversation with the journalist, surfer, and Buddhist Jaimal Yogis about the provisionality of our knowledge, philosophy, zen, surfing, writing, avoiding preciousness, and the lunacy of the ego.
NOTES Please consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey’s indiegogo fundraiser here.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_277.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:49am EDT |
Sat, 2 September 2017
Episode 276 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
Consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey’s indiegogo fundraiser here. Go here for details on the 60th anniversary party for On the Road at the Kerouac House.
Direct download: The_Drunken_Odyssey_Episode_276.mp3
Category:Arts/Culture/Writing -- posted at: 1:06am EDT |
Sat, 26 August 2017
In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Rainer Maria Rilke's famous Letters to a Young Poet, plus we pay homage to Rilke's poetry with readings by Craig Moreau, Hyejung Kook, David Foley, Jason Morris, David Mcloughlin, and Amy Hosig. |