Sh*tty First Drafts

In this bonus episode of the podcast, we answer some questions posed by friends and listeners. We discuss writing techniques, routines, and pro-tips for getting started. We also attempt to tackle the age-old question: are you a Luna or an Earl?    Some names we drop and things we reference in this episode: Paige Lewis’ book Space Struck, Kaveh Akbar, Tiana Clark, Sharon Olds’ poem “Sex Without Love”, Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones”, Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, The Upside of Being Down, McWho: An American Podcast for McFly, Sliding Doors, Katie Culligan, Rax King, Sam Edmonds, Spotify’s Deep Focus playlist.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---   Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Jane tells us all about her tricks for drafting poems from fragments, how her cut/paste crew has overloaded gmail’s email thread capabilities, and fruit-based fashion. You can find Jane’s spider poem in print here and read “Dream of the Lopsided Crown” in its entirety at The Volta. You can also follow her other projects on her website and give her a follow on Instagram! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Shane jokes with Brynn and Stephanie about Kansas vs Missouri, writing his pieces backwards in his journals, and how a kid once flipped him off from a school bus window. Shane’s story “The Gospel According to Charlotte Atwater” can be found in Midwestern Gothic: Summer 2015 Issue 18. You can find more of Shane’s work online, most recently at Bull: Men’s Fiction.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Meg Zinky, joins Brynn and Stephanie to discuss the appeal of experiential theater, #adulting, horse camp, and avoiding the cringe-factor of call-in radio shows.  Listen for a discussion of tapenade by three people who have never eaten or even seen tapenade!  Know that we had to cut a 10-minute long discussion of American Girl Dolls and for that, we are deeply sorry. Check out Meg’s website for a one-stop shop to check out her work. You can also find her on Instagram.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

What do hip hop, Frank Miller Comics, and Jermiane Jackson all have in common? Our guest this episode: Black Atticus. We sing, we dance (in our chairs), we poem. It’s a goddamned delight! Have a listen and then tell all your friends!  Find Black Atticus on Twitter and Instagram. Check out his bandcamp to hear the original recording of “The Heartline” and “Security Systems”. Shoutouts to the Woods family, the journalers, the 5th Woman, Good Guy Collective, Daje, and all the folks Black Atticus loves.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Surprise! We have another super special BONUS episode for you as a New Year’s treat. This time, SFD host Stephanie is in the hot seat reading poems and talking about her obsessive high school journaling, her almost-career as a photojournalist, and how poetry became her side chick. Live, Laugh, LOVE MACHINE. Stephanie wants more followers on Twitter @stephaknees (and instagram!) and her work (fiction, this time!) can be found over at Entropy Magazine. PLEASE check out our fundraiser on Facebook and share it if you can! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

For this very special episode we interview our own Brynn Martin about her work and get to know ½ of the SFD hosts. We talk about the elementary school poetry unit that rocked her little world, how she was forever changed by LOTR (though she wasn’t allowed to watch it), and how writing poetry has always helped her work through her personal problems. Shoutout to our guest co-host for this episode, Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin, SFD episode 5)! Extra shoutouts to Mr. Carter, Emilia Phillips, and Barb Martin, who taught, mentored, and birthed Brynn, respectively.  You can follow Brynn on Twitter @brynnsie and find her poem, “My Mother’s Nipples” at Crab Orchard Review. You can read the original (yikes-y) Robert Hass poem at Michigan Quarterly Review. You can also read more of Brynn’s recent work at Five:2:One’s #thesideshow. Find our fundraiser on Facebook and share it if you can! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Do you want to know what irrational fears Brynn and Stephanie had as kids and/or which eyeshadow colors properly expressed a young Chloe Hanson’s rebellion from The Man? Listen to this episode! We also happen to discuss two of Chloe’s poems, and the different approach she has taken with her writing while working through her PhD dissertation.  You can follow Chloe on Twitter @mschanson. You can read her published poem, “Collected” on The Rumpus. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

