Our first guest episode! We welcome dear friend and poet-colleague Bob Sykora to the podcast, where we talk about his upcoming book, Ivanka Trump's quatrain, grade school poems, the relevance of journals, and 90s folk-pop artist Jewel's book of poetry, "A Night Without Armor," published in 1998 by It Books. Jewel discussion starts at ~33:00 and boy did we have lots to say.

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Ste. Helene (demo)" - Still Submarine

"Sun Goes Down (benjamin remix)" - Plum Wooer

"Intuition" - Jewel

"WITFIN" - EVIL MTN

"Rainbow Signs" - mewithoutYou

Preorder Bob's book: https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/utopians-in-love

Eleanor's latest: https://issuu.com/bryantuniversity/docs/blr2024-layout-final/44

August's new songs: https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/album/sun-goes-down-ithryn-luin

Marcus's band insta: https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/

It's normie time. We talk about: ranking art forms (truncated convo), "coworker music," 2 viral poems about Gaza ("The Jesus Fridge" and "There's Laundry to Do and a Genocide to Stop"), and "Wild Hope" by bestselling/viral Scottish poet Donna Ashworth.

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Maples Ablaze (demo)" - Plum Wooer

"The crudest thing Scarlett's ever said" - Hans Geiger

"Window" - Donna M Ashworth

August's poem: https://metatron.press/digipub/shopping-complex/

Eleanor's newsletter: https://fanghoneyy.substack.com/

Marcus's band: https://stillsubmarine.bandcamp.com/

Due to technical difficulties, this episode is woven together from two separate recordings. So just pretend the jarring cuts aren't there. In this one: August performs an opening monologue about Taylor Swift and AWP; we chat about Josh Brolin's Dune poems; and we're brought to the brink of insanity by "Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness" by Drake and Kenza Samir.

Songs:

"NFFC Theme"

"Mario Kart 8 Theme" - Atsuko Asahi, Soyo Oka

"Wii Shop Bling" - ToonLink/Nosquist

"Angel Wings (demo)" - Woe Spiral

"Floriane Theme" - EVIL MTN

Eleanor's newsletter: https://fanghoneyy.substack.com/

Marcus's band: https://stillsubmarine.bandcamp.com/

August's website: https://augustsmith.net/