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Joseph Kerschbaum's most recent publications include Mirror Box published in 2020 by Main St Rag Press and Distant Shores of a Split Second published in 2018 by Louisiana Literature Press. His work has appeared in Reunion: The Dallas Review, Hamilton Stone Review, The Inflectionist Review, Main Street Rag, In Parentheses, and Umbrella Factory. Joseph lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his family.Joseph reads "Years to Burn," "Weed Garden," "Detasseling," and "Now that we have nowhere to hide."
The Blacktide ep.743 Lee Clark Zumpe, an entertainment editor and movie reviewer with Tampa Bay Newspapers, earned his degree in English at the University of South Florida. His poetry and fiction has appeared various publications, such as Tiferet, Zillah, Weird Tales, Modern Drunkard Magazine, and Main Street Rag. Lee lives in Florida with his wife and daughter. More TTTV Stories by Lee Clark Zumpe: https://talltaletv.com/tag/lee-clark-zumpe/ ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- About Tall Tale TV ---- Hi there! My name is Chris Herron and I'm an audiobook narrator. In 2015, I suffered from poor Type 1 diabetes control which lead me to become legally blind for almost a year. The doctors didn't give me much hope, predicting an 80% chance that I would never see again. But I refused to give up and changed my lifestyle drastically. Through sheer willpower (and an amazing eye surgeon) I beat the odds and regained my vision. During that difficult time, I couldn't read or write, which was devastating as they had always been a source of comfort for me since childhood. However, my wife took me to the local library where she read out the titles of audiobooks to me. I selected some of my favorite books, such as the Disc World series, Name of the Wind, Harry Potter, and more, and the audiobooks brought these stories to life in a way I had never experienced before. They helped me through the darkest period of my life and I fell in love with audiobooks. Once I regained my vision, I decided to pursue a career as an audiobook narrator instead of a writer. That's why I created Tall Tale TV, to support aspiring authors in the writing communities that I had grown to love before my ordeal. My goal was to help them promote their work by providing a promotional audio short story that showcases their writing skills to readers. They say the strongest form of advertising is word of mouth, so I offer a platform for readers to share these videos and help spread the word about these talented writers. Please consider sharing these stories with your friends and family to support these amazing authors. Thank you! ---- legal ---- All stories on Tall Tale TV have been submitted in accordance with the terms of service provided on http://www.talltaletv.com or obtained with permission by the author. All images used on Tall Tale TV are either original or Royalty and Attribution free. Most stock images used are provided by http://www.pixabay.com , https://www.canstockphoto.com/ or created using AI. Image attribution will be declared only when required by the copyright owner. Common Affiliates are: Amazon, Smashwords
In this episode, Matthew Fiander joins the Rock is Lit Season 4 Reading Series to discuss and read from his debut novel, ‘Ringing in Your Ears'. Set in a Boston suburb during the early ‘90s, the story follows Louise “Blue” Cleary as she navigates the emotional aftermath of her sister Christine's mysterious death. Already struggling to fit in as a girl barred from playing baseball and an umpire facing hostility from local parents, Blue's grief sends her on a journey to uncover truths about her sister—and herself. With Christine's cassette tapes as clues, Blue's search reveals buried secrets about her family and the dark underbelly of their seemingly idyllic town. Matthew Fiander's fiction has appeared in ‘Story Magazine', ‘Mid-American Review', ‘Zone 3', ‘Willow Springs', ‘The Massachusetts Review', ‘Southern Indiana Review', ‘South Carolina Review', ‘Reckon Review', and elsewhere. He has also written for ‘The New York Times', PopMatters, and other outlets. His debut novel, ‘Ringing in Your Ears', was published by Main Street Rag. Fiander currently lives and works in North Carolina. MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Rock is Lit theme music [Guitar Instrumental Beat] Sad Rock [Free Use Music] Punch Deck—“I Can't Stop” Buffalo Tom “Taillights Fade” Pearl Jam “Once” Nirvana “All Apologies” [Guitar Instrumental Beat] Sad Rock [Free Use Music] Punch Deck—“I Can't Stop” Rock is Lit theme music LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Matthew Fiander on Facebook: @MatthewFiander Matthew Fiander on Twitter: @mattfiander Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislit Christy Alexander Hallberg on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Rock is Lit on Instagram: @rockislitpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
– I began to pass little crosses made of sticks and string.It was fully dark outside now, a blackness unrelieved by any shaft of human-created light.Suzanne Adams has been an actor, director, teacher, and archenemy of Mountain Pine Beetles in the Rockies. She didn't take writing semi-seriously until moving to Charlotte, in this “writingest state.” Her stories have won a few prizes in literary contests and have been published in Litmosphere, Main Street Rag, Memoirs Ink, and Minerva Rising. She is an enthusiastic member of Charlotte Writers Club, Charlotte Lit and North Carolina Writers Network, and is delighted to be included in this anthology.
Thom Francis welcomes poets James H Duncan and Melissa Anderson who shared their work at a special reading at the Art Associates Gallery in Albany on October 27, 2022. --- This coming Saturday, the Hudson Valley Writers Guild is teaming up with online literary journals Hobo Camp Review and Trailer Park Quarterly for a poetry reading featuring Steven Minchin, Melissa Anderson, Bunkong Tuon, Tony Gloeggler, Erin Lynn, and James H Duncan at MoJo's Cafe and Gallery in downtown Troy. Today we are going hear from two of those poets who shared their work at the Art Associates Gallery in Albany in October 2022 First up is James H Duncan with a “true story about the ghost in the guest room closet," & another Halloween tale titled “October 31.” James Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review, a former editor with Writers Digest, and the author of Vacancy, Both Ways Home, and We Are All Terminal But This Exit Is Mine, among other books of poetry and fiction. He also reviews independent bookstores on his blog The Bookshop Hunter, and resides in Albany, NY. And then, Melissa Anderson reads a piece titled “The Snake, or the Dream of the Werewolf” a meditation on tragedy. Melissa Anderson is a writer, artist, and craftsman. Now a furniture maker by trade, she has worked variously in theater, the fine arts, and leather production, all of which influence her poetry. Like the constellations, she sees poems as navigational, both records Of the past and maps forward to the future. Her poetry explores the beauty in the banal and how the things we make help define who we are and the places we call home. She has been published in Cathexis Northwest Press and performs as a member of Slam Euphoria. Dogstar Poems, from Main Street Rag, is her first published collection.
Mary Alice Dixon is a Pushcart nominee, award-winning poet and former finalist for the NC Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award. Her writing is in five PSPP anthologies, in Braided Way, County Lines, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, Pinesong, and elsewhere. Her poetry will appear on NC Poetry Society posters in 2024. Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, NC where she teaches a Hospice Grief Writing Workshop for the bereaved. Her course includes found poems, tears, laughter, peppermint candy and plenty of blueberry scones. She also collects old stories and loves old hats.
Welcome to Chapter 59!My guest is author and poet, Paul Juhasz. A graduate of the Red Earth M.F.A., Paul's work has appeared in several literary journals, most recently Concho River Review, Poetry Quarterly, Oklahoma Review and Main Street Rag. He has served as curator and coordinator of the Woody Guthrie Poets since 2020. He has four books, including his most recent - As If Place Matters - a collection of short fiction. In our conversation we talk about all of Paul's work across genres and forms and his approach to connecting his lived experiences to his writing. We also get into how he unravels problems in his writing. This is a great conversation for readers and writers alike with some important things to say about how our history informs what we create. Quick content note: We talk about coping with childhood trauma and self-harm so please be aware of that content going into the conversation. Connect with Paul: Instagram | FacebookPaul's Books:Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse PickerRoninThe Inner Life of ComicsAs If Place Matters Mentioned on the show:Running with Scissors - Augusten BurroughsJoseph ConradLou Berney Jeannetta Calhoun MishLetters to Wendy's - Joe WenderothFine Dog Press TC BoyleCormac McCarthyDave EggersHamlet - William ShakespeareNo Country for Old Men - Corman McCarthyConnect with J: website | Twitter | Instagram | FacebookShop the Bookcast on Bookshop.orgMusic by JuliusH
Karen Sleeth lives in Durham, North Carolina. She is a member of the North Carolina Writers Network and the Renegade Writers Group. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Main Street Rag, Potato Soup Journal, 2022 Best of Potato Soup Journal, Café Lit Magazine, and others. Currently she is attending Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. She will complete an MFA in Creative Writing in May of 2023.
