Episodes
26
Latest episode
May 2024
Language
EN
Punch Bucket Lit, an Asheville, North Carolina Literary Nonprofit made up of poets and writers, chat with other writers and poets on all things literary, and also a lot of other life stuff that just happens to come up.
Beth Gylys sits down this week with PBL’s Dustin Brookshire to discuss grief and humor and honor and villanelles and fathers and all the poetry in between.After My Father: A Book of Odes | Beth Gylyshttps://www.punchbucketlit.org/
PBL’s Dustin Brookshire sits down with poet Jessica Q Stark to talk about little Red Riding Hood, love, loss, research, and the beautiful, moving original of Jessica’s latest book, Buffalo Girl. https://jessicaqstark.com/ https://www.boaeditions.org/products/buffalo-girl https://www.punchbucketlit.org/
On the pod this week, Rachel sits down with poet RK Fauth to talk about bees, language (including its failings), evil apples, and evil editing. RK Fauth - Poetry Foundation A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees https://www.punchbucketlit.org/
Poet Michael Dechane sits down with PBL's Alex McWalters to talk poems, finding community, stillness, and why Alex has to promise to find time to watch Before Sunrise. Michael reads two poems from his forthcoming collection, "The Long Invisible". Keep an eye out for it this September from Wildhouse Publishing!
Michael Hettich sits down with PBL’s Rachel Hanson to talk poetry, teaching, and finding form in the rhythm of everyday life. https://michaelhettich.com/ https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/the-halo-of-bees-new-selected-poems-1990-2022 https://www.punchbucketlit.org/
Evelyn Berry sits down with guest host, PBL's own Dustin Brookshire. They talk about poetry, grief, life in the South, and what it means to be a poet and person in the LGBTQ community. https://evelynberrywriter.com/https://www.punchbucketlit.org/
Clint Bowman is in the studio this week with PBL's Rachel M. Hanson to talk about poems, nature, and what it means to connect (and disconnect) with place. Check out Clint's chapbook, "Pretty Shit" here: https://bottlecap.press/products/prettyInstagram: @darkcitypoetssocietyPBLInstagram: @punch_bucket_lithttps://www.punchbucketlit.org/
Rachel welcomes writer Catherine Campbell to the studio today to talk about capturing moments in time, exploring form, prioritizing your art, and the influence of Lauren Groff.
Rachel is in the studio this week talking to poet and newest PBL crew member (!!!) Dustin Brookshire. They talk about form, Barbie, family, the mentors, teachers, and professors who inspire, and grab your notebook because there will be a quiz on Dolly Parton's birthday. Also, hang onto that notebook because Dustin is leading a generative workshop next month! Details on the pod and at www.punchbucketlit.org https://dustinbrookshire.com/
Leah Hampton is in the studio this week talking to PBL's Alex McWalters about what it means to love a place deeply enough to criticize it as harshly as you care about it, to live with her characters, to take care of those characters, and to know when she can't anymore. Leah Hampton writes about Appalachia, corpses, ecoanxiety, and smart women. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. Her debut collection, F*ckface and Other Stories, was released by Henry Holt and was named one of the best books of 2020 by The Paris Review, the New York Public Library, and Slate. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, she has been awarded multiple prizes and fellowships and held residencies at the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Hedgebrook, Jentel, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in places like Ecotone, Guernica, McSweeneys Quarterly Concern, Electric Literature, storySouth, and LitHub. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and in Moscow, Idaho.https://leahkhampton.com/
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