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SR Pod/Vod Series, Recording: Author Megan Harlan

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Megan HarlanThis Tuesday, we are proud to feature a podcast of s[r] contributor Megan Harlan reading her nonfiction essay from Issue 17.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes channel, podcast #220.

You can follow along with Megan’s nonfiction essay in Superstition Review, Issue 17.

More about the author:

Megan Harlan’s creative nonfiction essays have recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and The Common. She is the author of Mapmaking (BkMk Press/New Letters), awarded the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. Her poems, short stories, and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, AGNI, TriQuarterly, The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, New Orleans Review, Meridian, and Arts & Letters, among other publications. She holds an MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program and lives and works as a writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area.

SR Pod/Vod Series, Authors Talk: Poet Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

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Luiza Flynn-GoodlettToday we are pleased to feature poet Luiza Flynn-Goodlett as our twenty-ninth Authors Talk series contributor. Luiza mentions how her poems – including the three poems in Issue 17 – are a way for her to interact with existing, dominant narratives. She realizes she changes as a person, and her poems exist in an eternal state of becoming. She goes into detail about each of the three poems in Issue 17.

Luiza sees poetry as a way to talk back to supposed ‘fact’ and complicate assumptions around history, scientific thought, and individual experience. While some of her poems are confessional, others focus on experiences that are not hers, noting that “writers are all thieves.” Poetry is important because it makes the poet “able to speak into a fraught void.” After discussing her poems and who she is at the moment, Luiza provides a reading list of books that have shaped her and her poetry.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, # 219.

You can read Luiza’s poems in Superstition Review Issue 17, or hear her read them aloud in last week’s podcast, # 218.

 

SR Pod/Vod Series, Recording: Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

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Luiza Flynn-GoodlettThis Tuesday, we are proud to feature a podcast of s[r] contributor Luiza Flynn-Goodlett reading her three poems from Issue 17.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes channel, podcast #218.

You can follow along with Luiza’s work in Superstition Review, Issue 17.

More About the Author:

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbook Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press). She received her MFA from The New School and was awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry upon graduation from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including ZYZZYVA, New Ohio Review, The Missouri Review Online, and The Greensboro Review.

SR Pod/Vod Series, Authors Talk: Poet Stevie Edwards

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Stevie EdwardsToday we are pleased to feature poet Stevie Edwards as our twenty-eighth Authors Talk series contributor. Stevie mentions how her four poems in Issue 17 all have distinct voices, noting that it has often been remarked that her poems are “very voice driven.”

Stevie discusses what voice is in a poem, and how voice is achieved. Vision is inextricably bound to voice, she observes, as she says “In many ways, our speakers are what they notice.”

Throughout this podcast, Stevie gives invaluable advice to poets. “You don’t have to do much of anything other than be present and mindful for a moment to create a poem that might change someone’s life,” she says. Giving your unique point of view is the best way to create voice in a poem; as she encourages us to say “I am a fucking special snowflake – nobody knows the full shape of my voice.”

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, #217.

You can read Stevie’s poems in Superstition Review Issue 17, and hear her read them aloud in last week’s podcast, #216.

SR Pod/Vod Series, Recording: Poet Stevie Edwards

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a photo of the poet, Stevie EdwardsThis Tuesday, we are proud to feature a podcast of s[r] contributor Stevie Edwards reading her four poems from Issue 17.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes channel, podcast #216.

You can follow along with Stevie’s work in Superstition Review, Issue 17.

More About the Author:
Stevie Edwards is a poet, editor, and educator. She is Editor-in-Chief at Muzzle Magazine and Acquisitions Editor at YesYes Books. Her first book, Good Grief (Write Bloody 2012), received two post-publication awards, the Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze in Poetry and the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. Her second book, Humanly, was recently released by Small Doggies Press. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Baltimore Review, The Journal, The Offing, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Cornell University and a BA from Albion College.

SR Pod/Vod Series: Poet Lucinda Roy

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Lucinda RoyToday, we continue to celebrate the launch of Issue 17. We’re proud to feature Lucinda Roy as our twenty-seventh Authors Talk series contributor and our second from Issue 17, discussing her poem “Narrative Arcs in Hindsight.”

