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    Episode 41: Joshua Clover and Megan Kaminski

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2014 52:55


    Episode 41 is a recording of a reading given by two phenomenal poets, Joshua Clover and Megan Kaminski, on April 16th, 2014, in Lawrence, Kansas, on the University of Kansas campus. Joshua Clover is the author of two books of poems, The Totality for Kids (University of California Press) and Madonna anno domini. Joshua writes the column Pop & Circumstance for The Nations, and teaches at the University of California Davis. Megan Kaminski is the author of Desiring Map (Coconut Books) and seven chapbooks of poetry, most recently Wintering Prairie (Dusie). Megan is an assistant professor of poetry writing at the University of Kansas, and she curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence, KS.

    Episode 40: Topeka Writers Workshop--Timothy Volpert

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2013 8:01


    After a long hiatus, I am going to upload several recordings together (Leah Sewell, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Melissa Sewell, Timothy Volpert, and me), as episodes of the podcast. Leah Sewell is a wonderfully talented poet, editor, and cook. She is an assistant editor at Coconut Books, and also runs the phenomenal Topeka Writers Workshop. I was honored to take part in the workshop last summer, and met many talented poets and writers in Topeka. These recordings were made at our final reading, at the end of last summer. Leah's book Birth in Storm was recently released from ELJ Publications, and I highly recommend it.

    Episode 39: Topeka Writers Workshop--Ben Cartwright

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2013 10:04


    After a long hiatus, I am going to upload several recordings together (Leah Sewell, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Melissa Sewell, and me), as episodes of the podcast. Leah Sewell is a phenomenally talented poet, editor, and cook. I am sure that these are only a few of her occupations, and that she has many others, also requiring super powers. She is an assistant editor at Coconut Book, and also runs the phenomenal Topeka Writers Workshop. I was honored to take part in the workshop last summer, and met many phenomenal poets and writers in Topeka. These recordings were made at our final reading, at the end of last summer. Leah's book Birth in Storm was recently released from ELJ Publications, and I highly recommend it.

    Episode 38: Topeka Writers Workshop--Melissa Sewell

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2013 5:33


    After a long hiatus, I am going to upload several recordings together (Leah Sewell, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Melissa Sewell, and me), as episodes of the podcast. Leah Sewell is a phenomenally talented poet, editor, and cook. I am sure that these are only a few of her occupations, and that she has many others, also requiring super powers. She is an assistant editor at Coconut Book, and also runs the phenomenal Topeka Writers Workshop. I was honored to take part in the workshop last summer, and met many phenomenal poets and writers in Topeka. These recordings were made at our final reading, at the end of last summer. Leah's book Birth in Storm was recently released from ELJ Publications, and I highly recommend it.

    Episode 37: Topeka Writers Workshop--C. Malcolm Ellsworth

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2013 11:22


    After a long hiatus, I am going to upload several recordings together (Leah Sewell, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Melissa Sewell, and me), as episodes of the podcast. Leah Sewell is a phenomenally talented poet, editor, and cook. I am sure that these are only a few of her occupations, and that she has many others, also requiring super powers. She is an assistant editor at Coconut Book, and also runs the phenomenal Topeka Writers Workshop. I was honored to take part in the workshop last summer, and met many phenomenal poets and writers in Topeka. These recordings were made at our final reading, at the end of last summer. Leah's book Birth in Storm was recently released from ELJ Publications, and I highly recommend it.

    Episode 36: Topeka Writers Workshop--Leah Sewell

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2013 11:12


    After a long hiatus, I am going to upload several recordings together (Leah Sewell, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Melissa Sewell, and me), as episodes of the podcast. Leah Sewell is a phenomenally talented poet, editor, and cook. I am sure that these are only a few of her occupations, and that she has many others, also requiring super powers. She is an assistant editor at Coconut Book, and also runs the phenomenal Topeka Writers Workshop. I was honored to take part in the workshop last summer, and met many phenomenal poets and writers in Topeka. These recordings were made at our final reading, at the end of last summer. Leah's book Birth in Storm was recently released from ELJ Publications, and I highly recommend it.