The Great Hall of Ahkurst ep.623 The old world may be forgotten, but it is not gone. Lee Clark Zumpe, an entertainment columnist with Tampa Bay Newspapers, earned his bachelor's in English at the University of South Florida. He began writing poetry and fiction in the early 1990s. His work has regularly appeared in a variety of literary journals and genre magazines over the last two decades. Publication credits include Tiferet, Zillah, The Ugly Tree, Modern Drunkard Magazine, Red Owl, Jones Av., Main Street Rag, Space & Time, Mythic Delirium and Weird Tales. Lee lives on the west coast of Florida with his wife and daughter. More TTTV stories by Lee Clark Zumpe https://talltaletv.com/tag/lee-clark-zumpe/ ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- About Tall Tale TV ---- Hi there! My name is Chris Herron and I'm an audiobook narrator. In 2015, I suffered from poor Type 1 diabetes control which lead me to become legally blind for almost a year. The doctors didn't give me much hope, predicting an 80% chance that I would never see again. But I refused to give up and changed my lifestyle drastically. Through sheer willpower (and an amazing eye surgeon) I beat the odds and regained my vision. During that difficult time, I couldn't read or write, which was devastating as they had always been a source of comfort for me since childhood. However, my wife took me to the local library where she read out the titles of audiobooks to me. I selected some of my favorite books, such as the Disc World series, Name of the Wind, Harry Potter, and more, and the audiobooks brought these stories to life in a way I had never experienced before. They helped me through the darkest period of my life and I fell in love with audiobooks. Once I regained my vision, I decided to pursue a career as an audiobook narrator instead of a writer. That's why I created Tall Tale TV, to support aspiring authors in the writing communities that I had grown to love before my ordeal. My goal was to help them promote their work by providing a promotional audio short story that showcases their writing skills to readers. They say the strongest form of advertising is word of mouth, so I offer a platform for readers to share these videos and help spread the word about these talented writers. Please consider sharing these stories with your friends and family to support these amazing authors. Thank you! ---- legal ---- All stories on Tall Tale TV have been submitted in accordance with the terms of service provided on http://www.talltaletv.com or obtained with permission by the author. All images used on Tall Tale TV are either original or Royalty and Attribution free. Most stock images used are provided by http://www.pixabay.com , https://www.canstockphoto.com/ or created using AI. Image attribution will be declared only when required by the copyright owner. Common Affiliates are: Amazon, Smashwords
Season 3, Episode 1, features poet Denton Loving. He is the author of two poetry collections, Crimes Against Birds, published by Main Street Rag in 2014, and his new book, Tamp, published by Mercer University Press earlier this year. Set in Appalachia,Tamp's central theme focuses on the grief and sense of loss that followed the death of Loving's father. He also explores ancestry, religion, and our interactions with both the natural and dream worlds. Loving's work has appeared in River Styx, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Chattahoochee Review among other journals. He earned his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has received scholarships and fellowships from organizations such as the Eckerd College Writers Conference and the Key West Literary Seminars. For over a decade, he co-directed the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University where he also co-edited drafthorse: the literary journal of work and no work. He's also a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. Loving reads "The Fence Builder," "Genealogy," "A Love Poem about an Exploding Cow," "Hag Stone, Hex Stone, Holy Stone," and "There is a barn." Host: Davin Malasarn. Music by Joe Rivers. Artwork by Ayumi Takahashi. The Artist's Statement is brought to you by The Granum Foundation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-artists-statement/message
Regina YC Garcia is a Poet, Language Artist, and English Professor from Greenville, NC. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill (BA) and East Carolina University (MAEd) with a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature, her work has appeared in a variety of journals,reviews,and anthologies, to include The AutoEthnographer, the South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, New Note Poetry, The Amistad, The Main Street Rag, The Book of Black, Black and…, and numerous others. Her work has also been featured in a Mid-South Emmy Award winning episode of PBS' Muse featuring "The Black Light Project" (UNC TV), as well as the Sacred Nine Project of Tulane University. She is the author of The Firetalker's Daughter published by Finishing Line Press in March 2023. Firetalker's Daughter https://a.co/d/9SoA1E9 https://www.profesoragina.com https://twitter.com/profesoragina?t=7YMF2ZnGrCjmDr7Q2taAMA&s=09 https://www.facebook.com/regina.y.garcia?mibextid=ZbWKwL https://www.linkedin.com/in/regina-garcia-126370b
Mary Alice Dixon lives in Charlotte, NC, where she is a hospice volunteer, former professor, and happy member of Charlotte Writers Club and Charlotte Lit. She is a Pushcart nominee, Pinesong Award winner, Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry finalist, and LIT/south fiction finalist. Her work appears in the PSPP anthologies That Southern Thing, Trouble, and Curious Stuff and is in, or forthcoming from, Amethyst Review, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, moonShine review, Mythic Circle and elsewhere. Mary Alice collects hats, mysteries, and houseplants.
