Primitive Information Episode 7 : David Hadbawnik interviews Chris Vitiello

 

The seventh episode of David Hadbawnik’s Primitive Information podcast is now online!

Chris Vitiello is a writer, critic, and performer based in Durham. He’s also the Poetry Fox, writing over 27,000 custom, on-demand poems on vintage typewriters at events over the last eight years. He took his performance installation, “The Language is Asleep” to ArtPrize9 in 2017, where he wrote and gave away nearly 12,000 one-line poems on dictionary pages over a 28-day endurance project at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. His critical writing garnered a 2017 Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. More recently he’s launched the Writing Cabinet, which combines a fortune-telling cabinet with a confessional to produce responses to a visitor’s wishes, secrets, fears, and sorrows. He’s written three books of poetry, including Irresponsibility (2008) and Obedience (2012), both on Ahsahta Press.

This interview with Chris Vitiello was conducted on May 11, 2021.

poetryfox.com  @chrisvitiello71  @thepoetryfox  @thepoetryfox  @thewritingcabinet

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Primitive Information Episode 6 : David Hadbawnik interviews Fred Wah

The sixth episode of David Hadbawnik's Primitive Information podcast is now online!

Fred Wah is a Chinese-Canadian poet who was born in Saskatchewan and currently lives in Vancouver. He was one of the founders of the legendary journal TISH and later studied with Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and other legends of the New American Poetry. Wah is the author of 17 chapbooks and full-length collections, and he is a former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

This interview was recorded on March 1, 2021.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/fred-wah

talonbooks.com/authors/fred-wah

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Primitive Information Episode 5 : David Hadbawnik interviews Dale Martin Smith

A poet and literary scholar, Dale Martin Smith was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned a BA and PhD in English from the University of Texas, and an MA in Poetics from New College of California. He is the author of the full-length poetry collections Slow Poetry in America (2014), Black Stone (2007), and American Rambler (2000). A new collection, Flying Red Horse, will be published by Talonbooks in fall 2021.

In a recent editorial, Kim Dorman notes that Smith’s “poems are auto-biographical; personal, yet universal. They are permeated with history and geography; socially aware and impassioned. At the same time, they can be quiet, even tender. Dale weaves textures of culture and memory that explore and question the experience of being alive in a volatile world.”

Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (2012) and two edited editions, An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson (both 2017), for which he received Simon Fraser University’s Charles Olson Award. His essays and poetry have appeared in Poetry, The Walrus, LA Review of Books, Boston Review, and Lambda Literary. With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, 1998–2004. Smith joined the faculty of English at Ryerson University, Toronto, in 2011.

www.ryerson.ca/english/about-us/…culty/smith-dale/

Interview with Dale Smith conducted January 21, 2021.

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Primitive Information Episode 4 : David Hadbawnik discusses Diane di Prima with fellow former students Jenny Jo Wennlund and Sara Larsen

This special episode is dedicated to Diane di Prima, who died on October 25, 2020 at age 86. Host David Hadbawnik talks with fellow former students Jenny Jo Wennlund and Sara Larsen about Diane di Prima's life, poetry, and teaching. This episode was recorded on November 7, 2020.

Jenny Jo Wennlund: www.jennyjowennlund.com

Sara Larsen: Sara reading for Small Press Traffic, Bay Area Shorts, April 2020 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za7Iec7PrKc

Six poems in The Brooklyn Rail, November 2020
brooklynrail.org/2020/11/poetry/six-1120

Sara reading for Double Change, Paris, March 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1VD_3cKH2M

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Primitive Information Episode 3 : David Hadbawnik interviews Timothy Yu

The third episode of David Hadbawnik's Primitive Information podcast is now online!

For more information on Timothy Yu books, poetry, other elements referenced in this podcast, visit: http://www.timpanyu.com/

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Primitive Information Episode 2 : David Hadbawnik interviews Dorothy Chan

The second episode of David Hadbawnik's Primitive Information podcast is now online!

This interview with Dorothy Chan was conduced on Friday, August 28, 2020.

For more information on Dorothy Chan's books, poetry, and the other interviews and stories referenced in this podcast, visit: www.dorothypoetry.com/

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