You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

Greetings and blessings upon all April fools! 

This episode we hear all about everyone's favorite network of wisdom from the future Poet Laureate of the Skies and the author of Latitude (2021), Natasha Rao. 

Natasha joins our educational programme to break down some important internet slang (NSFW, IRL, AMA, OP) and to debunk some common misconceptions about how to remove slugs from your garden. 

We also discuss: Writing on airplanes, what counts as a "project" in "project books," poetic color palettes, being lonely in the strip club, molten aesthetics, Bop-It, drunk slugs, gardening advice, grown-up blue, asking strangers for help, and German fashion magazines.

r/thanksforlistening!

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Good morning Earthlings! Season's greetings! Celestial seasonings!

For their last episode of 2024, Amelia and Alexandria talk about grief, 80s children's toys, and mixed metaphors with poet Miller Oberman, author of Impossible Things, just out from Duke University Press.

We also swim around in Star Wars spoilers, fatherhood, the long-forgotten American poet icon Adelaide Crapsey, too-large koi, bibliomancy, the boogers of the Great Salt Lake, angels, and Tilda Swinton in Viktor & Rolf.

Listen to learn once and for all the answer to the most challenging and pressing question humankind faces: if they're not monkeys, and they're not shrimp, then what the hell are they??

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In this uniquely timely episode of Poets Lie, Alexandria and Amelia ask poet T Bambrick (author of Intimacies, Received, 2022) to explain everyone's favorite American institution of higher learning: The Electoral College. Who goes there? How do you get in? What's the graduation rate? How does it put the "mid" in Midwest? Listen to find out (maybe).

We also get into: "Finland," Florida, skunks, alligators, Elizabeth Bishop and her ghost, ziplines, poetic lines, The UnTrimmed Bush, prose poems and/or essays, ex-long-distance-lovers, feeling sad.

Check in next month for something totally and refreshingly unrelated to current events.

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BLAMMO! Amelia and Alexandria are back with Season Two! Shaking off the crust of another hot goblin summer.

Did you miss us? Don't lie.

Our guest for this very special premiere out-and-about episode is Callie Siskel, expert loop-walker and author of Two Minds (Norton 2024).

On our journey we discuss the elegiac mode, the meditative silence of art museums, the difficulty of walking and talking, good gait, snacking every quarter mile, horse idioms, secret staircases, the smell of lust, the etymology of the word "awkward," the Los Angeles River, falling forward but not falling, and an out-and-back versus a loop. Plus, we debunk a pernicious rumor about Gene Siskel.

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Every year, in early spring, thousands of American poets flock to a city in the continental U.S. for a gathering known as Conference. What do they do there? What kind of business do they conduct? What is a “panel”?

In this very special episode, Amelia and Alexandria travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to try and answer these questions, and more, in their first foray into investigative podcast fabulism.

Babes, it's the season finale.

Featuring a brilliant clown car of beautiful poets:
Rebecca Bernard
Max Suzuki
Mitchell Jacobs
Jorrell Watkins
Bryan Byrdlong
Matt Broaddus
Madeleine Mori
Clancy Tripp
Alicia Wright
Kelly Hoffer
Kate Gibbel
Linda Harris-Dolan
Thomas Renjilian
Kate Greene
Rivka Clifton
and YSLPLTY intern-hopeful, Lindsey Skillen.

Will any of it make sense? 

Will our intrepid hosts make it out alive? 

Time to find out.

Who's ready to get bogged up?!

This month on YSLPLTY we're sitting down with Tracy Fuad to discuss her new book PORTAL (U Chicago Press 2024) and her deep and abiding love of land that is wet.

We also get bogged up about: The Corn Feed, Renaissance Faires, German buses, noise, permeability, (poetry) business trips, types of doors, "land that's wet," revenue streams, Jason's ladder, getting really bogged up at The Corn Feed, the bog queen, the bogosphere,  (de) and (re) composition, and Ye Olde Corne Feede.

"Bogs are the poets of the landscape--they're composing."

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Would you like it if we told you? If we told you about Napoleon? Would, would you like it?

On this episode we invite the poet Erin Marie Lynch, author of Removal Acts (Graywolf 2023), to debunk common misunderstandings about everyone's favorite short king. Or was he really a toxic tall?

We also get into the weeds with Amelia's favorite Gertrude Stein recording, Alexandria's inevitable conquering of The Great British Bake Off, ABBA, family hauntings, internet archives, the essential tenets of lawn care, Scientologist yoga studios, and billiards.

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This month we get symbiotic with Jesse Nathan, author of Eggtooth (Unbound Edition 2023), who tells us sweet lies about interspecies cooperation, dependence, and all kinds of dynamic relation.

Biological metaphors abound.

Also discussed: Discourse Barbie, making Dogs, cat litter(ature), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, dreaming relevantly, lying rhymes, the singing of the frog, the little shovel, and being used well.

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What do April Fools, alter egos, Sappho, and the cult classic 2001 film Scotland, Pa. have in common?

Find out in this special BONUS CONTENT from Alexandria and Amelia's interview with poet Elizabeth Metzger.

Don't underestimate her boldness.

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Let’s get mystical! Elizabeth Metzger -- author of Lying In (Milkweed 2023) -- tells it slant, brings us deep into the five-layer dip of consciousness, and reads Amelia and Alexandria (for filth??).

Also discussed: perfumery; head, heart, and base notes; the inevitable Emily Dickinson, inventor of tarot; wallpaper glue, bed rest, the unborn and the dead; and Amelia's bearded grandmother.

Time to ask the cards. Bug -- Land -- Moon --

Credit: The Emily Dickinson Tarot Deck we used is this one from Factory Hollow Press.

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