    Episode 35: Julianne Buchsbaum

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2012 18:57


    Julianne Buchsbaum won the 2011 National Poetry Series Award for her third book, The Apothecary’s Heir, which is forthcoming from Penguin in May, 2012.  Her other works include Slowly, Slowly, Horses from Ausable Press, and A Little Night Comes, from Web del Sol.  Her poems have also appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Verse, and the Denver Quarterly.  This episode of the Kansas Blotter podcast is a recording of Julie reading poems at the Raven bookstore on January 26th, 2011.  Poet Judith Roitman introduces Julie.

    Episode 34: Stanley Lombardo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2012 46:27


      Stanley Lombardo is well known for his gorgeous translations of classical poetry, including the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid.  He is a professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, and one of the founding members of the Kansas Zen Center.  This episode of the Kansas Blotter podcast is a recording of Mr. Lombardo reading sections of his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Raven bookstore, on April 26th, 2011.  Denise Lowe, former Kansas Poet Laureate, is the reader of Stan’s introduction.  Poet Kenneth Irby can be heard assuring Stan that “skanky” is still commonly used in the vernacular.

    033: "Personal Questions" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 2:40


    Episodes 25-33 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    032: "Why Did it Take" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 0:28


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    031: "How We Met" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 0:38


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    030: "Practical Concerns" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 1:09


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    029: "No Delicate Flowers or Wild Geese" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 1:06


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    028: "I'm No Martian" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 0:55


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    027: "Jill Made it With a Goat" by William J. Harris and two letters

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 3:05


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    026: "Bliss" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 0:31


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    025: "A Daddy Poem" by William J. Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 0:58


    Episodes 25-35 of the podcast are poems written by William J. Harris, recorded at a reading at the reading he gave at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

    024: "Verse Projection, A2" Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 1:52


    Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller. Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS. Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast: Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus. Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

    023: "Verse Projection, A1" Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 1:52


    Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller. Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS. Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast: Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus. Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

    022: "Terminal Dee" Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 1:03


    Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller. Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS. Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast: Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus. Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

    021: "At the Races, Cards & Labor" Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 0:34


    Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller. Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS. Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast: Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus. Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

    020: "Jack London" Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 1:38


    Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller. Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS. Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast: Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus. Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

    019: "50 Degrees & No Jacket" Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 0:51


    Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller. Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS. Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast: Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus. Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

    018: excerpts from Distraction Contra Diaspora by Creed Shepard

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2011 21:29


    Creed Shepard is a writer and resident of Lawrence, Kansas. He recently read poems from his forthcoming chapbook, Distraction Contra Diaspora, due in the spring of 2011.

    017 "Skeleton Coast, Namibia" by Molly MacKinnon

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2011 1:31


    Molly MacKinnon is a poet and resident of Lawrence, KS. Episodes 014-017 of the podcast are recordings of Molly reading her poems "Flying Over Greenland Upon the Death of Miloscz," "For Tadeusz Konwicki," "Countering Postmodernism: Topics for This Week's Poem," and "Skeleton Coast, Namibia." Molly teaches French for the University of Kansas. Her pronunciation of Polish words makes me jealous.

    016 "Countering Postmodernism: Topics for This Week's Poem" by Molly MacKinnon

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2011 1:33


    Molly MacKinnon is a poet and resident of Lawrence, KS. Episodes 014-017 of the podcast are recordings of Molly reading her poems "Flying Over Greenland Upon the Death of Miloscz," "For Tadeusz Konwicki," "Countering Postmodernism: Topics for This Week's Poem," and "Skeleton Coast, Namibia." Molly teaches French for the University of Kansas. Her pronunciation of Polish words makes me jealous.

    015 "For Tadeusz Konwicki" by Molly MacKinnon.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2011 1:25


    Molly MacKinnon is a poet and resident of Lawrence, KS. Episodes 014-017 of the podcast are recordings of Molly reading her poems "Flying Over Greenland Upon the Death of Miloscz," "For Tadeusz Konwicki," "Countering Postmodernism: Topics for This Week's Poem," and "Skeleton Coast, Namibia." Molly teaches French for the University of Kansas. Her pronunciation of Polish words makes me jealous.

