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In this episode, it was a thrill to speak with Katherine Packert Burke about her captivating debut novel, Still Life (Norton, 2024).
"Katherine Packert Burke’s Still Life is everything you want from a Künstlerroman: smart, sexy, funny, sly, and exceptionally queer. With biting insights and heartbreaking attention, this debut captures the daunting thrill of becoming an artist while becoming yourself." — Isle McElroy, author of People Collide
This was such a fun, tender and insightful conversation with an exceptionally talented writer. We are honored to share this episode with you! Here are some titles Katherine recommends that are in conversation with or inspired the writing of Still Life:The Friend by Sigrid NunezThe Idiot by Elif BatumanLittle Rabbit by Alyssa SongsiridejDetransition, Baby by Torrey PetersImogen by Nevada BonnieAnd Katherine was so generous to give us an additional list of the trans authors she recommends as well! ::LOTE by Shola von ReinholdGossip Girl Fanfic Novella by Charlie Markbreiter My Volcano and Bad Houses by John Elizabeth Stintzi and the writings of: Alison Rumfitt, Jackie Ess, Gretchen Felker-Martin, torrin a. greathouse, and Isle McElroy
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We're thrilled to announce that we are currently open for submissions!
In this episode, we discuss what's new about this year's open reading period, our tips and tricks for submitting your work, and what our vision for Host's 2025 publishing program holds!
We're looking for poetry and fiction (short stories or novellas) full-length manuscripts submissions between September 13th, 2024 through October 15th, 2024. Please review the finer details of our general guidelines on our submissions page.
Submissions are open to any US-based poet or fiction writer. Though we love and have historically published works in translation, all submissions for this period must be original work written in English.Our reading fee is $15, however a limited number of free entries will be available for writers for whom the reading fee presents a financial hardship. Please contact us at [email protected] encourage to all who submit that familiarize themselves with our most recent publications. You may purchase our titles on our website or through our distributor. Submissions will be reviewed and participants will be notified by February 1st, 2024.We can't wait to read your poetry and short fiction manuscripts! As always, thanks for listening <3
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In this episode, we discuss the works by women in translation that have been blowing our socks off this month. We talk about literary celebrities in the small press world, how their books have opened our minds, and taught us something new about literature. The books we discussed in this episode are:
Tentacle by Rita Indiana
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon
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In this episode, we had the immense honor to chat with mónica teresa ortiz, author of book of provocations, the inaugural winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize for Poetry. mónica teresa ortiz (they / them) is a poet, memory worker, and critic born, raised, and based in Texas.
In book of provocations, mónica teresa ortiz posits that the most important role of the poet is that of “provocateur, to prod the audience, to interpret a visible and invisible world, to unveil secrets through the communication of language, sound, and meaning.” Tender and radical, these poems offer an unflinching look into the present, which they see with a brutal clarity.With the Joe W. Bratcher Prize, Host Publications aims to amplify the kind of work that Joe was most passionate about—poetry that pushes the boundaries of form, art and culture, poetry that is urgent in its subject matter, poetry with a heart that beats for change.
In this conversation, we talk about the origins of mónica's radical poetry, and how their work has evolved since we published their chapbook autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist in 2019. Some of the recommended works mónica cites in this episode are:
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo GalleanoThe works of Kwame Nkrumah The works of Aime CesaireThe Great Camouflage by Suzanne CesaireThe works of Khaled Mattawa -
In this episode, we discuss the importance not only of amplifying queer rights, but the ways in which queer activism can work to advocate for the liberation of all, with Pride month events this year donating proceeds to efforts for Palestinian liberation and relief funds. One such event in Austin this year is Sunbird Fest, an arts and education festival organized by Austin community members in solidarity with Palestine happening June 20-23, all proceeds will go toward humanitarian relief in Gaza. More information including the complete list of fundraisers, how they are vetted, and how Sunbird Festival is handling proceeds here.Considering themes of liberation, we take a close look at the work of three queer poets whose work we admire, Host's very own m. mick powell (author of threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks,) Destiny Hemphill, and Cedar Sigo.
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This episode dives head first into the age old question: how the hell do you end a poem? Investigating the endings of three poems by poets we admire, we discuss the various strategies poets use to make a grand (or subtle, or repetitive, or mysterious) exit. In this episode, we use this amazing list of 50 ways to end a poem, curated by the poet Emily Skaja, as a kind of map to guide us along the way.
