Good news is sometimes hard to come by for poets, and what’s better news than a new book! Celebrate with us as Jason Gray hosts an interview podcast with poets discussing their new books. Each episode is a smart, fun look into the world of poetry, where the guests read several poems for their new work, and talk about how their books came to be, and how they write the way they do.
Drunk as a Poet on Payday
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Good news is sometimes hard to come by for poets, and what’s better news than a new book! Celebrate with us as Jason Gray hosts an interview podcast with poets discussing their new books. Each episode is a smart, fun look into the world of poetry, where the guests read several poems for their new work, and talk about how their books came to be, and how they write the way they do.
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June 4, 2026
David Baker
<p>Today's guest is David Baker. Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. His new book is Transit, and he is the author of 12 previous collections of poetry, including, most recently, Whale Fall and Swift: New and Selected Poems, and six works of nonfiction. The first of those, Meter in English, I found incredibly important as a young graduate student. Baker is an Emeritus Professor of English at Denison University and for many years he was Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review, where he also curated the long-running annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine. Among his awards are prizes and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council.</p><p><br>Pick up a copy of Transit <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/transit-poems-david-baker/199e636f60ff5bc1?ean=9781324117476&next=t">here</a>.</p><p>Read more about Baker <a href="https://www.davidbaker.website/">here</a>.</p><p><br>Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter!<br><a href="https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/">https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/</a></p><p>Say hi to us online:<br>Website: <a href="http://drunkasapoet.com/">http://drunkasapoet.com</a><br>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/">@drunkasapoetonpayday</a><br>BlueSky: <a href="https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/">https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social</a></p>
May 22, 2026
Dan Beachy-Quick
<p>Today's guest is Dan Beachy-Quick! He is a poet, essayist, and translator. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations, and longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. His poetry collections include North True South Bright, Spell, Mulberry, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry, This Nest, Swift Passerine, Circle’s Apprentice, and Variations on Dawn and Dusk. He is also the author of A Whaler’s Dictionary, a collection of linked essays responding to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and translations from Ancient Greek, The Thinking Root and Stone-Garland. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.</p><p>Pick up a copy of Elements & Offerings <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/elements-offerings-dan-beachy-quick/2507cd009235e3fd?ean=9780807186039&next=t">here</a>.</p><p>Read more about Beachy-Quick <a href="https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/dbeach/">here</a>.</p><p><br>Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter!<br><a href="https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/">https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/</a></p><p>Say hi to us online:<br>Website: <a href="http://drunkasapoet.com/">http://drunkasapoet.com</a><br>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/">@drunkasapoetonpayday</a><br>BlueSky: <a href="https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/">https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social</a></p>
May 8, 2026
Anna Lena Phillips Bell
<p>Today's guest is Anna Lena Phillips Bell, and her new book, <a href="https://www.waywiserbooks.org/new-releases">Might Could</a>, won the Anthony Hecht Prize from Waywiser Books. Anna Lena Phillips Bell is also the author of <a href="https://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/bell-ornament/?utm_source=catalog/3739&utm_medium=301">Ornament</a>, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook <a href="https://www.stbrigidpress.net/books/smaller-songshttps:/www.stbrigidpress.net/books/smaller-songs">Smaller Songs</a>, from St Brigid Press. Poems appear in journals including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Electric Literature, Orion, The Sewanee Review, 32 Poems, and Subtropics, and in anthologies including Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. She is an associate professor in UNCW’s <a href="https://uncw.edu/writers/">MFA and BFA programs</a> in creative writing and editor of <a href="https://ecotonemagazine.org/">Ecotone</a>.</p><p>Pick up a copy of Might Could <a href="https://asterismbooks.com/product/might-could-anna-lena-phillips-bell">here</a>.</p><p>Read more about Bell <a href="https://annalenaphillipsbell.net/">here</a>.</p><p><br>Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter!<br><a href="https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/">https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/</a></p><p>Say hi to us online:<br>Website: <a href="http://drunkasapoet.com/">http://drunkasapoet.com</a><br>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drunkasapoetonpayday/">@drunkasapoetonpayday</a><br>BlueSky: <a href="https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social/">https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social</a></p>
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