    014 "Flying Over Greenland Upon the Death of Miloscz" by Molly MacKinnon.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2011 1:47


    Molly MacKinnon is a poet and resident of Lawrence, KS. Episodes 014-017 of the podcast are recordings of Molly reading her poems "Flying Over Greenland Upon the Death of Miloscz," "For Tadeusz Konwicki," "Countering Postmodernism: Topics for This Week's Poem," and "Skeleton Coast, Namibia." Molly teaches French for the University of Kansas. Her pronunciation of Polish words makes me jealous.

    013 from The Prairie Opens Wide and Because Everyone Doesn't Speak the Same Language by Megan Kaminski

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2011 6:20


    Megan Kaminski is the author of five chapbooks: carry catastrophe (Grey Book Press, 2010), Across Soft Ruins (Scantily Clad Press, 2009), collection (Dusie, forthcoming), Favored Daughter (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming) and The Prairie Opens Wide (La Ginestra, forthcoming). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, Third Coast and other fine journals. Online, her work can be found in No Tell Motel, Horse Less Review, Wicked Alice, Spine Road, Coconut and a number of other places. She lives in Lawrence, KS, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Kansas. For Episode 013 of the podcast Megan let me record her reading a number of selections from both The Prairie Opens Wide and Because Everyone Doesn't Speak the Same Language in her University of Kansas office. Her officemate, Adam Desnoyers, politely opened the office door and reached into the room, placing his coffee cup on a bookshelf before politely withdrawing his arm and closing the door again, while we were recording, so as not to disturb us.

    012 from Things Come On by Joseph Harrington

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2011 16:19


    Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On: (an amneoir) from Wesleyan University Press (2011), earth day suite from Beard of Bees Press (2010) and Poetry and the Public from Wesleyan (2002). Joe's work has appeared in Pinstripe Fedora, Hotel Amerika, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, With+Stand, Cricket Online Review, and P-Queue, amongst others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He also helps organize the BIG TENT reading series at the fantastic Raven Bookstore in Lawrence. Joe blogs at Blog of Myself. He graciously let me record him on February 10th, 2011, reading from Things Come On, for Episode 012 of the podcast.

    011 from THE ODICY by Cyrus Console

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2011 13:12


    Cyrus Console's first book of poetry, BRIEF UNDER WATER, was published by Burning Deck in 2008. Cyrus' second book, THE ODICY, is forthcoming from Omnidawn. Geoffrey G. O'Brien, in the Boston Review, says the following about Cyrus' poetry: Like Beckett, another saint of petering out and shutting up, Console gives us texts that go on by routinely confessing they cannot, conveying the insufficiency of word to thing (at best, its typo or tattoo), citizen to war, art to damaged life. Cyrus lives in Lawrence, KS. I recorded him at the table in my kitchen, and he was nice to my cats. Episode 10 is an excerpt from BRIEF UNDER WATER and episode 11 is an excerpt from THE ODICY. Cyrus' work has appeared in a number of places, including Octopus and Pax Americana. His book reviews have appeared in Jacket.

    010 from BRIEF UNDER WATER by Cyrus Console

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2011 7:50


    Cyrus Console's first book of poetry, BRIEF UNDER WATER, was published by Burning Deck in 2008. Cyrus' second book, THE ODICY, is forthcoming from Omnidawn. Geoffrey G. O'Brien, in the Boston Review, says the following about Cyrus' poetry: Like Beckett, another saint of petering out and shutting up, Console gives us texts that go on by routinely confessing they cannot, conveying the insufficiency of word to thing (at best, its typo or tattoo), citizen to war, art to damaged life. Cyrus lives in Lawrence, KS. I recorded him at the table in my kitchen, and he was nice to my cats. Episode 10 is an excerpt from BRIEF UNDER WATER and episode 11 is an excerpt from THE ODICY. Cyrus' work has appeared in a number of places, including Octopus and Pax Americana. His book reviews have appeared in Jacket.

    009 "A Friend on the Other Side" by Thad Haverkamp

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2011 2:46


    Thad Haverkamp is a poet and Lawrence, KS resident. He has worked in the past tending bar at Lawrence landmarks like the Replay Lounge and Liberty Hall. Episodes eight and nine of the podcast are recordings of Thad reading his poems "There is a Bird in Victoria Station" and "A Friend on the Other Side."

