Social Yet Distanced: A View with an Emotionalorphan and Friends

A. Razor. American, West Coast Outlaw Poet, Desert Farmer. Dedicated Punk Hostage. (Part I of III) The descriptors can be many for one who defies description.  We have known Razor for a long while.  Short minutes it seems, and if you know him, you know that any discussion is prone to lean a long way around to where it should be, but always pointing at the right side of things because it is the Way...

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author presently residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage.  One of the Americas most prolific writers, His work can be found both in print and online in such places as Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly,  Horror Sleaze Trash, The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, and The Okl...

Social yet Distanced Featuring Jason Baldinger:  Road Poems and Blowing Up The Glory Holes  What? Do you need a description ??? All things Jason... https://jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com/  Books by Jason Baldinger The Lady Pittsburgh The Lady Pittsburgh The Lower Forty-Eight The Lower Forty-Eight The Whiskey Rebellion The Studs Terkel Blues Fumbles Revelations The Ugly Side of the Lake with John Dors...

Social Yet Distanced: Showdown At The Am I OK Corral or How To Be an All Around Cowboy Social yet Distanced and Ozark Poet Scot Young came together to discuss his new release "All Around Cowboy." Historically the cowboy mystique has centered around fatherhood, community and giving back to the common good. Just because. Scot Young talks with us from the role of a modern renaissance man, the post-mo...

It was our distinct pleasure sharing with Alise.  We grew.  You will too.  Now.. Sit!!!  Good Wolf. __Alise Versella__ Poet & Author Alise Versella is a Pushcart-nominated contributing writer for Rebelle Society whose work has also been published in COG Magazine, Entropy, Enclave, The Opiate, Ultraviolet Tribe, What Rough Beast, and Elephant Journal, among others. Versella...

Paul Corman Roberts Talks Bone Moon Palace, and Poetics with Dr. Fran Lock and an @emotionalorphan. "Paul Corman-Roberts 2nd full-length collection of Bone Moon Palace will be released by Nomadic Press July 3rd of 2021. Previous collections include The Abomunauts Are Coming To Piss On Your Lawn (Howling Dog Press, 2006), Neocom(muter)(Tainted Coffee Press, 2009), 19th Street Station (Full of Crow...

The Social yet Distanced Pod Collective and Jack Varnell spend a Sunday afternoon  in two different areas of the blooming balmy SouthEastern US, to talk music,  poetry, voice, and the voices.  We also cover just a scoche of Mike James' extensive wealth of work, and discuss  relationships with poets, and poets relationships to the world. Collections Include: Leftover Distances,...

Dan Denton, who incidentally knows nothing about that pesky Hoffa thing, at 13, read an original ode to Jesus at an evangelical church camp in Alabama.  The Christians loved it so much that an elderly minister felt called by God to anoint young Denton as a consecrated vessel to do God’s work for the rest of his life.  Denton became an atheist, and frequented underground punk shows, stole books fro...

Jane Burn, poet and artist   Pamphlets include:  Fat Around the Middle  (Talking Pen, 2015)   Tongues of Fire  (BLERoom, 2016).  Her collections of mention are more to it than bubbles  (Indigo Dreams, 2016),  This Game of Strangers  (Wyrd Harvest Press, 2017, co-written with Bob Beagrie),  One of These Dead Places  (Culture Matters, 2017),  Fleet,  (Wyrd Harvest Press, 2018),  Remnants  (Knives Fo...

Social yet Distanced: The Interviewer vs The Interviewed In A Class Of Humans We Call Artist   Social yet Distanced host, Fran Lock talks to Rob Lipton author of the astonishing collection, A Complex Bravery , and winner of the 2018 Gregory O’Donoghue Competition at the Munster Literature Centre in Rebel Cork, (That's the South-West of Ireland for our international listeners), with his p...

Fran Lock has a wonderful virtual sit-down with Alan Humm, founder and editor of One Hand Clapping,  a free online magazine that attempts to help new, under-represented and unpublished authors, as well as artists, musicians and composers, by featuring them in the same pages as those who are more established.  Alan is a writer and a teacher of English who has just completed his first collection, th...

Patrick Davidson Roberts and Poetry Dr. Fran Lock, hold an engaging and insightful discussion on the current state of poetry. A question tackled is the pondering of whether or not the world has the space and attention for poetry? Are the poets ready for action, or re-action against the big empathetic gesture and lyric? Clues may be found in Patrick's work including his release "The Mains". Fran an...

