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Gion Davis is a poet from New Mexico and they are a part of 'Clementine Is Right' with Mike Young and many other cool people.Gion published Too Much in 2022. We spoke about how they grew up in New Mexico, their relationship with their parents. They read several poems on this episode. Just recently they published a new poem on Ghost City Press. You can check in on them by following them on twitter at @gheeontoast

New episode! Gion Davis is a poet from New Mexico. I’ve been up too long. As I was putting this up I heard things I could edit out - HAD to be edited out so I had go through that process and I think it is superior, though.. No episode is ever perfect. Never perfect enough. I can not process thoughts into a coherent logical statement. Gion is a poet. That’s all I can muster. Okay. Clementine Is Right. Mass. University. Too Much was published in 2022. They’re from New Mexico – check out their new work in Ghost City Press, and PeachMgzn and other sites.

Thank you ! DA !!! God, this was an event. It's been a rough day. This conversation was a delightful distraction from everything else going on. I can't wait for everyone to hear it! Let's move on and out and upwards and outwards. I'm trying. Trying to make it to tomorrow.For like an official description I stripped this from https://poets.org/poet/d-powell"Powell is the author of the trilogy of books Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Lunch (Wesleyan University Press, 2000); and Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998). His poetry collection Chronic (Graywolf Press, 2009) received the Kingsley Tufts Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent books are Repast: Tea, Lunch, Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2012)"

I chatted with a very game Paul Hanson Clark about a lot of things. We spoke about stuff. He was great. I hope to have him return. I only went 90 mins because I feel like two hours woulda wasted a potential return. Like because one hour is never enough time but two hours can feel like too much. 90 is perfect. I think. Paul is a returning guest from an earlier episode. He's from Nebraska! He knows Austin Islam and Ctch. That's why he recorded an episode with Austin, earlier in the year.

Sean came on the show . He wrote Fuccboi

Last night I chatted with Jake Blackwood. Dude has stories on Misery Tourism as well as a slew of other sites like Trash World, and SCAB Magazine. Has a youtube channel as well "jakeblackwood" and you can follow him on twitter at @JBlackwoodsays.

Rachelle Toarmino, author of That Ex, discusses challenges in creating a venture and finding motivation. They talk about their love for poetry, discover Metatron, and discuss balancing fun and seriousness in their writing. They share admiration for Lucy K Shaw, discuss friendship with Sarah Jean, and collaboration with creative individuals. They explore expertise in history and small press publishing, the challenges of book promotion, and creating a genre. They mention upcoming events and workshops related to poetry.

Shy Watson and Ctch join the program on a late night to discuss stuff. We hang out. We party. They share stories. Watson is a writer. She writes prose and has a novel coming out. We talk about a story Shy wrote and published on "fence" Ctch returns from an earlier episode.

Ben Fama, a highly respected poet and novelist, discusses navigating literary institutions versus the grassroots scene, Lana Del Rey's poetry book and the power of collaboration, the timeline and influence of Occupy Wall Street, designing a subversive magazine, exploring the queer literature scene in New York, and exploring dark thoughts through writing.

Paul Hanson Clark and Austin Islam came onto to chat with me about their lives and experiences writing poetry and living out their lives together. It was a holiday episode. There was nothing to promote much. We chat about PeterBD and New York and some Alt Lit people and many other people. Have fun. Enjoy.