    008 "There is a Bird in Victoria Station" Thad Haverkamp

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2011 1:26


    Thad Haverkamp is a poet and Lawrence, KS resident. He has worked in the past tending bar at Lawrence landmarks like the Replay Lounge and Liberty Hall. Episodes eight and nine of the podcast are recordings of Thad reading his poems "There is a Bird in Victoria Station" and "A Friend on the Other Side."

    007 "My Father Often Told Me if I Didn't Learn Spanish He'd Disown Me" Gabriela Lemmons

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2010 2:16


    Gabriela Lemmons is a poet and a non-fiction writer. She is also a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective of Kansas City. Her work has appeared in the Kansas City Hispanic News, Present Magazine and the anthologies Just Like a Girl: A Menifesta! (Girlchild Press, 2008), Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland (Scapegoat Press, 2009) and Cuentos: Stories from the Latino Heartland (Scapegoat Press, 2009). She was also televised as the feature poet on the PBS show Uniquely Kansas City. Episodes six and seven are recordings of Gabriela reading her poems "My Original Sin" and "My Father Often Told Me if I Didn't Learn Spanish He'd Disown Me."

    006 "My Original Sin" Gabriela Lemmons

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2010 2:42


    Gabriela Lemmons is a poet and a non-fiction writer. She is also a founding member of the Latino Writers Collective of Kansas City. Her work has appeared in the Kansas City Hispanic News, Present Magazine and the anthologies Just Like a Girl: A Menifesta! (Girlchild Press, 2008), Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland (Scapegoat Press, 2009) and Cuentos: Stories from the Latino Heartland (Scapegoat Press, 2009). She was also televised as the feature poet on the PBS show Uniquely Kansas City. Episodes six and seven are recordings of Gabriela reading her poems "My Original Sin" and "My Father Often Told Me if I Didn't Learn Spanish He'd Disown Me."

    005 "If I Say" Mary Stone Dockery

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2010 1:05


    Mary Stone Dockery is a poet living in Lawrence, KS. She is also a current MFA student at the University of Kansas. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Touchstone, FuturCycle poetry and the Pennsylvania Literary Review. Mary was also a reader for The Blue Island Review, an anthology of poetry from Lawrence, KS area writers. The fifth episode of the podcast is a recording of Mary reading her poem "If I Say."

    004 "Frankenstein's Monster on Ice: Nothing in Intellect Unless First in Sense" Mark Hennessy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2010 1:30


    Mark Hennessy is a poet and former front man for the A&M band PAW who lives in Lawrence, KS. He is currently a student in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Kansas. He has two books of poetry out; Cue the Bedlam, and most recently, I Lost it All the Night the Day the Circus Came to Town. The third and fourth episodes of the podcast are recordings of Mark reading his poems "Frankenstein and the Late Frankenstein in the Sea" and "Frankenstein's Monster on Ice: Nothing in Intellect Unless First in Sense."

    003 "Frankenstein and the Late Frankenstein in the Sea" Mark Hennessy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2010 2:12


    Mark Hennessy is a poet and former front man for the A&M band PAW who lives in Lawrence, KS. He is currently a student in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Kansas. He has two books of poetry out; Cue the Bedlam, and most recently, I Lost it All the Night the Day the Circus Came to Town. The third and fourth episodes of the podcast are recordings of Mark reading his poems "Frankenstein and the Late Frankenstein in the Sea" and "Frankenstein's Monster on Ice: Nothing in Intellect Unless First in Sense."

    002 "Tennessee Flood" Mark Petterson

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2010 1:37


    This is a recording of the poem "Tennessee Flood" by Mark Petterson. Mark is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Lawrence, KS. He is a current student of the University of Kansas MFA program and a former Jeopardy contestant.

    001 Poet Kenneth Irby reads the first paragraph of Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2010 1:21


    This is an excerpt from a long, recorded conversation Kyle Waugh, poet Cyrus Console and I had with American poet Kenneth Irby.  Ken picked up a copy of the first volume of Rememberence of Lost Time by Marcel Proust at Kyle's apartment and read the first paragraph to us.  He has such a wonderful reading voice.

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