Ep 8: Prodigal Dad, ft. Traci O’Dea
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Traci’s new poetry collection, Restricted Movement, featuring paintings by her dad, Tommy O’Dea
– The Kit-Kat Klock
– Reading for a magazine
– Form vs. free verse
– Mimesis is born, not made
– Casual Britishisms
– How to pronounce “Appalachian”
– Art vs. artists
– Metaphysical sex poetry
– Famous British poets love to help high school students cheat on their exams
– The Prodigal Son every week!
– Lear is funny
– Shtick and the teen pop sex icon
– Pandering to the patriarchy
– “…performatively dead eyes…”
– A doting New York Times piece on Billie Eilish
– British Vogue’s debut of a new Billie Eilish
– A scornful New York Times piece on Billie Eilish
– The HBO of influencers
– The Black Mirror episode “Nosedive”
– Marina Abramovic is a good performance artist
– Olly Eley’s (lightly ghostwritten) self-introduction
– Dad brain
– Traci’s forthcoming poetry collection Waving
Find Traci online at traciodea.com and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @traciodea
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
