Podcasts about how we came upon

With air-tight verse and talent for the surreal, Ross White invokes a sibling version of our world in his new collection How We Came Upon the Colony (Unicorn Press, 2014). By tilting our view slightly to the left, he allows us to ask necessary questions of the familiar. How entitled are we to our many geographic and spiritual colonies? Has our idea of Manifest Destiny merely shifted from Westward Expansion to industry in a world that has stretched far beyond “local” but retains the individuality loaned to us by Capitalism? Can history itself be colonized? These are the poems of a mind at work sorting out an individual and shared history. That White could contain such worlds in clean and steady lines, speaks to his mastery of craft. He seeks to illuminate rather than explain, and to offer possibilities rather than moral solutions. In proof that we should still sit in wonder at these strange real and imagined worlds, the reader is left with this final image: When there is no light, the farmer smokes his pipe and waits patiently to be possessed by hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With air-tight verse and talent for the surreal, Ross White invokes a sibling version of our world in his new collection How We Came Upon the Colony (Unicorn Press, 2014). By tilting our view slightly to the left, he allows us to ask necessary questions of the familiar. How entitled are we to our many geographic and spiritual colonies? Has our idea of Manifest Destiny merely shifted from Westward Expansion to industry in a world that has stretched far beyond “local” but retains the individuality loaned to us by Capitalism? Can history itself be colonized? These are the poems of a mind at work sorting out an individual and shared history. That White could contain such worlds in clean and steady lines, speaks to his mastery of craft. He seeks to illuminate rather than explain, and to offer possibilities rather than moral solutions. In proof that we should still sit in wonder at these strange real and imagined worlds, the reader is left with this final image: When there is no light, the farmer smokes his pipe and waits patiently to be possessed by hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poet Ross White reads from his new chapbook, “How We Came Upon the Colony” (Unicorn Press, 2014). The conversation travels from White’s imagined 14th colony of the New World to his foundation in imporv comedy.   Podcast Notes:   Ross White, Poet, Executive Director of Bull City Press: http://www.rosswhite.com/ •How We Came Upon the Colony by Ross White http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/White-How-We-Came-Upon-the-Colony.html   Awards from: Bull City Press, Durham, NC: http://bullcitypress.com/ Best New Poets: http://bestnewpoets.org/ Poetry Daily: http://poems.com/ The New England Review: http://www.nereview.com/ Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Ripton, VT: http://www.middlebury.edu/bread-loaf-conferences/bl_writers   DSI Theater, Improve Comedy, Chapel Hill, NC: http://www.dsicomedytheater.com/   Warren Wilson MFA Program and Faculty Supervisors: Website: http://www.wwcmfa.org/ C. Dale Young: http://www.cdaleyoung.com/ Mary Leader: https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/mary-leader Heather McHugh: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/heather-mchugh A. Van Jordan: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/van-jordan-0   Other mentioned poets: Michael McFee: http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/mcfeem Weldon Kees: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/weldon-kees Donald Justice: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/donald-justice W. S. Merwin: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-s-merwin W. H. Auden: http://audensociety.org/index.html   See also: The Grind Daily Writing Series: http://rosswhite.com/2012/04/08/how-napowrimo-inspired-the-grind/ tatestreet.org Three-Sentence Reviews: http://tatestreet.org/category/reviews/three-sentence-reviews/   Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning Produced by: tatestreet.org: http://tatestreet.org Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander: http://www.campusfive.com Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Email: mailto:writeus@tatestreet.org    

Executive Director, Ross White gives insight to the origins of Bull City Press, the micro-journal, Inch, the Frost Place Residency Chapbook Contest, and his fascinating biases for poetry submissions.   Ross says to writers: “Send your stuff. There’s no greater joy as an editor than opening a submission and thinking, ‘oh my god, that’s the one!’”   Ross White, Poet, Executive Director of Bull City Press http://www.rosswhite.com/ •How We Came Upon the Colony by Ross White http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/White-How-We-Came-Upon-the-Colony.html   Bull City Press, Durham, North Carolina http://www.bullcitypress.com/   Inch Magazine by Bull City Press http://bullcitypress.com/inch/ •Luke Hankins – “A Thought That’s Freeing” http://bullcitypress.com/inch/issues/ •Katherine DeBlassie – “Poema de Amor (14)” http://bullcitypress.com/inch/issues/   Frost Place Chapbook Competition Submission deadline: December 31st every year.http://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/frost-place-chapbook-competition/   The Frost Place, Franconia New Hampshirehttp://www.frostplace.org/   Produced by: Tate Street High Society http://tatestreet.org   Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexanderhttp://www.campusfive.com   Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Email: mailto:writeus@tatestreet.org