Eric Stiefel lives in Athens, Ohio with his dog, Violet. He is a PhD candidate at Ohio University, where he teaches poetry and composition . He received the Sequestrum New Writer Award for Poetry in 2018, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Penn Review Prize, and others. He earned his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and his undergraduate degree from NYU. His first collection, Hello Nothingness, was published by Main Street Rag in 2022, and his work has been published in journals across the globe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support
Kudzu salesman James T. Cullowee arrives in Cooper County, North Carolina in the spring of 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu. It can apparently feed cattle, improve soil, grow with no effort, be turned into jam, and cure headaches. Mattie Lee Watson is struck from the moment she sees Mr. Cullowee, and dreams of both becoming Cooper County Kudzu Queen and strolling on the Kudzu King's arm. But Mattie's best friend is faced with calamity, Mr. Cullowee seems to be as sneaky and destructive as kudzu, and Mattie realizes that she's the only one who can fix the mess. Mimi Herman's The Kudzu Queen (Regal House, 2023) is a gripping coming-of-age story about family, trust, race relations, and friendship in the face of divisiveness, alcoholism, mean girls, prejudice, and evil. Mimi Herman is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and director of the United Arts Council Arts Integration Institute. She has taught in the Master of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the 2017 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate, and been an associate editor for Teaching Artist Journal. Since 1990, she has engaged over 25,000 students and teachers with her warm and intuitive teaching style. Mimi holds a BA from the University of North Carolina and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson. She is the author of A Field Guide to Human Emotions, Logophilia and The Art of Learning. Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, The Hollins Critic, Main Street Rag, Prime Number Magazine and other journals. Mimi has performed her fiction and poetry at many venues including Why There Are Words in Sausalito, Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh and Symphony Space in New York City. When she's not writing, Mimi codirects Writeaways writing workshops at a chateau in France, a villa in Italy, an adobe in New Mexico and a manor house in Ireland--and does her own plumbing and carpentry work on her almost hundred-year-old house. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Kudzu salesman James T. Cullowee arrives in Cooper County, North Carolina in the spring of 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu. It can apparently feed cattle, improve soil, grow with no effort, be turned into jam, and cure headaches. Mattie Lee Watson is struck from the moment she sees Mr. Cullowee, and dreams of both becoming Cooper County Kudzu Queen and strolling on the Kudzu King's arm. But Mattie's best friend is faced with calamity, Mr. Cullowee seems to be as sneaky and destructive as kudzu, and Mattie realizes that she's the only one who can fix the mess. Mimi Herman's The Kudzu Queen (Regal House, 2023) is a gripping coming-of-age story about family, trust, race relations, and friendship in the face of divisiveness, alcoholism, mean girls, prejudice, and evil. Mimi Herman is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and director of the United Arts Council Arts Integration Institute. She has taught in the Master of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the 2017 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate, and been an associate editor for Teaching Artist Journal. Since 1990, she has engaged over 25,000 students and teachers with her warm and intuitive teaching style. Mimi holds a BA from the University of North Carolina and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson. She is the author of A Field Guide to Human Emotions, Logophilia and The Art of Learning. Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, The Hollins Critic, Main Street Rag, Prime Number Magazine and other journals. Mimi has performed her fiction and poetry at many venues including Why There Are Words in Sausalito, Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh and Symphony Space in New York City. When she's not writing, Mimi codirects Writeaways writing workshops at a chateau in France, a villa in Italy, an adobe in New Mexico and a manor house in Ireland--and does her own plumbing and carpentry work on her almost hundred-year-old house. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature
Mary Alice Dixon lives in Charlotte, NC, where she is a hospice volunteer, former professor, and happy member of Charlotte Writers Club and Charlotte Lit. She is a Pushcart nominee, Pinesong Award winner, Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry finalist, and LIT/south fiction finalist. Her work appears in the PSPP anthologies That Southern Thing, Trouble, and Curious Stuff and is in, or forthcoming from, Amethyst Review, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, moonShine review, Mythic Circle and elsewhere. Mary Alice collects hats, mysteries, and houseplants.
Kathleen Hellen reads her poem, "compass my eyes to speed of light," and Marda Messick reads her poems, "Spiritual Exercise" and "Beachfront Prophecy," from our Summer 2022 issue. Kathleen Hellen's collection meet me at the bottom is forthcoming in Fall 2022 from Main Street Rag. Her credits include The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, her award-winning collection Umberto's Night, published by Washington Writers' Publishing House, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Marda Messick is a poet and accidental theologian living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Christian Century, Delmarva Review, Literary Journal, and other publications. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support
Cynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She has launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Free State Review, Main Street Rag and Terminus Magazine. Cynthia's new chapbook What We Do with Our Hands from Finishing Line Press will be published this summer. Cynthia is also a frequent speaker and global women's advocate. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings/support
The R4 Podcast is joined by special guest co-pilot Christy Alexander Hallberg as they review Led Zeppelin's 1975 double album Physical Graffiti! Rock on!Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel Searching for Jimmy Page, published by Livingston Press in October 2021. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University, where she also serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. She received her BS and MA in English from East Carolina University and her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Goddard College. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in numerous journals, such as Main Street Rag, storySouth, Deep South Magazine, and Still: The Journal. Her flash story “Aperture,” originally published as Story of the Month in Fiction Southeast, was selected for the 2021 issue of Best Small Fictions.https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.comR4 Podcast Website: https://ridiculousrockrecordreviews.buzzsprout.comBecome a Patron and help support the show!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/R4podcast?fan_landing=trueContact us! e-mail: ridiculousrockrecords@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/R4podcastTwitter: @R4podcastAaronInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/r4podcaster
It's the May NEWS YOU CAN USE episode with new releases, author & title recommendations, and calls for chapbook submissions! BOOKS & AUTHORSMia Ayumi Malhotra's chapbook, Notes from the Birth Year: https://bateaupress.org/index.php/chapbooks/notes-from-the-birth-year/ Joan Kwan Glass, website: https://joankwonglass.com"What We Don't Say," at Rust+Moth: https://rustandmoth.com/work/what-we-dont-say/If Rust Can Grow On The Moon, coming in June from Milk & Cake Press: https://milkandcakepress.comSteve Henn, Guilty Prayer and American Male, from Main Street Rag: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?s=hennCaroline M Mar, Dream of the Lake, from Bull City Press: https://bullcitypress.com/product/dream-of-the-lake-by-caroline-m-mar/Benjamin Niespodziany, Pickpocket the Big Top, from Dark Hour Books: https://www.etsy.com/shop/darkhourbooks Niespodziany interview at Touch The Donkey: http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2022/05/ttd-supplement-214-seven-questions-for.htmlNiespodziany online reading at David Has Zoom Pro Reading Series: https://twitter.com/DavidHasZoomProDavid Wojo, poet: https://twitter.com/MrWojoRisingAe Hee Lee wins the Tupelo Dorset prize: https://www.tupelopress.org/2022/05/09/tupelo-press-announces-the-results-of-the-2022-dorset-prize/SUBMISSIONSGasher https://www.gasherjournal.com/submissionSeven Kitchen Press https://sevenkitchenspress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-allison-joseph-series/Cutbank http://www.cutbankonline.org/submissions-calendarThe Poetry Question https://thepoetryquestion.com/pamphlet-series-submission-guidelines/Slapering Hol https://www.writerscenter.org/contest/Bull City https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/chapbook-open-reading-period/Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress
We're joined this week by Are We Here Yet? podcast past guest and American Prose Poet Joshua Michael Stewart. Find Joshua Michael Stewart on the Innah Net. This gave us an opportunity to recount moments in the historical and literary life of Jack Kerouac. Born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac March 12, 1922 in Lowell, MA Kerouac is widely considered father of the counter-culture phenomenon and literary movement known as the Beat Generation. Jack considered the term BEAT as shorthand for Beatitudes. This suggestion of a spiritual ethos behind the beats is explored at length in our discussion, which is rife with the Buddhism Keraouc explored and the Catholicism he was born to. We read from several of Jack's books including Visions of Gerard, Dr. Sax, Dharma Bums, On the Road, and from Jack's Letters which have been posthumously published in two volumes. It is the development of literary forms post mid-century influenced by beat lit that determines the movements relevance beyond its own time. So we recount excerpts from Josh's Bastard Children of Dharma Bum which we print in this episode script below. Many of Jack's artifacts including the original teletype of On the Road are currently on display at the Boott Mills Cottom Museum in Lowell, MA. Listen if you love beat literature, Lowell, writing in general or mid-century discussion of phenomenon Listen now. Featured Poems from The Bastard Children of Dharma Bums (Human Error Publishing, 2020) by Joshua Michael Stewart. #13 Wondering if I heard the gas station payphone, my fingers chatter with a jug of wine. The astonished poet— a hip girl in love with Whitman, refuses to subscribe to the privilege of consuming crap and making children, writes poems wine-soaked and wild, praying cops and the Republicans learn how to wake up and start breathing. I sleep good, live cheap, and don't give a shit for all that machinery in a house. I got songs made up plucking on strings tucked away in my brain. We walk on both sides of the street not hurting anyone. #34 Raspberry Jell-O in the setting sun poured through unimaginable craigs. Rose-tint hope—brilliant and bleak. Ice fields and snow raging mad. I read snowy air and woodsmoke. The wind dark, clouds forge. The sing in my stovepipe absorbs vaster, darker storm closing in like a surl of silence. No starvation turmoiling. My shadow the rainbow I haloed. Your life a raindrop. I stood in rose dusk, meditated in half-moon thunder. My mother's love drenching rains washed and washed. I called Han Shan in the mountains. I called Han Shan in morning fog. I closed my eyes, yelled dark wild down in my garbage pit. My hair long in the mirror. My skin soaking pristine light. My fire roaring. I hear the radio singing, She was the wind which passes through everything. Birds rejoicing sweet blueberries for the last time. Sitting, I twisted real life and cried cascades answering the meditation bell. I know desolation. I owe gritty love back to this world. Poems from Love Something (Main Street Rag, forthcoming Fall 2022) BROKEN A bird crashes against a window The children scream, the mother screams. The bird's in the dirt flapping its broken wing as the children run through the rooms flapping their arms like wings, slam into walls, smash into each other, whoop and holler and laugh, and unsheathe their little teeth— so tiny it seems they wouldn't break skin. This house that smells like a woodpile under a tarp after three winters, where a social worker wrote in her notebook, This mother clearly doesn't love this child, where a river runs through the living-room, and wildfires bloom in the bedrooms, where there's something about my heart that isn't right, and I'm an old rug left out over a porch railing in the rain, where tomorrow will come, and I'll still be here in one form or another, here where I can take off my shirt, and bare the scar on my shoulder that fits my younger cousin's mouth. ELEGY FOR WHO I ONCE WAS Summer. We were walking, a country road before dawn, and you were dead. I don't remember your dying but there you were, dragging your feet, your eyes like the bottoms of glass ashtrays. Your breath. I said it smelled of death and you just groaned. I felt like an idiot. I never wanted this. I never wanted it to rain. Do you have any idea what a soggy corpse is like so early in the morning? I tried to pick up the pace, but all you could do was slosh down the road. Eventually, we came to a barn and hobbled inside to get dry. Soon the sun was up. The rain had stopped and the insects were getting jiggy in the fields. You slumped into an empty stall. Sunlight beamed through slits in the boards and the dust of your body mingled with the dust of the barn, the outside world and possibly me. Despite the decay you looked lovely disappearing like that. And I confessed if I wasn't such a fool I'd love you right down to the bone. “Vultures usually do.” It was the first thing you'd said all morning.