The poems we discuss in this episode are:
"Romanticism 101" by Dean Young
"Person" and "Listening to Billie Holiday" by Blanca Varela"Upon Practicing a Second Language" by Ae Hee Lee
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To kick off season 5 (!!) we has the chance to chat with the winner of the Spring 2024 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, Stephanie Niu about her incredible chapbook, Survived By: an Atlas of Disappearance.
Stephanie is a Chinese-American poet, digital humanities scholar, and ecology enthusiast from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, and the editor of Our Island, Our Future: A Zine of Youth Poetry from Christmas Island. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Missouri Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for community archiving research on Christmas Island’s immigration and labor history.
Stephanie regales us with stories from Christmas Island, the remote Australian territory that is woven through many of the poems in Survived By, animating the extinct, endangered, and recovering species of the island through visual poems that chronicle the extinction crisis.
We talk about the possible links between the poetic and scientific practices, what poetry as "atlas" might mean, how her poems try attempt to understand the scale and scope of ecological crisis through a human sensibility, how engaging with other art forms, studies, and obsessions can fuel our poetry, and much more.
Some things we discussed in this episode:
"What is it Like to Be a Bat?" scientific paper by Thomas Nagel
Dear Memory by Victoria Chang
Shell hall in the American Museum of Natural History
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In this episode, we had the immense pleasure of talking with our forthcoming poet and author of the chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks m. mick powell! We talked about everything from digital collage and it's relationship to mick's poetry practice, to the way the organization of a book of poems can be inspired by the way an album is composed. mick's brilliance and depth as a poet is undeniable, and their warmth as a conversationalist made for an uplifting discussion about poetry and art making!
m. mick powell (she/they) is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, and an Aries. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in Muzzle, Frontier Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. A 2023 Tin House Resident and professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love. Keep up with her at mickpowellpoet.com and on IG @mickmakesmagic.art
Here are some links to books and other media discussed in this episode:
Mick's Interview with Working on Gallery
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiyah Hartman
Anything by Morgan Parker
Janelle Monáe's album Age of Pleasure
I Will Destroy You - British black comedy-drama limited series created, written, co-directed, and executive produced by Michaela Coel
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Hello Wildlings! In this episode, Claire and Annar discuss the idea of the primal in poetry, how and why we might tap into our most raw and instinctive urges in the making of a poem, to explore "the unknown capacities of the mind and heart" (Dean Young). In a sprawling but intimate conversation about fueling the fire of imagination, empathy and a spirit of desire unhindered by doubt, this episode dives in head first, discussing the work of these brilliant poets:
The Art of Recklessness by Dean Young
Solar Throat Slashed by Aimé Césaire
Alphabet in the Park by Adélia Prado
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In this episode, Annar and Claire celebrate one of their favorite literary months, Women in Translation Month, by turning to the work of a couple of the podcast's favorite poets - Yi Lu and Alejandra Pizarnik. Discussing themes of loss, eco-poetry, drama and surrealism, these two poets were a perfect pairing for the celebration of women in translation.
The books featured on this episode are:
Yi Lu's Sea Summit (formerly featured on the Earth Day episode with Host Poet Julie Howd!)
Alejandra Pizarnik's The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures
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In this episode, the second in our Adventures in Cover Design series, Managing Editor and cover designer extraordinaire, Annar Veröld, gives us her personal masterclass in all things color! We talk about everything from the ways to use the Pantone wheel to create the perfect color combinations, to the prehistoric origins of Barbie Pink (yup, you heard that right!)
Here are the color design resources that Annar recommends from this episode:
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
Dictionary of Color Combinations, Vol. 1
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
Ithell Colquhoun's Taro as Colour
(check out this beautiful article Annar wrote about this deck!)
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This episode asks the age old question: What the Hell is an Em Dash? As the first punctuation mark Annar and Claire cover in the WTH series, it is a fan favorite among contemporary writers, as evidenced by this tweet from author Alexander Chee: “Em-dash is the ‘just belt it and go’ of punctuation. Thus my devotion to it.” There's even a (particularly nerdy) Distracted Boyfriend Meme circulating the web.
So what distinguishes an em dash from other dashes? Why do poets in particular have such a fondness for it? Why is she so flirty and fun? In this episode, the Host team gets to the bottom of these questions and find: more questions, of course! But also, lot's of great insight into how writers have come to affectionately use this hip punctuation mark.
