38 episodes

In his monthly poetry podcast, Radio Free Albion, Tony Trigilio interviews poets about their recently released or forthcoming books. Always informal, each interview is a conversation--two poets talking about the work and play of the creative process and showcasing some of the most innovative new work in contemporary poetry.

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In his monthly poetry podcast, Radio Free Albion, Tony Trigilio interviews poets about their recently released or forthcoming books. Always informal, each interview is a conversation--two poets talking about the work and play of the creative process and showcasing some of the most innovative new work in contemporary poetry.

    Episode 38: George Kalamaras

    Episode 38: George Kalamaras

    George Kalamaras is one of 15 writers featured in the new issue, #13, of Court Green. Kalamaras, the former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), is the author of fifteen books of poetry, eight of which are full-length, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck, winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series (2000). He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.
     

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    Episode 37: Kevin Gallagher

    Episode 37: Kevin Gallagher

    Kevin Gallagher is the author of the poetry collection, Loom (MadHat Press, 2016). He edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics, and was a guest-editor for Jacket magazine from 2003-2010. He is a founder of the groundbreaking Boston-based poetry magazine compost, which ran from 1992-2003. He works as a Professor of Global Policy at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies.
     

    • 38 min
    Episode 36: Jay Besemer

    Episode 36: Jay Besemer

    Jay Besemer’s most recent book of poetry is Chelate (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016). He is the author of many other poetic artifacts including Telephone (Brooklyn Arts Press), A New Territory Sought (Moria), Aster to Daylily (Damask Press), and Object with Man’s Face (Rain Taxi Ohm Editions). He is a contributor to the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. He is a contributing editor with The Operating System, the co-editor of a special digital Yoko Ono tribute issue of Nerve Lantern, and founder of the Intermittent Series in Chicago, where he lives with his partner and a very helpful cat.

    • 52 min
    Episode 35: Nate Marshall

    Episode 35: Nate Marshall

    Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015). He is a founding member of The Dark Noise Collective, and he is the National Program Director of Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Slam. A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Indiana Review, and The New Republic, among others.

    • 43 min
    Episode 34: Megan Kaminski

    Episode 34: Megan Kaminski

    Megan Kaminski is the author of two books of poetry, Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015) and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012), and nine chapbooks. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Third Coast, and other journals. Before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, she made her home in Los Angeles, Paris, and Portland, OR. She is an assistant professor in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Kansas and was the 2015-2016 Hall Center for the Humanities Creative Fellow. She also curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence.

    • 37 min
    Episode 33: Sarah Carson

    Episode 33: Sarah Carson

    Sarah Carson’s newest book of poems, Buick City, was published in 2015 by Mayapple Press. She also is the author of the collection Poems in Which You Die (BatCat Press, 2014) and three chapbooks. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Cream City Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, Guernica, and The Nashville Review, among others.

    • 45 min