Word of Mouth Podcasts

Susan Briante: June 21, 2007
Susan Briante's first collection of poetry, Pioneers in the Study of Motion, was recently published by Ahsahta Press. Poet CD Wright describes the book as "a work of shuddering velocity... an ode, a screed, a lament, a love song of 'pristine and inarticulate mornings.'" Briante's work as a poet, translator and essayist can be found in journals such as Damn the Caesars, Fascicle, TriQuarterly and The Believer. A co-editor of the journal Superflux, Briante is an assistant professor of aesthetic studies at the University of Texas in Dallas.

Brian Clements: February 16, 2007
Brian Clements is the author of Essays Against Ruin, a book of poems from Texas Review Press, and of And How to End It, a book of prose poems forthcoming from Quale Press. He edits the small press Firewheel Editions and Firewheel's flagship publication, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. He lives in Newtown and coordinates the MFA in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.

Rick Benjamin: April 20, 2007
Rick Benjamin is a poet and teacher who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He teaches poetry and community practice at Brown University and RISD & also works in the non-profit sector at the Rhode Island Service Alliance. His poems have appeared in Watershed, Blackletter, the Journal of New Jersey Poets, the Patterson Poetry Review, the Berkeley Poetry Review and Creature Comforts, among other places. He is also the father of eleven year-old twin sons and a ten year old daughter, who consistently creep into his poetry.

Shin Yu Pai: April 20, 2007
Shin Yu Pai is the author of The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz, 2006), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence, (La Alameda, 2003), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). Three titles, Sightings: Selected Writings 2000-2005 (1913 Press), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks) and Nutritional Feed (Tupelo Press) are forthcoming. Her poems are anthologized in America Zen: A Gathering of Poets (Bottom Dog Press) and The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (Wisdom Publications).