CW: In this episode, suicide is mentioned and is part of the poem we discuss. Please don’t ruin your day for us. We’ll catch you on the next one! Krista Cox almost went to law school, but instead became a poet and came on our podcast. Thank goodness! We discuss spreadsheets, only writing poems when you’re sad, and how to be the chillest muthafucka.  Find Krista on her website and be sure to check out Doubleback Review!  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Join Stephanie and Brynn as they talk with writer Rax King! Rax tells us about her hot take on Times New Roman vs Garamond, the strangeness of Elon Musk, and what it was like to be a baby burnout in high school. Find Rax making jokes on Twitter at @RaxKingIsDead. You can read her poem “Things I can easily imagine Elon Musk doing” at Peach Mag. Buy Rax’s book!! Available from Ursus Americanus or from Rax herself! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Andrew talks with us about Terrence Hayes’ breathtaking presence, how growing up with a musician Dad inspired him to pursue poetry, and whether there’s such a thing as a perfect poem.  You can find Andrew on Twitter at @DillonAndrewP. You can read Andrew’s poem, “Apologia for Never Saying What I Mean” (and two others!), at Connotation Press.  The essay by Alicia Mountain that Stephanie mentions is here. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Katie discusses stanzas that stick out like sore thumbs, the importance of leaving work to sit for a time, and how a poem that was meant as an exercise and break from her usual writing got published at The New Yorker.Katie’s debut collection, Praying Naked, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press in 2020. The artwork for the cover is by Dorielle Caimi, whose work you can find here. Find Katie on her website katiecondonpoetry.com, on Instagram at @katiecondonhermes, and on Twitter at @katie2condon Find “Origin” on The New Yorker website.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Katie chats about her celebration that resulted in her receiving UT’s first ever yellow card in rowing, being a woman in #sports, and sneaking in to the Art Institute of Chicago every Thursday for two months. The painting that Katie references is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s “At the Moulin Rouge” (1895). Read more about it here. She mentions both Lorrie Moore and Rax King as writers who have influenced her work. You can find her at katieculliganwriting.com and follow her on twitter (@overcomplikate). Follow Stephanie (@stephaknees) and Brynn (@brynnsie) on Twitter and Instagram.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Erin talks to us about her 19-year old poem, the best liquor to drink to pre-game writing #sadpoems (hint: it’s whiskey), and how she basically discovered Lena Dunham. You can read Erin’s poem “Frieze” at Guernica Magazine https://www.guernicamag.com/frieze/. You can find her at http://www.sundresspublications.com/erin/ and follow her on twitter @sundresserin.    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Lance chats about online forums, being a 5w4 on the enneagram, punny baseball titles, and how a very real and very strange experience in the park made it into (and back out of) his short story.  You can read Lance’s story in print from Southern Indiana Review. You can follow him on Twitter and bug him about finishing his novel at @lancedyzak_.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

If you want to hear a good story or need a pep talk listen to this episode! Alyssa tells us how she started as a writer (hint: it involves tumblr and fanfic), the powerful influence of women of color in the poetry world, and how she will probably never stop learning. You can DM Alyssa memes on instagram @_alyssamolina   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Samantha Edmonds joins us to talk about being the best writer ever, sci-fi, and somehow not about her 14 pets! You can find out more about her (and be completely impressed by her publications) at samanthaedmonds.com. The story she read on the pod entitled "The Man and the Moon" can be found online at The Normal School. The story Sam mentions is "The Distance to the Moon" by Italio Calvino, and can be found around the web, including many recordings!   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Jeremy Michael Reed joins us to talk about having a secret blog in college, birds, and the “M” word. You can find Jeremy at jeremymichaelreed.com. His poem “Hand-Stitched” is at http://www.whaleroadreview.com/reed/. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Get a quick introduction to Brynn and Stephanie while we talk about why we wanted to start a podcast and our own experience with the sh*tty first draft.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.