Mary Alice Dixon lives in Charlotte, NC, where she is a hospice volunteer, former professor, and happy member of Charlotte Writers Club and Charlotte Lit. She is a Pushcart nominee, Pinesong Poetry Award winner, and finalist for the Broad River Review Rash Award in Poetry. Her work appears in the PSPP anthologies Trouble and That Southern Thing and the journals Kakalak, Main Street Rag, moonShine review, Gyroscope Review, Northern Appalachia Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. She loves family stories and the good ghosts she calls angels.
Angie Dribben is an Autistic artist and writer. Her debut collection, Everygirl, a finalist for the 2020 Broadkill Review Dogfish Head Prize, was released with Main Street Rag. She was a poetry contributor at Bread Loaf Writer's Conference and holds an MFA from Randolph College. She is the current VP of the West Region of Poetry Society of Virginia. Her most recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, Orion, Coffin Bell, Split Rock Review, and others.Angela recently joined our team at Artemis Journal as Poet Liason to the Virginia Poetry Society.http://www.angeladribben.com
On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews Ohio poet laureate, Keri Gunter-Seymour. Five times a Pushcart nominee, Kari Gunter-Seymour's work can be found in many fine journals, anthologies and publications - Rattle, Still, CALYX, Main Street Rag, The American Journal of Poetry and The LA Times- as well as on her website: http://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com. Her latest chapbook Serving (Crisis Chronicles Press) was released in 2018. She is the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project, (www.womenofappalachia.com), a recently retired Instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and Immediate Past Poet Laureate for Athens, Ohio.
On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews Ohio poet laureate, Keri Gunter-Seymour. Five times a Pushcart nominee, Kari Gunter-Seymour's work can be found in many fine journals, anthologies and publications - Rattle, Still, CALYX, Main Street Rag, The American Journal of Poetry and The LA Times- as well as on her website: http://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com. Her latest chapbook Serving (Crisis Chronicles Press) was released in 2018. She is the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project, (www.womenofappalachia.com), a recently retired Instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and Immediate Past Poet Laureate for Athens, Ohio. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eliot-parker/support
On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews Ohio poet laureate, Keri Gunter-Seymour. Five times a Pushcart nominee, Kari Gunter-Seymour's work can be found in many fine journals, anthologies and publications - Rattle, Still, CALYX, Main Street Rag, The American Journal of Poetry and The LA Times- as well as on her website: http://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com. Her latest chapbook Serving (Crisis Chronicles Press) was released in 2018. She is the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project, (www.womenofappalachia.com), a recently retired Instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and Immediate Past Poet Laureate for Athens, Ohio.
Bill welcomes debut novelist author Christy Hallberg to the show. Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the novel SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE, from Livingston Press. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University, where she earned her BS and MA in English. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Goddard College. She is Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as North Carolina Literary Review, The Main Street Rag, Fiction Southeast, Riggwelter, Deep South Magazine, Eclectica, Litro magazine, STORGY Magazine, Entropy, storySouth, Still: The Journal, and Concho River Review. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by Fiction Southeast for October 2020. The editors of the Best Small Fictions anthology series chose it for inclusion in their 2021 issue.
"Searching For Jimmy Page" is the fictional story of Luna Kane. The unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna's haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. “Them owls, like music. Can you hear the music?” he implores her in his final moments, triggering Luna's repressed memory of her dead mother's obsession with Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's legendary guitar wizard. Desperate to learn the truth about her mother's suicide, to tease fact from family lore in order to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage from her family's farm in the pines of eastern North Carolina to England, to search for the man whose music her mother held sacred, Jimmy Page.Christy Alexander Hallberg teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University. She serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as North Carolina Literary Review, storySouth, Main Street Rag, Fiction Southeast, Riggwelter, Deep South Magazine, Eclectica, Litro, STORGY Magazine, Entropy, and Concho River Review. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by Fiction Southeast for October 2020 and was selected by the editors of the annual Best Small Fictions anthology series for the 2021 edition. She lives near Asheville, North Carolina.Purchase a copy of "Searching For Jimmy Page" through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Jimmy-Christy-Alexander-Hallberg/dp/1604892919Find out all about Christy Alexander Hallberg at her official website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.comListen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VmwIe8XoJvJ92g83Al0hV?si=31682e2564094127The Booked On Rock Website: https://www.bookedonrock.comFollow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcastTWITTER: https://twitter.com/bookedonrockContact The Booked On Rock Podcast:thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.comSupport Your Local Bookstore! Find your nearest independent book store here: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finderThe Booked On Rock Theme Song: “Whoosh” by Crowander [ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/crowander]
Charnel House by Edward Lodi Edward Lodi has written more than 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a poetry chapbook. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, such as Mystery Weekly Magazine, and in anthologies published by Cemetery Dance, Main Street Rag, Rock Village Publishing, Superior Shores Press, and others. https://www.amazon.com/Edward-Lodi/e/B00J7G04WW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Narrated by Dana Tyler Bolton To hear more creepy content from independent writers throughout the horror community, check out our website at nightterrorspodcast.com Or feel free find us on Twitter @nighterrorpod or instagram @nighterrorpod If you have any suggestions, submissions, or just want to chat, you can reach Dana either through the form on the website at nightterrorspodcast.com or email him at nightterrorpod@gmail.com Thank you again for all your support, and don't forget to like, follow and share The Night Terrors Podcast #horrorpodcast #nosleep Creepypasta podcast stories and nosleep stories are property of the original author, and are produced with written agreement from the author or through a CC license. Don't forget to check out our website nightterrorspodcast.com Or follow us at one of our profiles https://linktr.ee/nightterrorspod We really love your feedback and would love to hear from you - nightterrorspod@gmail.com Don't forget to share this episode with a friend! #horrorpodcast #horror #podcast #horrormovies #horrorcommunity #horrorfan #horrormovie #horrorfilms #horroraddict #horrorfilm #podcasts #podcastersofinstagram #horrorjunkie #halloween #horrorfans #instahorror #movie #horrornerd #spotify #horrorgram #newpodcast #horrorfanatic #horrorobsessed #horrorpodcasts #podcasting #movies #film #podcaster The rights to this story remain solely with the author, and are produced with their written consent. Any reproduction is strictly prohibited. Silent Turmoil by Myuu | https://soundcloud.com/myuu Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nightterrorspodcast/message
John Lawson has taught writing and rhetoric at Robert Morris University for twenty-two years. His poetry collection, Generations, was published by the St. Andrews University Press, and his poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Vox Populi, and many other print and online venues. He also writes plays and stories