These are the books discussed in this episode:
Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson
Sho by Douglas Kearney
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis
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In this episode, we had the abundant pleasure of talking with the Spring 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize Winner, Bianca Alyssa Pérez!In this conversation supercharged with Bianca's charm, we talked about all things Gemini Gospel, from the inspiration behind the cover art to the poems themselves, full of spirit, grief and healing. We know you'll be charmed, too, by this lovely conversation with Bianca! If you're listening before April 8th, 2023 and you live near Austin, Texas, please join us for the in-person book launch for Gemini Gospel at the Host Office! We'll have cake, a photo booth and a reading by Bianca from her stunning new chapbook. And if you're near San Antonio, please join us for the second launch party at Poetic Republic Coffee Co. on April 29th!
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For this episode, Claire and Annar each brought "something old" and "something new" - a mashup of very old and very contemporary poems to learn a little more about what poetry can do, what it has always done, and how it speaks remarkably clearly to us through the centuries.
Annar's Mashup: "Darkness" by Lord Byron and three poems from the book Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik.
Claire's Mashup: "Field-Song" by Anachreon, (from Stone Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition edited by Dan Beachy-Quick) and "Serenade behind a Floating Stage" by Shangyang Fang (from his book Burying the Mountain)
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In this episode, Claire and Annar get into the nitty gritty of where, how and what to submit when sending your writing out for publication, whether it be to a literary magazine, a chapbook prize, or to a press for full-length manuscripts.
Focusing on the practical details, we offer lists, tips and insights into the the daunting task of sending work out to be considered for publication, and dive into some philosophical questions like, "What, of your work, needs to be out in the world?" "What are you saying with this work?" "What is the dialogue that you want to have with this publication?" We talk about some of our personal submission strategies, how we cope with rejection and keep our spirits alive to send the next batch of poems out into the world, feeling supported and hopeful. If you're listening before March 17th, 2023 (St. Patty's Day!) Host Publications is open for submissions! If you've got a chapbook manuscript ready to go, please send it our way!
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Welcome to Season 4 of The Host Dispatch!!
We're kicking this season off with another pressing question: "What the Hell is Dada?" Annar and Claire dive into the absurdity, revolution, play, and anti-art of the Dada movement, sharing some of their favorite writings from the likes of Tristan Tzara, Til Brugman, and Mina Loy.
Here's our curated Dada Reading List, including books we discuss in this episode:
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampistries by Tristan Tzara
The Dada Market Anthology edited by Willard BohnDada: Themes and Movements (Phaidon), Rudolf Kuenzli
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems by Mina Loy
Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
The Dada Spirit by Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais
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In this episode, we had the immense delight of chatting with the Fall 2022 Host Publications Chapbook Prize Winner, Sophia Stid! We discuss her prize-winning chapbook, But For I Am a Woman a gorgeous collection of poetry which explores the intersection of personal autonomy and deep spiritual connection through the writings and life of Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342 – 1416), a mystic who was the first woman known to write a book in the English language.
Sophia illuminates for us what drew her to this communion with Julian of Norwich, where she draws inspiration from (spoiler alert: the writings of Christian mystics + classic mystery novels are both involved!), how she approached writing the poems in But For I Am a Woman, and so much more.
Here are some of the books and other media discussed in this episode:
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Reassemblage (documentary film) by Trinh T. Minh-ha
The Works of Dorothy Sayers
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Sensational Books Exhibit at Bodliean Libraries
We hope you enjoy this conversation among friends, and as always, thanks for listening.
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In this episode, we reminisce about all the good times we shared with our publisher, friend, and ultimate fan of Spooky Season, Joe Bratcher.
Carrying on the tradition, we discussed two spooky reads that we've been enjoying this year:
A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee (Creature Publishing)
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada (New Directions)
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In this new minisode series, Managing Editor and cover designer extraordinaire, Annar Veröld, divulges all of her secrets to making the most striking book covers for Host Publications. In this first episode of the series, we focus on what it means to be inspired, and how to carry that inspiration through to the finish line.
Some of the design resources Annar recommends in this episode are:
Rijks Museum Archives
Taro As Color Deck by Ithell Colquhoun
Tantra Song - Tantric Painting from Rajasthan by Frank Andre Jamme
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We offer this episode in loving memory of our publisher, mentor, and dear friend, Joe Bratcher III, who loved literature and was a champion of translated works, especially those written and translated by women. We celebrate Women in Translation Month this year in his honor.
In this episode, we discuss:
Shapeshifter by Alice Paalen Rahon
Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik
Please visit our website where currently, all of our works by women in translation are 50% off!
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