Every time Jason Baldinger writes a new book, it’s his best book, and so for this new podcast we have a hard time, because Jason is here to talk about two new books: The Better Angels of our Nature and Everyone’s Alone Tonight, co-written with the great Kansas City poet James Benger. In the course … Continue reading Episode 78: The Better Angels of Our Nature

For the last 11 years, mutants have been invading Pittsburgh at the end of August, and we’re talking to two of the people responsible, Dusty Hanna and Erica Moulinier. In this podcast, we look behind the scenes and into the inner workings of Skull Fest. Actually, most of the time we just sit around and … Continue reading Episode 77: Enter the Skullcast 11

For this episode, we’re taking a different approach. Instead of an artist promoting a new creation, I sit down with Noah Gainer, someone I’ve known since he was 5, and we have an in-depth conversation about what it means now that he has joined me in adulthood. In the process, we resist nostalgia. We talk … Continue reading Episode 76: You’ve Known Me Your Entire Life

Barbara Barrow is a professor and novelist. In this episode we discuss her wonderful new novel The Quelling at length, and her academic monograph Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry briefly. Along the way, we extend this podcast’s already extended conversation about human dignity, we also touch upon the potential monstrosity of medicine, the … Continue reading Episode 75: She Will Never be Quelled

For the last 45 years, Hemingway’s has been the host of a summer poetry series. Founded by the late Jimmy Cvetic, the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series has been a place where academics have met street poets and shared their voices, and the series has become a foundation of the Pittsburgh literary community. Joan E. Bauer … Continue reading Episode 74: Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series

For this episode, old friend and repeat guest John Charney and I muse in a graveyard about how words and music do and do not get along as means of artistic expression. This is the continuation of a conversation we’ve had for about 20 years now, and I’m not convinced this podcast is the final … Continue reading Episode 73: Music and/or Lyrics

In this episode, Taylor Grieshober stops by to discuss her wonderful new collection of short stories entitled Off Days on Low Ghost Press. Also, I mispronounce her name 4 of the 5 times I say it, you’re going to have to Google “interregnum” if you don’t already know what it means, and like all good … Continue reading Episode 72: Taylor Grieshober’s Off Days

In this first new episode in a while, Janette Schafer, Cedric Rudolph, and I discuss a new collection of creative writing entitled The Dreamers Anthology that celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank. During our conversation we discuss the process for editing creative works and we read some … Continue reading Episode 71: The Dreamers Anthology

John Villegas is alive and addicted to creating and discovering.  I know him best as the proprietor of Cruel Noise Records, but he also is in 4 bands: Drug Lust, Peace Talks, De Rodillas, and Detainees.  The Cruel Noise podcast teaches people all over the world about punk. He also writes some great cassette reviews … Continue reading Episode 70: It’s Weird to be Alive

In an attempt to forge new frontiers of podcastdom We’re All Gonna Die tries our hand at podcasting over the phone, and I’m sorry about the constant hum.  I ran noise reduction and the compression software multiple times, and well…it’s at least an amusing conversation between myself, Stephanie Brea, Jason Baldinger, and all the way … Continue reading Episode 69: Party Line