Expo Presents: Transposition

Join us on an audio journey as Zachary Eller reads his experimental fiction piece, “Little Planet.”  Expo editor Rebecca Luxton joins this week’s discussion to explore truth, wonder, and copyright in Zachary’s piece.  Read along at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-iv-wonder/little-planet/

Sound editing for "Little Planet" by Mitchell Evenson

Transposition is the official podcast of Exposition Review literary journal.  Find out more at: www.expositionreview.com 

About the Reader:

Zachary Eller is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Driftwood Press, Jubilay, Waxing & Waning, and others.

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Thank you to Mitchell Evenson for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Help us spread the word!  Please download, review, and subscribe to Transposition.

Hosted by Laura Rensing

Associate Producer: Mitchell Evenson

Join guest host Mellinda Hensley for a special episode between seasons one and two of Transposition! Join guests Mia Nakaji Monnier and Christopher Gonzalez for a chat about identity as a writer, the responsibilities of being an editor, and how the literary landscape is shaped. 

Find out more at www.ExpositionReview.com 

About the Guests: 

Mia Nakaji Monnier is a journalist and essayist. The daughter of a Japanese mother and a white, American father, she grew up moving frequently across the country and has lived in places including Northern and Southern California, Texas, Illinois, Washington, Vermont, and Kyoto, Japan. Her work often explores questions of identity, place, code-switching, anxiety, and how to write about a place or culture knowing that your knowledge of it will always be incomplete. She has written for The Washington Post; O, The Oprah Magazine; Shondaland; and more. She is also an avid knitter and loves learning other fiber crafts.

Christopher Gonzalez is the author of the story collection I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat, forthcoming from SFWP in fall 2021. His writing has appeared in the Nation, Catapult, the Millions, Best Small Fictions 2019, and elsewhere. He is a fiction editor at Barrelhouse and lives in Brooklyn, NY, but mostly on Twitter @livesinpages.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

In our final episode of our first season, listen to "Take a Bow," by playwright Garret Jon Groenveld, joined by Rudy Guerrero and Jason Frasier.  Read the issue free online at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v-act-break/take-a-bow/

About the Readers:

Garret Jon Groenveld is a poet and playwright living in San Francisco, California, with an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University and studied with Edward Albee at the University of Houston. He’s a founding writer of PlayGround and an inaugural member of the Writers in Residence program at the Playwrights Foundation. His plays include Missives  (BAPF 2004, prod. Theatre Rhino ’05, 59E59 ’08), The Serving Class (GAP ’10), The Hummingbirds (GAP ’12, Internationalist Global Playwrighting Prize, prod. Romania, Spain, Mexico), The Empty Nesters (commercial tour continues in Los Angeles in Sept. ‘20) and Disbelief (SF May ’20 – www.playground-sf.org for tickets).

ONE - Rudy Guerrero - https://rudyguerrero.com

BRIAN - Jason Frasier 

STAGE DIRECTIONS - Garret Jon Groenveld 

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Garret Jon Groenveld -

Rudy Guerrero 

Playground San Francisco / LA

Exposition Review Submission Guidelines: http://expositionreview.com/submission-guidelines/ 

Exposition Review's presentation, Unlocking LA: Creativity in the time of COVID, at LitCrawl on Saturday, October 24 at 3:30pm.  https://litcrawllosangeles2020.sched.com/event/eTYy/exposition-review-unlocking-la-creativity-in-the-time-of-coronavirus

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.  Sounds used: 

"Phone_ring.wav" by Adam_N

"Shop door bell.wav" by 775noise

"Wind, Realistic, A.wav" by InspectorJ

SF Street Sounds by dggrunzweig

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Hosted by Laura Rensing

Edwin Bodney reads his poem, “Prominence,” from Exposition Review’s Orbit issue.  We're joined by poetry editor CD Eskilson for the interview portion, who helps uncover the deeper meanings and inspirations behind the poetry.  Read along at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-iii-orbit/prominence/

About the Reader:

Edwin Bodney is an L.A. native and co-host of one of the largest poetry venues in the nation, Da Poetry Lounge. A nationally recognized poet, he has performed his work for an array of organizations like USC, UCLA, Lexus, TV1, All Def Digital, and Button Poetry. In 2016, he officially published his first book titled A Study of Hands with Not a Cult Press. Through his work, both on stage and in classrooms facilitating workshops, he hopes to transform his community in such a way that no one forgets their joy in the midst of all their healing.

Links from the Podcast:

Read Edwin’s Interview in our Orbit issue: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-iii-orbit/an-interview-with-edwin-bodney/

Read the Edwin’s selections of flash fiction from our Magnetism writing contest:

Buy Edwin’s book, A Study of Hands (sold through Bookshop): http://expositionreview.com/2018/06/flash-405-april-2018-magnetism-winners/https://bookshop.org/books/a-study-of-hands/9781945649011

Edwin’s publisher, Not a Cult - https://www.notacult.media/books/hands

Da Poetry Lounge - http://dapoetrylounge.com/

A growing list of BIPOC presses and literary organizations that could use your donations; http://expositionreview.com/2020/06/expo-recommends-amplifybipoc/

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Hosted by Laura Rensing

Sionnain Buckley reads her nonfiction piece, “Stranger, Brother, Stranger,” which won first place in our “Underneath the Words” themed Flash 405 contest.  We’re joined by Nancy Au who leads the interview in a beautiful conversation about craft, resilience, and flash sommeliers.

