Tom Snarsky is a poet and former math whiz . He stopped by the podcast to talk with me about his passion for poetry. How to read and associate with poetry. I ask him if he hates anyone. Does Tom have hate in his heart. Over the course of this interview we speak and read poems by Erin Taylor,, Ben Mirov, Graham Irvin and even James Tate. I cut out about thirty minutes of a two hour interview. Couldn't get all of it down. It's been a while. The podcast may be cutting back to once a month.

Man, it's around 100 AM in the morning here in Tulsa. The darkness is shining in through the window. Oklahoma buzzes on. Through the blinking headlights, the silent trees, and sleepy porch pirates.

I went to a bookstore today. Haven't been in one in some time - usually I'm in the amazon internet places. It's cool to hold a physical thing, rifle through the pages and sniff the vowels right off the page. Snort the spine. Rifling through the books was a blast. Bookstores morph.

I was relistening back to this episode as I edited it down - throwing away chunks here and there. I just love this stuff. I am a lucy freaking person.

The fact I get to talk to Charles Jensen - author of the new book Splice of Life - a memoir in 13 genres - available now! Also, he wrote an excellent book called "Nanopedia" published in 2018.

Charles also is a podcaster, you know. He hosts The Write Process and is a poet as well - even reads one of his poems on the podcast. Thanks for listening everyone. I love me some essays. Essayists. I think poetry and essays blend very well together. I appreciate all the listening you all do. I live a cool life, where I'm able to do this. That people will talk to me.

Pau, August and Jakob came on to read poems and we had a group chat that lasted around three and a half hours. The first hour is most of the reading, actually.

August Reads at 8:00, Paul ends at 32.33, and Jakob ends at 49:25

Skip ahead to 49.25 to move to the discussion and right to the talking.

Thanks for everyone for listening. This is a pod I wish existed when I was back working on a night crew for like six years. Where I could turn my brain off, listen in and out of without checking my damn iphone every few minutes - back when I had one while working the frozen section. While my hands were freezing and I was like wet. I really loved conducting this podcast. I wish every podcast were like this episode. But I realize no one would probably listen, This is a great episode. I mean all of them are.