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October 2023 - Join Poetry Editor Molly Zhu and David Banach for the latest episode of the Passengers Poetry Podcast, where they discuss their favorite poetry from Issue 4.4, including Aiyana White's Eat, Michael T. Young's Salt and Pepper, Catherine Weiss' Inheritance, Emily Rose Miller's Front Stoop. Produced, edited, and mastered by John E. Brady. Passengers Literary Press, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All staff donate their time and effort. If you'd like to support our mission to publish art that is necessary rather than desired, please consider donating at the link below.Support the show
Michael T. Young reads his poem "But Instead" from his poetry book The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost (Poets Wear Prada, 2014)
Michael T. Young's third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was published by Terrapin Books. His chapbook, Living in the Counterpoint (Finishing Line Press), received the 2014 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His other collections include The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost (Poets Wear Prada), Transcriptions of Daylight (Rattapallax Press), and Because the Wind Has Questions (Somers Rocks Press). He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Chaffin Poetry Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals including The Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Edison Literary Review, Lunch Ticket, The Potomac Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising, Chance of a Ghost, In the Black/In the Red, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. He lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey. For more information, visit: http://www.michaeltyoung.com/ Warm-up Poem: "Jane's Heartbreak Yard Sale" by Lytton Bell https://www.rattle.com/janes-heartbreak-yard-sale-by-lytton-bell/ Next Week’s Prompt: The stuntman walks home from work. Must reference a Shakespearean work, either within the poem or in an epigraph.
This is the second episode of our three-part series highlighting authors published in the December 2017 issue of Cleaver Magazine. This episode features Tina Barr, Michael T. Young, and Amy Miller. Their work, along with the entire December issue of Cleaver, can be read at cleavermagazine.com. More episodes of On the Edge are soon to come, stay tuned. On the Edge was produced by Ryan Evans. Original music for this episode of On the Edge created by Simon Aspinall, more of his music can be found @simon-aspinall01