Drunk as a Poet on Payday

Today on the show is poet Eric Pankey, whose recent collection, Vanishments, is out from Slant Books. Eric is the author of many books of poems, including For the New Year, which was selected as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award by Mark Strand, The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems, and his most recent book prior to Vanishments, The History of the Siege, to name a few. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such journals as The Iowa Review, The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. His work has been supported by fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Brown Foundation. He is Heritage Chair in Writing and Professor Emeritus at George Mason University, and lives with his wife, the poet Jennifer Atkinson, in Fairfax, Virginia.

Pick up a copy of Vanishments 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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