Episode is explicit with a few swear words.

Once again, we are breaking the rules on KPP. This month we spoke with a fiction writer (scandal!), “who is often seduced by poetry,” as she puts it. Laura Citino read her own flash pieces including “Take a look at yourself” “APPLICATION FOR SUPERFUND CLEAN-UP WORKER, TEMP.” and “Vanishing Point”. We discuss midwest mundanity, the very specific and the end of the world.

Laura’s Prompt: Find a rural newspaper headline that is surprising weird and write what’s not being said.

Check out the great reading list below from Laura  in her Kalamazoo Poetry Podcast interview with Denise Miller and myself. Stream or download at iTunes, Stitcher or Google Play

1. Syllabus by Lynda Barry

2. Crush by Richard Siken

3. The Idiot by Elif Batuman

4. Saga by Brian Vaughan

5. Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

6. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

This episode is brought to you by the Kalamazoo Poetry Fest.

Music by Last Gasp Collective

Production by FREQ FLAG MEDIA