We are back from our hiatus! Well actually Kevin is still out there lost in NYC. If anyone sees him, please kindly direct him back to West Virginia. This week, we are joined by poet and scholar, Marty Cain. Marty is the author of Kids of the Black Hole, The Wound is (Not) Real, and The Prelude. We chat about reality television, his critical work regarding the beloved Frank Stanford, as well him stealing the title of his latest book from William Wordsworth.

Buy Marty's Books!

https://www.tremblingpillowpress.com/kids-of-the-black-hole/

https://www.tremblingpillowpress.com/the-wound-is-not-real-a-memoir/

https://actionbooks.org/marty-cain-prelude/

Read Marty's essay on Frank Stanford!

https://jacket2.org/article/it-wasnt-dream-it-was-flood

Checkout Garden-Door Press, which Marty runs with his spouse, Kina Viola-Cain!

http://www.garden-doorpress.com

The opening to this episode is a recording of Frank Stanford reading his poem "Linger" and is taken from his film, It Wasn't a Dream: It Was a Flood.

Music for this episode: "Kids of the Black Hole" by The Adolescents

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We are joined by two special guest: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (@woodlandraised), the author of Sleepovers, and Scott McClanahan, the author The Sarah Book, Crapalachia, and more. We talk about rural writing, stereotypes, A&E's hit series I Survived, but mostly The Byrds. Be sure to support them by buying their books.

Link to Sleepovers: https://bookshop.org/p/books/sleepovers-stories-ashleigh-bryant-phillips/13002637?ean=9781938235665

Link to Ashleigh's website: https://ashleighbryantphillips.com/

Link to Scott's website: http://hollerpresents.com/scott.html

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This week we are joined by Emeran Irby (@emeranirby), Emma Honcharski (@emma.honch), and Howard Parsons (@bruce_pancake) of Dinner Bell Mag to talk about food, their editing process, and the intersection of art/writing.

"Dinner Bell is a food magazine and multi-media project. It serves as a creative space for anyone to experiment with how they write about food. We use the theme of food loosely, as we acknowledge that stories about food are perhaps not about food at all. We publish stories about food that exist outside of the traditional food writing framework. Submitting to Dinner Bell is free and open to all.*- via the Dinner Bell website (https://www.dinnerbellmag.com/)

Dinner Bell Vol. 3 is coming soon! In the meantime, join their newsletter and lookout for their upcoming Substack.

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This week Alicia Wright joins the podcast. Alicia is a poet, critic, and editor of the literary journal Annulet. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ecotone, and jubilat, among others. She is a PhD candidate in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver and a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Read Annulet's latest issue: https://annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Issue-4

Check out Alicia's website: http://jaliciawright.com/

Follow her on Twitter @aliciaawwright

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This week we welcome poet and writer Graham Irvin to the show. We talk about liver mush and Liver Mush (Back Patio Press, 2022); the internet community of writers; secrete poetry readings in through bathroom trapdoors with smoke machines; the origins of snapping at readings and more.

Graham Irvin lives in Philadelphia. His writing has been published by Hello America Lit, HAD, Joyland, and other places. He is a reader and editor at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. His first book Liver Mush was published by Back Patio Press in 2022. 

Link to Liver Mush: https://backpatiopress.bigcartel.com/product/liver-mush-by-graham-irvin-pre-order

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Author Joe Hall joins the podcast this week. We talk about his forthcoming book, Fugue and Strike (Black Ocean, 2023); the importance of sanitation workers; garbage as a weapon of the proletariat; the social conditioning of anti-communism in America and more.

Joe Hall is a Buffalo-based writer and reading series curator. His five books of poetry include Fugue & Strike (2023) and Someone’s Utopia (2018). He has performed and delivered talks nationally at universities, living rooms, squats, and rivers. His writing has appeared in places like Postcolonial Studies, Poetry Daily, Best Buds! Collective, terrain.org, Peach Mag, PEN America Blog, dollar bills, and an NFTA bus shelter. He has taught poetry workshops for teachers, teens, and workers through Just Buffalo and the WNYCOSH Worker Center. Get in touch with Joe at joehalljoehall.com.

green_space hosted by Joe Hall and Jake Reber: https://anchor.fm/green-space3

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Photo Credit: Pat Cray (@yungpainkiller)

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Episode #1 is finally here and I talk with the great Kevin Chesser. We discuss the Traveling Appalachian Revue; living in West Virginia and entertaining the thought of leaving; tourism and extraction capitalism; intersections between his music and writing process and a ton more. Music in this episode is from Kevin's project, Wizard Clipp, which features him on banjo and Rebecca Wudarski on guitar. Stay tuned for a reading of Kevin's work at the end of the episode.

Kevin Chesser is a writer and musician who lives in West Virginia.

Link to Kevin's Website: www.kchesser.com

Link to Kevin's Music Project: https://wizardclipp.bandcamp.com

Link to Elegy on Pearl Mountain: https://drdoctordrdoctor.com/elegy-on-pearl-mountain-pt-1-aba25484c298

IG: @sweat_michaels

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