An irreverent chat show in which hosts Amelia Ada and Alexandria Hall interview poets and invite them to tell you beautiful lies about a random assortment of subjects.
Greetings and blessings upon all April fools! This episode we hear all about everyone's favorite network of wisdom from the future Poet Laureate of the Skies and the author of Latitude (2021), Natasha Rao. Natasha joins our educational programme to break down some important internet slang (NSFW, IRL, AMA, OP) and to debunk some common misconceptions about how to remove slugs from your garden. We also discuss: Writing on airplanes, what counts as a "project" in "project books...
19 Dec 2024
About Sea-Monkeys (w/ Miller Oberman)
Poet Miller Oberman discusses grief, nostalgia, and creative expression with hosts Amelia and Alexandria, exploring the complexities of the human experience through unexpected connections and metaphors.
12 Nov 2024
About the Electoral College (w/ T Bambrick)
In this uniquely timely episode of Poets Lie, Alexandria and Amelia ask poet T Bambrick (author of Intimacies, Received, 2022) to explain everyone's favorite American institution of higher learning: The Electoral College. Who goes there? How do you get in? What's the graduation rate? How does it put the "mid" in Midwest? Listen to find out (maybe).We also get into: "Finland," Florida, skunks, alligators, Elizabeth Bishop and her ghost, ziplines, poetic lines, The UnTrimmed Bush, prose poems a...
1 Oct 2024
About Taking a Walk (w/ Callie Siskel)
BLAMMO! Amelia and Alexandria are back with Season Two! Shaking off the crust of another hot goblin summer. Did you miss us? Don't lie.Our guest for this very special premiere out-and-about episode is Callie Siskel, expert loop-walker and author of Two Minds (Norton 2024).On our journey we discuss the elegiac mode, the meditative silence of art museums, the difficulty of walking and talking, good gait, snacking every quarter mile, horse idioms, secret staircases, the smell of lust, the etymol...
10 Apr 2024
About Conference
Every year, in early spring, thousands of American poets flock to a city in the continental U.S. for a gathering known as Conference. What do they do there? What kind of business do they conduct? What is a “panel”?
In this very special episode, Amelia and Alexandria travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to try and answer these questions, and more, in their first foray into investigative podcast fabulism.
Babes, it's the season finale.
Featuring a brilliant clown car of beautiful poets:
Rebecca Bernard
(https://rebeccaibernard.com/)Max Suzuki (https://www.maxwellsuzuki.com/)
Mitchell Jacobs (https://mitchellbjacobs.com/)
Jorrell Watkins (https://jorrellwatkins.com/)
Bryan Byrdlong (https://bryanbyrdlong.com/)
Matt Broaddus (https://www.matt-broaddus.com/)
Madeleine Mori (https://madeleinemori.persona.co/)
Clancy Tripp (https://clancytripp.com/)
Alicia Wright (https://jaliciawright.com/)
Kelly Hoffer (https://www.kellyrosehoffer.com/)
Kate Gibbel (https://www.katherinegibbel.com/)
Linda Harris-Dolan (https://lindahdolan.com/)
Thomas Renjilian (https://www.thomasrenjilian.com/)
Kate Greene (https://us.macmillan.com/author/kategreene)
Rivka Clifton (https://rivkaclifton.weebly.com/)
and YSLPLTY intern-hopeful, Lindsey Skillen (https://tele-artmag.com/505).
Will any of it make sense?
Will our intrepid hosts make it out alive?
Time to find out.
19 Feb 2024
About Bogs (w/ Tracy Fuad)
Who's ready to get bogged up?!
This month on YSLPLTY we're sitting down with Tracy Fuad (https://tracyfuad.com/) to discuss her new book PORTAL (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo214299034.html) (U Chicago Press 2024) and her deep and abiding love of land that is wet.
We also get bogged up about: The Corn Feed, Renaissance Faires, German buses, noise, permeability, (poetry) business trips, types of doors, "land that's wet," revenue streams, Jason's ladder, getting really bogged up at The Corn Feed, the bog queen, the bogosphere, (de) and (re) composition, and Ye Olde Corne Feede.
"Bogs are the poets of the landscape--they're composing."
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15 Jan 2024
About Napoleon (w/ Erin Marie Lynch)
Would you like it if we told you? If we told you about Napoleon? Would, would you like it?
On this episode we invite the poet Erin Marie Lynch (https://www.erinmarielynch.com/), author of Removal Acts (https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/removal-acts) (Graywolf 2023), to debunk common misunderstandings about everyone's favorite short king. Or was he really a toxic tall?
We also get into the weeds with Amelia's favorite Gertrude Stein recording, Alexandria's inevitable conquering of The Great British Bake Off (https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/), ABBA, family hauntings, internet archives, the essential tenets of lawn care, Scientologist yoga studios, and billiards.
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11 Dec 2023
About Symbiosis (w/ Jesse Nathan)
This month we get symbiotic with Jesse Nathan (https://www.jessenathan.net/), author of Eggtooth (https://www.unboundedition.com/product/pre-order-eggtooth-jesse-nathan-poetry/)(Unbound Edition 2023), who tells us sweet lies about interspecies cooperation, dependence, and all kinds of dynamic relation.
Biological metaphors abound.
Also discussed: Discourse Barbie, making Dogs, cat litter(ature), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, dreaming relevantly, lying rhymes, the singing of the frog, the little shovel, and being used well.
Follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/poetsliepodcast/), check out poetslie.biz (https://poetslie.biz/) and buy our merch!
