Marxist Poetry

Maged Zaher talks about his recent collected poems and The Consequences of My Body.

@killdads joins the podcast to talk about their book What About the Rest of Your Life. You can hear another podcast interview with sung on the waves breaking.

@HelloKommie comes on to talk about their chapbook Nuclear Shadows of Palm Trees and the new issue of Dryland

@likelykevin returns to talk about @grieve_land and their forthcoming book ZOETROPE

Mark Nowak discusses Social Poetics and the @WorkerWriters School

@upfromsumdirt is back! we talk about his new book Deifying a Total Darkness available from spd and gumroad.

@hologramvin talks about the poetry jam they organized, an essay they wrote about it, as well as the general state of publishing nowadays

ameen talks about his book BEAR WITNESS TO THAT WHICH IS and his music with THICK PAINT. We also talk about getting high, ted talks, and youtube comments.

@paulhansonclark comes on to discuss his publishing efforts, his book four statements, and the state of the vibes.

@YouKnowFargo returns to talk about his show My Father, My Martyr, and Me and Solmaz Sharif's LOOK. We also talked at length about Lake Michigan by Daniel Borzutzky, The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser, A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous, All This Burning Earth by Sean Bonney, White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad, and Excess - The Factory by Leslie Kaplan in the context of discussing LOOK. Book Fargo to perform in your town!

@ryaneckes comes on to talk about his book General Motors, SEPTA, unions, & neoliberalism.

wren cuidadx romero-gilhooly came on to talk about their two chapbooks, until i derailed them to talk about internet & sci-fi nazis, gamers, and pizza...

#NoTenderFences [available here] is "A community garden of poetry by immigrant and first-generation Americans to raise funds for RAICES-TEXAS." Two of the editors, Carla & Kim, join the podcast to discuss this community garden, the Kardashians, tenderness, and the staleness of poetry institutions. As always, you can follow the podcast @MarxistPoetry & the music is by @BigProsody.

Trying to find a poem in Ernesto Cardenal's Zero Hour ASMR

New episode with @__eaeolian! We talk about her book Body of Work [aus / usa] as well as Australian memes, witches, and anti-capitalism (of course).

@matt_mitchell48 joins the podcast! We talked about Jon Bois's 17776 and Matt's Ode to Football as well as several of his other poems you can find here! Sports!

@Stolenpaper comes on to talk uh... stealing paper to print chapbooks. And more!

Jonathan Schoenfelder joins the podcast to talk about his chapbook Branch Life (available for free! Read it!). We also talk about the time Zojirushi wished him a happy birthday.

@KJPGarcia joins the podcast to talk about xyr notvel OF: What Place Meant. Support Kenning on Patreon & check out xyr memes on Instagram! As always, the music is by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry.   

@achenesense returns! You can support Isobel's work on Patreon & you can support Isobel's Trans Literature Archive @translitarchive on Venmo and Paypal. Do it!

Wendy @prolpo returns to the podcast to talk about her book Cruel Fictions, and I actually ask her about it this time! We also talked a bit about the bibliography from Brazilian Is Not A Race [free] as well as Uyen Hua's a/s/l available for free here.Music by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

Official Australian correspondent @woketren is back to talk about Iranian Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani's book of prose, poetry, & theory No Friend but the Mountains. Boochani has been detained indefinitely on Manus Island by the Australian government; this book chronicles his time there.

@upfromsumdirt returns to talk about his chapbook The Time Unraveller’s Travel Journal with Sankofa Paradox and much much more.

@indeterminator comes on the podcast to talk about his poems, the Twin Cities, and uh capitalism

@zaharaesque joins the podcast! We begin by talking about this poem by Namdeo Dhasal. Then, we talk about Scherezade's essay in Queen Mobs.  

@YouKnowFargo is here! We talk about Fargo's poems for paintbucket as well as Augusto Boal, Mahmoud Darwish, & Frank O'Hara.

@barnonepoems comes on to talk about the important questions: is religion good or bad? are the end times near? will restaurants exist after the revolution?

@upfromsumdirt joins to talk about his poetry collections Caul & Response and Tangerine Tubman. You can read more about his work here and see some of his visual art there as well. As always, the theme music is by @BigProsody. You can follow us @MarxistPoetry.

New Episode! With @steals_valor! We talk about the Little Red Songbook & the IWW's One Big Songbook project. Intro music by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

@Mathildork returns to talk about her podcast @prolesound & her translation of Ernst Toller's Poems of the Imprisoned The music is by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

@divwhine joins the podcast to talk about their poem that appeared in paintbucket & the rise of global fascism.The theme music is by @BigProsody. You can follow this podcast @MarxistPoetry

New episode! With Wendy Trevino! We talk about how she came to the San Francisco poetry scene and her poetry with Commune Editions. You can read her chapbook for free here & you can buy her book Cruel Fictions here.The intro music I usually play but can't today because the file is on another computer is by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

@KMCascia returns! First returning guest! KM talks about an essay they wrote on the poetry of Mario Santiago, the infrarealists, and Roberto Bolaño. You can read some of Mario Santiago's poems here. We also discussed this book by Mario: Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic.

Dominick Knowles joins the podcast to talk about George Oppen, modernism, and marxist poetry past & present. You can read @pastelcathedral's article on George Oppen here. You can read three of their poems here. We also talked a lot about two books: Red Modernism by Mark Steven and the Zukofsky Era by Ruth Jennison. We also talked about this article by Margaret Ronda. As always the music is by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

The host of the Waves Breaking Podcast, Avren Keating, joins us to talk about podcasting poetry!Music by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry.

@LikelyKevin joins us to talk about the journal @brnhsjournal, his poetry, and free speech. Music is by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

@mathildork joins the podcast to talk about her YouTube channel and this video! As always, the music is by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

James @BigProsody joins the podcast! The guy who does the theme music for this podcast and paintbucket.page and edits the poetry for Protean and a lot of other stuff!Follow this podcast @MarxistPoetry

CW: We talked about alt lit and its predatory nature for a few minutes. We also discussed the racism in Australia at length.@WokeTren joins us to talk politics & poetry AustraliaThe theme music (that I remembered to add this time) is by @BigProsody. Follow this podcast @MarxistPoetry

Jordan Davis talks about his book Shell Game! And the land of contrasts that is publishing!You can follow Jordan @JordanDavisPoet and purchase his book at aerialedge.com.As always, the intro music is by @BigProsody & you can find out more about this podcast @MarxistPoetry

It's the Marxist Poetry Podcast! Please check out Isobel Bess's writing and follow her on Twitter!Music by James @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry

@KMCascia, author of the manifesto Towards an Antifascist Poetry War, and @creepingmraxist denounce fascist poets, liberal poets, and the institutions that support them.