Episodes
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
James H. Duncan
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
James H. Duncan is a writer of poems, stories, and more, and is the editor of Hobo Camp Review, https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/ He is the co-host of the Troy Poetry Mission monthly reading series. His newest poetry collection, We Are All Terminal But This Exit Is Mine, is available from Unknown Press, starting Halloween 2017. Earlier books by James have been published by Epic Rites Press, Hobo Camp Press, and Maverick Duck Press. His work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, Pulp Modern, American Artist, Full of Crow, Drunk Monkeys, and other publications. James currently resides in upstate New York. For more about James H Duncan and his books, visit www.jameshduncan.com
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Janne Karlsson, Artist-Writer-Publisher
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Janne is an insanely productive artist/writer/publisher residing in Linköping, Sweden. Over the years, his often bizarre and surreal work has been published in hundreds of publications around the world. His many books (including collaborations) are available here and there. He is also publisher at the artisanal press Svensk Apache. When he´s not busy trying to live off his art, he also teaches and works odd hours in the psychiatric health care section. Janne has 2 sons aged 20 and 17 and next year will see the wedding between him and his beloved Mikaela.
Follow Janne Karlsson and Svensk Apache at www.svenskapache.se & www.nouw.com/svenskapache
Friday Oct 20, 2017
Brenton Booth, Writer
Friday Oct 20, 2017
Friday Oct 20, 2017
Brenton is a writer of poetry, short stories, novellas, and plays. Home is Sydney, Australia, where he wrestles blue pens and notepads, not crocodiles. Brenton started writing when he was 19 and began sending the literary journals when he was 24. After nearly 10 years of rejections he had his first poem published. Since then he has been published in over 100 international journals and anthologies including 3AM Magazine, Chiron Review, Epic Rites Press, Pski’s Porch, Van Goghs Ear and Nerve Cowboy. He is the author of the full length poetry collection “Punching the Teeth from the Sky” and the chapbook “Drowned as the Fish” which is part of Epic Rites Press “Punk Chapbook Series 2017”. He recently took part in a 550 page anthology celebrating the life of Vincent Van Gogh “Resurrection of a Sunflower” from Pski’s Porch and is editor of the upcoming literary journal “The Asylum Floor” which will feature the work of Wolfgang Carstens, James Decay, Matt Borczon, Catfish McDaris and Janne Karlsson in its inaugural issue.
Follow Brenton Booth at https://brentonbooth.weebly.com/
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Brandon Eisman / Deja Brooks
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Brandon has been performing, and competing in, the art of drag since 2004. And he has a passion for building an accepting and caring community, starting with his home-base of Lawrence, KS. Brandon created the fabulous event, Transformations, where community members coached by female impersonators, compete pageant-style as their most beautiful diva selves to raise awareness and funds for local service organizations. #BringOnTheMen is one theme of the 7th annual Transformations which features 10 male competitors.
As a female impersonator, Brandon becomes the beautiful-in-all-the-ways Deja Brooks and is in demand as a special host for fundraising events, story hour for children at the public library, as well as cabaret-style events.
Follow Brandon & Deja at www.facebook.com/Deja-Brooks-443916735641817 and www.TransformationsLawrence.com
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Nino Cipri, Writer
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
Nino is a queer and nonbinary/transgender writer. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has written fiction, essays, plays, screenplays, comics, radio features, and many rabble-rousing emails. They have also performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nightmare Magazine, Tor.com,Cicada, Fireside Fiction, Liminal Stories, and other fine venues. One time, an angry person on the internet called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty cool. You can find them online at ninocipri.com
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Wolfgang Carstens with Todd Cirillo, Poets & Publishers
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Friday Oct 13, 2017
Wolfgang Carstens is a Poet, Host of Poets Underground, and Publisher at Epic Rites Press. He is: Crudely Mistaken For Life (2010), The Abyss Gazes Also (2013), Factory Reject (2014), Only The Dead (2015), Enjoy Oblivion (2015), Rented Mule (2015), Savage Love (2016), Trash and ash (2016), Bulletproof (2017), Raising The Dead (2017), and now, Hell and High Water, from Six Ft. Swells Press (October 2017). Wolfgang lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada with his wife, five kids, grandson, dog, mortgage and death.
Follow Wolfgang at www.EpicRites.org & www.WolfgangCarstens.com
Todd Cirillo is a Poet, Editor, Co-Founder of Six Ft. Swells Press, Pirate, and Lover of: After Hours Poetry, jukeboxes in seedy bars, the blues, rock & roll, Bukowski, Corso, Kerouac, free cocktails, vinyl records, beer, full moon nights, books, lust, the 10 minutes before getting kicked out of bars, in his hometown of New Orleans, LA and elsewhere.
Follow Todd at http://AfterHoursPoetry.com
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Kimberly Ann Priest, Poet
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Kimberly is an MFA graduate in Creative Writing from New England College, already holding an MA in English Language & Literature from Central Michigan University. A proud Michigan native, she has taught composition and creative writing courses for Central Michigan University and Alma College, and participated in local initiatives to increase awareness concerning sexual assault and domestic violence issues. Her academic and creative writing carefully observes the intersections between motherhood, domesticity, abuse, religion, sexual identity, and sexual trauma; and her poetry has appeared in several literary journals including The 3288 Review, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Storm Cellar, Temenos, Ruminate Magazineand The Berkeley Poetry Review. In 2018 her first chapbook White Goat Black Sheep will be forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She currently teaches in Oklahoma.
Follow Kimberly at https://kimberlyann19772.wixsite.com/kimberlyannpriest