Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Today's show features poet Christian J. Collier, author of the new book of poems, Greater Ghost , hot off the press from Four Way Books. This is a book full of smart, tough, and beautiful poems. It was wonderful to be introduced to him and his work. Christian Collier is the author Greater Ghost and the chapbook, The Gleaming of the Blade , the 2021 Editors' Selection from Bull City Press. His work...

Today on the show is Dan O'Brien, discussing his new book, Flying on Easter and Other Poems . This pamphlet was published by Poetry London Editions in the UK, and is drawn from his recent full-length collection from Acre Books, Survivor's Notebook . O'Brien is the author of previous poetry collections, including Our Cancers , New Life , War Reporter , and the nonfiction books From Scarsdale: A Chi...

Today on the show is poet Callie Siskel, discussing her new book, Two Minds . It's a terrific book, one that is, in part, about her father, the late, wonderful film critic Gene Siskel. Two Minds is Siskel's first full-length book, after her Poetry Society of America chapbook, Arctic Revival , which was selected for publication by Elizabeth Alexander. Siskel's poetry appears in The Paris Review , T...

On the show this week is Kevin Prufer, author of the new book of poems, The Fears , which just won the Rilke Prize, as well as the new novel, Sleepaway . Prufer is the author of several previous collections of poems, including The Art of Fiction , Churches , and National Anthem . With Wayne Miller and Martin Rock, Prufer directs the Unsung Masters Series, a book series devoted to bringing the work...

Today's show features poet Philip Metres discussing his new book, Fugitive/Refuge , published in April by Copper Canyon Press. Philip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge , Shrapnel Maps , The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance , Sand Opera , and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky . His work—poetry, translation, essays, fiction, cr...

Today on the show is poet J.L. Conrad, whose new book, A World in Which , was released in April by Terrapin Books . J.L. Conrad’s first full-length book is A Cartography of Birds (LSU Press), and she has published the chapbooks Recovery (2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize) and Not If But When (Salt Hill’s 2015 Dead Lake Chapbook Contest). Her poems have appeared in Pleiades , Sugar House Review ,...

This week the show takes a twist: this is Drunk as a Poet on Payday: Sidebar Edition. Here I read and discuss Anthony Hecht's poem, "A Hill," from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Hard Hours .  We'll return in two weeks with our regularly scheduled shows, featuring poet J.L. Conrad. Say hi to us online: Website: http://drunkasapoet.com Instagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday BlueSky: drunkasapoet.bsk...

Episode 3 is an auspicious meeting of astronomical event and poetry book, as today we feature Lisa Ampleman and her book Mom in Space on the day of the total solar eclipse across much of North America. Lisa Ampleman is the author of three full-length poetry collections— Mom in Space , Romances , and Full Cry , winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition sponsored by the National Federation of Sta...

Episode 2 features Jesse Nathan, whose first book, Eggtooth , was released last fall from Unbound Edition Press. One poem in the book, “Dame's Rocket,” was selected for the Best American Poetry 2024 . The collection won the 2024 New Writers Award in Poetry from the Great Lakes College Association. Nathan’s poetry has appeared in The New York Review of Books , The Paris Review , The American Poetry...

In this premier episode, Jason Gray speaks with Cynthia Marie Hoffman , whose new book, Exploding Head , is a memoir-in-prose poems about her life as a young child and an adult with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and counting compulsions that impact her relationship to motherhood, religion, and the larger world. Hoffman is the author of three previous bo...