Tag: Pittsburgh Writers

Episode 83: Tilted World & the Economy of Words

Bart Solarczyk is a Pittsburgh poet whose ability to capture a moment in time with very few words fills me with envy and admiration. His new book Tilted World is out on Low Ghost Press, and in this podcast Bart reads extensively from the book (Hey, they’re short poems!), and we talk poetics, de-industrialization, and the inherently surreal nature of Lunchables.

You can get all of Bart Solarczyk’s books (including Tilted World, Walt Whitman’s Watching, Right Direction, and Vicodin and the Christian Broadcasting Network) directly from him at a reading or hit him up via email at bsolarczyk[at]comcast[dot]net if you’re not local. However, the best thing to do is to hit him up at the Tilted World Book Launch Party on Saturday February 22, 2020, where you can also say goodbye to the Coffee Buddha.

As always, there’s light but pleasant swearing.

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Episode 75: She Will Never be Quelled

Barbara Barrow is a professor and novelist. In this episode we discuss her wonderful new novel The Quelling at length, and her academic monograph Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry briefly. Along the way, we extend this podcast’s already extended conversation about human dignity, we also touch upon the potential monstrosity of medicine, the meaning of classroom spaces, and Barbara’s sentimentality for Legionnaire’s Disease.

Folks who dare to listen to this podcast will want to buy The Quelling from Lanternfish Press. Sure you can buy it from the online monopoly that ruins everything, but buy it from the Lanternfish Press website, or if you are in Pittsburgh, you can find it at independent bookstores like White Whale and City Books, or you can do what I did and have the nice folks at the Mystery Lover’s Bookshop in Oakmont order you a copy.

For those folks looking for a deep dive, check out Barbara Barrow’s book Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry from Routledge, and be sure to stay up with her Facebook Page and her website barbarabarrow.com.

I swear because I always do.

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Episode 72: Taylor Grieshober’s Off Days

In this episode, Taylor Grieshober stops by to discuss her wonderful new collection of short stories entitled Off Days on Low Ghost Press. Also, I mispronounce her name 4 of the 5 times I say it, you’re going to have to Google “interregnum” if you don’t already know what it means, and like all good Pittsburghers in 2019, we discuss gentrification.

If you are in Pittsburgh, you should buy Off Days at White Whale Books, City Books, City of Asylum, or Caliban Books. You non-local folks should buy Off Days straight from the publisher or buy Off Days from the big gigantic online monopoly of everything.

And as always, we worked for our explicit tag.

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