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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.

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Welcome back!

In this episode, we have persona poems by Mark Russell Brown and Teneice Durrant Delgado. Find out more about our fabulous contributors and links to their work on the People page. Find out how to become a contributor on the Participate page.

In the after party, during a torrential downpour, Amy, Alex and Amy's sister Mistie Watkins Wollard talk about fairy tales and rooting for the under dog. If you want to join in the conversation or start your own conversation about the poems, jump right in to the comments section.

Thanks for listening!

"Goldilocks Confronts Shakira" was first published in the Pisgah Review. "The Goldilocks Complex" was first published in the Furnace Review.