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Pan Left For Poetry, celebrating the Dionysus in us, is a weekly podcast of poetry news, books, and jams.
Pan Left For Poetry
Pan Left For Poetry
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17 MAY 2021 · [Intro music] (“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing.”)
HWAET! Theydies and Gentlethems, you’re listening to the third episode of Pan Left For Poetry, celebrating the Dionysus in us. I’m G.M. Palmer & as always, the jams are provided by the faculty of funk: Professor Doom and Doctor Subtlefish. Hang out for the next half hour and get drunk on poetry! Poetry news, poetry jams, and poetry books! If you like what you hear, support me at ko-fi, cashapp, venmo, and threadless. Links on twitter @panleftpoetry and PanLeftForPoetry.com
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Each week I’ll share what’s going on in the poetry world. In this week’s poetry news, let’s review some old news that’s still news:
In AWPhilly (again, that’s what I’m calling AWP 22, you can’t stop me) news, AWPhilly event and panel proposals are due by June 8th. If you want a weirdo who makes podcasts and poetry jams for your reading, event, or proposal, hit me up!
Bacopa Literary Review, from the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, online at writersalliance.org, is accepting submissions through May 31st for its 2021 edition.
Ars Poetica, online and on insta at arspoetica.us has an open call out for disabled poets to submit poems to be published on their blog and Instagram, with a $100 honorarium for each poet. Submit your work to lamarks@arspoetica.us to be considered.
Jenn Koiter, on twitter at jenn (with two ns) koiter, is reading on zoom on May 22nd as a finalist with the 2021 DC Poet Project. Check out all the readers’ bios at dayeight.org. Join the zoom link and give Jenn your support. Eventbrite information at panleftforpoetry.com.
And in new poetry news,
Maryann Corbett, on twitter at MaryannCorbett has a new poem, “Pavement” out in Issue 29 of Ecotone. You can find Ecotone on twitter at EcotoneMagazine. She also has three poems out in the new journal Grand Things, on twitter at GrandThings.
Alexander Long, on insta at alexbasspoem where he makes the FUNNIEST captions for medieval art, has a review of Peter Everwine’s latest up at Poetry International Online. You can find Poetry International on twitter at PoetryIntl.
Chad Abushanab, on twitter at chad_abushanab has written the introduction for Robert McDowell’s New and Selected, titled Sweet Wolf
That’s what I’ve got for this week’s poetry news. You can always at me at PanLeftPoetry on Twitter with your poetry news to keep listeners in the loop. I need news you need to know!
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If you’ve listened so far, you’re a wonderful human so be sure to show how great you are by picking up your SAPPHO and DIONYSUS shirts at sapphosupreme.threadless.com to support the show and be fuckin rad. That’s sapphosupreme.threadless.com.
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Each week’s show includes a couple of poetry jams. The right channel is the music and the left channel is the poetry. Music plus poetry equals poetry jam! The music is provided by the faculty of funk: Professor Doom and Doctor Subtlefish. Words by me. Before we get in to our first jam, I want to say that we got a new mic for recording, the Rode NT1. I’m not getting anything to endorse them, although I’d happily take your money, Rode, if you’re offering--but what a difference a good recording mic makes! I hope you can hear the difference going forward. When you support the show, you support new gear! Our first poetry jam this week is The First Reading from my unpublished book The Page of Wands. The Page of Wands is a book of seven tarot-poetry readings and is illustrated with an entirely original tarot deck. Publishers take note! Poetry jams sound best on headphones and remember, Pan Left For Poetry!
(Poetry Jam)
That was The First Reading from my book The Page of Wands. Now it’s time for I’ve Been Drinking!
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This segment is called “I’ve been drinking” and it’s where I talk a bit about a book of poetry I’ve just been having a wonderful time with. Getting drunk on its rhythm and words. Imbibing its vibing. This week I’ve been drinking Near Hits & Lost Classics, by Quincy R. Lehr, on twitter at QuincyRLehr from Kelsay Books on twitter at BooksKelsay. Shitass. Louwbre. Asshole. These are just some of the phrases lovingly applied to and by Quincy R. Lehr. Dressed like a goth peacock, Lehr power chords his way into journals and readings and panels, all for a good time and to spread the twin gospels of poetic and communistic propaganda.
I’ve known Quincy for quite some time. As the editor of the Raintown Review, he has even published some of my work. But I don’t have to know you to love your work; if you’ve got a book out and you’d like a chance for it to be featured in I’ve Been Drinking, send me a copy! I love to read and if I’m going to do 50 of these a year, I need more new books.
