Episode 41: Joshua Clover and Megan Kaminski

Episode 41 is a recording of a reading given by two phenomenal poets, Joshua Clover and Megan Kaminski, on April 16th, 2014, in Lawrence, Kansas, on the University of Kansas campus.

Joshua Clover is the author of two books of poems, The Totality for Kids (University of California Press) and Madonna anno domini.  Joshua writes the column Pop & Circumstance for The Nation, and teaches at the University of California Davis.

Megan Kaminski is the author of Desiring Map (Coconut Books) and seven chapbooks of poetry, most recently Wintering Prairie (Dusie).  Megan is an assistant professor of poetry writing at the University of Kansas, and she curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence, KS.

Episodes 36-40: Topeka Writers Workshop

After a long hiatus, I am going to upload several recordings together (Leah Sewell, C. Malcolm Ellsworth, Melissa Sewell, Timothy Volpert, and me), as episodes of the podcast.  Leah Sewell is a wonderfully talented poet, editor, and cook.  She is an assistant editor at Coconut Books, and also runs the phenomenal Topeka Writers Workshop.  I was honored to take part in the workshop last summer, and met many talented poets and writers in Topeka.  These recordings were made at our final reading, at the end of last summer.  Leah's book Birth in Storm was recently released from ELJ Publications, and I highly recommend it.

Episode 36: Leah Sewell
Episode 37: C. Malcolm Ellsworth
Episode 38: Melissa Sewell
Episode 39: Ben Cartwright
Episode 40: Timothy Volpert

Episode 35: Julianne Buchsbaum

Julianne Buchsbaum won the 2011 National Poetry Series Award for her third book, The Apothecary’s Heir, which is forthcoming from Penguin in May, 2012. Her other works include Slowly, Slowly, Horses from Ausable Press, and A Little Night Comes, from Web del Sol. Her poems have also appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Verse, and the Denver Quarterly. This episode of the Kansas Blotter podcast is a recording of Julie reading poems at the Raven bookstore on January 26^th, 2011. Poet Judith Roitman introduces Julie.

Episode 35: Julianne Buchsbaum

Episode 34: Stanley Lombardo

Stanley Lombardo is well known for his gorgeous translations of classical poetry, including the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. He is a professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, and one of the founding members of the Kansas Zen Center. This episode of the Kansas Blotter podcast is a recording of Mr. Lombardo reading sections of his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Raven bookstore, on April 26^th, 2011. Denise Lowe, former Kansas Poet Laureate, is the reader of Stan’s introduction. Poet Kenneth Irby can be heard assuring Stan that “skanky” is still commonly used in the vernacular.

Episode 34: Stanley Lombardo

Episodes 25-33: William J. Harris

Episodes 25-33 of the podcast are recordings of poems read by William J. Harris at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS on April 26th, 2011. William J. Harris is a member of the MFA/Creative PhD faculty at the University of Kansas. His books include Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House 1974), In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House 1977) and Personal Questions (Leconte Publishers, Rome, 2010). His work has been published in over fifty anthologies and he is the author of the critical work The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (University of Missouri Press 1985) and editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, second edition, 2000). Each of the podcast episode poems is read first in English, by William Harris, and then in Italian, by Crystal Hall, an Italian Renaissance specialist and associate professor in the department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

Episodes 19-24: Robert Knapp & Brian Miller

Episodes 19-24 of the podcast ("50 Degrees & No Jacket," "Jack London," "At the Races, Cards & Labor," "Terminal Dee," "Verse Projection, A1" and "Verse Projection, A2") are collaborations between poet Robert Knapp and sound engineer Brian Miller.

Icon, Barista, able to bend steel with one hand and roll a cigarette with another--Robert Knapp is a fixture of Lawrence, KS.


Here are the bios Brian and Robert provided for the podcast:

Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus.

Robert Knapp is a poet from Houston, Texas, and resides in Lawrence, Kansas. Printing is in progress, in between work-gigs and idle wildness.

Episode 018: excerpts from Distraction Contra Diaspora by Creed Shepard

Episode 018 of the podcast is a recording of some excerpts from poet Creed Shepard's forthcoming chapbook. Creed is a writer and resident of Lawrence, Kansas. His forthcoming chapbook, Distraction Contra Diaspora, is due out in the spring of 2011.