Lo Fi Lit

Graham is a poet from North Carolina. He's published "Liver Mush" from Back Patio books and has a new book coming out in March called "I Have a Gun" from Rejection Letters

Theo Thimo jumped on last week or maybe two weeks ago. Perhaps three,Theo was kicked off twitter and banned from twitter for life for his controversies. Mostly we just hang out for a few hours. He's talks about finding religion and his poetry and other things.

I chatted with Zac Smith in this episode . Zac Smith works behind the scenes of Back Patio Press publishing books like Death Egg by Nate Duggan. We begin chatting about readings and other topics as well . Also, I used a clip from Bookworm with Silverblatt . So, like copyright peoples beware. KCRW owns all the things with that. Umm. this was a really cool oppurtunity. Thanks for listening everyone....

Nathaniel Duggan joined the show to talk about his book, Death Egg! He's a poet from Maine. Published by Back Patio Press Books ran by Zac Smith. Check out his reading this friday Sept 29th online at misery loves company. Check out their twitter for that info. The site to buy Death Egg is flatdogdistro dot bigcartel dot com

August Smith is a poet from Michigan. Now living in Austin, Texas. In this episode, you'll hear about his journey from Michigan to Boston and eventually Austin, Texas. How the facebook group Alt Lit Gossip helped inspire him and find some new friends. August has been published in places like Peach, Omega, and Metatron. He has a new chapbook out translating Icelandic poetry. We discussed many subje...

Jayson Keery is a poet from Western Mass and their first poetry collection is, "The Choice is Real" published by Metatron Press !

Spencer Williams reads poetry from a book she wrote. Duh. What else would she be reading from?

James Brubaker reads from his new novel - We Are Ghost Lit -

From the reading the other day - August Smith reads some poetry he wrote.

I recall Mark Blickley from the Misery Loves Company reading series from over a year ago. Anyways, he's from New York and writes a lot of stuff. Like a lot of shit. Like he's a playwright. and a dramatist and poetryist? This story is one of the last stories Eris Aldrich read at the Misery Loves Company series. before she passed away.

On this special exclusive episode of Low Fi Lit, I invited some readers to hang out and chat and read their recent work. August Smith read some new poems about UFO's, James Brubaker selected a piece from his new book We Are Ghost-Lit and Spencer Williams read from her new book TRANZ (coming out next year)

I chatted with Jahz back in February. He's a doctor and writer from Venezuela. This is a sort of lost episode ! So, another guest I scheduled dropped through so I invited anyone to chat and Jahz came onto the feed. I crammed this down several times and I hope this comes out clear! There's no audio issues ! Lol

Tim Carter is a writer from Syracuse, New York. His new poetry book, The Pigs, (a short long poem) is out now from Dead Mall Press. We had a cool little conversation. Check it out. Here's his website for more. https://www.thcarter.info/ and here's the website to order the book - https://www.deadmallpress.com/bookstore ! Thanks

Caro founded Food Court Books and has been published in many places like AUP New Poets 5, and OUT HERE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TAKATĀPUI AND LGBTQIA+ WRITERS FROM AOTEAROA. They've written dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions, and trillions of poetry chapbooks. They've worked on 'We Are Babies' press with Stacey Teague and Ash Davida. Caro now lives in America, after living in New Zealand for about a de...

On this episode I spoke with Sebastian Castillo. He’s been published in Hobart, X-RAY and Shabby Doll House. SALMON is his latest book from Shabby Doll House Press. We spoke about his book, mostly.

Kristen Felicetti is a writer and the founding editor-in-chief of The Bushwick Review. Her work has appeared in The Creative Independent, Hobart, The Rumpus, and Shabby Doll House. Kristen conducts, organizes and plans literary events and readings. She's an ambitious and creative talent with a lively personality. What a trip! I feel quite lucky to have snagged her for the show. Please enjoy!

On this episode of the Low Fi Lit, I had the honor to speak with Lucy K Shaw - author of Woman With Hat! Lucy is the famed creator of the Shabby Doll House magazine in 2011 and Profound Experience. She's the author of The Motion (421 Atlanta) and How To Be A Perfect Bride and Troisieme Vague in '21. In '21 Lucy started Shabby Doll House press. Later in the Spring, she'll be publishing Caroline Ray...

Yvonne started hanging around the Shabby Doll House reading group awhile back so I invited her on and we sat down and chatted away abt many cool and kick-ass subjects! We opened with her poem from the advent calendar. And later on she reads it again. She's pretty cool. She's an editor down at Berkeley for Ki magazine which is connected to Parle Qui - another magazine down there. We discussed strik...

Talked with Aeon Ginsberg (ey/em, she/her) - author of Greyhound - published by Noemi press in 2020. And many other places like 'In The Mood Mag' We discussed their poetry, movies, and wrestling, The Rock, and the Fast and the Furious movies and professional wrestling! On this episode my microphone had my voice pretty low. Sounds like I'm in the background, also, we recorded in the morning. My hea...

Today, I pulled together a couple clips from past readings over ten years ago. These are clips from Sarah Jean Alexander and Lucy reading from shabby doll house mixtape vol one and Lucy reading from the mixtape vol 2 circa 2013 (?) There's no analysis!!! Just me hosting the clips that's all!!!! I'm experimenting with hosting clips and stuff. I hope Sarah Jean and Lucy don't send me a ceast and des...

On today's episode I spoke with W.T. Joshua - he lives and works in Buffalo, New York! We discuss his professional photography career - his days as a slam poet and his continued interests in the world of poetics. He, also, reads a poem of he's currently working on!! Also, in the beginning he was locked out of his studio and that is where the episode picks up!! That's where the episode picks off!!

Talked with Rudy Johnson - co - founder of Misery Tourism for three and a half hours. I wanted to know who Rudy was - as I've attended misery tourism readings off and on for over a year or so and Rudy and Will are very, very cool and kind people. They've always been super sweet to me. And Rudy's been patient and kind to me over the ups and downs of putting this episode out. The only reason I'm put...

On this episode, I asked Joss Barton some questions! There's over two hours of audio and the episode picks up right off as our conversation does as well. Joss is a lovely poet and drag performance artist! Lives in Chicago. Joss's work and poems (stealing this from art matters foundation dot org : 'documents queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the so...

I talked with Mathias on this episode of Low Fi Lit We talked about HIV, transitioning, writing and lots of other topics as well. I stole their bio from the website missunity dot net. (When you press play the episode jumps into mid - conversation.) 'Miss Unity is the stage name of Mathias Todd Mietzelfeld, an American writer, singer-songwriter, and drag performer, and the reigning fifth-place runn...

In this episode I talked with Shabby Doll House alumni Maggie Lee (they / them) This was a cool episode! They spoke on attending parties and being real good friends with Sarah Jean and Lucy K Shaw! We had a fun and lively conversation about queerness and their early beginnings in New York and recently moving to L.A. with their partner. I'm a freaking dork, okay for Shabby Doll House! We really did...