NO GOOD POETRY http://nogoodpoetry.com Making the world safer for poetry Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:43:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/nogoodpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nogoodpoetry_small.jpg?fit=32%2C32 NO GOOD POETRY http://nogoodpoetry.com 32 32 214966957 yes© 2017 No Good Poetrypoetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poetEach week we talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of poetry.Making the world safer for poetryNo Good Poetryjoseph@snobolt.comNo Good Poetry Episode 108: Ghost Stories http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-108-ghost-stories/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:42:47 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1173

Past guest Brendan Lorber rejoins us this week to talk about ghosts and his ghost story novel he’s been working. We talk about ghosts and how they relate to relics of the past in city’s, lost love ones, and creativity and the subconscious.

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]]> 1173 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry) Episode 106: Composition, Horseshit, Magic http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-106-composition-horseshit-magic/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:43:32 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1164

This week poet and novelist Travis Nichols talks about poets writing auto-fiction, the artifice-sincerity polarity, Ashberyists vs. O’Haraists, how Twitter has changed what makes poets popular, David Berman, and how poetry can gesture towards another world. 

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Actual Air in the Purple Mountains: An Interview With David Berman

Travis Nichols on Poetry Foundation

Travis’ poetry book See Me Improving

Travis’ fiction book The More You Ignore Me

]]> 1164 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry) Episode 105: 4th of July Episode http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-105-4th-of-july-episode/ http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-105-4th-of-july-episode/#comments Sat, 06 Jul 2019 16:42:18 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1158

This week we met up on the 4th of July, read some poems about America and got philosophical about the disappointment in the promise of America’s beginnings that run through literature.

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WCW In the American Grain

Thaddeus’ Invite to the Pestilent (with music by Wexler and Sunny )

]]> http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-105-4th-of-july-episode/feed/ 1 1158 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesThis week we met up on the 4th of July, read some poems about America and got philosophical about the disappointment in the promise of America’s beginnings that run through literature. Download WCW In the American Grain Thaddeus’ Invite to the Pestilent (with music by Wexler and Sunny )No Good PoetryThis week we met up on the 4th of July, read some poems about America and got philosophical about the disappointment in the promise of America’s beginnings that run through literature. Download WCW In the American Grain Thaddeus’ Invite to the Pestilent (with music by Wexler and Sunny )poetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 104: Poetics of Dating with Tracey Anne Duncan http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-104-poetics-of-dating-with-tracey-anne-duncan/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:28:41 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1154

This week poet/writer Tracey Anne Duncan joins us to share some poems & talk about advice columns, whether poets should date poets, personal ads, famous poets who got good poems out of their relationship.

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Tracey’s Website

Tracey’s GoFundMe

Ginberg’s Personal Ad Poem

]]> 1154 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesThis week poet/writer Tracey Anne Duncan joins us to share some poems & talk about advice columns, whether poets should date poets, personal ads, famous poets who got good poems out of their relationship. Download Tracey’s Website Tracey’s GoFundMe Ginberg’s Personal Ad PoemNo Good PoetryThis week poet/writer Tracey Anne Duncan joins us to share some poems & talk about advice columns, whether poets should date poets, personal ads, famous poets who got good poems out of their relationship. Download Tracey’s Website Tracey’s GoFundMe Ginberg’s Personal Ad Poempoetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 103: Creole Poetry & Music http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-103-creole-poetry/ Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:05:46 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1146

Musician Joseph Darensbourg joined us this week to talk about the Creole poetry of Les Cenelles, his string ensemble inspired by it, and the intersection of poetry, music, language, and the ancestral past.

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background on Les Cenelles

Les Cenelles Facebook Page

N.O.Lit has a nice selection of English translations of poems form Les Cenelles

]]> 1146 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesMusician Joseph Darensbourg joined us this week to talk about the Creole poetry of Les Cenelles, his string ensemble inspired by it, and the intersection of poetry, music, language, and the ancestral past. Download background on Les Cenelles Les Cenelles Facebook Page N.O.Lit has a nice selection of English translations of poems form Les CenellesNo Good PoetryMusician Joseph Darensbourg joined us this week to talk about the Creole poetry of Les Cenelles, his string ensemble inspired by it, and the intersection of poetry, music, language, and the ancestral past. Download background on Les Cenelles Les Cenelles Facebook Page N.O.Lit has a nice selection of English translations of poems form Les Cenellespoetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 102: Joseph Lease & Mark Statman http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-102-joseph-lease-mark-statman/ http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-102-joseph-lease-mark-statman/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:05:08 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1141

The day after New Orleans Poetry Fest we sat down with poets Joseph Lease and Mark Statman and had a wonderfully sprawling conversation about poetry. Some topics include: the poetry scene in the ’80s, “words you can’t use in poems, Creeley. Koch, & Ginsberg, how Joseph “used to be a hard critic but he softened up,” reading Beats in teh time of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and Joseph and Mark read some of their incredible poems.

