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every 10 days
Average audio length:
68 minutes
English
United States
10 episodes
since Dec. 24, 2022
episodic
explicit content

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We are back from our hiatus! Well actually Kevin is still out there lost in NYC. If anyone sees him, please kindly direct him back to West Virginia. This week, we are joined by poet and scholar, Marty Cain. Marty is the author of Kids of the Black Hole, The Wound is (Not) Real, and The Prelude. We …

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We are joined by two special guest: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips (@woodlandraised), the author of Sleepovers, and Scott McClanahan, the author The Sarah Book, Crapalachia, and more. We talk about rural writing, stereotypes, A&E's hit series I Survived, but mostly The Byrds. Be sure to support them …
We talk about previous jobs, how to avoid burning your house down with a dishwasher, a fireball in the shape of a meatball sub, and a bunch more. We also share our thoughts on the new Brad Paisley track featuring President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the viral New Yorker article, "The End of the Englis…
This week we are joined by Emeran Irby (@emeranirby), Emma Honcharski (@emma.honch), and Howard Parsons (@bruce_pancake) of Dinner Bell Mag to talk about food, their editing process, and the intersection of art/writing. "Dinner Bell is a food magazine and multi-media project. It serves as a creati…
This week Alicia Wright joins the podcast. Alicia is a poet, critic, and editor of the literary journal Annulet. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ecotone, and jubilat, among others. She is a PhD candidate in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver and a Visiting Assistant Pr…
This week, Kevin and I talk weather, ASMR, and Hunter Thompson's alleged "daily routine". Later in the show, we take a look at Matthew Walther's horrendous essay published in the NYT, "Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month". Follow us on Twitter @traincarpodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr…

#3: Graham Irvin

This week we welcome poet and writer Graham Irvin to the show. We talk about liver mush and Liver Mush (Back Patio Press, 2022); the internet community of writers; secrete poetry readings in through bathroom trapdoors with smoke machines; the origins of snapping at readings and more. Graham Irvin …

#2: Joe Hall

Author Joe Hall joins the podcast this week. We talk about his forthcoming book, Fugue and Strike (Black Ocean, 2023); the importance of sanitation workers; garbage as a weapon of the proletariat; the social conditioning of anti-communism in America and more. Joe Hall is a Buffalo-based writer…
Episode #1 is finally here and I talk with the great Kevin Chesser. We discuss the Traveling Appalachian Revue; living in West Virginia and entertaining the thought of leaving; tourism and extraction capitalism; intersections between his music and writing process and a ton more. Music in this episo…

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Welcome to Train/Car Podcast! Here I give you some background on the transition from IG live to this podcast format. Our first episode should be live Jan 3rd on all major podcast outlets. Be sure to follow us on IG @train_car_podcast and contact us at traincarreading@gmail.com if you're interested …
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