Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Today our guest is Elizabeth Bradfield, author of the new book of poems, SOFAR. Bradfield is also the author of the books Toward Antarctica; Once Removed; Approaching Ice, which was a finalist from the James Laughlin award from the Academy of American Poets; and Interpretive Work, which won the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry. She has edited the anthologies Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield, and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005 - 2020, co-created with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman. Liz works as a naturalist and field assistant at home on Cape Cod, directs the poetry concentration in Western Colorado’s low-residency MFA program, and is editor-in-chief of Broadsided.

Pick up a copy of SOFAR here.

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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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