4089 readersMonday: Hot Texts w/ Kirsten Kaschock, Mark Wunderlich, and Adam Fitzgerald at The Way Station in Brooklyn, 6pm
Tuesday: Book Release Party for Lily Ladewig’s The Silhouettes w/ readings from Lily Ladewig, James Belflower, Erika Moya, and Jordan Windholz at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, 7pm
Wednesday: Ada Limón, Adam Clay, and Michael Robins reading at The
8895 readersListen: Matthew Pennock – “After Shooting the Texas Chupacabra”
Today’s poem is a poem that we published in a back issue of InDigest by Matthew Pennock called “After Shooting the Texas Chupacabra,” which you can read here. Matthew Pennock received his MFA from Columbia University. His first collection of poems, Sudden Dog, will be
3601 readersAl Filreis’ PoemTalk episode #40 discusses a couple of poems from Susan Schultz’s chapbook Dementia Blog. The chapbook reads like a blog running chronologically from start to finish.
You might have seen us posting some links to Lily Ladewig and Cecelia Anne Holmes I Am a Natural Wonder blog where some InDigest editors have had poems
10062 readersListen: Ben Mirov
Today, for you, dear reader, we have a short poem by Ben Mirov. Ben Mirov is the author of Hider Roser (Octopus Books, Summer 2012), Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010) and the chapbooks Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011), I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010). He grew up in Northern
7218 readersListen: Sommer Browning – “The Beers”
Today’s poem is by Sommer Browning and is titled “The Beers.” You can read the full text of the poem after the jump. Sommer Browning is the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC; 2011), a collection of poems and comics. She lives in Denver.
For past episodes of the
12502 readersIt’s happened. InDigest has launched InDigest Editions. A new publishing branch from your favorite online, quarterly literary magazine.The first book is a poetry collection by Brad Liening titled We Are Doomed: Dispatches From the City of the Future. You can buy the book below (actual InDigest Editions store coming very, very soon with ebooks, broadsides
4788 readersListen: Kate Durbin’s “The Hills”
Kate Durbin’s “The Hills” is today’s featured poem on the Poem of the Day Podcast. Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic), The Fashion Issue (Zg Press), E! Entertainment (Blanc/Insert Press), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press). She
3480 readersListen: Ricardo Maldonado – “The Project of the Hands”
Today’s poem digs a little deeper into the InDigest archive. Ricardo Maldonado’s “The Project of the Hands” first appeared in issue #13, and it holds up well. I still think this is a beautifully punctuated and concise poem. Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto
8534 readersListen: James Cihlar – “Twin Cities”
We’re ending the week with a poem by James Cihlar called “Twin Cities.” This is another poem we originally published that we are re-presenting here on the podcast. We published this poem back in issue #15. And you can read “Twin Cities,” plus another poem by Cihlar, in the archive.
James
5529 readersListen: Mark Leidner – “Pearls Before Swine”
This poem by Mark Leidner originally appeared in issue #19 of InDigest, and you can read that here. Mark Leidner writes criticism for Poets on Film and is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me [Factory Hollow Press, 2011].
InDigest’s Poem of