Jack Varnell, aka @emotionalorphan offers words of embarrassing self pity and lifelong remorse through metaphor, lies and distorted truths cleverly disguised as poems. Yay team. Redemption is coming. #huh #poetry #podcast

Social yet Distanced Co-Host Dr. Fran Lock reads some new #poetry while getting settled into new digs in the wilds of the UK... White Cliffs and all that jazz...

#Poet and Arizona #Homeless Advocate, Austin Davis and the Social yet Distanced talk about authoring "CELESTIAL NIGHT LIGHT"  and  His newest, "THE WORLD ISN'T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE" His website with links to works: https://msha.ke/austindavis/#about We had a nice chat about what works and what doesn't,  and the internal spirit to be compassionate.  Most importan...

Social Yet Distanced: An Evening with Poet and Performer, Rich Ferguson Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Moby, and other esteemed poets and musicians. Ferguson has been selected by the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. (NBPF), to serve as the State of California Beat Poet Laureate (Sept. 2020 to Sept. 2022). He is a featured perf...

The “Ipad in the bed” and the “myrrh has left the building.” Edition. This week we speak with the Goddess Poet of Los Angeles. Actress, writer, poet and poetry columnist for Cultural Weekly about her work, and most recent release . Enjoy...

Social yet Distanced with Daniel Wright on "Love Letters From The Underground”, his newest release with Spartan Press out March 20, 2021. AUTHOR BIO Daniel W. Wright is an award-nominated poet and fiction writer from St. Louis, MO. He most recently wrote the foreword for Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx(Dark Horse, 2021) and is the author of Love Letters from the Underground(Spartan Press, 202...

Social Yet Distanced : The "I Wish I Could Self-Censor, but It's Just Not For Me "Edition Fran Lock muses and bruises with Author and Poet: Golnoosh Nour Author: "Sorrows of the Sun" 2017 and "The Ministry of Guidance and other stories" 2021 Some Blurbs... 'A strong, original voice with unprecedented stories to tell' - Marina Warner 'The stories in this collection pulse with sensitivity and longin...

This week, we are incredibly jazzed at the time spent with the legendary Peadar O'Donoghue, talking about ten years of the magnificently anti-establishment word. We have many West Coast friends considered "Punk Hostages". Peadar is actually a hostage and has been since before it required a SAG card...OG...  Enjoy as Fran Lock and Peadar discuss all things publishing past and future. Preview s...

This week we are pleased to have spent a little time with accomplished American Poet, John Dorsey for some great poetry, a little discussion on theory and craft, and most importantly, pimping strong in the art game with the best intentions. No, we don't mean exploitation, we mean selling books via dive bars or the internet. The conclusion is that suitcases work best for international book sales. Y...

Social Yet Distanced: Random Ramblings Because the Feature No-Showed.  Today we provide a mixed bag of mixed up, with recordings of stories,  more dial a poems, and more. More like Butthol* Surfers, and Man Ray... Dial A Poems from UbuWeb and Yoko Ono include Ann Waldmaan, Heathcoate Williams, Frank O'Hara,  William S Burroughs words, and Ted Berrigan. For starters...

Social Yet Distanced: Hands Across The Water Episode. This week we welcome Al Hutchins UK Poet, Showman, Storyteller and more and Poet Patrick Davidson Roberts, who has a new book making waves, called "The Mains". We strive to share art from all around the world. Today we did really well... Get PatricksBook --You can buy The Mains from the Vanguard Editions website. Support this podcast and all we...

This week's episode welcomes Nadia Bruce Rawlings, Poet, Author. We speak about her latest book "Dancing In The Rain", from Punk Hostage Press. Of course, the airwaves will be filled with witty, useless banter on a mission of sharing words. That would be Jack Varnell's fault. See more from Nadia at nadiabrucerawlings.com More about Social Yet Distanced Podcast featuring Fran Lock and some yank nam...

The Social Yet Distanced is an Arts Collective. Our focus is on small press, small business, and all things art. Our platform is designed to carry us outside the norms many artists default to in the promotion of their work and the evangelism of art. We often find ourselves siloed into less than productive but established systems for furthering of the mission. As an example, many of my writer frien...