Near Hits & Lost Classics is a collection of early poems by Lehr, taking hits from his books and chapbooks Across the Grid of Streets, William Montgomery’s Guide to New York City, and Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock. Like a lot of books from small presses, these are increasingly difficult to find in the original and Lehr wanted to update some of them, hence the new and exciting book from Kelsay Books.
Lehr’s poetry is, like his persona, shitass, teeth-kicking, louwbre rock. If you’ve ever been an outcast high on PBR, Bauhaus, and RATT, Lehr’s poetry is for you. Also, if you’ve ever spent any time in New York City, you should get the book for the Guide alone.
The first poem I want to read is Lines for my father, originally published in 2008’s Across the Grid of Streets. I like poems about dead fathers. Probably because mine died when I was 23 and pretty much every one I read by another poet feels like home.
[reads poem]
What I especially like about this is the intergenerational critique. Sure his dad’s generation sucks, but so do we. Kicking against what turns out to be nothing, we wonder what all that energy is spent for. Bleak but hopeful.
The second poem I want to read is Jimmy Carter, King of America, originally published in 2012’s Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock.
[reads poem]
If I can riff for a moment and skip over the literal, the poem gets at the sense Generation X has of growing up in a world of Family Ties to be living in a Post-Truth, Trumpian world where American Cops can kill anyone they want to, especially if that anyone is Black, and Israel can bomb journalist’s offices and children without consequences or remorse.
And what do we do, what can we do other than “switch off” and “heat a frozen dinner from the fridge”? I’ll note the next poem is titled We all have our needs.
So that’s just a brief sampling of Near Hits & Lost Classics by Quincy R. Lehr from Kelsay Books. Take yourself to kelsaybooks.com and get a copy today. There will be a link provided @PanLeftPoetry as well as on panleftforpoetry.com.
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Our second and final poetry jam this week is Metaphors for Page, originally published by Veritas. Poetry jams sound best on headphones and remember, Pan Left For Poetry!
(poetry jam)
That was Metaphors for Page, originally published by Veritas.
[Music]
That does it for this week’s show and our THIRD EPISODE! Thanks everyone for listening. All our poetry jams can be listened to at Soundcloud, PanLeftForPoetry.com and your favorite streaming service. You can always find a transcript of this week’s show and every show along with links for donations and to purchase books and shirts and other merch at (PanLeftForPoetry).
Poetry jams are by me, GM Palmer on vocals, Professor Doom on strings, and Dr. Subtlefish on drums and programming. Production and engineering by Genevieve. See you next week and remember, Pan Left for Poetry!
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9 MAY 2021 · [Intro music] (“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing.”)
HWAET! Theydies and Gentlethems, you’re listening to the second episode of Pan Left For Poetry, celebrating the Dionysus in us. I’m G.M. Palmer & as always, the jams are provided by the faculty of funk: Professor Doom and Doctor Subtlefish. Hang out for the next half hour and get drunk on poetry! Poetry news, poetry jams, and poetry books! If you like what you hear, support me at ko-fi, cashapp, venmo, and threadless. Links on twitter @panleftpoetry and PanLeftForPoetry.com
[Music]
Each week I’ll share what’s going on in the poetry world. In this week’s poetry news:
Pushcarts are out this week. Congrats if you got one!
AWPhilly (that’s what I’m calling AWP 22, you can’t stop me) AWPhilly event proposals opened this week and they’re due by June 8th if you’re into that sort of thing. I am!
Bacopa Literary Review, from the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, online at writersalliance.org, is accepting submissions through May 31st for its 2021 edition.
Ars Poetica, online and on insta at arspoetica.us has an open call out for disabled poets to submit poems to be published on their blog and Instagram, with a $100 honorarium for each poet. Submit your work to lamarks@arspoetica.us to be considered.
Crystal Stone on twitter at justlikeastone8, our featured poet for last week has TWO books coming out this year. That makes three books for 2021 which has got to be some kind of poetic record. They’re called Gym Bras and Civic Duty. Gym Bras is coming out from Really Serious LIterature and Civic Duty is coming out from Vegetarian Alcoholic.
Dan O’Brien, poet, playwright, and all around cool guy, on twitter at danobrienwriter has a book coming out in September from Acre Books called Our Cancers which is a poetic history of his and his wife, Jessica St. Clair’s experiences with cancer.
