Braden is the show's first poet and his work has varied focuses, but it always maintains a strange and beautiful, outward facing interest in the world. From the small wars between ghost crabs and seagulls, the obstinate poverty of Detroit, and the chasm of unsaid words to a beautiful woman on a train, Braden Bell's poetry is always intriguing. 

Conversation Topics: poetry, writing, scriptwriting, treatments, Norway, travel, Detroit, Portland, revitalization, poverty, gentrification, typewriters, letter writing, structure, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, nostalgia.

Read Braden's work at Exquisite Corpse, The Commonline Journal, and systemdetroit.com. 

Music by:

MUSH

ludwig danson

If you would like to submit a literary short story or narrative non-fiction between 1,000 and 4,000 words, or works of poetry, please submit to:

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