Jason Irwin is the author of The History of Our Vagrancies (forthcoming, Main Street Rag), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016), & Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008). He earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife writer Jen Ashburn, and currently is working on a memoir. www.jasonirwin.blogspot.com
Social Yet Distanced: A View with an Emotionalorphan and Friends
The Social yet Distanced Pod Collective and Jack Varnell spend a Sunday afternoon in two different areas of the blooming balmy SouthEastern US, to talk music, poetry, voice, and the voices. We also cover just a scoche of Mike James' extensive wealth of work, and discuss relationships with poets, and poets relationships to the world. Collections Include: Leftover Distances, Luchador, 2021 Double Feature (with John Dorsey), Analog Submissions, 2021 Red Dirt Souvenir Shop, Analog Submissions, 2020 Journeyman's Suitcase, Luchador, 2020 Parades, Alien Buddha, 2019 Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor, Blue Horse, 2019 First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places, Stubborn Mule Press, 2018 Crows in the Jukebox, Bottom Dog, 2017 My Favorite Houseguest, FutureCycle, 2017 Peddler's Blues, Main Street Rag, 2016 The Year We Let the House Fall Down, Aldrich, 2015 Elegy in Reverse, Aldrich, 2014 Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011, Main Street Rag, 2012 Shotgun Exchanges, Costmary, 2010 Alternate Endings, Foothills, 2007 Nothing but Love, Pathwise, 2004 Pennies from an Empty Jar, Another Thing, 2002 All Those Goodbyes, Talent House, 2001 Not Here, Green Bean, 2000 Anthologies: Howl 2016, Writers on Writing, The Working Poet, Along These Rivers, Stories About Time, Recession In Neverland, The Green Panda Anthology, The Best of Mad Swirl, Mother Mary Come to Me, and The Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia Editorial Experience: Associate Editor, Unbroken, 2020-2021 Associate Editor, Good Works Review, 2017 Associate Editor, Kentucky Review, 2014-2016 Judge for the Hot Metal Press Poetry Prize, 2008 Associate Editor, Autumn House Press, 2004-2007 Publisher of Yellow Pepper Press, 2004-2014 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/support
Arlyn LaBelle is a queer poet and writer living in Austin, Texas. Their work has appeared in the Badgerdog summer anthologies as well as North of Oxford, The Oddville Press, Songs of Eretz, Grey Sparrow Press, Cease, Cows, Panoply Zine and The Southern Poetry Review. Their premiere book of poetry, Measurable Terms, is available through The Main Street Rag. You can find more of them and their work at arlynlabelle.com. Find more of Arlyn: Twitter: @ArlynLaBelle Facebook: Arlyn LaBelle Poetry Website: ArlynLaBelle.com This piece is available in the chapbook Measurable Terms through the Main Street Rag. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Created during a time of quarantine in the global Coronavirus pandemic, A Moment Of Your Time's mission is to provide a space for expression, collaboration, community and solidarity. In this time of isolation, we may have to be apart but let's create together. Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter Created by CurtCo Media Concept by Jenny Curtis Theme music by Chris Porter A CurtCo Media Production See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of HappyTalks, we interview Shane Manier and discuss her life, career and how creativity and art creates joy and growth in your life. Shane Manier is a Creative Coach, Visual Artist, Tedx and Key Note Speaker, Trauma Informed Care Instructor, Poetry Mentor and National Spoken Word Poet based in the Charlotte Metro Region of NC. She is the founder of Guerilla Poets, a nonprofit art collective with branches in the US and UK. She is currently the Spoken Word and Arts Teaching Instructor for The Harvey B. Gantt Center, Henderson High School and Playing for Others as well as Center for Faith in the Arts current Artist in Residence. In 2011 she was the youngest poet to ever be inducted in the Poetry Council of North Carolina and served on board of CCAG Arts Collective of Cornelius North Carolina in 2017. She has been recognized as a National Poet performing with Respect Da Mic Slam Team from 2017-2020. In 2015 she released her first poetry album, “Bootstraps” and her first chapbook, “Fallen Heroes of the Awful Waffle” was published through Main Street Rag in 2017. She recently released her second album, “Carrier Pigeons” and poetry book “Divine Disturbances” in 2019 and 2020. Dr. Alice Fong is a naturopathic doctor, known as the “Virtual Stress Doc,” and she helps busy professionals break free from stress, anxiety, and burnout without having to quit their jobs using a 5-step holistic approach. She is the founder of Amour de Soi Wellness and her mission is to help people discover self-love and happiness. She has given several talks around the country for healthcare providers, corporations, women's conferences and for the general public. Donovon Jenson is a software engineer in the Bay Area and the founder of howtohappy.com. He is a Utah native who has long been interested in human development and health. He double majored in psychology and health policy, and graduated Magna Cum Laude through the Honors College at the University of Utah. How to Happy strives to provide thoughtful and actionable insights on living a happier life. We believe happiness is the result of self-awareness, balance and a positive mindset, among a myriad of other things. Our goal is to inspire you to see life through a new lens by adding strategies and exercises to your toolbox, then encouraging you to take action. We are all capable of being happier, let's work together to find the best pathways to get there. Together we're out to cause more happiness in the world! Shane Manier www.shanemanier.com https://www.facebook.com/shanemanierart/ https://www.instagram.com/shanemanier/ Dr. Alice Fong http://www.dralicefong.com https://www.facebook.com/DrAliceFong/ https://www.instagram.com/dralicefong/ https://twitter.com/DrAliceFong https://www.youtube.com/dralicefong https://ios.joinclubhouse.com/@dralicefong Donovon Jenson https://howtohappy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheHowToHappy/ https://www.instagram.com/thehowtohappy/ https://twitter.com/TheHowToHappy https://www.youtube.com/HowtoHappy Michael Lira, Voice Actor Opening Credits Voice https://www.michaelapollolira.com/ Information on this video is provided for general educational purposes only and is not intended to constitute medical advice or counseling. #creativity #joy #growth --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/happytalks/support
Kari Gunter-Seymour is a ninth generation Appalachian and editor the Women of Appalachia Project anthologies, "Women Speak," volumes 1-6 and "Essentially Athens Ohio," an anthology focused on landmarks, tales and experiences of those living in or deeply connected to Athens county. She holds a B.F.A. in graphic design and an M.A. in commercial photography and is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. A poem she wrote in support of families living in poverty in Athens County, OH, went viral and has been seen by over 100,000 people, resulting in thousands of dollars donated to her local food pantry. She is the Poet Laureate of Ohio. Her work was selected by former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to be included in the PBS American Portrait crowdsourced poem, Remix: For My People. Her poetry appears in several publications including, The NY Times, Verse Daily, Rattle, Crab Orchard Review, Main Street Rag, Stirring, Still, CALYX and The LA Times. Her chapbook “Serving” is available from Crisis Chronicles Press. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. She teaches a monthly workshop series and has worked with incarcerated men, women, teens, and women in recovery housing.Her award winning photography has been published nationally in The Sun Magazine, Light Journal, Looking at Appalachia, Storm Cellar Quarterly, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vine Leaves Journal and Appalachian Review. Gunter-Seymour is the founder/executive director of the “Women of Appalachia Project,” an arts organization she created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists (spoken word and fine art ) of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, embrace the stereotype, show the whole woman; beyond the superficial factors people use to judge her. (www.womenofappalachia.com).
