The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

On this week's show, I talk poetry with Brittany Perham! NOTES Check out my interview with Brittany Perham's chapbook collaborator, Kim Addonizio . RIP, Jerry Pournelle and J. P. Donleavy.

On this week's show, I have a fun conversation with the journalist, surfer, and Buddhist Jaimal Yogis about the provisionality of our knowledge, philosophy, zen, surfing, writing, avoiding preciousness, and the lunacy of the ego.     NOTES Please consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey's indiegogo fundraiser  here .  

Episode 276 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on  iTunes , or right click  here  to download. On this week's show, I speak with the poet Tina Giannoukos about the glorious visibility and flexibility of sonnets, plus Sabrina Napolitano writes about how reading Michael Chabon's  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay  changed her li...

In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Rainer Maria Rilke's famous Letters to a Young Poet, plus we pay homage to Rilke's poetry with readings by Craig Moreau, Hyejung Kook, David Foley, Jason Morris, David Mcloughlin, and Amy Hosig.

Kristen Arnett & Lisa Roney at Litlando 2017, at The Gallery at Avalon Island. NOTES Consider donating to The Drunken Odyssey's indiegogo fundraiser  here . Learn more about the nonprofit Page 15 here . Follow Kristen Arnett on twitter here , or check out her website . Check out The Florida Review here . Go here for details on the 60th anniversary party for  On the Road at the Kerouac House. Go he...

On this week's show, I catch up with Jason Croft about the continuing evolution of pin up and burly-q culture, Bunny Yeager's legacy, the awesomeness of Medusirena, writing for pulp magazines, the joys and struggles of editorship, and the 10th anniversary of  Bachelor Pad Magazine , where some of my work has been published. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you can contribute to my indiegogo fundraiser, pl...

On this week's show, I talk to the poet and memoirist Henry Hughes about how to get over rejection, poetry, the freedom of ekphrastic work, memoirs, and fishing, Plus Todd Boss reads his poem, "One of the Joys of Dry Fly Fishing."        

I n this week's episode, I curate more blues music that has sustained me in this summer of working too hard.

I n this week's episode, I talk with Curtis X. Meyer and Caleb Zachary Matthews about the Slam Nationals that Team Orlando will be attending, the upsides and downsides of Slam Poetry, plus they perform their work! Caleb Zachary Matthews, Raquel Henry, John King, and Curtis Meyer.   NOTES Help send Sherdes Leona, Caleb Zachary Matthews, Faith Elizabeth, Curtis X. Meyer, & Kira Calvaresi to the Slam...

I n this week's episode, I talk with  Vanessa Blakeslee about Robert Paul Lamb's Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story . Five years in, TDO finally devotes a show to Hemingway, and Bob's discussion of Hemingway's craft is profoundly illuminating to how effectively extraordinary Hemingway's aesthetics were. I somehow manage not to tell the story how in my Purdue...

On this week's show, I talk to the poet and novelist Kathleen Rooney about the flaneur as geographic narrator of imaginative space, the aesthetic pleasures of walking, writing about New York City, the value of elderly characters, the dramatic provocations of history, and the structure of the novel of memory. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetr...

On this week's show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we discuss the stressors of theme park-going, the uses of such postmodern settings, and the odd counterbalances of melodrama and dark satire in Stanley Elkin's  The Magic Kingdom . TEXTS DISCUSSED

On this week's show, I talk to fiction writer, Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017. NOTES Shasta's chapbook is now available from Split Lip Press . On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer's Atelier . On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House .    

On this week's show, I talk to Todd Boss, whose new book, Tough Luck, includes a poem sequence inspired by the disaster of the I-35W Bridge's collapse in Minneapolis, plus Malcolm Kelly reads his poem, "Visual Vignettes of Some Gay Shit." TEXT DISCUSSED

I n this week's episode, I talk with  Vanessa Blakeslee  about Jhumpa Lahiri's experiment in becoming an Italian writer,  In Other Words.  

On this week's show, I talk to Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas D'Allesandro about their production of  Urinetown . NOTES Follow the Annie Russel theatre  here . Check out  Episode 119  for Sam Slaughter's essay about Denis Johnson.

David James Poissant reads his keynote at Litlando, from February 25th, 2017! TEXTS DISCUSSED

Episode 261, I interview the prose writer Sarah Gerard about her essay collection, Sunshine State, and her novel, Binary Star.

260 shows equals a fifth anniversary, I've decided, so it was a pleasure to talk to someone who was here at the very beginning. Jaroslav Kalfař was my occasional co-host to talk about craft books, during those last days of his being an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida. Five years, one MFA, and one novel later, Jaroslav is an international literary phenomenon. We try to catch up a...

On Episode #258, I am joined by Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Tod Caviness, and Kevin Hutchinson to talk about  Star Wars  in honor of May the 4th. We talk about the questionable genius of George Lucas, the role of Disney in anticipating the needs and desires of the SW audience, the imposition of romance in war narratives, and the profound role of play in our development of self. A...

  In this week's episode, I talk with  Vanessa Blakeslee  about Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds and  The Handmaid's Tale .  

In this week's episode, I shut up and let Ephraim Scott Sommers, Vanessa Blakeslee, and David James Poissant discuss how to get published in lit mags, plus Tiffany Fussell discusses how  The Secret Garden  changed her life.  

In this week's episode, I talk to fiction writer Holly Tavel about the urge to experiment in fiction, the need to subvert grand narratives, and the joys of the avant-garde and children's schlock and obsessions of all kinds, Plus I chat with Michael Martin about the fascinating ways poetry finds itself entering Miami during the month of April. Photo by  Gesi Schilling . TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn...

On this week's show,  David James Puissant  and I offer words of advice for new writers and answer some of their questions, in the equivalent of our 8th mailbag episode, almost 2 years after the 7th... plus Ramona Pojoga writes about a book that changed her life!