Lo Fi Lit Tyler Burn

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 49:25
Skip 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