Lo Fi Lit

Jennifer Espinoza comes on the show and we talk about poetry, ghosts and writing and Beachsloth and Erin Taylor, She has five new poems up on lofimag.com Badass conversation. Follow her substack - @jenespinoza twitter @sadqueerlife instagram @sadqueerlifeBuy her book - I Don't Want To Be Understood

I've copy/pasted this from the Sabr Tooth Tiger website :Madeline Blair is the mastermind behind Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine. A poet, editor, and award-winning filmmaker from Chicago, IL, she received her BA in Creative Writing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Okay Donkey, Burial Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Libre Lit, Raging Opossum Press, Ekphrasis Magazine, Orangepeel Magazine, and more. She was once quoted in The New York Times on her passion for clean air.

Claire Hopple is a writer currently living in Asheville, who works and edits for Zona Motel.Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Forever Mag, and others. She’s the fiction editor at XRAY. She grew up in the woods of Pennsylvania and currently lives in Asheville, NC.

Kirstie Mackenzie 's new novel ' Better to Beg ' is out now - published by Jillian Luft's Sweet Trash Press. She's a great writer and person. This was a great interview!!

Sebastian has returned to discuss Fresh, Green Life. We spoil the entire book . So read the book first.

Past guest and Alt Lit icon - Austin Islam Calls in again.

Jesse Prado, a writer and creative mind, joins Alexandra Naughton for a lively chat full of literary insights. They dive into summer reading plans, featuring titles by Gabriel García Márquez, Fitzgerald, and Nabokov. Jesse shares his experiences with writing constraints and the pressures of an upcoming East Coast tour. Nostalgia strikes as they riff on classic sitcoms and their preferences for character-driven shows. The duo also reflects on their early ambitions in screenwriting and the joys of reading poetry in everyday life.

What would've been a lost episode is now not . Back in the day poet Alexandra Naughton hosted a series of podcasts with her friends called 'That Lit Podcast' in 2014. On this episode she chats with a previous guest of the show - Ctch They speak on magazines, disorganization and ghosts! Enjoy

Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan, Gion Davis, Julianne Neely, Joshua Thermidor, Tim Livingston, and Spencer Williams all read today on a reading to celebrate Hell Yeah. Several of us including Rachelle Toarmino were pregnant and we held a brunch to celebrate her new poetry book, Hell Yeah by Third Man Books. Hell Yeah, Rachelle Toarmino’s fourth poetry collection might also be Rachelle's sixth book of poetry. It's almost confusing. Rachelle Toarmino is a pregnant poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Hell Yeah and That Ex, as well as several chapbooks, most recently My Science, winner of the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest.Her work has appeared in Poets.org, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Southeast Review, The Slowdown, and Omnidawn, which awarded her its 2024 Single Poem Broadside Prize. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize.

Rudy Johnson returns to show for a third time, to promote and discuss his new book, Kill Rudy Johnson. Pig Roast Publishing is putting it out. Or has. You can pick it up on their website. Check it out!