Lo Fi Lit

Reuben Gelley Newman is a poet and musician from New York. I'm stealing this from his website :"Reuben is a writer, musician, editor, and librarian-in-training based in New York City. Their poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Salamander, Fairy Tale Review, Northwest Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. You can find them online @joustingsnail (Instagram, Twitter); on Bluesky they post at @joustingsnail.bsky.social"

This is the first 45 minutes of the previous episode. It was over three hours so I thought I'd cut it down to a more reasonable length for the audience.

Wallace, Paul and August dropped by for a quick and fun hang out. Post - pop lit is explained within the first hour for those who are interested.

I met morgenrede through the misery loves company reading series on miserytourism. He came on today to promote his new book, Using Your Hand to Block Out the Sun. We talked about poetry and pinball.

I grabbed this from Emily's website :Emily K. Sipiora, M.A., is a poet from Northern Illinois and serves as a lecturer at Eastern New Mexico University. She is found in Spectra Poets, the Chicago Review of Books, and other publications.She's an awesome person and she made for a spectacular guest. Here are some of the poems we went over : https://spectrapoets.org/All-Life-by-Emily-K-Sipiorahttps://spectrapoets.org/Garrote-by-Emily-K-Sipiora

Beach Sloth is a historic blogger of alt lit. Everyone knows Beach Sloth. If you don't you can listen to this show and find out about Beach Sloth. Also, he likes music.

Jimin Seo is a poet. Hold up let's pick this part up from his website, "Jimin Seo was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and BA from Florida State University. He is the author of OSSIA, a winner of The Changes Book Prize judged by Louise Glück. His poems can be found in Action Fokus, The Canary, LitHub, Pleiades, mercury firs, and The Bronx Museum. His most recent projects were Poems of Consumption with H. Sinno at the Barbican Centre in London, and a site activation for salazarsequeromedina's Open Pavilion at the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism"Pick up his first book "OSSIA" today. Available now!!!

Wallace Barker is a poet from Austin, Texas. He came on today to promote his translation of Garcia Lorca's "Gypsy Romance" published by Farthest Heaven.

Spencer Williams is a poet. Check her new poetry book - Tranz published by Four Way Books. The first 17 minutes we chit chat about past guests Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan and Julianne Neely. Then we dig into the actual book - Tranz

Michael Washington has been published in Maudlin House. He's a big fan of Nathaniel Duggan, GG Rolland and Cavin Bryce G. We talk about that stuff and more. We discuss Dragonball Z and explicit material and Back Patio Press.