Lo Fi Lit

Caro founded Food Court Books and has been published in many places like AUP New Poets 5, and OUT HERE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TAKATĀPUI AND LGBTQIA+ WRITERS FROM AOTEAROA. They've written dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions, and trillions of poetry chapbooks. They've worked on 'We Are Babies' press with Stacey Teague and Ash Davida. Caro now lives in America, after living in New Zealand for about a decade.

Sebastian Castillo, a published author, discusses his latest book and the challenges of book sales. He shares insights on rewriting, the protagonist's journey of self-discovery, writing structures, and constraints. They also explore writing with an elevated literary voice and reflect on the impact of cultural decline on the arts.

Kristen Felicetti is a writer and the founding editor-in-chief of The Bushwick Review. Her work has appeared in The Creative Independent, Hobart, The Rumpus, and Shabby Doll House. Kristen conducts, organizes and plans literary events and readings.She's an ambitious and creative talent with a lively personality. What a trip! I feel quite lucky to have snagged her for the show. Please enjoy!

Lucy K Shaw, the author of Woman with Hat, discusses topics such as researching ethical pet practices, teaching English online, anticipation of war in Ukraine, ethical storytelling, starting a magazine, and future writing projects.

Yvonne started hanging around the Shabby Doll House reading group awhile back so I invited her on and we sat down and chatted away abt many cool and kick-ass subjects!We opened with her poem from the advent calendar. And later on she reads it again. She's pretty cool. She's an editor down at Berkeley for Ki magazine which is connected to Parle Qui - another magazine down there. We discussed strikes, literature, and movies from China.Follow her twitter account @obliscentis ! And subscribe to Ki magazine in the future :ki - Qui Parle (berkeley.edu)

Talked with Aeon Ginsberg (ey/em, she/her) - author of Greyhound - published by Noemi press in 2020. And many other places like 'In The Mood Mag'We discussed their poetry, movies, and wrestling, The Rock, and the Fast and the Furious movies and professional wrestling! On this episode my microphone had my voice pretty low. Sounds like I'm in the background, also, we recorded in the morning. My head was not in the game. One of the several finest poetry editors of Peach Mgzn!!They live in Baltimore City, MD and work as a bartender! Aeon was a blast! I wanna hang out with Aeon again. Check out their twitter at @aeonfx.

Today, I pulled together a couple clips from past readings over ten years ago. These are clips from Sarah Jean Alexander and Lucy reading from shabby doll house mixtape vol one and Lucy reading from the mixtape vol 2 circa 2013 (?)There's no analysis!!! Just me hosting the clips that's all!!!! I'm experimenting with hosting clips and stuff. I hope Sarah Jean and Lucy don't send me a ceast and desist! Here are the links to the original readings. THE MIXTAPE vol. 1 | shabby doll house (bandcamp.com)THE MIXTAPE vol. 2 | shabby doll house (bandcamp.com)Check out the shabbydollhouse.com for news, and updates. I've also used Lucy's songs from her youtube, "Sweet Escape" from Nicole Diver and the Post-War Surfers for the intro and outro! Sweet Escape - YouTubeLUCY'S NEW BOOK, "WOMAN WITH HAT" COMES OUT THIS SPRING! 'Dolly Noted" is a new show about Lucy and the shabby doll house and maybe Caroline and Sebastian.

On today's episode I spoke with W.T. Joshua - he lives and works in Buffalo, New York!We discuss his professional photography career - his days as a slam poet and his continued interests in the world of poetics. He, also, reads a poem of he's currently working on!! Also, in the beginning he was locked out of his studio and that is where the episode picks up!! That's where the episode picks off!!

Talked with Rudy Johnson - co - founder of Misery Tourism for three and a half hours.I wanted to know who Rudy was - as I've attended misery tourism readings off and on for over a year or so and Rudy and Will are very, very cool and kind people.They've always been super sweet to me. And Rudy's been patient and kind to me over the ups and downs of putting this episode out.The only reason I'm putting this out is because this interview could not be replicated in any way. There's cool moments of discovery in here.

On this episode, I asked Joss Barton some questions! There's over two hours of audio and the episode picks up right off as our conversation does as well. Joss is a lovely poet and drag performance artist! Lives in Chicago. Joss's work and poems (stealing this from art matters foundation dot org : 'documents queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry, non-fiction confessional essays, drag artistry, and spoken word stage performances, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical, political, and pop cultural identities of death, desires, dreams, and disco.'Here's some links to zines she's previously put out The Summer I Got Bit – A Poem in Nine PartsThe Summer I Got Bit vPages (1).pdf (dropbox.com)and her earlier work - The Wagons Aint Here Yet –THE WAGONS AINT HERE YET.pdf (dropbox.com) You may contact joss at joss.barton49@gmail,com.check out her twitter @ganjacum and instagram : ganjacum_If you'd like to tip you may use cashapp- $JossBarton and venmo is "ganjacum"