Read along at: http://expositionreview.com/flash-405/stranger-brother-stranger

About the Reader:

Sionnain Buckley is a writer, editor, and visual artist. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Winter Tangerine, Wigleaf, Strange Horizons, Autostraddle, and others. Her flash has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction, and won first place in Exposition Review's Flash 405 contest. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is an MFA candidate in Fiction at The Ohio State University. More of her work can be found at sionnainbuckley.com.

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About Guest Judge Nancy Au

Nancy Au’s essays, flash and short stories appear in Redivider, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Catapult, Lunch Ticket, SmokeLong Quarterly, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University where she teaches creative writing. She also teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus, and is co-founder of The Escapery (www.TheEscapery.org). Her flash fiction is  included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology, and her writing was named Best Short Fiction of 2018 by Entropy. She won The Vestal Review‘s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize, as well as Redivider‘s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her debut full-length collection, Spider Love Song & Other Stories, is forthcoming from Acre Books (University of Cincinnati) in September 2019. www.peascarrots.com.

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Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Hosted by Laura Rensing

Anthony R. Westenkirchner reads his experimental piece “Carried” from Exposition Review's Vol. V: Act/Break issue.  Read along at:  http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v-act-break/carried/

About the Reader:

Anthony R. Westenkirchner once killed a man in self-defense with an Oxford comma. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in the Mud Season Review, The Finger Literary Journal, Santa Ana River Review, Juste Milieu Lit & Art Zine, Genre: Urban Arts, 3Elements Literary Review, Bear Review, Owen Wister Review, Fearsome Critters, The Tulane Review, The Manhattanville Review, The Reject Pile, and Apparatus Magazine. A graduate of Loyola University Chicago, Anthony is a voracious reader who enjoys alpine skiing and witty condescension. He currently lives with his wife and their three children in Kansas City, Missouri.

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Hosted by Laura Rensing

Listen to Alessandra Castellanos read her poem "In Darkness with the Ramirez Sisters" from Exposition Review's Vol. II: “Surface” and as she talks about finding time to write...no matter how long your commute is.  Read along at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-ii-surface/in-darkness-with-the-ramirez-sisters/

About the Reader:

Los Angeles native, Alessandra Castellanos has been a gardener, barista, housekeeper, nanny, pool cleaner, and medical courier. She writes poetry, fiction, and memoir and loves reading paranormal romance novels. She is a neophyte art collector, poetry daemon, movie buff, Valkyrie, and keeper of cats, dogs, turtles, ceramics, and other small things. Alessandra’s works have appeared in Queen Mob's Teahouse, Barrelhouse, The Offing, Lunch Ticket, Journal, Duende, and many others. She’s been featured at LA Lit Crawl and at Viva La Muxer arts and music festival with her poems “Madre” and "She was Everyone's Leg Bones." Check her out at alessandracastellanos.com

Links from the Podcast:

Alessandra’s Website: www.alessandracastellanos.com

Support Alessandra through her Ko-Fi fan page here:https://ko-fi.com/alecastlawriter

Donate to the Las Fotos Project: https://lasfotosproject.org/donate/

Find out more about classes with Jack Grapes: http://jackgrapes.com/grapes_classes.php

Interested in the Poetry Salon?: https://www.thepoetrysalon.com/tps/

Exposition Review Volume II: Surface: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-ii-surface/

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.  Find out more at http://expositionreview.com/donate/

Hosted by Laura Rensing

In this episode, check out Angela Miyuki Mackintosh's stellar reading of her experimental piece, "Girls Like Us." Read the issue free online at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v-act-break/

About the Reader:

Angela Miyuki Mackintosh is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee (both 2019), her work has been published in Vice, Red Fez, Awakenings, The Nervous Breakdown, Eastern Iowa Review, and Writer’s Digest, among others. She is the executive editor of WOW! Women On Writing. Wow-womenonwriting.com.

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Hosted by Laura Rensing

An extra special episode where playwright A.J. Bermudez and her cast read "Spinning the Record" from Exposition Review's Act / Break issue.  Read the issue free online at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/

About the Readers:

A. J. Bermudez is a writer and director based in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been featured at the Yale Center for British Art, the National Winter Playwrights Retreat, and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. She is a National Merit Scholar, recipient of the Jameson Prize, a Writer’s Digest National Award Winner, winner of the 2017 Cinequest Film Festival screenwriting competition. She is the artistic director of The American Playbook, co-host of the podcast Two-Person Book Club, and was recently named one of the ISA’s Top 25 Writers to Watch in 2019.  If that’s not enough for you, Bermudez is also a former boxer and EMT.  Get ready to have her knock your socks off.   

ELIE - Hyojin Park 

CAMERON - Paul Pryce 

ANDY - Max Roll 

STAGE DIRECTIONS - A. J. Bermudez

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Hosted by Laura Rensing

Amanda Fletcher reads an excerpt from her nonfiction piece, "Off the Rails" and shares her favorite vintage bathroom Instagrams.  Read her full piece in Exposition Review's Vol. V: "Act/Break" issue, free online at: http://expositionreview.com/issues/

About the Reader:

Amanda Fletcher is the PEN America Emerging Voices (EV) Fellowship Manager as well as an alumna of the Emerging Voices program. If you haven’t guessed it yet, she’s an active member of the LA literary community. She is a regular contributor to Coast Magazine and the Orange County Register and has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, among many others. HALO: A Memoir will be her first book(!).

Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

Hosted by Laura Rensing