After a nearly a decade of observing online internet literary spaces - Tyler Burn, from Tulsa Oklahoma, interviews a vast array of different artists, writers and poets. It's so odd writing about myself in third person. I feel so serious. This show isn't that serious. Just hanging out with writers. Yah.
All quiet on the southern front over here. Derek Maine passed through this fine evening. He's the author of "characters" from Expat Press. We speak on his life, his reading habits, his writing and a variety of many other topics, He hosts a youtube series where he discusses books just look up."derek maine's reading life" on youtube. He's also, a frequent guest on the "self-exposure" podcast. Check that show out too.
Cletus Crow is a poet, and freelance editor and former journalist from and currently residing in Tennessee. His new book of poems is called Phallic Symbols. The book drops on June 7th from Pig Roast Publishing. The poems grapple with a multitude of themes such as masculinity, macho stuff, animalistic behaviors, sexuality, mental illness and religion. Many of these poems have been featured in various prestigious and outstanding literary outlets like that of William Duryea and Rudy Johnson's Misery Tourism, HAD, Hobart, Spectra, and Forever Magazine
I met Lucy Wainger and Frankie BB through Rachelle Toarmino's online poetry workshop Wet Paint through her organization Beauty School. They're both professionally trained poets making a successful living from poetry. Lucy went to Umass with Rachelle Toarmino. Both have books out. You can buy his book through Bottle Cap press. It's called "I'm Hungry, Please Come Home" and Lucy's book is called "In Life There Are Many Things" published by Black Lawrence Press
Graham and Sebastian came along to read at a reading I held. After each person read we hung out had a tremendous time. Gregory Taffer, Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan and Tom Snarsky were apart of the audience. You may hear them pop up. Just a roundtable of random voices coming together. This is one of my favorite episodes.
Rachelle Toarmino and Aidan Ryan take over this show this week. Rachelle founded the Peachmgzn and Aidan invented the Foundlings Press . They asked to interview me. So here we are. I was reluctant to do this. I;m not super articulate. However the more I do these sorts of things I believe the better I'll be when asked to participate in them.