Lo Fi Lit

This is a reading and conversation with Cav and Zac . We had a great time. They are friends. I hate intros. I am very professional. This is a professional podcast. Zac Smith is the author of Everything is Totally Fine (Muumuu House, 2021) and 50 Barn Poems (2019). His writing has been published by Hobart, X-Ray, Maudlin House, New World Writing, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, and other magazines. Cavin...

oscar d'artois publihsed his first book of poetry 'Teen Surf Goth' with Metatron press. This is his 2nd book of poetry. Pick up The Island today. published by shabby doll house. .

Tom Snarsky is a poet and former math whiz . He stopped by the podcast to talk with me about his passion for poetry. How to read and associate with poetry. I ask him if he hates anyone. Does Tom have hate in his heart. Over the course of this interview we speak and read poems by Erin Taylor,, Ben Mirov, Graham Irvin and even James Tate. I cut out about thirty minutes of a two hour interview. Could...

Man, it's around 100 AM in the morning here in Tulsa. The darkness is shining in through the window. Oklahoma buzzes on. Through the blinking headlights, the silent trees, and sleepy porch pirates. I went to a bookstore today. Haven't been in one in some time - usually I'm in the amazon internet places. It's cool to hold a physical thing, rifle through the pages and sniff the vowels right off the...

Pau, August and Jakob came on to read poems and we had a group chat that lasted around three and a half hours. The first hour is most of the reading, actually. August Reads at 8:00, Paul ends at 32.33, and Jakob ends at 49:25 Skip ahead to 49.25 to move to the discussion and right to the talking. Thanks for everyone for listening. This is a pod I wish existed when I was back working on a night cre...

This week Will Duryea, founder of Misery Tourism - a literary spectacle and magazine , came through to discuss his life. We start off on how the Occupy Wallstreet Movement set off a chain of events in which led to creating Misery Tourism and how he views his role in the indie literary scene today. He also hosts a weekly reading series called Misery Loves Company. He lives in a small lil town calle...

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...

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 vario...

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...

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.

Gion Davis is a poet from New Mexico and they are a part of 'Clementine Is Right' with Mike Young and many other cool people. Gion published Too Much in 2022. We spoke about how they grew up in New Mexico, their relationship with their parents. They read several poems on this episode. Just recently they published a new poem on Ghost City Press. You can check in on them by following them on twitter...

New episode! Gion Davis is a poet from New Mexico. I’ve been up too long. As I was putting this up I heard things I could edit out - HAD to be edited out so I had go through that process and I think it is superior, though.. No episode is ever perfect. Never perfect enough. I can not process thoughts into a coherent logical statement. Gion is a poet. That’s all I can muster. Okay. Clementine Is Rig...

Thank you ! DA !!! God, this was an event. It's been a rough day. This conversation was a delightful distraction from everything else going on. I can't wait for everyone to hear it! Let's move on and out and upwards and outwards. I'm trying. Trying to make it to tomorrow. For like an official description I stripped this from https://poets.org/poet/d-powell "Powell is the author of the trilogy of b...

I chatted with a very game Paul Hanson Clark about a lot of things. We spoke about stuff. He was great. I hope to have him return. I only went 90 mins because I feel like two hours woulda wasted a potential return. Like because one hour is never enough time but two hours can feel like too much. 90 is perfect. I think. Paul is a returning guest from an earlier episode. He's from Nebraska! He knows...

Sean came on the show . He wrote Fuccboi

Last night I chatted with Jake Blackwood. Dude has stories on Misery Tourism as well as a slew of other sites like Trash World, and SCAB Magazine. Has a youtube channel as well "jakeblackwood" and you can follow him on twitter at @JBlackwoodsays.

From her site : Rachelle Toarmino is the author of the poetry collection That Ex. She's been in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, Iterant, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize." Rachelle is the founding editor in chief of Peach Ma...

Shy Watson and Ctch join the program on a late night to discuss stuff. We hang out. We party. They share stories. Watson is a writer. She writes prose and has a novel coming out. We talk about a story Shy wrote and published on "fence" Ctch returns from an earlier episode.

Ben Fama is a poet living in New York. He's real good friends with Theo Thimo. Ben wrote Mall Witch (Wonder, 2012), Fantasy (UDP, 2015) and Death Wish (Newest York, 2018). Lately, he's published " If I Close My Eyes " published by sarkapublishing dot com

Paul Hanson Clark and Austin Islam came onto to chat with me about their lives and experiences writing poetry and living out their lives together. It was a holiday episode. There was nothing to promote much. We chat about PeterBD and New York and some Alt Lit people and many other people. Have fun. Enjoy.

Erin Taylor (they/ them) was chill enough to come on and open up about their life, about their poetry and friends and experiences in life. We talk about anarchy, poetry and "Bimboland" and about their time in New York and L.A. and other places. "Bimboland" is their first book of poetry. It's published by Archway Editions. I asked Erin to read "Love Language" from Stacey Teague. That was in the spi...

Today I spoke with the poet and founder of METATRON - Ashley Obscura. Metatron is an experimental online space for poetry and art. and is an independent press as well. I was very interested in the new section of the site - GLYPHORIA which is an experimental take on literary magazines but feels different to me. I love the website and many of the new pieces. Anyways, we spoke about how she started o...

Today, I spoke with Will Mountain Cox - author of Roundabout. This is his debut novel. We recorded the conversation at three am. Love a good three am recording. He's friends with Lucy, Oscar, Gian and used to frequent Mellow Pages. This was a terrific conversation. I asked many questions Paris and let's go. Also, he published an anthology about young artists in Paris called 'With Paris in Mind" in...

Cav from backpatio press came on. We talked. He has a dog,