Lo Fi Lit

Nathaniel Duggan joined the show to talk about his book, Death Egg! He's a poet from Maine. Published by Back Patio Press Books ran by Zac Smith. Check out his reading this friday Sept 29th online at misery loves company. Check out their twitter for that info. The site to buy Death Egg is flatdogdistro dot bigcartel dot com

August Smith, a poet from Michigan, shares his journey from Michigan to Boston and eventually Austin, Texas. He discusses how the facebook group Alt Lit Gossip inspired him and helped him make new friends. August has been published in various literary publications and has a new chapbook translating Icelandic poetry. Topics discussed include his experiences in the poetry community, the motivation for creating more books, defunct literary presses, the evolution of craft in an MFA program, UFO poetry, fascination with unanswerable questions, writing experiences, crystal skulls and UFOs, and the subjectivity of reality and the power of poetry.

Jayson Keery is a poet from Western Mass and their first poetry collection is, "The Choice is Real" published by Metatron Press !

Spencer Williams reads poetry from a book she wrote. Duh. What else would she be reading from?

James Brubaker reads from his new novel - We Are Ghost Lit -

The speaker explores their fascination with UFO encounters and reads poems inspired by Nostradamus and erotic encounters with aliens. They discuss translating Icelandic poems, share two translated poems, and mention Ezra Pound's approach. The concept of poets translating languages, poems about aliens, and the influence of shows like 'Ancient Aliens' are also discussed.

I recall Mark Blickley from the Misery Loves Company reading series from over a year ago. Anyways, he's from New York and writes a lot of stuff. Like a lot of shit. Like he's a playwright. and a dramatist and poetryist? This story is one of the last stories Eris Aldrich read at the Misery Loves Company series. before she passed away.

On this special exclusive episode of Low Fi Lit, I invited some readers to hang out and chat and read their recent work. August Smith read some new poems about UFO's, James Brubaker selected a piece from his new book We Are Ghost-Lit and Spencer Williams read from her new book TRANZ (coming out next year)

I chatted with Jahz back in February. He's a doctor and writer from Venezuela. This is a sort of lost episode ! So, another guest I scheduled dropped through so I invited anyone to chat and Jahz came onto the feed. I crammed this down several times and I hope this comes out clear! There's no audio issues ! Lol

Tim Carter is a writer from Syracuse, New York. His new poetry book, The Pigs, (a short long poem) is out now from Dead Mall Press. We had a cool little conversation. Check it out. Here's his website for more. https://www.thcarter.info/ and here's the website to order the book - https://www.deadmallpress.com/bookstore ! Thanks