Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

 

 Question and Answer [13:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

 

 JV Brummels [12:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

 

 David Romtvedt [9:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

 

 Thea Gavin [10:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

 

 Joshua Dolezal: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal. Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

 

 Donald Williams [10:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Was privileged to attend F219. A Rattle Reading: Cowboy & Western Poetry.

Participants in the panel were, Jeff Streeby, JV Brummels, Donald Williams, Thea Gavin, David Romtvelt, and Joshua Dolezal.

Cowboy poetry is a fantastic and complex genre. Poems of work, poems of oral history, poems of landscape. I must admit, as someone who comes from Philadelphia and Vermont; I am totally not a cowboy. There is still so much in the genre I find to identify with. I felt like I’d done enough ‘work’ panels at this conference, and thus I’d treat myself, and this panel was indeed a treat.

I will let the words of the authors speak for themselves. The panel consisted of six readers and a Q&A session. Also, I must mention here, that both cowboypoetry.com and cowboysongs.com were recommended by the panel.

I also do have a brief video of David Romtvedt playing the accordion for us. You can hear it in his performance. I don’t have the bandwith at the moment to upload it but if anyone wants to see it, drop me an e-mail at toddbstevens at gmail and it shall be yours.

Thank you to all the participants, and much thanks to Rattle for a panel that was vibrant, varied, and overall fantastic.

(See the following 6 posts for each of the panelist discussions)

 

 Panel Introduction [3:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Am over at the Magnolia Hotel Ballroom (17th and Stout) at the joint Omnidawn and Ahsanta Poetry reading hearing Christopher Arigo, Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Richard Greenfeld, Paul Hoover, Hank Lazer, Laura Moriarty, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, and Michelle Taransky. reading. Its a live crowd. to wit:

Two readings that stood out were Susan Briande’s and a joint reading by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover.

All of these poets are signing at E 24-25-26 on Friday, 1PM, and please visit Ahsante at K23.

 

 Susan Briande reads at the Omnidawn and Ahsanta Magnolia Ballroom Read [5:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Am over at the Magnolia Hotel Ballroom (17th and Stout) at the joint Omnidawn and Ahsanta Poetry reading hearing Christopher Arigo, Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Richard Greenfeld, Paul Hoover, Hank Lazer, Laura Moriarty, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, and Michelle Taransky. reading. Its a live crowd. to wit:

Two readings that stood out were Susan Briande’s and a joint reading by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover.

All of these poets are signing at E 24-25-26 on Friday, 1PM, and please visit Ahsante at K23.

 

 Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover reads at the Omnidawn and Ahsanta Magnolia Ballroom Read [13:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I was lucky to recently have a Skype chat with Brian Evenson, who book after book, continues to be one of the most impressive writers out there. I’ve long been a fan for a very long time, and in the world of authors, Evenson is about as close to celebrity as I’m comfortable admitting is out there.

Here we discuss topics relating to his panel, extract below:

S115. Crime, Horror, Sci‐Fi, and Fantasy… Seriously. (Anthony Smith, Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones, Tod Goldberg, Mark Smith, Seth Harwood) Six writers of genre fiction who also teach and/or have graduated from university creative writing programs discuss how they approach genre fiction as a serious literary pursuit rather than as a lesser form of fiction. In addition, they discuss attitudes towards genre fiction in the university and how those attitudes have changed over the years.

I want to personally thank Mr. Brian Evenson for taking time out of his day to chat with me. He has made this fanboy quite happy.

Be sure to visit his website for details about this amazing author.

 

 An interview with Brian Evenson in prep for his panel S115. Crime, Horror, Sci‐Fi, and Fantasy... Seriously. : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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