Lo Fi Lit

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.

Erin Taylor (they/ them) was chill enough to come on and open up about their life, about their poetry and friends and experiences in life. We talk about anarchy, poetry and "Bimboland" and about their time in New York and L.A. and other places. "Bimboland" is their first book of poetry. It's published by Archway Editions. I asked Erin to read "Love Language" from Stacey Teague. That was in the spinoff - a magazine in New Zealand. Because Stacey is a cool poet, too. Happy holidays people.

Tyler Byrne interviews Ashley Obscura, founder of Metatron. They discuss the challenges of sustaining a literary project, expanding the press, creating space for poets, collaborations, the intersection of VR and writing in video games, community support, and the importance of failure and learning from it.

Today, I spoke with Will Mountain Cox - author of Roundabout. This is his debut novel. We recorded the conversation at three am. Love a good three am recording. He's friends with Lucy, Oscar, Gian and used to frequent Mellow Pages. This was a terrific conversation. I asked many questions Paris and let's go. Also, he published an anthology about young artists in Paris called 'With Paris in Mind" in 2019. This was a lot of fun.

Cav from backpatio press came on. We talked. He has a dog,

Past guest Mary Boo Anderson published Demolition Derby in the latest issue of Sixth Finch dot com. So I tried to analyze it!Check them out.

Catch, from ctchfest and sad spell press, discusses the evolution of the indie lit festival, financial challenges in pursuing a career, dynamics within the creative community, working on a short film, online festival plans, experiences traveling and meeting famous people.