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January 20, 2025 102 mins

In which the podcaster presents the third and final special episode for the month of January in which he interviews artists and writers about how they manage to support themselves and their creative work while carving out time for it in contemporary American culture. 
 
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Paul Corman-Roberts

Paul Corman-Roberts has been learning how to be an on-the-fly organizer, publisher and all around hustler pretty much since he was able to learn. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Bone Moon Palace and The Sincere. As well as being a co-founder and co-director of Oakland's Beast Crawl Lit Festival, he is also the co-founder, co-director and full-time lackey at Collapse Press Books, a boutique indie press for goths who refuse to age gracefully.

Links:

Substack

Collapse Press

The Sincere (Graphic Chapbook with Ray Swaney)

Bone Moon Palace

Beast Crawl Literary Festival

San Francisco Creative Writing Institute



Norm Mattox

norm mattox is a poet and a retired spanish bilingual educator whose poetry tells a story of love and resilience in our times of challenge, struggle, and transformation. norm's published collections include: Get Home Safe, Poems for Crossing the Community Grid, published in 2016, Black Calculus published in 2021 by Nomadic Press (Pushcart Prize nominated), four crescents published by Collapse Press in 2023, and evaporating rage, published by Black Lawrence Press in 2024. norm’s poetry also shows up in a number of anthologies: Love Letters to Gaia, Letters for the End Times; Vols 1 & 2, maintenant 18, and a shape produced by a curve to mention a few. norm is presently working on a couple of projects for the 2025 season.

Links:

Norm’s website

Black Lawrence Press page 

Norm reading at San Francisco Public Library (2018) 
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