Under Review Radio: A Podcast on Sports & Writing

Jalen and Terry toast the final Friday Reads of 2021 with a look back, a look forward, and publication celebration!

Check out Jalen's new persona poem in HeadFake Hoops! https://medium.com/head-fake/confessions-of-a-golden-state-warrior-a08f794c9250

Interested in the books we talked about? It might not be too late to get them shipped, wrapped, and under the tree for a loved one or just for your damn self! Check out all the titles we mention and more over at BookShop.org.

Read ahead for the next author interview episode by picking up Moving in Stereo by Tom Trondson today! https://www.calumeteditions.com/moving-in-stereo/

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It's another episode of Friday Reads! Jalen and Terry dive deep into the world of delight that is Ross Gay and his poem 'Be Holding.'

Checkout Ross Gay's episode of Under Review Radio: https://open.spotify.com/episode/15VMWiGsVddelbOt04Mlod?si=5f13bc3410bb4e35

Be Camera, Black-Eyed Aperture by Ross Gay: https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/be-camera-black-eyed-aperture

Jalen's review of Be Holding in Issue 04 of the Under Review: https://www.underreviewlit.com/issue-4-summer-2021/be-holding-by-ross-gay

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Ross Gay joins Terry on this new episode of Under Review Radio!

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His new poem, Be Holding, was released from the University of Pittsburgh Press in September of 2020. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. 

Check out Ross's essay, 'Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I've Loved?' in Lit Hub

Dr. J's famous 'Up and Under'

NBA legends reacting to Dr. J's famous 'Up and Under'

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Jalen and Terry are back for another episode of Friday Reads. Before getting into things like writing prompts, their TBR lists, and NaNoWriMo, they pay tribute to the most deserving group of neanderthals in all of sports; KNICKS FANS!

Terry bends the rules of NaNo to his will, while Jalen has maybe already written 50,000 words since the last NBA Sunday Matinee Game! Then they discuss writing practice intentions for the month, Ross Gay, some poems, Terry feeling hella inspired from visiting a writing class, professional athlete book clubs, a new writing prompt segment, Ross Gay, and oh yeah, Ross Gay.

Links!!!

Jalen's book review of Be Holding by Ross Gay in Issue 04 of the Under Review: https://www.underreviewlit.com/issue-4-summer-2021/be-holding-by-ross-gay

Be Camera, Black-Eyed Aperture by Ross Gay in the Winter 2021 Issue of the Sewanee Review: https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/be-camera-black-eyed-aperture

The 1976 ABA Dunk Contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNTgdcBDqJ4&t=329s

And the greatest video in the history of the Internet: https://twitter.com/sidetalknyc/status/1451228149224718351?s=20

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Terry is joined by the Pushcart-nominated, Chapbook Contest-winning, hard-punching badass boxing poet Raisa Tolchinsky!

Raisa talks about her life in the ring, on the page, and how both are similarly scary and liberating. She also reads a bit from a manuscript in progress and dives deep into her creative process.

Raisa Tolchinsky hails from Chicago and is currently an MFA candidate and instructor at the University of Virginia. Her poems, essays, stories, and interviews have appeared in Kenyon Review, Muzzle Magazine, December, and elsewhere. You can find more of her work at www.raisatolchinsky.com. 

Raisa's poems in Issue 03 of the Under Review: Bless the Boxing Ring & Some Things You Can't Understand by Punching Harder.

Mentor of Raisa, Kiki Petrosino's website.

Vs podcast episode with Shira Erlichman.

SUBMIT to Issue 05 of the Under Review.

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Terry Horstman and Jalen Eutsey kickoff the new, bi-weekly series of Under Review Radio called Friday Reads!

Going forward, Under Review Radio will have alternating weekly episodes on the same feed as With the Call. So if you’re a subscriber, no need to re-subscribe. Every other Friday Terry will be joined by poet, basketball writer, podcaster, multi-time Under Review contributor, the Pushcart nominated Jalen Eutsey for a series of episodes we’re calling Friday Reads.