Jenn Koiter, on twitter at jenn (with two ns) koiter, is reading on zoom on May 22nd as a finalist with the 2021 DC Poet Project. Check out all the readers’ bios at dayeight.org. Join the zoom link and give Jenn your support. Eventbrite information at panleftforpoetry.com.
That’s what I’ve got for this week’s poetry news. You can always at me at PanLeftPoetry on Twitter with your poetry news to keep listeners in the loop. I need news you need to know!
[Music]
If you’ve listened so far, you’re a wonderful human so be sure to show how great you are by picking up your SAPPHO and DIONYSUS shirts at sapphosupreme.threadless.com to support the show and be fuckin rad. That’s sapphosupreme.threadless.com.
[Music]
Each week’s show includes a couple of poetry jams. The right channel is the music and the left channel is the poetry. Music plus poetry equals poetry jam! The music is provided by the faculty of funk: Professor Doom and Doctor Subtlefish. Words by me. Our first poetry jam this week is How Naked We Are Here from my first book With Rough Gods from Jagged Door Press. Poetry jams sound best on headphones and remember, Pan Left For Poetry!
(Poetry Jam)
That was How Naked We Are Here from my first book With Rough Gods from Jagged Door Press. Now it’s time for I’ve Been Drinking!
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This segment is called “I’ve been drinking” and it’s where I talk a bit about a book of poetry I’ve just been having a wonderful time with. Getting drunk on its rhythm and words. Imbibing its vibing. This week I’ve been drinking Daughters of Bone by Jessical Temple, from Madville Publishing. I first want to say that this is the second book by Temple I’ve owned but the first I’ve gotten to read. I bought a copy of her chapbook a while back when I was at Sewanee. Let me be clear, though, I was not attending Sewanee. They’re very good at rejecting me. I was crashing because I’m a dork and love poetry and poets.
Anyway, I met Jessica Temple there and got a copy of her chapbook. Then it got rained on and completely ruined and so when I saw Daughters of Bone was going to be published I snatched it right up.
And let me tell y’all, it’s just amazing. Growing up, at least part time, in rural Florida these poems of rural Alabama made me go hooooweee. I’m going to read a couple of the poems from the book and I hope you’ll go to madvillepublishing.com and grab your copy.
The first poem I want to read is called Twisted. It’s a survey of the aftermath of a tornado, which we don’t get so many of in Florida--but we do get hurricanes, so the disaster of the poem feels right. I’ll read it:
(reads poem)
See it’s that little twister at the end that really gets me. Temple’s poems recall a lot of events and people that maybe invite criticism, that ask to be chastised. But the poems don’t do it, they don’t moralize. They report. They transform. They invite us to do the work of classifying these sins the poems only catalogue.
It’s a deeply southern book in that way. We’ve got so many sins in the south we learn early on not to moralize. It is one thing to comment on the existence of an error and quite another to provide commentary on its existence. I don’t know if that makes much sense if you’ve not lived here, but what I’m trying to say is that Temple’s book is southern as divinity.
The second poem I’m going to read is My Sister’s Scar. It took me back to when I was living by myself in high school and patching up wounds with rags and hope and also just reminded me of how my own daughters play and care and heal.
(reads poem)
If you’ve got familial memories of playing on farm equipment or burning the chicken grease, Jessica Temple’s Daughters of Bone from Madville Publishing is the book for you. Take yourself to madvillepublishing.com and get a copy today. There will be a link provided @PanLeftPoetry as well as on panleftforpoetry.com.
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Our second and final poetry jam this week is The Walls Are All Mirrors, originally published by Chelsea. Poetry jams sound best on headphones and remember, Pan Left For Poetry!
(poetry jam)
That was The Walls Are All Mirrors, originally published by Chelsea.
[Music]
That does it for this week’s show and our SECOND EPISODE! Thanks everyone for listening. All our poetry jams can be listened to at Soundcloud, PanLeftForPoetry.com and your favorite streaming service. You can always find a transcript of this week’s show and every show along with links for donations and to purchase books and shirts and other merch at (PanLeftForPoetry).
Poetry jams are by me, GM Palmer on vocals, Professor Doom on strings, and Dr. Subtlefish on drums and programming. Production and engineering by Genevieve. See you next week and remember, Pan Left for Poetry!
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6 MAY 2021 · TRANSCRIPT:
[Intro music] (“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing.”)
