Episodes
Monday Jan 23, 2017
Jenny Molberg, MO Poet & Assistant Professor
Monday Jan 23, 2017
Monday Jan 23, 2017
Jenny is a poet who teaches at the U of Central MO. She is Co-editor of Pleiades www.PleiadesMag.com/ Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Poetry International, North American Review, Copper Nickel, Best New Poets, and other publications. Her debut poetry collection, Marvels of the Invisible, won the 2014 Berkshire Prize and is now available through Tupelo Press www.tupelopress.org/product/marvels-of-the-invisible/ More about Jenny at www.JennyMolberg.com
Friday Jan 20, 2017
M. Scott Douglass, NC Poet-Biker-Publisher
Friday Jan 20, 2017
Friday Jan 20, 2017
Scott is a poet who loves solo bicycling & motorcycling trips. He enjoys all the parts of publishing a journal & other people’s books through Main Street Rag Publishing Company. MSRP is the biggest publisher of poetry in NC. His poetry has appeared in such places as The Asheville Poetry Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and Sundog and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He also received an Emerging Artists Grant from the NC Arts & Science Council in 2001 which was used to publish his first book of poetry, Auditioning for Heaven. Other books include Balancing on Two Wheels (2003), STEEL WOMB Revisited (2005), and most recently, Hard to Love (2012). In 2006, he was the recipient of the Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award. In 2010 the Poetry Council of NC awarded him a Certificate of Dedication. His cover design work has won two PICA Awards along with several Indie Press nominations. Follow his adventures at www.facebook.com/MScott.Douglass and http://MainStreetRag.com/
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
John Grochalski, Brooklyn-Pittsburgh Poet-Novelist-Activist
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
John is a white American male who is not complacent! Currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough. Author of poetry: The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014); and novels: The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016). Writers & more are urged to email John at WineDrunkSideWalk@gmail.com to be included in the blog reflecting the Trump days, http://WineDrunkSideWalk.blogspot.com/
Monday Jan 16, 2017
Daniel Crocker, MO Poet-Podcaster
Monday Jan 16, 2017
Monday Jan 16, 2017
Daniel is a poet of the April 2017 Kansas City Poetry Throwdown. He shares openly & with dark humor about real life, mental health challenges & all. His poetry collections “Like a Fish” & “The One Where I Ruin Your Childhood” are from www.SundressPublications.com His work has appeared in New World Writing, The Los Angeles Review, The Chiron Review, The Mas Tequila Review, Night Train, Juked, Nerve Cowboy, & more. He’s the co-editor of “Trailerpark Quarterly” and the host of the podcast “Sanesplaining” http://Sanesplain.com
Thursday Jan 12, 2017
Matt Spezia, National Poetry Awards Slam Poet of 2016
Thursday Jan 12, 2017
Thursday Jan 12, 2017
Matt performs slam poetry across the country, because “Words are the expression of the spiritual.” Part of The P.O.E.T. Movement, Matt co-hosts several live-streamed P.O.E.T. Radio shows. Matt lives in Topeka, KS while completing a business degree at Washburn University. He hosts “The Faces by Mayfield Poetry Series” monthly in Topeka. His poetry collection from Spartan Press will be released May 2017. For info on P.O.E.T. Radio and more, www.IAmPoet.org or MattSpezia.Spezia@gmail.com
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
Nathanael William Stolte, Buffalo, NY Poet-Editor
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
Author of four chapbooks: A Beggars Book of Poems, Bumblebee Petting Zoo, Fools’ Song & Unformed Creature, with more in-progress. His poems have appeared in Ghost City Review, Guide to Kulture Creative Journal, Five-to-One Magazine #thesideshow, Rusty Truck Zine, Poems-For-All, The Buffalo News & Plurality Press. Acquisitions Editor for CWPCollective Press. Voted best poet in Buffalo by Artvoices’ “Best of Buffalo” in 2016. A madcap, punk-rock, D.I.Y. Buffalo bred & corn-fed poet. Follow Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective at www.facebook.com/CringeWorthyPoetsCollective
Friday Jan 06, 2017
Taurean LaCharles, Actor, V.2017, No.1
Friday Jan 06, 2017
Friday Jan 06, 2017
Taurean LaCharles is a native of Lawrence, KS and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied classical theatre. As an androgynous gay African-American male, Taurean has known discrimination throughout his life. Taurean and host Marcia Epstein engage in a lively conversation about Performance Arts in Lawrence, KS. And about Racism in Arts in the USA. Follow Taurean at www.facebook.com/Taurean.LaCharles
Thursday Jan 05, 2017
Crista Siglin, Multi-Media Artist
Thursday Jan 05, 2017
Thursday Jan 05, 2017
Crista grew up in Iowa. BFA in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. Visual work has been show at the Dodge Painting Gallery, Blue Djin Gallery, Vacant Farm, Green Lady Gallery, ArtsBar, Night Blooms Darkroom and Bookstore, H&R Block ArtSpace, and LUMA Westbau museum in Zürich, Switzerland. Poetry has been published in Sprung Formal, KCAI’s Compendium, Not Sorry Zine, and Retrograde Craft. First book of poetry, Fleeting, Sacred on Spartan Press in 2015. Her practice—paralleled in both visual and written works—is an exploration of the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria. More Crista at https://www.instagram.com/bansheelaundry/ and https://www.instagram.com/cristasiglin/
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Ezhno Martin, Poet & Publisher of EMP
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Ezhno doesn’t believe in pronouns! And is a long-time member of the Poetic Underground in Kansas City, with roots at Prospero’s Books and the Uptown Arts Bar. Ezhno’s collection Beautiful & Abominable is by Spartan Press. Ezhno is the founder of EMP, a growing empire specializing in publishing poetry. #Beer by Ezhno was their inaugural project. In 2017, EMP releases books by Samantha Slupski and others. www.facebook.com/EMPzine