Spencer Williams is a poet. Check her new poetry book - Tranz published by Four Way Books. The first 17 minutes we chit chat about past guests Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan and Julianne Neely. Then we dig into the actual book - Tranz

Michael Washington has been published in Maudlin House. He's a big fan of Nathaniel Duggan, GG Rolland and Cavin Bryce G. We talk about that stuff and more. We discuss Dragonball Z and explicit material and Back Patio Press.

John Trefry is the founder of Inside the Castle.

Nico, Chris, and Naomi from Archway Editions joined me on this episode.Shout out to their publicist Mia for setting this all up. It was all her idea. Archway Editions has published the most notable and noteworthy authors like Erin Taylor and Blake Butler Are these cats a bunch of corporate drones punching buttons and yanking giant levers? No. They're not. They’re kinda cool like really cool.I used audio in the beginning of the episode from a youtube video from an archway reading they held where Chris read his work. And I also used audio from a video where Nico was working on getting onto the public radio station WBAI Public Radio

Theo Thimo, Paul Hanson Clark, August Smith, Louis Packard, Alex Savage. and Jesse Prado read for a 9/11 reading. We all hang out and discuss random topics. Come hang out.. Drop in. Buy Lou's new book. Rootbeer Renaissance from wonderpress. Did I spell rootbeer, right. You can hear Evan Femino and other people on the podcast throughout the episode.

Met Evan Femino through attending readings at ctchfest 2024. Evan is the founder of Feral Dove. Evan founded the experimental visual press and online journal a few years back. A cool dude. We discuss films, writing, Giancarlo, pigeons, and the community. Thanks for listening.

Louis Packard is a poet. He's been published in back patio press and positive exposure. He was a frequent guest on Paul Hanson Clark's podcast, in fact, he was a co-host. He has a book of poems coming out soon by Wonder.

This is a reading and conversation with Cav and Zac . We had a great time. They are friends. I hate intros. I am very professional. This is a professional podcast. Zac Smith is the author of Everything is Totally Fine (Muumuu House, 2021) and 50 Barn Poems (2019). His writing has been published by Hobart, X-Ray, Maudlin House, New World Writing, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, and other magazines. Cavin Bryce Gonzalez is the founder of Back Patio Press and former prose editor for Soft Cartel

oscar d'artois publihsed his first book of poetry 'Teen Surf Goth' with Metatron press. This is his 2nd book of poetry. Pick up The Island today. published by shabby doll house. .

Tom Snarsky is a poet and former math whiz . He stopped by the podcast to talk with me about his passion for poetry. How to read and associate with poetry. I ask him if he hates anyone. Does Tom have hate in his heart. Over the course of this interview we speak and read poems by Erin Taylor,, Ben Mirov, Graham Irvin and even James Tate. I cut out about thirty minutes of a two hour interview. Couldn't get all of it down. It's been a while. The podcast may be cutting back to once a month.

Man, it's around 100 AM in the morning here in Tulsa. The darkness is shining in through the window. Oklahoma buzzes on. Through the blinking headlights, the silent trees, and sleepy porch pirates.I went to a bookstore today. Haven't been in one in some time - usually I'm in the amazon internet places. It's cool to hold a physical thing, rifle through the pages and sniff the vowels right off the page. Snort the spine. Rifling through the books was a blast. Bookstores morph. I was relistening back to this episode as I edited it down - throwing away chunks here and there. I just love this stuff. I am a lucy freaking person.The fact I get to talk to Charles Jensen - author of the new book Splice of Life - a memoir in 13 genres - available now! Also, he wrote an excellent book called "Nanopedia" published in 2018. Charles also is a podcaster, you know. He hosts The Write Process and is a poet as well - even reads one of his poems on the podcast. Thanks for listening everyone. I love me some essays. Essayists. I think poetry and essays blend very well together. I appreciate all the listening you all do. I live a cool life, where I'm able to do this. That people will talk to me.

Pau, August and Jakob came on to read poems and we had a group chat that lasted around three and a half hours. The first hour is most of the reading, actually. August Reads at 8:00, Paul ends at 32.33, and Jakob ends at 49:25Skip ahead to 49.25 to move to the discussion and right to the talking. Thanks for everyone for listening. This is a pod I wish existed when I was back working on a night crew for like six years. Where I could turn my brain off, listen in and out of without checking my damn iphone every few minutes - back when I had one while working the frozen section. While my hands were freezing and I was like wet. I really loved conducting this podcast. I wish every podcast were like this episode. But I realize no one would probably listen, This is a great episode. I mean all of them are.

This week Will Duryea, founder of Misery Tourism - a literary spectacle and magazine , came through to discuss his life. We start off on how the Occupy Wallstreet Movement set off a chain of events in which led to creating Misery Tourism and how he views his role in the indie literary scene today. He also hosts a weekly reading series called Misery Loves Company. He lives in a small lil town called Dickinson Center, 15 miles out of Malone, New York - another small town but kind of bigger.

All quiet on the southern front over here. Derek Maine passed through this fine evening. He's the author of "characters" from Expat Press. We speak on his life, his reading habits, his writing and a variety of many other topics, He hosts a youtube series where he discusses books just look up."derek maine's reading life" on youtube. He's also, a frequent guest on the "self-exposure" podcast. Check that show out too.