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The Body Ghost by Joseph Lease

Exile Home by Mark Statman

]]> http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-102-joseph-lease-mark-statman/feed/ 1 1141 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesThe day after New Orleans Poetry Fest we sat down with poets Joseph Lease and Mark Statman and had a wonderfully sprawling conversation about poetry. Some topics include: the poetry scene in the ’80s, “words you can’t use in poems, Creeley. Koch, & Ginsberg, how Joseph “used to be a hard critic but he softened...No Good PoetryThe day after New Orleans Poetry Fest we sat down with poets Joseph Lease and Mark Statman and had a wonderfully sprawling conversation about poetry. Some topics include: the poetry scene in the ’80s, “words you can’t use in poems, Creeley. Koch, & Ginsberg, how Joseph “used to be a hard critic but he softened...poetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 101: Questions in Poetry http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-101-questions-in-poetry/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:42:32 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1137

This week poet Lisa Pasold joins us to talk about poems that use questions. We look at poems by Catherine Barnett, Pablo Neruda, Terrrance Hayes, C.D. Wright, and Lisa herself.

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Lisa Pasold’s Books

Human Hours by Catherine Barnett

The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda

“Music to Interrogate By” by Terrance Hayes

One with Others by C.D. Wright

“Among School Children” by William Butler Yeats

]]> 1137 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesThis week poet Lisa Pasold joins us to talk about poems that use questions. We look at poems by Catherine Barnett, Pablo Neruda, Terrrance Hayes, C.D. Wright, and Lisa herself. Download Lisa Pasold’s Books Human Hours by Catherine Barnett The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda “Music to Interrogate By” by Terrance Hayes One with...No Good PoetryThis week poet Lisa Pasold joins us to talk about poems that use questions. We look at poems by Catherine Barnett, Pablo Neruda, Terrrance Hayes, C.D. Wright, and Lisa herself. Download Lisa Pasold’s Books Human Hours by Catherine Barnett The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda “Music to Interrogate By” by Terrance Hayes One with...poetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 100: Making Vispo with Guests in the Studio http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-100-making-vispo-with-guests-in-the-studio/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:52:42 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1133

It’s episode 100! We have 4 guests over for a Vispo Workshop, and we talk to them about their experience making visual poetry, and we look back at our experience of the podcast so far.

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]]> 1133 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesIt’s episode 100! We have 4 guests over for a Vispo Workshop, and we talk to them about their experience making visual poetry, and we look back at our experience of the podcast so far. DownloadNo Good PoetryIt’s episode 100! We have 4 guests over for a Vispo Workshop, and we talk to them about their experience making visual poetry, and we look back at our experience of the podcast so far. Downloadpoetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 99: Film and Poetry http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-99-film-and-poetry/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 02:27:44 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1128

This week poet Vincent Cellucci joins us to talk about his course on film and poetry, how the two mediums intersect, videopoems, and how to make interactive poetry that makes use of current technology and shares some poems from his new book Absence Like Sun.

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Vincent’s Website

Vincent’s Page at Lavender Ink

]]> 1128 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesThis week poet Vincent Cellucci joins us to talk about his course on film and poetry, how the two mediums intersect, videopoems, and how to make interactive poetry that makes use of current technology and shares some poems from his new book Absence Like Sun. Download Vincent’s Website Vincent’s Page at Lavender InkNo Good PoetryThis week poet Vincent Cellucci joins us to talk about his course on film and poetry, how the two mediums intersect, videopoems, and how to make interactive poetry that makes use of current technology and shares some poems from his new book Absence Like Sun. Download Vincent’s Website Vincent’s Page at Lavender Inkpoetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet Episode 98: What about Persona? http://nogoodpoetry.com/episode-98-what-about-persona/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:15:33 +0000 http://nogoodpoetry.com/?p=1125

This week we are talking about writing poems in a persona, and what it shows us about how poetry and identity work in general. We read poems by Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, James Tate, and Andre Breton.

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Planetarium by Adrienne Rich

The Motorcyclists by James Tate

]]> 1125 joseph@snobolt.com (No Good Poetry)yesThis week we are talking about writing poems in a persona, and what it shows us about how poetry and identity work in general. We read poems by Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, James Tate, and Andre Breton. Download Planetarium by Adrienne Rich The Motorcyclists by James TateNo Good PoetryThis week we are talking about writing poems in a persona, and what it shows us about how poetry and identity work in general. We read poems by Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, James Tate, and Andre Breton. Download Planetarium by Adrienne Rich The Motorcyclists by James Tatepoetry,poems,poets,poetics,new,orleans,literature,poet