Lo Fi Lit

Jennifer Espinoza comes on the show and we talk about poetry, ghosts and writing and Beachsloth and Erin Taylor, She has five new poems up on lofimag.com Badass conversation. Follow her substack - @jenespinoza twitter @sadqueerlife instagram @sadqueerlifeBuy her book - I Don't Want To Be Understood

I've copy/pasted this from the Sabr Tooth Tiger website :Madeline Blair is the mastermind behind Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine. A poet, editor, and award-winning filmmaker from Chicago, IL, she received her BA in Creative Writing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Okay Donkey, Burial Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Libre Lit, Raging Opossum Press, Ekphrasis Magazine, Orangepeel Magazine, and more. She was once quoted in The New York Times on her passion for clean air.

Claire Hopple is a writer currently living in Asheville, who works and edits for Zona Motel.Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Forever Mag, and others. She’s the fiction editor at XRAY. She grew up in the woods of Pennsylvania and currently lives in Asheville, NC.

Kirstie Mackenzie 's new novel ' Better to Beg ' is out now - published by Jillian Luft's Sweet Trash Press. She's a great writer and person. This was a great interview!!

Sebastian has returned to discuss Fresh, Green Life. We spoil the entire book . So read the book first.

Past guest and Alt Lit icon - Austin Islam Calls in again.

That Lit Podcast was a podcast from 2014 hosted by Alexandra Naughton . Otherwise this would've been considered lost media. Alexandra sent this over to me to put up on the stream. I met Jesse Prado back at ctchfest. On this episode Jesse has plans to see X-Men : Days of Future Past. Visit Jesse on twitter @mrkindakooky and Alexandra at @

What would've been a lost episode is now not . Back in the day poet Alexandra Naughton hosted a series of podcasts with her friends called 'That Lit Podcast' in 2014. On this episode she chats with a previous guest of the show - Ctch They speak on magazines, disorganization and ghosts! Enjoy

Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan, Gion Davis, Julianne Neely, Joshua Thermidor, Tim Livingston, and Spencer Williams all read today on a reading to celebrate Hell Yeah. Several of us including Rachelle Toarmino were pregnant and we held a brunch to celebrate her new poetry book, Hell Yeah by Third Man Books. Hell Yeah, Rachelle Toarmino’s fourth poetry collection might also be Rachelle's sixth book of poetry. It's almost confusing. Rachelle Toarmino is a pregnant poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Hell Yeah and That Ex, as well as several chapbooks, most recently My Science, winner of the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest.Her work has appeared in Poets.org, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Southeast Review, The Slowdown, and Omnidawn, which awarded her its 2024 Single Poem Broadside Prize. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize.

Rudy Johnson returns to show for a third time, to promote and discuss his new book, Kill Rudy Johnson. Pig Roast Publishing is putting it out. Or has. You can pick it up on their website. Check it out!

Zac Smith and Cav return to the show; however, Cav never showed up. Zac Smith and I recorded a show by ourselves. It was a fine lackadaisical back and forth. We ended up with a two hour heavy and intense back and forth thing. Everything Is Totally Fine was published by Muumuu house. We speak about Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo. We spoke about Cav's girlfriend. No edits. Raw analog audio. I intend for you to listen to the show on the toilet while you're on the toilet

On episode 108. I present the audio from the reading held on November 4th - Jillian Luft, Jennifer Ostopovich, Kirstie Mackenzie, Claire Hopple. Alexandra Naughton, J.L. Moultrie and Z.H. Gill read this evening. Everyone read shorter pieces than usual and I asked everyone to come in with a couple questions for each other.

Poet J.L. Moultrie joined the show today. He lives in Detroit, MI. J.L, has been published in Hobart, Post-Pop Lit, Bruiser Mag,

Jennifer Ostopovich interviews Elizabeth Ellen. The two are writers. Elizabeth Ellen is the author of Person/a, American Thighs and many other stories and things. She's the head honcho editor person over at Hobart.

Conor Hultman is a writer and critic and bookseller out of New York. He's from Mississippi. He lives with Minki from Expat. He's read John Padula's book, too. Another time he reviewed a book from Tyrant Books, once. Is a fan of Marie Calloway's book, What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life

Kat Giordano is a writer out of Philly. They used to edit Philosophical Idiot. Recently they published their third book, Thumbsucker.

Walter Mackey is a seriously awesome writer out of Newfoundland Canada . Met him in one of Lucy K Shaw's workshops. He talks about the early alt lit scene.

Got a call from a past guest, Austin Islam.

Alexandra Naughton is a well known and notable alt - lit poet . She knows all the famous alt-lit kiddos like Paul Hanson Clark and even ctch! Wow. She operates "Be About It Press" and came onto the podcast to promote her latest book 'Sick of Being Inside Myself' published by House of Vlad.

Carmen E Brady, August Smith and Eleanor Eli Moss joined in for the 100th episode of the show. We celebrate and discuss many topics including anime and things like that. Like ctchfest 2017.