Lo Fi Lit

Aidan Ryan returns to the show to discuss his new book - I Am Here You Are Not I Love You. This new book covers the lives of the artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski. Aidan, of course, related to both. The book talks about art scenes in Buffalo and even covers some history of it as well. This book has garnered a lot of praise and great press from places like The Brooklyn Rail and even been...

the navigator is an original piece of music by Andrew Topolski (1952-2008) Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski are the subjects of Aidan Ryan's "I Am Here You Are Not I Love You' out now by Univ. of Iowa Press. The image . thumbnail is one of Andrew's pieces of art " Untitled" nabbed from the Burchfield Penny Art Center website. Not related to the navigator. I didn't know what else to use.

I reached out to Kristen Coates - a really dope fan of everyone on twitter. I've seen them enjoying and endorsing and complimenting most indie writers over there. Reminded me of myself - just a fan enjoying people's work. They're a dope person. They used to run their own magazine before being cancelled.

Aaron Burch is the founder and original creator of hobart, and the author of the essay collection, A Kind of In-Between ; the novel, Year of the Buffalo ; the memoir/literary analysis Stephen King’s The Body ; and the short story collection, Backswing . He edited the craft anthology How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing , and is cur...

Mike Young is a poet and a musician. He's on tour with Clementine was Right. Cool guy. Likes Video Games.

Andrew Mack is the founder of Loblolly Press - based of Asheville, North Carolina. He came on the show to talk about Loblolly and his own life as well. Check out his new poetry book, Beasts of Chase over on their site - loblolly dot com

Kyle Seibel is a writer out of California. Formerly worked in the Navy. He came on to promote his new book out with Clash Books called "Hey, You Assholes"

Jamie Hood is a writer and critic and bartender living in New York. Trauma Plot is her 2nd book. Her first, "How to be a Good Girl" has also been republished by Pantheon Books. The same press publishing 'Trauma Plot.' It was dope having her on. You can visit her 'x" account @veryhotmomm She also runs a very successful substack "regards. marcel" at https://proustproject.substack.com/

Pushcart Nominated Tim (they/them) Livingston is a poet and proud Pennsylvanian, living in Philadelphia with their cat, Mamma Mia!, and seven tattoos. I met them through Rachelle's class. They're very smart and really good. We talked about poetry, baseball, Marvel and Clamour the much anticipated magazine.

GG Roland came on the show and we chatted about his time living South Korea. He's a poet. He has a book called "hehehe" published by Clash Books. Met him through Misery Loves Company. He knows Will and Rudy Johnson, who previously came onto the show. Out now. Go buy it.

Reuben Gelley Newman is a poet and musician from New York. I'm stealing this from his website : " Reuben is a writer, musician, editor, and librarian-in-training based in New York City. Their poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly , Salamander , Fairy Tale Review , Northwest Review , Ninth Letter , and elsewhere. You can find them online @joustingsnail (Instagram, Twitter); on Bluesky they post a...

This is the first 45 minutes of the previous episode. It was over three hours so I thought I'd cut it down to a more reasonable length for the audience.

Wallace, Paul and August dropped by for a quick and fun hang out. Post - pop lit is explained within the first hour for those who are interested.

I met morgenrede through the misery loves company reading series on miserytourism. He came on today to promote his new book, Using Your Hand to Block Out the Sun. We talked about poetry and pinball.

I grabbed this from Emily's website : Emily K. Sipiora, M.A., is a poet from Northern Illinois and serves as a lecturer at Eastern New Mexico University. She is found in Spectra Poets, the Chicago Review of Books, and other publications. She's an awesome person and she made for a spectacular guest. Here are some of the poems we went over : https://spectrapoets.org/All-Life-by-Emily-K-Sipiora https...

Beach Sloth is a historic blogger of alt lit. Everyone knows Beach Sloth. If you don't you can listen to this show and find out about Beach Sloth. Also, he likes music.

Jimin Seo is a poet. Hold up let's pick this part up from his website, "Jimin Seo was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and BA from Florida State University. He is the author of OSSIA , a winner of The Changes Book Prize judged by Louise Glück. His poems can be found in Action Fokus , The Canary , LitHub...

Wallace Barker is a poet from Austin, Texas. He came on today to promote his translation of Garcia Lorca's "Gypsy Romance" published by Farthest Heaven.

Spencer Williams is a poet. Check her new poetry book - Tranz published by Four Way Books. The first 17 minutes we chit chat about past guests Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan and Julianne Neely. Then we dig into the actual book - Tranz

Michael Washington has been published in Maudlin House. He's a big fan of Nathaniel Duggan, GG Rolland and Cavin Bryce G. We talk about that stuff and more. We discuss Dragonball Z and explicit material and Back Patio Press.

John Trefry is the founder of Inside the Castle.

Nico, Chris, and Naomi from Archway Editions joined me on this episode. Shout out to their publicist Mia for setting this all up. It was all her idea. Archway Editions has published the most notable and noteworthy authors like Erin Taylor and Blake Butler Are these cats a bunch of corporate drones punching buttons and yanking giant levers? No. They're not. They’re kinda cool like really cool. I us...

Theo Thimo, Paul Hanson Clark, August Smith, Louis Packard, Alex Savage. and Jesse Prado read for a 9/11 reading. We all hang out and discuss random topics. Come hang out.. Drop in. Buy Lou's new book. Rootbeer Renaissance from wonderpress. Did I spell rootbeer, right. You can hear Evan Femino and other people on the podcast throughout the episode.

Met Evan Femino through attending readings at ctchfest 2024. Evan is the founder of Feral Dove. Evan founded the experimental visual press and online journal a few years back. A cool dude. We discuss films, writing, Giancarlo, pigeons, and the community. Thanks for listening.

Louis Packard is a poet. He's been published in back patio press and positive exposure. He was a frequent guest on Paul Hanson Clark's podcast, in fact, he was a co-host. He has a book of poems coming out soon by Wonder.