Listen as Dane and I discuss writing origins, periods of writers’ block, a bit o’ writing influences, and a TON of meandering philosophical ideas regarding life, death, consciousness, social media, religion, language, and who knows what else. And of course, we also read poetry.

Dane grew up in Temple, TX, studied classics at Notre Dame, and moved to Austin eight years ago. An artist who made a pragmatic turn, he learned to build software and discovered how beautiful digital machinery can be. He returned to writing and performing poetry last year after a long hiatus and draws inspiration from french philosophy and the modernists, specifically Gilles Deleuze and D.H. Lawrence. Find him performing at poetry open mics around town.