HWAET! Theydies and Gentlethems, you’re listening to the very first episode of Pan Left For Poetry, celebrating the Dionysus in us. I’m G.M. Palmer & as always, the jams are provided by the faculty of funk: Professor Doom and Doctor Subtlefish. Hang out for the next half hour and get drunk on poetry! Poetry news, poetry jams, and poetry books! If you like what you hear, support me at ko-fi, cashapp, venmo, and threadless. Links on twitter @panleftpoetry and PanLeftForPoetry.com
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Each week I’ll share what’s going on in the poetry world. In this week’s poetry news:
Andres Rojas, on twitter at OKAporia, has his first full-length book coming out in August. Now, first of all, it’s almost impossible to believe this is his first full-length. Honestly far overdue! But, Trio House Press is correcting that oversight by bringing out Third Winter in Our Second Country. I am deeply looking forward to this book and will be sharing some of it here when I can!
JD Smith, on twitter at smitroverse and the nicest person in poetry, has a new book of light verse coming out with Kelsay Books called Catalogs for Food Lovers and it is sure to be delightful.
You can always at me at PanLeftPoetry on Twitter with your poetry news to keep listeners in the loop. I need news!
[Music]
Well if you’ve listened so far, you’re a wonderful human so be sure to show how great you are by picking up your SAPPHO and DIONYSUS shirts at sapphosupreme.threadless.com to support the show and be fuckin rad. That’s sapphosupreme.threadless.com.
[Music]
Each week will also include a couple of poetry jams. The right channel is the music and the left channel is the poetry. Music plus poetry equals poetry jam! The music is provided by the faculty of funk: Professor Doom and Doctor Subtlefish. Words by me. Our first poetry jam this week is Whiteness / Witness, which was originally published by The Raintown Review. Poetry jams sound best on headphones and remember, Pan Left For Poetry!
(Whiteness / Witness)
Whiteness / Witness, which was originally published by The Raintown Review. Now it’s time for I’ve Been Drinking!
[Music]
This segment is called “I’ve been drinking” and it’s where I talk a bit about a book of poetry I’ve just been having a wonderful time with. Getting drunk on its rhythm and words. Imbibing its vibing. This week I’ve been drinking All the Places I Wish I Died by Crystal Stone. It was published this year by Clash Books and it’s available at clashbooks.com. I first met Crystal a couple of years ago at a writing conference right after her first book, Knock-Off Monarch had come out and, well I just couldn’t get enough of her work.
It’s hard to describe her poetry in any one category. She plays in and out of forms and threads through topics. Reading her work is like talking to a friend whose brain keeps jumping from emotion to idea so fast you struggle to keep up but their voice and presence are so intriguing you just go on listening. Anyway I finally got a chance to read my copy of All the Places I Wish I Died and was delighted to see some poems I already knew from journals along with some lovely pieces first published in the book.
I want to highlight just a few of the poems. The first is Pennies which sort of leaps off the page in its simplicity compared to so much of the book. For instance, the poem right before this is called “To the Flowers I Drowned Last Year.” Of course, that’s what pennies themselves do, right?
[reads poem]
Just to go from the sound of Lincoln’s unrecorded voice to the boredom of the truth is enough but the poem touches on commerce and relationships and fairy tales and religion and, really just yes. There’s nothing minimalist or even necessarily focused about Stone’s poetry. It’s efflulgent. It blossoms. It’s fractal.
Another poem I want to make sure I share with you is At the Ultrasound.
[reads poem]
“How strange / that technology hears our pain / into pictures”
I just. I don’t know about you but what I love about a poet, about an artist, is when they notice something absolutely true about existence I’d not noticed before but in seeing what they see, my understanding of the world is changed. Poem as sounds, records of our pain. Just wow. Mind fully excavated for all to see.
There are literally dozens of more wonderful poems in All the Places I Wish I Died and you should absolutely go to clashbooks.com and order a copy. There will be a link provided @PanLeftPoetry as well.
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Our second and final poetry jam this week is The Dark, Lost Helen which was originally published in my book With Rough Gods from Jagged Door Press. Poetry jams sound best on headphones and remember, Pan Left For Poetry!
(The Dark, Lost Helen)
The Dark, Lost Helen which was originally published in my book With Rough Gods from Jagged Door Press.
[Music]
That does it for this week’s show and our VERY FIRST EPISODE! Thanks everyone for listening. All our poetry jams can be listened to at (PanLeftForPoetry.com and the usual places). You can always find a transcript of this week’s show and every show along with links for donations and to purchase books and shirts and other merch at (PanLeftForPoetry).
Poetry jams are by me, GM Palmer on vocals, Professor Doom on strings, and Dr. Subtlefish on drums and programming. Production and engineering by Genevieve. See you next week and remember, Pan Left for Poetry!
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