Cletus Crow is a poet, and freelance editor and former journalist from and currently residing in Tennessee. His new book of poems is called Phallic Symbols. The book drops on June 7th from Pig Roast Publishing. The poems grapple with a multitude of themes such as masculinity, macho stuff, animalistic behaviors, sexuality, mental illness and religion. Many of these poems have been featured in various prestigious and outstanding literary outlets like that of William Duryea and Rudy Johnson's Misery Tourism, HAD, Hobart, Spectra, and Forever Magazine

I met Lucy Wainger and Frankie BB through Rachelle Toarmino's online poetry workshop Wet Paint through her organization Beauty School. They're both professionally trained poets making a successful living from poetry. Lucy went to Umass with Rachelle Toarmino. Both have books out. You can buy his book through Bottle Cap press. It's called "I'm Hungry, Please Come Home" and Lucy's book is called "In Life There Are Many Things" published by Black Lawrence Press

Graham and Sebastian came along to read at a reading I held. After each person read we hung out had a tremendous time. Gregory Taffer, Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan and Tom Snarsky were apart of the audience. You may hear them pop up. Just a roundtable of random voices coming together. This is one of my favorite episodes.

Rachelle Toarmino and Aidan Ryan take over this show this week. Rachelle founded the Peachmgzn and Aidan invented the Foundlings Press . They asked to interview me. So here we are. I was reluctant to do this. I;m not super articulate. However the more I do these sorts of things I believe the better I'll be when asked to participate in them.

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

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.

From her site : Rachelle Toarmino is the author of the poetry collection That Ex. She's been in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, Iterant, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize."Rachelle is the founding editor in chief of Peach Mag, an independent literary publishing project with an online journal, print anthologies, and live and virtual events

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 is a poet living in New York. He's real good friends with Theo Thimo. Ben wrote Mall Witch (Wonder, 2012), Fantasy (UDP, 2015) and Death Wish (Newest York, 2018). Lately, he's published " If I Close My Eyes " published by sarkapublishing dot com

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.

Today I spoke with the poet and founder of METATRON - Ashley Obscura.Metatron is an experimental online space for poetry and art. and is an independent press as well. I was very interested in the new section of the site - GLYPHORIA which is an experimental take on literary magazines but feels different to me. I love the website and many of the new pieces. Anyways, we spoke about how she started out in Canada and her beginnings in publishing,. We ended up discussing video games, virtual reality, ethics, and the business of running an indie press.These are the books Ashely has written - "SEXO POR ÚLTIMA (Socios Fundadores, 2022), AMBIENT TECHNOLOGY (Metatron, 2018) and I AM HERE (Metatron, 2014) .

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.

Today on the show Catch from ctchfest, sad spell press and the new Reunion Poetry reading festival came on the show to discuss her life, poetry, books and many other things. She also read one of her poems, too. Check it out

At the last minute I invited on MD Wheatley - editor at swampspit dot com and the author of "What A Heaven Could Feel Like" which you can check out at his site mdwheatley dot us. He's been published in Rejection Letters, Hobart and HAD as well as many other fine publications. Dude just started writing. He's kind of a new writer making waves everywhere. We discussed skating, magazines and editing. This was a really cool interview. He was extremely nice and a really cool dude. This was a lot of fun.

On this episode I invited Carmen and Mary Boo from past episodes to discuss Erin Taylor's poetry collection Bimboland. Out by Archway books. We start off the program talking about Mary Boo's residency she's put together with Zoe . Then we move on to a short film called "The Burden" I asked both to pick one or two poems from Bimboland to talk about! This starts in at around 30 mins in. Enjoy the show. It was so fun and such a great time.These two have been on before and I enjoy both of them so much. I feel like they both up my game and also I feel very like comfortable and I vibe well with both of'em . We kind of ricochet off each other, creatively.

Rudy from Misery Tourism returned this week to discuss some of his new poems. I recorded an intro and an outro. So check those out as well. If you don't know Rudy I really encourage everyone to listen to the first episode I recorded with them. It's a bombshell of an episode! This one was more chill. I think! Alright peace.

Graham is a poet from North Carolina. He's published "Liver Mush" from Back Patio books and has a new book coming out in March called "I Have a Gun" from Rejection Letters

Theo Thimo jumped on last week or maybe two weeks ago. Perhaps three,Theo was kicked off twitter and banned from twitter for life for his controversies. Mostly we just hang out for a few hours. He's talks about finding religion and his poetry and other things.

I chatted with Zac Smith in this episode . Zac Smith works behind the scenes of Back Patio Press publishing books like Death Egg by Nate Duggan. We begin chatting about readings and other topics as well . Also, I used a clip from Bookworm with Silverblatt . So, like copyright peoples beware. KCRW owns all the things with that. Umm. this was a really cool oppurtunity. Thanks for listening everyone. Buy Death Egg by Nathaniel

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 is a poet from Michigan. Now living in Austin, Texas. In this episode, you'll hear about his journey from Michigan to Boston and eventually Austin, Texas. How the facebook group Alt Lit Gossip helped inspire him and find some new friends. August has been published in places like Peach, Omega, and Metatron. He has a new chapbook out translating Icelandic poetry. We discussed many subjects in this long form interview.

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 -

From the reading the other day - August Smith reads some poetry he wrote.

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