The Social yet Distanced Pod Collective and Jack Varnell spend : A SundayAfternoon with American Poet Mike James

The Social yet Distanced Pod Collective and Jack Varnell spend a Sunday afternoon  in two different areas of the blooming balmy SouthEastern US, to talk music,  poetry, voice, and the voices.  We also cover just a scoche of Mike James' extensive wealth of work, and discuss  relationships with poets, and poets relationships to the world. Collections Include: Leftover Distances, Luchador, 2021 Double Feature (with John Dorsey), Analog Submissions, 2021 Red Dirt Souvenir Shop, Analog Submissions, 2020 Journeyman’s Suitcase, Luchador, 2020 Parades, Alien Buddha, 2019 Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor, Blue Horse, 2019 First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places, Stubborn Mule Press, 2018 Crows in the Jukebox, Bottom Dog, 2017  My Favorite Houseguest, FutureCycle, 2017 Peddler’s Blues, Main Street Rag, 2016 The Year We Let the House Fall Down, Aldrich, 2015  Elegy in Reverse, Aldrich, 2014 Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011, Main Street Rag, 2012 Shotgun Exchanges, Costmary, 2010 Alternate Endings, Foothills, 2007 Nothing but Love, Pathwise, 2004 Pennies from an Empty Jar, Another Thing, 2002 All Those Goodbyes, Talent House, 2001 Not Here, Green Bean, 2000 Anthologies: Howl 2016, Writers on Writing, The Working Poet, Along These Rivers,  Stories About Time, Recession In Neverland, The Green Panda Anthology,  The Best of Mad Swirl, Mother Mary Come to Me, and  The Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia Editorial Experience:   Associate Editor, Unbroken, 2020-2021 Associate Editor, Good Works Review, 2017 Associate Editor, Kentucky Review, 2014-2016 Judge for the Hot Metal Press Poetry Prize, 2008 Associate Editor, Autumn House Press, 2004-2007 Publisher of Yellow Pepper Press, 2004-2014