Lo Fi Lit

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.

Tania Jaramillo is a young writer living in Berlin, right now. They've joined the show to discuss Dimes Square and the people of Dimes Square.They recall a recent story about how they were sexually assaulted by Joe Buck (who goes by @GGBussyAllin on twitter.) Shout out to Theo Thimo for hooking this episode out.

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.

Juliet Escoria is the author of "You Are The Snake", "Juliet the Maniac", "Black Cloud" and "Witch Hunt" She's from San Diego. And she's the founder of Zona Motel along with Mesha Maren.

Mike Topp is an iconic writer, humorist, and poetry guy . There's so much to say. I found him through twitter and Chelsea Martin's Universal Error podcast. From Mcsweeney's to X-Ray Lit and beyond. Find his tweets at @miketoppHere are some of his books i unearthed in an interview he did on X-RAY Lit. Shout to the former "Self-Exposure" podcast people. Otherwise I wouldn't have reached out to Mike. Local Boy Makes Good. 1993Six Short Stories & Seven Short Poems. 1997.Wild Wives/High Priest of California. Collaboration with Sparrow. 1997.Basho’s Milk Dud. 1999.Bad Luck. 2001.Happy Ending. 2002.I Used to be Ashamed of My Striped Face. 2001.Happy Ending. 2003.Where We Found You. 2003.Own Your Own. 2005.Shorts Are Wrong. 2007.Sasquatch Stories. 2010.29 Mini-Essays. 2012.Born on a Train. Collaboration with Raymond Pettibon. 2015.The Double Dream of Spring – A Peg Sluice Mystery. Collaboration with Sparrow. 2016.30 One Liners. 2018.The Poetry Jug. 2021

Check out my first episode with Ashely Obscura from a few years ago in the archive. She still operates and runs the amazing Metatron Press. She currently runs a substack called 'Codex Obscura' and under that venue(?) posts an ongoing / continuous poem called 'Drinking From The Same Dream.' It's one of my favorite things on the internet right now. I think everyone ought to go over there and check it out and all the cool things she's doing over there.

Linden operates and hosts response_pod over on youtube and spotify. Linden is David's husband. Linden is a writer and has been published on Burial Magazine. Check this out!

Lake is the author of Lo Siento. He's going on a book tour soon . Check out Lake Markham dot net for more info.

David Gladfelter joined the show today. He's a writer. He's a host of the controversial and hit literary podcast Response_Pod. David is gay. And Jewish. Lives in Detroit. Takes care of his husband.

On this episode of Lo Fi Lit, I invited Mesha Maren onto the show to discuss her involvement with Zona Motel - a literary brotherhood on substack. For people who adore, admire and are all about talking about cool ass books. So okay, she's written three novels - Shae, Perpetual West and Sugar Run. We discuss her background and coming up from a small town, activism and entering into a wrestling ring for research on a character. This was a dope episode.