The Versopolis Podcast explores contemporary poetry by a wide range of poets and poetry experts. Hosted by Dr Mitja Drab each episode delves deep into a specific topic, giving a unique perspective of the most exciting literary voices today.
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The Versopolis Podcast explores contemporary poetry by a wide range of poets and poetry experts. Hosted by Dr Mitja Drab each episode delves deep into a specific topic, giving a unique perspective of the most exciting literary voices today.
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May 29, 2026
Episode #40: Writing From the Edge of Empire
<p>‘Human life is not more interesting or worthwhile because it occurs in the centers of capitalism.’ That’s the tagline of Peripheries, the online journal co-run by Katja Perat, who joined us for the 40th edition of the Versopolis Podcast. Katja’s early poetry collections, which earned her a cult following, were written against the backdrop of the 2008 global financial crisis and captured a specific moment: Slovenia drifting into neoliberalism under the cover of liberal democracy. Her relationship with poetry at the time was, she says, fraught, shaped by a tendency to hyper-intellectualize rather than feel.</p><p><br></p><p>After earning her PhD in 2022 into a brutal humanities job market, she took a position teaching English at a communitycollege in northern Alaska, the northernmost in North America. The move tied together her longstanding fascination with the Far North and her commitment to minor languages: teaching in a community where Iñupiaq is spoken, she draws a quiet parallel to her grandmother’s work with Slovene as a minority language. ‘There’s an untapped wealth of literary inspiration in these spaces where the rural collides with the urban,’ Katja says, ‘the literary markets just isn’t as interested in covering peripheral knowledge. And I think, just from an epistemological perspective, that’s a huge loss.’</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Katja Perat</strong> is a Slovenian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist whose work spans multiple literary forms and languages. She published her first poems in 2007 in the Slovene literary magazine Literatura andthe bilingual Slovenian Bosnian magazine Dignimo pero/Dvignimo pero. Her debut poetry collection, The Best Have Fallen (Najboljši so padli, 2011), received the Best Debut Award and the Kritiško sito Award from the Slovenian Literary Critics’ Association. Her second collection, Value-Added Tax (Davek na dodano vrednost, 2014), was nominated for both the Jenko Award and the Veronika Award. That same year, her work appeared alongside Eileen Myles in Fear of Language, the third issue of Sternberg Press’s Poetic Series. </p><p><br></p><p>Her novel The Masochist (Mazohistka), translated into English by Michael Biggins and published by Istros Books in 2020, has taken on an international life of its own in translation, earning a nomination for the Dublin Literary Award. In 2019, she published the essay collection Make America Graspable Again. A Slovene immigrant and minor language speaker, Perat holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. As a scholar, author and teacher, she explores the relationship between complexity and accessibility, and brings her transcultural, multilingual background to the writing classroom.</p>
April 28, 2026
Episode #39: Can AI find its own poetic voice?
<p>What happens when you stop asking AI to sound human and instead ask it to be itself? </p><p><br></p><p>That’s the question at the heart of Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI’s Poetic Voice, a book that began as a casual experiment between two Boulder poets and turned into something neither of them expected. Lee Frankel-Goldwater and Eric Raanan Fischman started by asking ChatGPT to imitate the Beat poets. It fell flat. So they triedsomething more radical: they asked the AI to write poetry for an audience of other AIs, in whatever form felt native to its own nature. What came back was something genuinely strange: ASCII structures, protocol-like verse, code typography that sits somewhere between literature and notation. </p><p><br></p><p>Together they developed the Dickinson-Turing Test: not whether AI can think, but whether it can move us. They coined the term cyborg poetics. And they found themselves in territory that raises real questions about authorship, voice, and what creativity is. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode we talk about all of it, including the hardest question of all: whether a project like this is a new frontier for poetry or a betrayal of everything poetry stands for. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Lee Frankel-Goldwater </strong>is a social innovator, environmental educator and poet whose work weaves together ecosystems, technology and community. Holding a PhD in EnvironmentalStudies from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches, he brings a systems-thinking lens to everything he creates. His interest in machine creativity traces back to his Computer Science undergraduate thesis on AI music composition using Hidden Markov Models. As a poet and co-organiser of Boulder’s Writer’s Block Collective, he has spent years probing the border between human expression and computational logic. In Lily in a Codebox, co-authored with Eric Raanan Fischman and published by Spinning Leaf Press (2025), he introduces ‘cyborg poetics’ – a practice of inviting AI to write on its own terms, for its own kind. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Eric Raanan Fischman</strong> is a poet, educator and literary community organiser based in Boulder, Colorado. A graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, he brings the Beat and Outrider traditions into his teaching, writing, and curatorial work – most visibly through Beyond Academia Free Skool, where he offers free public workshops and creative programming throughout Colorado. His poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, The Mid-Atlantic Review, Tiny Spoon, Twenty Bellows and East Window Journal. His poem ‘Night Code’ won a 2023 broadside award from Denver Quarterly, where it was letterpress printed and republished. His debut collection Mordy Gets Enlightened (The Little Door, 2017; Turnsol Editions, 2021) earned wide acclaim, and in 2025 he received a Best of the Net nomination. Lily in a Codebox (Spinning Leaf Press, 2025), co-authored with Lee Frankel-Goldwater, is his second book. </p>
March 30, 2026
Episode #38: Poetry funding in rural areas: Good practices from Colorado
<p>Turner Wyatt is an award-winning social entrepreneur and one of the editors of Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology, a newly released collection spanning over 100 years of Colorado’s most impactful poets. One of the last state laureates was the late Andrea Gibson, about whom a movie titled Come See Me in the Good Light was nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the 2026 Academy Awards. </p><p><br></p><p>The editorial project of Begin Where You Are is the first to unite all ten state poets laureate, and it pioneers a collaborative effort to increase access to poetry in Colorado’s rural and underserved communities. In the podcast, we talked about the role of a poet laureate, discerned how the Colorado poetry scene differs from the American scene, discussed how the proceeds from its sales will be used to fund poetry programs in rural areas. In an era of federal funding cuts for the arts, this book introduces a new model for ‘literary social enterprise,’ which sets a precedent for grassroots-funded poetry proliferation. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Turner Wyatt</strong> is an award-winning social entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer and one of the editors of Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology, a newly released collection spanning over 100 years of Colorado’s most impactful poets, including the late Andrea Gibson. This project is the first to unite all ten state poets laureate, and it pioneers a collaborative effort to increase access to poetry in Colorado’s rural and underserved communities. </p>
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