Not Fit for Composition
Claim This Podcastby August Smith, Eleanor Eli Moss, Marcus Khoury
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<p>Join August, Eleanor, and Marcus, as we take an acerbic look at the worst excesses of the contemporary poetry landscape: celebrity poetry books, influencer vanity projects, the finest verse of instagram, the flarf, the slam, the alt lit, all of it—we’ll be reading the cream of the crop of the lowest of the brow.</p>
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2/4/2024
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Recent Episodes
February 7, 2026
Episode 008: The David Duchovny Files (w/ Steven Michael Holmes)
<p>Hi everyone, hope 2025 was good! Sorry for the hiatus. I was busy. In this episode, we chat with friend of the pod Steven Michael Holmes about VHS archival work and our shared lore before we jump into a discussion of 2025's most viral TikTok poem, "I Met My Younger Self for Coffee" by Jennae Cecelia. At ~27:00, we begin our discussion of David Duchovny's new book of poetry, About Time, published by Akashic. Does Mulder's poetry have the X-factor? Or should we file it away? And are there any alien poems? (Nope.)</p><p><br></p><p>Songs:</p><p>"NFFC Theme"</p><p>"drone strike" - Frozen Water</p><p>"X-Files Theme"</p><p>"Wrong Ones" - Plum Wooer</p><p><br></p><p>Steve's YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Tube.Time.T.V" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@Tube.Time.T.V</a></p><p>August's new tunes: <a href="https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/album/a-partial-list-of-my-flaws-wrong-ones" rel="nofollow">https://plumwooer.bandcamp.com/</a></p><p>Eleanor's Substack: <a href="https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy" rel="nofollow">https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy</a></p><p>Marcus's band: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/</a></p>
January 20, 2025
Episode 007: The Inauguration Poet Special
<p>It's the new year! It's also inauguration day (boooo)! We're serving up something different for 2025's beefy first episode. First, we take a look at the year ahead with some literary predictions from writers across the lit space: Steff Yue Duhem, Tao Lin, Jill McDonough, Rachelle Toarmino, catch breath, Lloyd Schwartz, Kit Rosewater, Chelsey Minnis, and more contribute their forecasts. Then we analyze and rank every past inaugural poet before musing on whom Trump's should be.</p><p><br></p><p>Songs:</p><p>"NFFC Theme"</p><p>"Bait the Hook (demo)" - Plum Wooer</p><p>"Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping" - Grouper</p><p>"Watching Star Wars (demo)" - Plum Wooer</p><p><br></p><p>Follow along and make your own inaugural poet tier list here: <a href="https://tiermaker.com/create/us-inaugural-poets-17814399" rel="nofollow">https://tiermaker.com/create/us-inaugural-poets-17814399</a></p><p>Buy August's book: <a href="https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith" rel="nofollow">https://apocalypse-confidential.myshopify.com/products/visitors-from-the-red-star-by-august-smith</a></p><p>Eleanor's Substack: <a href="https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy" rel="nofollow">https://substack.com/@fanghoneyy</a></p><p>Marcus's band: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/stillsubmarine/</a></p>
December 20, 2024
Episode 006: Alright Alright Alright (w/ Stephanie Yue Duhem)
Stephanie Yue Duhem and August Smith dissect the viral poem 'For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper' and Matthew McConaughey's 'Greenlights,' revealing the wisdom and absurdity in modern poetry.
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<p>Join August, Eleanor, and Marcus, as we take an acerbic look at the worst excesses of the contemporary poetry landscape: celebrity poetry books, influencer vanity projects, the finest verse of instagram, the flarf, the slam, the alt lit, all of it—we’ll be reading the cream of the crop of the lowest of the brow.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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