Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Today's guest is Dan Beachy-Quick! He is a poet, essayist, and translator. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations, and longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. His poetry collections include North True South Bright, Spell, Mulberry, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry, This Nest, Swift Passerine, Circle’s Apprentice, and Variations on Dawn and Dusk. He is also the author of A Whaler’s Dictionary, a collection of linked essays responding to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and translations from Ancient Greek, The Thinking Root and Stone-Garland. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

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Jason Gray

Jason Gray is the author of the poetry collections Radiation King and Photographing Eden. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Image, and elsewhere.

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Good news is sometimes hard to come by for poets, and what’s better news than a new book! Celebrate with us as Jason Gray hosts an interview podcast with poets discussing their new books. Each episode is a smart, fun look into the world of poetry, where the guests read several poems for their new work, and talk about how their books came to be, and how they write the way they do.

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