30 Nov 2023
BONUS: Two Truths and a Lie with Elizabeth Metzger
What do April Fools, alter egos, Sappho, and the cult classic 2001 film Scotland, Pa. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265713/)have in common?
Find out in this special BONUS CONTENT from Alexandria and Amelia's interview with poet Elizabeth Metzger.
Don't underestimate her boldness.
Be sure to listen to the full interview, follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/poetsliepodcast/), and check out poetslie.biz (https://poetslie.biz/).
20 Nov 2023
About the Tarot (w/ Elizabeth Metzger)
Let’s get mystical! Elizabeth Metzger (http://www.elizabethmetzger.com/) -- author of Lying In (https://milkweed.org/book/lying-in) (Milkweed 2023) -- tells it slant, brings us deep into the five-layer dip of consciousness, and reads Amelia and Alexandria (for filth??).
Also discussed: perfumery; head, heart, and base notes; the inevitable Emily Dickinson, inventor of tarot; wallpaper glue, bed rest, the unborn and the dead; and Amelia's bearded grandmother.
Time to ask the cards. Bug -- Land -- Moon --
Credit: The Emily Dickinson Tarot Deck we used is this one (https://www.factoryhollowpress.com/books/the-emily-dickinson-tarot-deck) from Factory Hollow Press.
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16 Oct 2023
About Hypnosis (w/ Catherine Pond and Kai Carlson-Wee)
You find yourself at the watering hole ... with YSLPLTY's first poet-couple dual interview ... Catherine Pond (http://catherinejeanpond.com/), author of Fieldglass (http://siupress.siu.edu/books/978-0-8093-3814-6) (Crab Orchard Series 2021) and Kai Carlson-Wee (http://kaicarlsonwee.com/), author of Rail (https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/poetry/products/rail?_pos=1&_sid=ef4b14452&_ss=r) (BOA Editions 2018) ...
Imagine ... we discuss Kai’s culinary elan, the metal content of animals, a pet squirrel named Chauncey, Drop Dead Gorgeous, volleyball with Vanguard, confession and risk, potential reality TV shows about poets, hippos at the watering hole (hipponosis), and being crazy, lazy and in love ...
You are getting sleepy ... very sleepy ...
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29 Aug 2023
About Math (w/ Adrienne Chung)
Question: Three poets are lying about 'rithmetic. If each is traveling at different speeds, and Amelia has two apples, Alexandria has eight cats and two dogs, and Adrienne has four leather jackets, when will we arrive at the truth?
On our latest episode, we invite Adrienne Chung (https://www.adrienne-chung.com/), author of the forthcoming National Poetry Series-winning book Organs of Little Importance (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721065/organs-of-little-importance-by-adrienne-chung/) (Penguin, 2023), to lie to us about every poet's favorite subject: Math!
Also discussed: All the infinities, eurythmy, hot yoga, Jungian dream analysis, dickmatization, SAT tutoring, black leather jackets in Berlin, form and formulas, and the Donut of Desire.
Should we buy the blouse?! Listen to find out.
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11 Aug 2023
About Cryptocurrency (w/ Matt Broaddus)
Amelia and Alexandria are back! From the bottom of the well! With a new episode featuring Matt Broaddus (https://www.matt-broaddus.com/), author of Temporal Anomalies (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781938900495/temporal-anomalies.aspx) (Ricochet Editions 2023).
We do a deep dive into the shady and fantastical world of cryptic currency, and discuss along the way gray goblins, improv poker, things falling out of the sky, gossip, the Gospel of Gretchen, and a singularity of lies. And we introduce the Misha Moment™.
We really want a bitcoin :(
Follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/poetsliepodcast/), check out poetslie.biz (https://poetslie.biz/).
P.S. The sun has returned to Los Angeles since this episode was recorded. This episode is its own temporal anomaly.
9 Jun 2023
About Spooky Action at a Distance (w/ Diannely Antigua)
In our second episode, we get spooky with Diannely Antigua (https://diannelyantigua.com).
We talk about Diannely's first book Ugly Music, her forthcoming book Good Monster, and her work as Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH. Lies ensue about physics, distance, and food delivery.
"To be close to someone is to decide to allow your spaces to collide."
Also discussed: Hot Goblin Summer™, LoTR, Yoga Toes, Capri Sun, pandemic romances, and husband material (plumbers).
Follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/poetsliepodcast/), check out poetslie.biz (https://poetslie.biz/).
PS: Amelia sends her greetings from the bottom of the well where she recorded this interview #HotGoblinSummer.
21 Apr 2023
About Aeronautics (w/ Austen Leah Rose)
For our inaugural episode, we talked with poet Austen Leah Rose (https://austenleahrose.com) about her new book Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm, and invited her to lie to us about aeronautics.
What is flight?
"Air in conversation with air. That's flying."
We also discuss: storms, motherhood, mushrooms, sky dancers, physics and Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.
PS: We know the Björk video is from the 80s, not the 90s—this is a podcast of LIES! Please don't @ us.
Follow us @poetsliepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/poetsliepodcast/), check out poetslie.biz (https://poetslie.biz/).
15 Apr 2023
About Podcasts (Teaser)
In anticipation of the first YSLPLTY episode, Amelia and Alexandria introduce themselves, and try to figure out what a podcast is... where do they grow? Who made the first one? Is this one??
Spoiler alert: the Poddy is in the bag.
Follow us @poetsliepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/poetsliepodcast/), check out poetslie.biz (https://poetslie.biz/), and stay tuned NEXT WEEK for Episode 1!
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