Michael talks with Zac Smith about burning out on linguistics, getting into writing, writing in collaboration, his poetry collection 50 BARN POEMS, poems as jokes/jokes as poems, his story collection EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE, deadpan delivery, sentence energy, performing first person, the fine lines of gimmicks, and more.
Michael talks with Zac Smith about burning out on linguistics, getting into writing, writing in collaboration, his poetry collection 50 BARN POEMS, poems as jokes/jokes as poems, his story collection EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE, deadpan humor, sentence energy, performing first person, the fine lines of gimmicks, and more.
Zac Smith is the author of EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE (Muumuu House, 2021) and 50 BARN POEMS (Clash Books, 2019). His writing has been published by Hobart, X-Ray, Maudlin House, New World Writing, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, and other magazines.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.