59 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (March 2024)

March 2024 Dante’s Old South Chelsey Clammer is the award-winning author of the essay collections Human Heartbeat Detected (Red Hen Press, 2022), Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, and McSweeney’s, among many others. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women On Writing and is a freelance editor.  www.chelseyclammer.com Dan Veach is the founding editor of Atlanta Review. A poet and translator of Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon, Dan has won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and an Independent Publisher Book Award. His books include Elephant Water, Lunchboxes, Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq, Beowulf & Beyond, Songs of The Cid, and Returning Home: The Poetry of Tao Yuan-ming. Dan has performed his poetry worldwide, including Oxford University, People’s University in Beijing, the American University in Cairo, and the Adelaide Festival in Australia. https://irisbooks.com/authors/dan-veach/ Elizabeth Cox has published five novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of poetry.  She has won the North Carolina Fiction Award, the Lillian Smith Award for a novel, and in 2013 she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction. Cox taught creative writing at Duke for seventeen years, and also taught at Wofford College, Bennington College, Boston College, and MIT.  She resides in Spartanburg, South Carolina. www.mupress.org/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=6439&Name=Elizabeth+Barks+Cox Music by: Patrice Pike Wilder Adkins wilderadkins.bandcamp.com Special Thanks Goes to: Lucid House Press: www.lucidhousepublishing.com UCLA Extension Writing Program: www.uclaextension.edu The Crown: www.thecrownbrasstown.com Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com The host, Clifford Brooks’, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Old Gods are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through his website: www.cliffbrooks.com/how-to-order Check out his Teachable course on creative writing as a profession here: brooks sessions.teachable.com/p/the-working-writer