48 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (April 2023)

Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collections Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023) and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019), a New York Times New & Noteworthy pick. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Teaching Fellow at Vanderbilt University, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. New poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. www.edgarkunz.com Gregory Ariail grew up in Buford, Georgia. In 2019, I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. I've earned degrees from Oxford University and the University of Michigan and recently completed my MFA at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. You might love cats as much as me, but you don't love them more. https://www.gregoryariail.com All Music Provided by Alicia Blue: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4suxU7SfC7vp6wMComAlQG?si=HC1MmtMjRdmTSyRuJXNmog Special Thanks goes to: Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org Woodbridge Inn: www.woodbridgeinnjasper.com Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com Liberty Trust Hotel: www.libertytrusthotel.com The host, Clifford Brooks’, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please reach out to him at: [email protected] Check out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: www.brooks-sessions.teachable.com