Join us on New Year's Eve as we celebrate the work of emerging writers from four graduate programs throughout northern Appalachia.Nathaniel Ricketts is a poet from Pittsburgh and a 5th-year student in the Penn State English department's BA/MA program in creative writing. He is currently working on his master's thesis, a chap-book length collection of poems focused on class struggle and environmental politics in the Rust Belt.Matthew Dougherty grew up in Ohio and is a third-year fiction student in the MFA program at West Virginia University. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Salamander, Sonora Review, and Crab Orchard Review, all as contest winners. He also enjoys writing and performing original songs under the artist name Matt Skerk.Arista Rawat Engineer is a poet and fiction writer whose work explores questions that arise from the confluence of worlds-modernity and tradition, language and culture, myth and literature. She is a first-year student at Chatham University's MFA program. She is from Pune, India and loves beingin Pittsburgh because she's always lived in places that begin with a "P"!Doralee Brooks lives in Pittsburgh and holds an MFA from Carlow University. Her poems have appeared in Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Dos Passos Review among others. Doralee's chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag.As always, you can find books by WCONA writers on BookShop.com/shop/WCONA LIVE
Janette Schafer stops in to the first podcast she ever listened to in order to talk about her new book Something Here Will Grow available from Main Street Rag. During the course of our conversation we talk about where poems come from, whether or not everything that makes it to a poem actually happened, and … Continue reading Episode 87: Stories We Never Tell The post Episode 87: Stories We Never Tell first appeared on We're All Gonna Die! (And Other Fun Facts).
your wingman with angelsAn engineering prodigy arrives in the South, fascinated with an ancient relic and searching for the aerodynamic laws of angel wings, all the while nurturing his grove of Carolina dogwoods. It’s a good life. Mary Alice Dixon lives and writes in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a former attorney who often served as court-appointed counsel in juvenile court. She has also been a professor of architectural history, teaching in Charlotte, Minneapolis, and China. She belongs to Charlotte Writers’ Club and Charlotte Lit. Her recent writing is in, or forthcoming from, Living Springs and Main Street Rag. She volunteers with hospice and delights in reading poetry to the dying, grateful for the lesson this teaches about what really matters.
In this episode, Cliff Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet Angela Dribben. Angela Dribben After 22 years as a massage therapist, Angela Dribben’s scoliotic spine gave her reason to retire and turn to writing. She found herself at Bread Loaf a few months later. Then onto Randolph College’s MFA program. From there her work made its way into journals such as Crab Creek Review, Cider Press Review, San Pedro River Review, Blue Mountain Review, and Crack the Spine. Her first collection, Everygirl is now out with Main Street Rag. Facebook Angela Dribben Everygirl at Main Street Rag Publishing Insta @angiedribben Twitter @angeladribben
Poets Christopher Davis And Allison Hutchcraft Bring Lives and Nature to the Page in “Oath” and “Swale” on Charlotte Readers Podcast In today’s episode, we meet award-winning Charlotte poets Christopher Davis and Allison Hutchcraft, authors of the poetry books, “Oath,” published by Main Street Rag and “Swale,” published by New Issues Press with Western Michigan University. Chris and Allison both teach at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. David Trinidad says “there is a sharp, steel-like edge to the lines in Christopher Davis’s poems-so finely wrought are they, and attuned to ‘the brutality of fact,’ the limits of human interaction.” Paisley Rekdal says “Hutchcraft examines the delicate balance between rapture and ravishment, in poems as ambitious as they are beautiful.” We start the show with Chris reading his poem “Examine Her Life” and Allison reading her poem “I have written myself into a Tropical Glow.” Engage with the show here: https://linktr.ee/CharlotteReadersPodcast Detailed show notes here: https://charlottereaderspodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlottereaderspodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charlottereaderspodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlottereader Charlotte Readers Podcast is a proud member of the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network and the Queen City Podcast Network. @copyrighted
Rattlecast #68 feature's Steve Henn and his forthcoming book, Guilty Prayer. His poems have appeared in Poets Respond and four issues of Rattle. Steve Henn wrote Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year (Wolfson Press 2017), And God Said: let there be Evolution! (NYQ Books 2012), and Unacknowledged Legislations (NYQ Books 2011) and the forthcoming chapbook from Main Street Rag, Guilty Prayer (out Feb/Mar 2021). He has been featured at the Long Beach Poetry Festival, the Uptown Poetry Slam, IUSB Visiting Writer Series, Bloomington Writers Guild series, at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg, in the Divedapper Carnival poetry showcase, and elsewhere. He raises the 4 children of he and the late artist Lydia Frances Henn (1980-2013) and teaches in Indiana. For more information, visit: https://www.therealstevehenn.com/ As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Randomstreetview.com is a site that randomly generates photographs of streets all over the world. Find a photo that speaks to you and write a poem about it. Next Week's Prompt: What’s on the other side of that door? The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.
