Bizarre is a weirdo poet / performer who runs Bizarre Publishing House and the infamous God Pussy open mic reading series over on twitter. We recorded this way back in the day in Dec

GG Roland returns in this two hour action packed episode where we partake in many beverages .

Tom Snarsky, Cletus Crow, Hannah Smart, ZH Gill, GG Roland, Rudy Johnson, August Smith, Katie Frank come on for a huge mega show panel and we discuss a variety of great topics.

We discuss Meat Puppets, Hannah Smart's new book, and read poetry, and talk about DFW and his works, puppets. music, writing, publishing, and we take care of Katie Frank as she trips out on mushrooms.

Tom Snarsky came on to promote Mountebank, his new poetry collection and Cletus Crow also came to promote his new book Flying Higher. On the first episode of the lofi show, David Gladfelter takes over, essentially and acts like a complete and utter ass. He throws tantrums at myself and my guests about one of the audience member's poems - Lily.

From an upcoming episode Gladfelter from response_pod takes over and asks the guests about publishing to Rudy and August Smith and the other guests.

Katie Frank is an editor of Hobart Pulp and has been published in Hobart, Burial Mag, and muumuu house, There's extra content with Katie coming on the lofipod youtube channel.

From the hobart editorial team - Joe Nasta and I discussed the ins and outs of Hobart and writings and poetry from their own life. We discuss poetry, Walt Whitman's boys and Cletus Crow adn Ginger Jones and skinny - dipping and working on ships and fiction and many other things.

Zuleyha is the co-founder of Leavings literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in Adroit, North American Review, Salamander, Nimrod, Northwest Review, Palette, Four Way Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee.

Kyle Hays was a peer of mine back in 2011 - 13 . He's a fiction writer and has been published in Juked, The Seattle Review. He teaches at Tulsa Community College and we talk shop, Brandon Taylor's book 'Minor Black Figures' and philosophy on community and writing. Enjoy!

Rachel Hyman is a software engineer and also an engineer of communities and is a cool person . Met her through the Zona Motel publication. She once ran Banango Street and Banango Lit.

Which was a huge operation. She's pretty dope and was cool enough to agree to join the show. She's been published by Big Lucks Review as well . She is an iconic Chicago person too.

Gion Davis is a poet and returns to talk about his new poetry book, "Designated Stranger"

Also go see him read at the Publishing Genius reading happening this weekend in Baltimore.