red lion sq.

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This week, we go all cross-genre with a longer piece by Loreen Niewenhuis. Check out her website at LoreenNiewenhuis.com. Our readers this week are John Babshaw, Alex Copeland and Amy Watkins. In the after party, Alex talks with potters Ian Jones and Gabriel Isaac. That whooshing noise you hear behind them is the raku kiln burning. You can read Ian's pottery blog and see his work here. Gabe's work is here.

We've done twelve episodes since we started Red Lion Square in June. We're going to call that Volume 1, take a couple weeks off and start Volume 2 on September 7. Thanks for sticking with us as we found our stride!

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In this week's episode, Sandra Evans Falconer and Aimee Mackovic bring us poems about healing. Of course, there's more than one kind. You can order Sandra's book about her battle with breast cancer directly from the author. For her contact info, email amy@redlionsq.com.

In the after party, Alex Copeland, Michel Blemur and Marvin Vargas talk about realism in film making. Lizzy Hovanetz of WPRK's The F-Bomb chimes in briefly.

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We're back! We took the week off last week while Amy was on vacation and Jae was working way too hard. Did you miss us? We missed you.

This week, we bring you a little international flavor with poems by A-Gonzaga, Jill Kelly Koren and JR Pearson, plus, in the after party, a song from Aaron Roche's soon-to-be-released album "Plainspeak." You can preorder the album here. Thanks to John Babshaw for being our guest reader.

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Update: I made a mistake reading A-Gonzaga's bio and said he was Norwegian-born. I should have said he is "Nigerian-born, Nordic-educated." I'm sure either country would be happy to claim him. :)

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This week, we offer you a little distraction with poems by Kenneth P. Gurney and Marci Rae Johnson. Find and support their projects by surfing on over to the People page (see, even more stuff to distract you) and, if you're a poet, send us your poems.

In the after party, listen to a song by "the best bad band in the world" (warning: their other songs may not be safe for work) then check out their other projects here and here. Finally, meet us in the comments section and let us know, what gets you through the day?

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This week we get a little nostalgic with poems by Karen Kelsay, Daniel Romo and Matthew Vetter. In the after party, we visit the Audubon Park Community Market and hear Poetry by Flashlight from Thomas Birchmire, whose poetry CDs and DVDs are available here. As always, find links to our contributors on the People page.

We also have a guest reader, novelist and podcaster Abigail Hilton, author of the podcast fantasy novels The Prophet of Panamindorah and The Guild of the Cowry Catchers.

Finally, if you are a poet, we would love to consider your poems for a future episode of Red Lion Square. See our guidelines on the Participate page. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, jump right in to the comments section.

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This week: a grab bag of good poems. No theme. No sound effects. Simply good poems. Find links to our poets' other projects on the People page.

In the after party, hear part of an interview with Amy Watkins on The F-Bomb, a feminist talk show that airs Mondays from noon to 1 pm on Winter Park's 91.5 FM WPRK. You can always listen online at www.wprkdj.org. It was a good conversation that ranged from feminist issues to the nuts and bolts of starting a podcast. If you're interested, you can listen to the whole thing here.

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In this week's episode, we embrace the strange with poems from Katerina Stoykova-Klemer's forthcoming chapbook The Most and Erin Keane's new book Death Defying Acts, a series of persona poems about a small time circus. If you just can't get enough of Erin and Katerina (we know we can't), go here to hear Katerina interview Erin for her radio show, Accents.

In the after party, Amy has a somewhat painful conversation with painter/sculptor/potter Ryan Wollard and tattoo artist Alder Vandelft. You can see some of Alder's work here and some of Ryan's work here.

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For Fathers' Day week, we feature the work of three talented men. Johnathon Williams, Russ Kesler and Steve Kronen bring us gorgeous poems of death, love and song. Find out more about them, and links to their work, on the People page.
 
Later, the after party is taken over by hysterical women: Amy Watkins, Mistie Watkins Wollard and Abigail Hilton, author of the podcast fantasy novels The Prophet of Panamindorah and The Guild of the Cowry Catchers. Alex Copeland was part of our spirited discussion, but got called away at the wrong time and mostly edited out. He doesn't really think Mistie's an idiot or that writing is "girly," but he does really hate Ernest Hemingway.

Russ Kesler's poem "After a Line by Su Tung po" first appeared in the Majorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature.

In this week's episode, we have poems by Debra Kang Dean and Jonathan Weinert. One of Debra's poems, "Andrew's Room" is based on a series of paintings by Timothy Harney. This is one of the paintings. You can see more of his work here and watch a video of Harney discussing his paintings here.

Stick around for the after party, in which Amy Watkins interviews an esteemed guest, her seven-year-old art critic daughter Alice Copeland.