Lo Fi Lit

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.

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...