6948 readersListen: Episode #36: Leigh Stein
Leigh Stein’s debut novel from Melville House, The Fallback Plan. Leigh Stein is a poet and novelist whose poems have previously appeared here in InDigest. Her new collection of poems Dispatch from the Future will be released this year.
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3383 readersListen: Leigh Stein – “Second Dispatch From the Future”
Today’s poem is by Leigh Stein, whose work has previously appeared in InDigest. Leigh Stein’s debut novel from Melville House is titled The Fallback Plan. Her new collection of poems Dispatch from the Future is out in July.
InDigest’s Poem of the Day podcast is sponsored by Audible.com.
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The Fallback Plan
by Leigh Stein
224 pages
Melville House
By Joseph Michael Owens
Everyone has a fallback plan. It’s drilled into us almost as soon as we decide what we want to be when we grow up. Some kids say they want to play pro baseball or be an astronaut, and if those don’t work out, they might just
1377 readersHere’s a chronological line-up of all the episode of the InDefinite Podcast you might have missed since the last issue.
Episode #42: Alethea Black reads from I Knew You’d Be Lovely
Episode #41: Amelia Gray reads from THREATS
Episode #40: Alexander Maksik reads from You Deserve Nothing
Episode #39: Matt Hart reads from Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and
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1712 readersEsque Magazine’s debut issue includes Charles Bernstein, Matt Hart, Ron Padgett, Brandon Shimoda, Leigh Stein, Steven Karl, and more [Esque]
Daniele Thompson on the Bat Segundo Show [Bat Segundo]
“The Shortest Night” by Yusef Komunyaka [Poetry]
Five Fittingly Peculiar Author Tributes [Flavorwire]
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7481 readersThe annual Best of the Net awards from Sundress came out earlier this month, and we’re pretty proud to say that two poems from InDigest were selected as finalists this year. “Burial Rites” by Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert was a finalist as well as Leigh Stein’s poem “Second Dispatch from the Future”. Now, go
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4232 readersThe Zen of Silence: John Adams on John Cage [NY Times]
Leigh Stein on Dorothea Lasky’s Black Life [Noö Journal]
Photographing Hemingway [Jacket Copy]
Listen to all of Harold Pinter’s BBC Radio Plays [Seedy]
A Thanksgiving Prayer by William...
3478 readersThe InDigest 3 Year Anniversary Party is tonight, 7pm, at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St, NYC). If you’re coming down we’ve been posting some pictures of the broadcard series here because we’ll have our complete broadcard series at the reading and you’ll be able to get any or all of these for free. (And
3578 readersLeigh spotted this badly punctuated sign at Walgreens.Some people think that the name of the store itself is missing an apostrophe, as well. For whatever reason, Walgreens went the way of Starbucks and omitted any punctuation from its name. Also, why was Walgreens advertising flu in the spring? Everything I have ever read about flu
1675 readersDownload the chapbook for free in PDF form right here. Browse the chapbook below.
featuring poems from Andrew Bahrenburg, Jenni B. Baker, Cara Benson, Evan Commander, Matthew Daddona, Joseph Fritsch, Damien W. Green, Lauren Ireland, Lily Ladewig, Ashleigh Lambert, Eric Lindley, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Ben Nardolilli, Dustin Luke Nelson, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Rebecca Porte, Martin Rock, Christina