Arlyn LaBelle is a queer poet and writer living in Austin, Texas. Their work has appeared in the Badgerdog summer anthologies as well as North of Oxford, The Oddville Press, Songs of Eretz, Grey Sparrow Press, Cease, Cows, Panoply Zine and The Southern Poetry Review. Their premiere book of poetry, Measurable Terms, is available through The Main Street Rag. You can find more of them and their work at arlynlabelle.com. Find more of Arlyn: Twitter: @ArlynLaBelle Facebook: Arlyn LaBelle Poetry Website: ArlynLaBelle.com Additional Notes: This piece is available in the chapbook Measurable Terms through the Main Street Rag. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Created during a time of quarantine in the global Coronavirus pandemic, A Moment Of Your Time's mission is to provide a space for expression, collaboration, community and solidarity. In this time of isolation, we may have to be apart but let's create together. Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter Created by CurtCo Media Concept by Jenny Curtis Theme music by Chris Porter A CurtCo Media Production See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Barrington Public Library's Community Engagement Librarian, Jessica D'Avanza is joined by Kara Provost, a professor who teaches in the writing program at Curry College. Kara shares with us the many ways that poetry is used to process difficult emotions, pain, times of uncertainty and of course—joy! She shares two haiku she wrote while teaching a socially distant haiku writing workshop for the library on Zoom. Here are links to many of the poets and poetry resources mentioned in this episode: Naomi Shihab Nye - contemporary American poet Joy Harjo - contemporary Muscogee (Creek) poet, playwright, and musician who was appointed US poet laureate in 2019 Li-Young Lee - contemporary Chinese-American poet. Kara loves his poem "Word for Worry" from Book of My Nights. Kay Ryan: former US poet laureate and LGBTQ writer Ocean Vuong - young gay Vietnamese-American poet and novelist whose most recent book is Night Sky with Exit Wounds Tracy K. Smith - contemporary African American poet and another former US poet laureate whose most recent book is Life on Mars Rigoberto Gonzales - contemporary gay Latino poet Quincy Troupe - African American poet influenced by jazz and blues and is a great reader of his work Phil Levine - working-class poet from Detroit Mark Doty - contemporary gay poet whose poems range from humorous to lyrical to intensely emotional Mary Oliver - writes about the natural world and animals and lived for many years on Cape Cod Dorianne Laux - contemporary American poet who grew up in Maine Lucille Clifton - African American poet from New York who is also a wonderful reader of her work Jericho Brown - contemporary African American LGBTQ poet from Louisiana whose book The Tradition won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for poetry Tina Chang - contemporary Chinese-American poet who was named the first women poet laureate of Brooklyn in 2010 Claudia Rankine - contemporary African American author whose recent work Citizen is a series of prose poems exploring race in America Bob Hicok and Billy Collins are two of Kara's favorite writers who often use humor to get a serious subject in their poems Andrea Gibson - contemporary American lesbian poet who is big on the spoken word scene Sign up for Poem-A-Day in your inbox by the Academy of American Poets Poetry Dose podcast by RI poet laureate Tina Cane, features interviews, discussions, and readings of poetry by current writes, often with a RI connection Kara Provost has published two chapbooks, Topless (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Nests (Finishing Line Press, 2006), in addition to six microchapbooks with the Origami Poems project (origamipoems.com). Her poems have appeared in the Skinny Poetry Journal, Connecticut Review, Ocean State Review, Main Street Rag, The Newport Review, Ibbetson Street, New Verse News, and other journals. Kara’s work can also be found in a number of anthologies, including Credo: Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (Cambridge Writers’ Workshop 2018); Nuclear Impact: Shattered Atoms in Our Hands (Shabda Press 2017); Shifts: Women’s Growth through Change (MuseWrite Press 2016); the Wickford Art Association 2013 exhibit catalog, Poetry and Art; Lay Bare the Canvas: New England Poets on Art; and In Praise of Pedagogy: Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Essays on Composing, edited by David Starkey and Wendy Bishop. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rhodyradio/message
Jose Luis Oseguera is an LA-based writer of poetry, short fiction and literary nonfiction. He has published over 100 pieces of literature in over 60 publications including Emrys Journal, The McNeese Review and The Main Street Rag. His work has also been nominated for the "Best of the Net" award (2018 and 2019) as well as the "Pushcart Prize" (2018 and twice in 2019). The Milk of Your Blood is his first poetry collection. https://stripsearchla.com/ You're living your dream. Don't miss it. If you’re enjoying this podcast, please rate and subscribe on your podcast player of choice. And if you’re really digging it, you can help me out with some of the expense by hitting the Donate button on my website.
Mary Alice Dixon lives and writes in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a former attorney who often served as court-appointed counsel in juvenile court. She has also been a professor of architectural history, teaching in Charlotte, Minneapolis, and China. She belongs to Charlotte Writers’ Club and Charlotte Lit. Her recent writing is in, or forthcoming from, Living Springs and Main Street Rag. She volunteers with hospice and delights in reading poetry to the dying, grateful for the lesson this teaches about what really matters.
Doritt Carroll is a native of Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Main Street Rag, North American Review, Coal City Review, Eunoia Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Gargoyle, Nimrod, and Cherry Tree, among others. Her collection GLTTL STP was published by Brickhouse Books in 2013. Her chapbook Sorry You Are Not An Instant Winner was published in 2017 by Kattywompus. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Shirley J. Brewer (Baltimore, MD) graduated from careers in bartending and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts & Technology in Baltimore, and also teaches creative writing workshops to seniors. Recent poems garnish Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, Plainsongs, Poetry East, Slant, and many other journals and anthologies. Shirley was awarded the first Creativity Prize for Excellence in Plorking (Play + Work) from the University of Baltimore, where she earned her Masterês degree in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts. Shirleyês poetry books include A Little Breast Music, 2008, Passager Books, After Words, 2013, Apprentice House, Bistro in Another Realm, 2017, Main Street Rag.
This evening of conversations with writers, editors and publishers confronts the challenges and ethics of publishing incarcerated writers, and reimagining the boundaries of what is possible. In addressing the impact of mass incarceration, there is an increasing need to center the voices of those directly impacted—not only as experts, but as integrated contributors. But for writers in prison, access to participation in the literary community is limited by not only stigma and physical restriction, but financial barriers, lack of technology, and censorship. For those who manage to publish against the odds, publicity efforts require creative strategy when book tours are impossible, interviews channel through authority review, advances are siphoned by the state, and context automatically forces categorization by the author’s relationship with incarceration or crime, regardless of the work’s content. Kathryn Belden is vice president and executive editor at Scribner. She is the editor of The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins. Eli Hager is a staff writer at The Marshall Project covering issues including juvenile justice, fines and fees, and prosecutors and public defenders. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Randall Horton is the author of The Definition of Place (2006) and Lingua Franca of Ninth Street (2009), both from Main Street Rag. He also serves as senior editor for Willow Books and editor-in-chief for Tidal Basin Review. Mitchell S. Jackson is the author of Survival Math. His debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications, including The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Times (London). He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University. Tim O’Connell is an editor at Vintage Anchor, A. A. Knopf, and Pantheon Books. He is the editor of Cherry by Nicholas Walker. Special thanks to partner Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: https://www.housingworks.org/locations/bookstore-cafe
This week we're featuring work by two poets: Veronica Fitzhugh and Robert Okaji. Robert Okaji lives in Texas with his wife, two dogs and some books. The author of five chapbooks, his work has appeared in such publications as Clade Song, Vox Populi, Boston Review, The High Window, MockingHeart Review and Main Street Rag. Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia but is more proud of the friendships she earned through her social justice work in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has been in several anthologies online and in print. Her main blog is Charlottesville Winter at cvillewinter.wordpress.org. Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead. If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to editor@otherpeoplesflowers.com
Shirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in palm-reading, bartending, and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore. Recent poems appear in Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Gargoyle, Poetry East, Slant, and other journals. Shirley’s poetry chapbooks include A Little Breast Music (2008, Passager Books) and After Words (2013, Apprentice House). New from Main Street Rag in 2017 is Shirley’s first full-length collection of poems, Bistro in Another Realm.Originally from New England, Sarah Merrow pulled up roots six years ago and made Baltimore her home. Her chapbook, Unpacking the China, was the winner of the QuillsEdge Press 2015-2016 chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published essays in The Flutist Quarterly, a trade magazine. In addition to writing poetry, she rebuilds and repairs concert flutes for professional flutists.Jadi Z. Omowale was born and bred in Baltimore, Maryland, where she began writing poetry in fifth grade and has never stopped. Her chapbook of poetry, The Goddess in the Girl, is newly released by Three Sistahs Press, LLC (spring 2017). Her work has been published in Temba Tupu!, an anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays by African American women, Essence magazine, Cave Canem anthologies 2003 and 2004, Welter, and the Black Review. She is a Cave Canem fellow and has attended Soul Mountain Retreat and the Hurston/Wright Writers Week. Jadi is currently at work on a full collection of poetry and completing her first novel, Killing Ants. She is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County.Michelle M. Tokarczyk was born in the Bronx to a working-class white family; they moved to a suburban-like section of Queens when she was nine years old, but her heart remained in the Bronx. She attended Herbert Lehman College and earned a BA in English; then she went on to SUNY Stony Brook and got a doctorate. For over two decades she has been a professor at Goucher College in Baltimore. Her first book, The House I’m Running From, was published by West End Press. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the minnesota review, The Literary Review, Slant, Third Wednesday, Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, and For a Living: The Poetry of Work. An avowed urbanite, she divides her time between Baltimore and New York City. (Photo credit: Melanie Henderson.)Read "Plaque with Figure of a Python" and two other poems by Shirley Brewer (click on "Samples"). Read "A Place Unmarked" and "Flute and Guitar Duo" by Sarah Merrow.Listen to Jadi Omowale read poems by Lucille Clifton at 1:25:38.Read "A Personal History of the Bronx River" and two other poems by Michelle Tokarczyk.Recorded On: Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Shirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in palm-reading, bartending, and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore. Recent poems appear in Barrow Street, Comstock Review, Gargoyle, Poetry East, Slant, and other journals. Shirley’s poetry chapbooks include A Little Breast Music (2008, Passager Books) and After Words (2013, Apprentice House). New from Main Street Rag in 2017 is Shirley’s first full-length collection of poems, Bistro in Another Realm.Originally from New England, Sarah Merrow pulled up roots six years ago and made Baltimore her home. Her chapbook, Unpacking the China, was the winner of the QuillsEdge Press 2015-2016 chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published essays in The Flutist Quarterly, a trade magazine. In addition to writing poetry, she rebuilds and repairs concert flutes for professional flutists.Jadi Z. Omowale was born and bred in Baltimore, Maryland, where she began writing poetry in fifth grade and has never stopped. Her chapbook of poetry, The Goddess in the Girl, is newly released by Three Sistahs Press, LLC (spring 2017). Her work has been published in Temba Tupu!, an anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays by African American women, Essence magazine, Cave Canem anthologies 2003 and 2004, Welter, and the Black Review. She is a Cave Canem fellow and has attended Soul Mountain Retreat and the Hurston/Wright Writers Week. Jadi is currently at work on a full collection of poetry and completing her first novel, Killing Ants. She is an assistant professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County.Michelle M. Tokarczyk was born in the Bronx to a working-class white family; they moved to a suburban-like section of Queens when she was nine years old, but her heart remained in the Bronx. She attended Herbert Lehman College and earned a BA in English; then she went on to SUNY Stony Brook and got a doctorate. For over two decades she has been a professor at Goucher College in Baltimore. Her first book, The House I’m Running From, was published by West End Press. Her poems have also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the minnesota review, The Literary Review, Slant, Third Wednesday, Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, and For a Living: The Poetry of Work. An avowed urbanite, she divides her time between Baltimore and New York City. (Photo credit: Melanie Henderson.)Read "Plaque with Figure of a Python" and two other poems by Shirley Brewer (click on "Samples"). Read "A Place Unmarked" and "Flute and Guitar Duo" by Sarah Merrow.Listen to Jadi Omowale read poems by Lucille Clifton at 1:25:38.Read "A Personal History of the Bronx River" and two other poems by Michelle Tokarczyk.
Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, college professor, lecturer, blogger, workshop presenter, and teacher who has taught well over 60 workshops. She was appointed the second Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, April 2011, a two year term. She has collaborated with both visual artists and musicians. Her book of poems, These Metallic Days was published in 2005 as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series. Her second chapbook, Her Name Is Juanita, was published as a special project by Kore Press in 2009, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the press. Her first full-length collection, Some Odd Afternoon, was released February, 2010 by BlazeVOX Books. Selections were nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2011 by Jennifer K. Sweeney. A review by Dean Rader appears at Rattle online. Two poems from 2010 issues of DMQ Review, which she edits, were chosen for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2011, by guest editor Kevin Young, fall 2011. Ashton was awarded a Montalvo Artist Residency in 2011 as well as an Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship, Poetry, 2005. Besides nominations listed above, Ashton was also a 2006 and 2001 Pushcart Prize nominee, and a finalist for Best of the Net 2007. She won First Prize in the 2014 Fish Flash Fiction Contest from Fish Publishing, Dublin, Ireland. Writing across genres and specializing in hybrid forms, Ashton’s work regularly appeared in Sentence: a journal of prose poetics, and currently in such journals as Brevity, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Flash, Drunken Boat, Poet Lore, and Zyzzyva. Work appears in the textbook anthology, An Introduction to the Prose Poem; in Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes; and in best-seller Poems for the 99 Percent. She’s a guest-blogger for the Best American Poetry blog. Sally earned her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, 2003, teaches creative writing at her alma mater, San José State University, and teaches regular local workshops. She has taught in Lisbon, Portugal through Disquiet International Literary Program in 2011,2014, and 2015. A full CV of appearances is available and includes Moe’s Books, Berkeley for Poetry Flash; Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica; the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; KGB Bar, NYC; and as a SJSU University Scholar.
Randall Horton is the author of The Definition of Place (2006) and Lingua Franca of Ninth Street (2009), both from Main Street Rag. His poetry prizes include the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and the Bea González Prize for Poetry. He has an MFA from Chicago State University and a PhD from SUNY Albany. Horton is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and associate professor of English at the University of New Haven. He also serves as senior editor for Willow Books and editor-in-chief for Tidal Basin Review.
Modest Aspirations - Poems and Stories (by Locklin); Hard Landing (by Smith); E/OR - Living Amongst the Mangled (by Armstrong; all books published by Lummox Press) Three poets published by local poetry publisher Lummox Press will read from their recently published collections! Come and hear the latest from Gerald Locklin, Rick Smith, and Lummox founder RD Armstrong. Gerald Locklin is now a Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught from 1965 through 2007, and continues as an occasional part-time lecturer there and in the Master of Professional Program at the University of Southern California. He is the author of over 125 books, chapbooks, and broadsides of poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals. His most recent books include The Plot of Il Trovatore (Kamini Press, Sweden); Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems, and The Cezanne/Pissarro Poems, both from World Parade Books; and Modest Aspirations - Poems & Stories (Lummox Press). Rick Smith is a clinical psychologist, in Rancho Cucamonga, California where he specializes in brain damage and domestic violence. He studied with Anthony Hecht at Bard College, George Starbuck and Frank Polite at the University of Iowa and Sam Eisenstein at Los Angeles City College. During the 70's, he joined Dan Ilves to co-edit the literary journal, Stonecloud. He has been published widely in anthologies and in small press publications such as New Letters, Onthebus, Blueline, Hanging Loose, Pinyon, Eclipse, Paper Street, Lummox Journal, Rattle, Rhino and Main Street Rag. He has three books including his latest title: Hard Landing (Lummox Press). RD Armstrong never went to college or took a workshop on writing, publishing or any of the myriad of things that people go to a workshop for...except to find a screwdriver or some other tool. He fell into publishing in the mid-nineties when he discovered the poetry scene while washing dishes at a coffee house in San Pedro. Since then he has been published in over 300 mags, zines, anthologies etc. He has a number of books to his name, mostly published by his own Lummox Press, including his latest title: E/OR - Living Amongst the Mangled. Lummox Press has published an ongoing chapbook series since 1998 (the Little Red Books) with 60 + titles; the Lummox Journal (1995 - 2006), a monthly; and a number of perfect bound books (20), most recently the Respect Series. Visit the website for more details: www.lummoxpress.com. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 19, 2011.
Scott Owens reads from the book he has co-authored with Pris Campbell.Jane sits in to read 'hers' of the his n' hers parcel of the collection.
Scott Owens reads from the book he has co-authored with Pris Campbell.Jane sits in to read 'hers' of the his n' hers parcel of the collection.
Hey, folks! Just wanted to let you know about a few things of mine that are seeing the light of day. A couple of my monologues were recently published in Main Street Rag, which is a local magazine. It’s the first time any of my monologues have seen print and I am very excited about […]
Welcome to Apostrophe Cast. This episode we invite you to explore the world of poet Danielle Sellers reading from her collection, Bone Key Elegies available from Main Street Rag. Inhabited by tribes of beautiful, semi-wild children destined to suffer and become wise, its beaches and cities shine by the light of her radiant details. And at the center, all roads lead to the kingdom of her family, magnified into myth, ruled by a daughter who would scold gods and dogs alike. Please enjoy Danielle Sellers.
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