Sh*tty First Drafts

In this bonus episode of the podcast, we answer some questions posed by friends and listeners. We discuss writing techniques, routines, and pro-tips for getting started. We also attempt to tackle the age-old question: are you a Luna or an Earl? 

Some names we drop and things we reference in this episode: Paige Lewis’ book Space Struck, Kaveh Akbar, Tiana Clark, Sharon Olds’ poem “Sex Without Love”, Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones”, Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, The Upside of Being Down, McWho: An American Podcast for McFly, Sliding Doors, Katie Culligan, Rax King, Sam Edmonds, Spotify’s Deep Focus playlist.

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Jane tells us all about her tricks for drafting poems from fragments, how her cut/paste crew has overloaded gmail’s email thread capabilities, and fruit-based fashion.

You can find Jane’s spider poem in print here and read “Dream of the Lopsided Crown” in its entirety at The Volta. You can also follow her other projects on her website and give her a follow on Instagram!

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Shane jokes with Brynn and Stephanie about Kansas vs Missouri, writing his pieces backwards in his journals, and how a kid once flipped him off from a school bus window.

Shane’s story “The Gospel According to Charlotte Atwater” can be found in Midwestern Gothic: Summer 2015 Issue 18. You can find more of Shane’s work online, most recently at Bull: Men’s Fiction. 

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Meg Zinky, joins Brynn and Stephanie to discuss the appeal of experiential theater, #adulting, horse camp, and avoiding the cringe-factor of call-in radio shows.  Listen for a discussion of tapenade by three people who have never eaten or even seen tapenade! 

Know that we had to cut a 10-minute long discussion of American Girl Dolls and for that, we are deeply sorry.

Check out Meg’s website for a one-stop shop to check out her work. You can also find her on Instagram. 

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What do hip hop, Frank Miller Comics, and Jermiane Jackson all have in common? Our guest this episode: Black Atticus. We sing, we dance (in our chairs), we poem. It’s a goddamned delight! Have a listen and then tell all your friends! 

Find Black Atticus on Twitter and Instagram. Check out his bandcamp to hear the original recording of “The Heartline” and “Security Systems”. Shoutouts to the Woods family, the journalers, the 5th Woman, Good Guy Collective, Daje, and all the folks Black Atticus loves. 

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Surprise! We have another super special BONUS episode for you as a New Year’s treat. This time, SFD host Stephanie is in the hot seat reading poems and talking about her obsessive high school journaling, her almost-career as a photojournalist, and how poetry became her side chick. Live, Laugh, LOVE MACHINE.

Stephanie wants more followers on Twitter @stephaknees (and instagram!) and her work (fiction, this time!) can be found over at Entropy Magazine.

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For this very special episode we interview our own Brynn Martin about her work and get to know ½ of the SFD hosts. We talk about the elementary school poetry unit that rocked her little world, how she was forever changed by LOTR (though she wasn’t allowed to watch it), and how writing poetry has always helped her work through her personal problems.

Shoutout to our guest co-host for this episode, Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin, SFD episode 5)!

Extra shoutouts to Mr. Carter, Emilia Phillips, and Barb Martin, who taught, mentored, and birthed Brynn, respectively. 

You can follow Brynn on Twitter @brynnsie and find her poem, “My Mother’s Nipples” at Crab Orchard Review. You can read the original (yikes-y) Robert Hass poem at Michigan Quarterly Review. You can also read more of Brynn’s recent work at Five:2:One’s #thesideshow.

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Do you want to know what irrational fears Brynn and Stephanie had as kids and/or which eyeshadow colors properly expressed a young Chloe Hanson’s rebellion from The Man? Listen to this episode! We also happen to discuss two of Chloe’s poems, and the different approach she has taken with her writing while working through her PhD dissertation. 

You can follow Chloe on Twitter @mschanson. You can read her published poem, “Collected” on The Rumpus.

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CW: In this episode, suicide is mentioned and is part of the poem we discuss. Please don’t ruin your day for us. We’ll catch you on the next one!

Krista Cox almost went to law school, but instead became a poet and came on our podcast. Thank goodness! We discuss spreadsheets, only writing poems when you’re sad, and how to be the chillest muthafucka. 

Find Krista on her website and be sure to check out Doubleback Review! 

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Join Stephanie and Brynn as they talk with writer Rax King! Rax tells us about her hot take on Times New Roman vs Garamond, the strangeness of Elon Musk, and what it was like to be a baby burnout in high school.

Find Rax making jokes on Twitter at @RaxKingIsDead. You can read her poem “Things I can easily imagine Elon Musk doing” at Peach Mag. Buy Rax’s book!! Available from Ursus Americanus or from Rax herself!

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