On these special Friday episodes, Jalen and Terry will talk about what we’re reading, writing, all the juicy Twitter discourse, and more through the lens of the literary world and also the sports world. The alternating weeks, on Thursdays, we’ll be publishing author interview episodes much like the 15 episodes of With the Call from last year.

On today’s episode, Jalen and I get into the Bad Art Friend discourse one last time, and relate it to the current melodrama taking place with the Philadelphia 76ers. Jalen had my favorite tweet of the whole Bad Art Friend discourse, and I won’t spoil it for you, but can let you know we get real weird with it.

Jalen's work with RazzBall.com

Jalen's perfect Tweet

Poems by Jalen in the Under Review: 'West Perrine, Florida' and 'Guitar Center'

Order the latest issue of Flagrant Magazine

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Terry is joined today by the author of the poetry collection, Plunder, which won the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize from Bauhan Publishing. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella, which was a runner-up in the CutBank Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, Southern Indiana Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Passages North, and elsewhere, including the football-themed issue of Boudin from the McNeese Review.

She holds an MFA in poetry from McNeese State University and a BA in English from Clemson University. She’s currently a PhD candidate in poetry at Florida State University and serves as a Poetry Editor for Southeast Review. She’s Dorsey Craft!

Follow Dorsey on Twitter at @DorseyCraft.

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Glenn Stout is the author of several acclaimed sports books like The Young Woman and the Sea, Fenway 1912, The Selling of the Babe, as well as history books about the Cubs, Dodgers, and Yankees. His latest book, Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, is not a sports book, but “a rip-roaring account of the Jazz Age’s most feared gangster couple,” which is out now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

In addition to his career as an author, Glenn served as the series editor for the entire 30-year run of the annual collection, The Best American Sports Writing, which published its final volume in 2020. However, Glenn has helped bring a new anthology to life called The Year’s Best Sports Writing, which will be published by Triumph Books in October and is currently available for pre-order.

Glenn and Terry get into the nitty gritty of the state of sports writing today, how much the genre has changed in the last three decades, what makes a great sports story with literary quality, his writing process and much more. 

If you enjoy With the Call, please follow the show wherever you get your podcasts and leave a five-star review, it helps grow the show a ton. If you’re listening to this episode on its release date, April 14, 2021, then you have one more full day to submit written work to the Under Review for consideration for our summer issue. If you have any sports writing that’s looking for a home, then please go to under review lit dot com slash submit to learn more.

Follow Glenn on Twitter at @GlennStout

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Terry is joined by the Under Review's design/web editor and fellow Oregon State alum JP Bertram to reflect on the Beavers' magical, storybook March Madness run.

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Terry is joined on today's show by author Juan Carlos Reyes! Remember folks, the Under Review is currently open for submissions for our fourth issue, which will be published this June! If you have any kinds of literary sports musings, either on paper or just floating around your noggin, then hit us up! We would love to see your work.

Juan Carlos Reyes has published the novella A Summer's Lynching (Quarterly West) and the fiction chapbook Elements of a Bystander (Arcadia Press). His stories, poems and essays have appeared in Florida Review, Waccamaw Journal, and Hawai’i Review, among others. He has been the recipient of the Gar LaSalle Artist Trust Storyteller Award, a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a Jack Straw Writers Fellowship. He received his MFA from The University of Alabama and has taught poetry and fiction with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. He sits on the board of the Seattle City of Literature organization and serves as an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Seattle University. He also serves as the chief editor of Big Fiction magazine (bigfictionmagazine.com).

Juan Carlos and Terry get into the nitty gritty of all the intersections of sports and storytelling, nerd out on some of our favorite sports novels we’ve read in the last year, and there’s a lot of basketball and baseball talk as well. Juan Carlos also shares an exclusive excerpt from his manuscript in progress. It’s a good hang. Thank you again, dear listener for being here, and we hope you enjoy this episode with the wonderful Juan Carlos Reyes.

Juan Carlos is also the author of the essay ‘Court of a Stolen Mixtape,’ which was published in Issue 3 of the Under Review and was the recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Nominee.

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