The Idiom Podcast

Mark Brunetti and Keith Baird talk about Volume 9 Issue 4 of The Idiom....in fact the podcast is now going to be more Idiomcentric and focus more on the magazine and poetry and poets that are published in it.

The podcast will be released, along with each issue, 5 times a year. Mark and Keith will analyze and discuss some of the works, and will feature guests who are also in the issue.

Chris McIntyre is the creator of Walking English, a literary blog that contains the words of him and his friends. You can see videos of him reading his work at Cornelia Street Cafe at The Idiom Youtube Page. He has helped to edit the Idiom Anthologies and lives with 2 cats in Long Branch. On Walking English he is Mac.

The second half of this podcast was recorded at Chris McIntyre's house with Erin Baird and their two cats, Warren and Regina. Chris goes into detail about where his poems come from and the stories that inspired them. We talk about how time takes a part in Chris's poems and a comparison of his work with Langston Hughes, the use of white space in his pieces, and what it's like growing up living by a train. We end the podcast talking about his connection with music and the sound of his shorter pieces.

In this podcast we discuss Ron Kolm's three part poem, "Divine Comedy". This podcast is the second half of the first one we recorded with him and we released it in celebration of his chapbook release with the same title. You can find his chapbook, "Divine Comedy" on Amazon.

We talk to fellow podcaster, poet, and writer Bud Smith about the website Theliteraryunderground.org

a site with plenty of information and literary things that take place in the not so mainstream literary canon.

This podcast took place at AWP in Boston. Guest hosting with Mark Brunetti were some of the graduates of the William Paterson MFA creative writing program, Bobby Fischer, Tim O'Donnell, and Charlie Riccardelli. We list off some of the magazines and books and publishing companies we liked. We discuss what drives us to buy a book by an author we never read and the literary figures we would kiss. We end it with a titilating reading of The Ring Muscle a ceremonial piece of erotic fiction that gets read every year in the after hours of the conference....unfortunately I decided to shake my ipad as the file was normalizing and we lost part of it.

Check out the idiom blog, www.theidiommag.wordpress.com to see links to the different things we mention in the podcast.

Chris McIntyre is the creator of Walking English, a literary blog that contains the words of him and his friends. You can see videos of him reading his work at Cornelia Street Cafe at The Idiom Youtube Page. He has helped to edit the Idiom Anthologies and lives with 2 cats in Long Branch. On Walking English he is Mac.

This fourth podcast was recorded at Chris McIntyre's house with Erin Baird and their two cats, Warren and Regina. Chris goes into detail about where his poems come from and the stories that inspired them. We talk about some of our musical tastes growing up and some of the exact words that give his poems their strenght. We also discuss his use of pop culture, historical, and literary references and their use in his work.

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Josh Ballard is a writer and performer from New Jersey. A 2-time Grand Slam Champion and nationally touring spoken word poet, Joshua has competed numerous times on national stages. He facilitates youth and adult workshops on writing and performance, and has been published several times in numerous publications.

Our third podcast was with Josh Ballard. He has a book out with Piscataway House Publications, so check the main site for details on that....this interview we talked about one of Josh Ballards poems and then had a little discussion about one of his essays....Josh responded great to our horrendous claims whether they were real or not...I wish I was more articulate and could explain myself better in front of people...at least as well as when I'm pacing the hallway and explaining to Keith my argument about the things we talk about....ah well here are the pieces, heres the interview:

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Ron Kolm is a member of the Unbearables, and an editor of several of their anthologies; most recently The Unbearables big Book of Sex! Ron is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine and a senior editor of the Evergreen Review. He is the author of The Plastic Factory and, with Jim Feast, the novel Neo Phobe. Kolm’s papers were purchased by the New York University library, where they’ve been catalogued in the Fales Collection as part of the Downtown Writers Group.

We met with Ron in the Lower East Side at The Gathering of the Tribes run by Steve Cannon. We discuss these two poems and specificaly about Death as a metaphor and exactly who the narrator is in his solidor poem. Ron tells us about his experience working in different factory jobs and where the idea of Hand Jobs came from.

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Ink draws from his experiences in central New Jersey, where he can be found hugging perfect-bound and loose leaves alike as if they are not paper-cut-capable. His poetry appears sporadically in print and online journals as bait with which to garner readership for his 4 chapbooks and first formal collection, "Miserable with Fire" (2011). Ink is also one of six poets in the modern haiku/senryu collection, "5, 7, then 5…." He has a fiendish addiction to all things caffeinated and a thorough knowledge of how to waste time. Ink’s next book, "Death Loves a Drinking Game," is due out in 2013 via Piscataway House Publishing as part of their Duel Book series.

For more, check out www.inksblot.com.

Our first ever podcast is with Ink a regular to The Idiom Magazine and the local New Jersey poetry scene. We talk about the importance of line breaks and if there's any meaning behind the number of lines used in stanzas in some of his pieces. Mark and Keith speculate the meaning behind some of Ink's poems and he is there to reveal the truth.

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