My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to poet Chris Banks whose sixth poetry collection is Deepfake Serenade.
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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews poet Alicia Cook whose third poetry collection/book is Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back.
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews poet Paul Vermeersch whose latest collection is Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020.
My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with musician Bif Naked about her new music an upcoming memoir and a poetry book.
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Max Powers & producer Nikhil Melnechuk of Don’t Be Nice a documentary about the Bowery Slam Team.
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Girth Radio Presents…
This 2009 Levi’s commercial stays with me…I’m always on the hunt for creative and visual ways to communicate poetry. I’m a poet as much as I am a prophet…the free verse poem is my weapon of choice to confront a cold calculating culture. Yet in this modern society of guns and rough violence it’s almost like I am walking around with a sword. En Garde isn’t Avant-garde. Or is it?
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My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to Paul Vermeersch poet, artist & creator of a cryptoreligion called the Holy Order of the Sasquatch.
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Smoother than Voltron coming together Nikki Ashworth (The Jilted Lovers Club) and multi-instrumentalist Neil Gray (A Quiet End) have joined forces to become Fools.
Run is the startlingly Portishead like first song from this dynamic project: this song lingers like an unacknowledged ghost. I’m so in..I wanna see what other sounds they sculpt.
A few listens inspired the following stream of consciousnesses…
There’s a great irony in rap music. The lyrics in rap are supposed to spring forth as a kind of rough street poetry. Poetry by any standard demands proficient articulation, profound thought and pleasurable connection. Yet despite the surge of rappers and rap music many of these specific elements are missing, either in action or…
