On the 5/24/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:
Dr. Andy’s first guest is author Brooke Blanchard, who shares a bit about her new alternative history book The Mother, the relationship between speculative fiction and real politics, and her academic journey having studied abroad. We’re treated to a live reading of an excerpt from The Mother. Co-producers of The Friday Collapse E. Lynn Alexander and Paul Corman Roberts join in the second half to discuss taking poetry communities virtual and sharing emotional truths.
Brooke Blanchard, who writes under the name B. L. Blanchard, is a graduate of the UC Davis creative writing honors program and was a writing fellow at Boston University School of Law. She is a lawyer and enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan but has lived in California for so long that she can no longer handle cold weather.
Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of Bone Moon Palace from Nomadic Press, co-founder of Collapse Press and co-founder of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival.
E. Lynn Alexander is the author of the chapbooks Find Me In The Iris, The Shouldspeak Disease and Prologue to Mariamne. Co-founder of Collapse Press Books, she is also a core organizer of the Easton Book Festival and founder of Lehigh Valley Poetry.
Mary Mackey will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on June 1st.
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