The Dynamo Verlag Podcast

We recently released Jason Bargueño 's uncategorizable, strange, and lovely short story collection, ⁠ STUCCO HYMNS ⁠ in the final weeks of 2025. I sat down with Jason and we talked all things writing, inspiration, life, and publication, and he read a couple selections from his book. Enjoy!

We got a chance to chat with the exceptionally unique and unique-voiced poet Patrick Culliton, whose playful and enigmatic similies have been a favorite of mine for years.

On this episode we talk to Andrew Squitiro, poet and essayist whose collection LOCAL WEATHER will be released at AWP Kansas City in just a couple weeks' time.

On this episode I chatted with Alleliah Nuguid, whose awesome poetry collection A HUMAN MOON (Dynamo Verlag 2024, forthcoming) won our Book Prize for 2022. We talk about her education, inspirations, background, and the genesis of her award-winning debut collection, A HUMAN MOON!

On this episode I got to chat with poet Maud Kelly and artist Megan McGinley, whose collaborative book, Descent: Your Guide to the Underworld is available from Three Planes Publishing . Maud Kelly is a poet, essayist, and stage-4 cancer survivor. Megan McGinley, co-owner of the PDX design and creative studio Central Office,  is an artist and designer with extensive experience in printmaking.&...

Jess L Parker 's debut poetry collection STAR THINGS won the Dynamo Verlag Book Prize 2020 and is forthcoming this autumn.  I got a chance to talk to Jess about her poetry, her influences and education, how she put together her prize-winning collection of poetry, STAR THINGS, and at the end of the episode she reads some of the excellent poems from the book. 

Logan Garrity is the cowriter and director of Pool Party '15 , which was released early last year.  Making a movie is no small feat; I would imagine all of us have, at some point, imagined writing/directing/shooting/producing/releasing a movie. Logan and I talk about what it takes to actually bring a film to life, and what it can cost. In the end, we are all of us creators, big and small, and...

Dennis Hinrichsen 's recent book, THIS IS WHERE I LIVE I HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO , which won the 2020 Off the Grid prize, came out last Autumn on Grid Books . The author of many collections of poetry, Dennis has taught literature for many years and was, from 2017-2019, Lansing, Michigan's poet laureate . Full disclosure: he's also my uncle. 

Michael Alessi is the author of the forthcoming CALL A BODY HOME, a flash fiction collection which will be published by Mason Jar Press in January 2021.  Michael is also the author of the chapbook THE HORRIBLES (Greying Ghost). His work has appeared in Ninth Letter , Passages North ,   The Pinch , Mid-American Review , The Cincinnati Review and other  journals, and he has earned rec...

Poet and writer makalani bandele 's most recent book, Under the Aegis of a Winged Mind , won the Autumn House Poetry Prize in 2019 and will be published in September 2020. 

Michael Nye is a writer and a longtime literary editor whose recently collection, Until We Have Faces , was published by Turner in July 2020. 

Amanda Galvan Huynh is a poet and educator whose debut collection, Songs of Brujeria , was published by Big Lucks Books in 2019.

Matt Sadler is a poet and writer whose book, THE MUCH LOVE SAD DAWG TRIO , was published by Dynamo Verlag in 2018. 

Kristine Zeigler is a writer and an environmental conservationist. Her book, COVER THIS COUNTRY LIKE SNOW , was published by Pupfish Press in 2018. 

Josh Norman is a poet and a writer. His book, TELESCOPES AND OTHER PEOPLE , was Dynamo Verlag 's debut title, way back in 2016. 

Lucian Mattison is a poet and a writer. He has published two books, PEREGRINE NATION , with Dynamo Verlag , and REAPER'S MILONGA , with YesYes Books.