In the podcast, she speaks about the genesis of the poem; the content, such as having worked with the Virginia Tech shooter, and “what we do with art in the face of tragedy.”

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, #214.

You can read Lucinda’s “Narrative Arcs in Hindsight” in Superstition Review Issue 17.

 

More About the Author:
Lucinda Roy’s publications include the poetry collections The Humming Birds (winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize), and Wailing the Dead to Sleep; the novels Lady Moses and The Hotel Alleluia; and a memoir-critique, No Right to Remain Silent: What We’ve Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech. Her poetry has appeared in many journals, including North American Review, American Poetry Review, Blackbird, Callaloo, Measure, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and River Styx. She is an Alumni Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in the MFA program.

SR Pod/Vod Series: Author Lee Upton

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Lee UptonToday we’re celebrating the launch of Issue 17 with our first Issue 17 Authors Talk. We’re proud to feature Lee Upton as our twenty-sixth series contributor, discussing her story “After the Party.”

It’s a concise and insight-packed podcast covering the dialogue and “language games” of the characters, the subtext of the story’s dialogue, and the composition and revision of the story itself.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, #213.

You can read Lee’s story in Superstition Review, Issue 17.

More About the Author:
Lee Upton is the author of books of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism. Her most recent books are Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2015), and The Tao of Humiliation: Stories from BOA Editions (2014).

About the Authors Talk series:

For several years, we have featured audio or video of Superstition Review contributors reading their work. We’ve now established a new series of podcasts called Authors Talk. The podcasts in this series take a broader scope and feature SR contributors discussing their own thoughts on writing, the creative process, and anything else they may want to share with listeners.

SR Pod/Vod Series – Recording: Hannah Lee Jones

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Hannah Lee Jones

This Tuesday, we’re proud to feature SR contributor Hannah Lee Jones reading her three poems from Issue 16 on the SR podcast.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, podcast #213.

You can follow along with Hannah’s work in Superstition Review, Issue 16.

More About the Author:
Hannah Lee Jones’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Literary Orphans and Orion, among other journals. She has worked with The MFA Project and is currently the editor of Primal School, a resource for poets pursuing their craft without an advanced degree. She grows vegetables on Whidbey Island in northwest Washington.

 

SR Pod/Vod Series – Authors Talk: Author Sue William Silverman

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Sue William SilvermanToday we’re proud to feature Sue Silverman as our twenty-fifth Authors Talk series contributor, discussing how she crafted the narrative voices in her Issue 16 nonfiction piece “Death Comes for the Poet” and in her three memoirs.

Sue begins by explaining not only “the importance of choosing the right voice for any given piece of writing,” but how voice is “central to its conception.”

“The challenge for any writer is to discover the voice of the piece at hand, depending upon whatever it is that needs to be conveyed,” she says. It’s just one of many illustrations of an insight-packed podcast that pulls together formative life experiences with craft, firmly positioning the latter as a dynamic vehicle of art.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, #212.

You can read Sue’s nonfiction piece “Death Comes for the Poet” in Superstition Review Issue 16, and see her read it aloud in SR vodcast #211.

 

More About the Author:

Sue William Silverman is the author of three memoirs: The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew was a finalist in Foreword Reviews’ 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Award; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction; and Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction is also a Lifetime TV original movie. Her craft book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir, and her poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. www.SueWilliamSilverman.com.

 

About the Authors Talk series:

For several years, we have featured audio or video of Superstition Review contributors reading their work. We’ve now established a new series of podcasts called Authors Talk. The podcasts in this series take a broader scope and feature SR contributors discussing their own thoughts on writing, the creative process, and anything else they may want to share with listeners.

SR Pod/Vod Series – Recording: Author Sue William Silverman

Cass Murphy

Sue William SilvermanThis Tuesday, we’re proud to feature SR contributor Sue William Silverman reading her nonfiction piece “Death Comes for the Poet” on the SR podcast.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel, #211.

You can follow along with Sue’s work in Superstition Review, Issue 16.

On Friday, we’ll announce Sue Silverman’s Authors Talk podcast.

More About the Author:

Sue William Silverman is the author of three memoirs: The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew was a finalist in Foreword Reviews’ 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Award; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction; and Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction is also a Lifetime TV original movie. Her craft book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir, and her poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. www.SueWilliamSilverman.com.