The poet reads and discusses his process and aesthetic.
Howie Good is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Lovesick, as well as 21 print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently, Hello, Darkness, available from Deadly Chaps.
The prolific London-born writer sits down with Ben to discuss his process, style, and latest collection, It’s Beginning To Hurt.
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published three collections of stories, three books of poetry, and two novels, including The Horned Man, which was a New York Times Notable Book. His story “An Anxious Man” was the winner of the UK’s National Short Story Prize, and his story “The Siege” was the basis for the Bernardo Bertolucci film Besieged. He is the recipient of a Dylan Thomas Award for short fiction and a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry, and has taught creative writing at Princeton, NYU, Columbia and The New School. Lasdun’s most recent work is a collection of stories entitled, It’s Beginning To Hurt.
Bill Burr is a comedian from Boston. His stand-up specials have been featured on HBO and Comedy Central, he has performed on Letterman and Conan O’Brien, appeared on Chappelle’s Show, and is the co-host of the XM radio program, Uninformed. His new hour-long special, Let it Go is soon to be released.
Anna Vogelzang is a songwriter splitting her time between Madison, WI and Chicago. She has shared the stage with the likes of Regina Spektor, Deer Tick, and Nat Baldwin, among others. Her fifth studio album, Paper Boats, was released earlier this year by Slothtrop Records.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of a novel and two collections of stories, the most recent of which, American Salvage, was a finalist for both the 2009 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. She is the recipient of Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ontario Review, Story, The Kenyon Review, Witness, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, and Utne Reader, among others. She lives and writes on a farm in Michigan.
Tom Matlack is a writer living and working in Boston. In 2008, he founded The Good Men Project, and has since appeared frequently on television and radio across the country. His essays and stories have been published in Boston Globe Magazine, Yale, Boston Magazine, Penthouse, Wesleyan, Boston Common, Tango, and Pop Matters. He is the former CFO of The Providence Journal.
And high above, he seemed to recall, there had been a little brown airplane, almost motionless, droning through the sunshine like a bumblebee. — Anne Tyler
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