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Episode 105: James Knight, Steel Incisors

June 18, 2023 eleanor Season 7 Comments Off on Episode 105: James Knight, Steel Incisors

Recorded on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 James Knight: https://thebirdking.com/category/visual-poetry/ https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/james-knight steel incisors: https://www.steelincisors.com/ James is on the show by way of thanks for steel incisors’ support of the AngelHousePress Caring Imagination crowd funding campaign as a donator of publications from steel incisors. We speak about poetry as a provocation and performance, visual poetry, hierarchies, the…

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Episode 103: Shloka Shankar

May 13, 2023 eleanor Season 7 Comments Off on Episode 103: Shloka Shankar

The Small Machine Talks Episode 103 with Shloka Shankar recorded on Friday, May 12, 2023 One of the most interesting things about the episode was how Shloka engages with the found poetry and Japanese short form poetry communities, especially for writing prompts. LIsten to the episode to hear various ways in which you can engage…

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Episode 99: Johanna Drucker

February 25, 2023 eleanor Season 7 Comments Off on Episode 99: Johanna Drucker

Thursday, February 23, 2023 http://www.johannadrucker.net/ https://johannadrucker.substack.com/ Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) In our continued thread of extra-literary / page-adjacent topics, I speak to writer, scholar and artist Johanna Drucker about the origins of the alphabet which she wrote about in her latest book,…

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Episode 94: Vicki Ziegler

October 2, 2022 eleanor Season 7 Comments Off on Episode 94: Vicki Ziegler

Vicki Ziegler Silent Book Club Recorded on Thursday, September 29, 2022 I speak to Vicki Ziegler, organizer of a silent book club in Toronto and #todayspoem on Instagram and Twitter. We start with a conversation about tea. World of Tea. I show my mug, “Write Like a Motherfucker” from Rumpus.net. We discuss our love of…

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Episode 83: Kristine Snodgrass

December 25, 2021 eleanor Season 6 Comments Off on Episode 83: Kristine Snodgrass

The Small Machine Talks Episode 83 – Kristine Snodgrass, WAAVe Gallery Recorded on December 22 , 2021 Kristine Snodgrass: https://www.kristinesnodgrass.com/ Hysterical Books: https://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/waave-global-gallery Anhinga Press: http://www.anhingapress.org/ We discuss the recently published Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets (WAAVe) Global Gallery anthology published by Hysterical Books in 2021. We start with finding out more about Kristine….

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Episode 80: Concetta Principe

October 3, 2021 eleanor Season 6 Comments Off on Episode 80: Concetta Principe

The Small Machine Talks to Concetta Principe, Episode 80, Recorded on Thursday, September 30, 2021 Stars Need Counting – Essays on Suicide (Gordon Hill Press, 2021) This Real, Pedlar Press, 2017 – a review by Michael Dennis CW: In this episode, we discuss suicide. If you or anyone you know is contemplating suicide, please reach…

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Episode 70: The Small Machine Talks with Sacha Archer

November 23, 2020 eleanor Season 5 Comments Off on Episode 70: The Small Machine Talks with Sacha Archer

Recorded on Sunday, November 15, 2020 Sacha Archer lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife and two daughters. He is the editor of Simulacrum Press. Archer’s latest chapbooks are Lines of Sight (nOIR:Z, 2020) and Houses (no press, 2020). Forthcoming chapbooks include Models (Simulacrum Press) and Framing Poems (Timglaset). His concrete poetry has been exhibited…

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Episode 67: Gary Barwin

October 18, 2020 eleanor Season 5 Comments Off on Episode 67: Gary Barwin

The Small Machine Talks Interviews Gary Barwin Episode 66 Recorded on October 15, 2020 http://serifofnottingham.blogspot.com/ Latest visual poetry book: Ampers&thropocene (Penteract Press) https://penteractpress.com/store/ampersampthropocene-gary-barwin Gary’s interview on the Penteract Press podcast https://penteractpress.com/p-p-p/2020/8/26/episode-14-gary-barwin-ampersampthropocene-launch We have a fascinating and inspiring conversation about visual poetry, language and text, its interaction with the world. We discuss his videos, process, the…

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The Small Machine Talks Episode 52 Book Club with a.m. kozak, Fiona Mitchell, Helen Robertson, Amanda Earl and Hiram Larew,

November 19, 2019 eleanor Season 4 Comments Off on The Small Machine Talks Episode 52 Book Club with a.m. kozak, Fiona Mitchell, Helen Robertson, Amanda Earl and Hiram Larew,

The Small Machine Talks Episode 52 Book Club with a.m. kozak, Fiona Mitchell, Helen Robertson, Amanda Earl and Hirem Laraw, recorded on Sunday, November 17, 2019 Fiona Ann Mitchell is a poet from Ottawa, Ontario and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria. Her work can be found in Freefall, The…

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Episode 41 – Visual Poetry Part 1

March 4, 2019 eleanor Season 3 Comments Off on Episode 41 – Visual Poetry Part 1

In this episode we discuss visual poetry, its his…

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