Best Steve Roggenbuck Podcasts (2024)

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Ep13: What did we learn?? Negotiation, faking it, and The Ultimate Truth 27:54

6+ y ago27:54

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At the end of 18-months of increased blood, sweat, and tears, Honor Eastly recaps the three big things she's learned from creating Starving Artist. You can help shape the future of Starving Artist by filling out the listener survey. Click here to help us out. To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or T…

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Ep12: Travelling the World as a YouTube Poet with Steve Roggenbuck 1:17:43

7y ago1:17:43

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Steve Roggenbuck is an American video poet who's most famous for his youtube videos, which really have to be seen to be believed. They're feature mostly self-recorded footage of Steve walking through the snow, the desert, a park, his house, a party, and talking / yelling directly to camera. I remember finding his videos in the dead of night, while …

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BONUS: quitting my job, imposter syndrome, and having the same amount of hours as Beyonce 37:44

7y ago37:44

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This week we've got a rebroadcast of an episode from the other podcast I make, Being Honest With My Ex, about quitting my job, imposter syndrome, and how you definitely don't have the same amount of hours in the day as Beyonce. Being Honest With My Ex is basically a weekly personal journal that I've been keeping with my ex-fiance for the past two y…

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Ep11: Taking Control Of Your Finances with Sarah Firth 59:58

7y ago59:58

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This week we've got the second part of the interview I did with Sarah Firth, and this one is some straight up #realtalk about how money works. The first five minutes we talk about maneuvering in your creative career, the next five, Sarah gives me the low down on her best resources for getting in control of your money, and then the following 40 minu…

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Ep10: Artistic Integrity Is More Important Than Money with Steaphan Paton 57:55

7y ago57:55

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This week we've got an interview with contemporary artist Steaphan Paton about artistic integrity, resourcefulness, unpacking your money story, and living on $8,000 a year. To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork) For the full show notes visit www.starvinga…

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BONUS: Making Starving Artist - success, social media, and crying on instagram 31:07

7y ago31:07

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This week on Starving Artist we've got a bonus episode for you! It's not a traditional episode where I convince an artist I admire to tell me all their secrets, instead it's a behind the scenes look at Starving Artist told through a conversation with a good friend of mine, Audrey, who interviewed me for the NAVA: in conversation podcast. In this in…

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Ep9: Selling Your First Manuscript with Bri Lee 34:10

7y ago34:10

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When I recorded this weeks interview with freelance writer Bri Lee, she had a lot going on. She'd just quit her stable law job to become a freelance writer, and in the two months prior had won a fellowship, scored a literary agent, and was in the middle of shopping around her first manuscript to a small pile of publishing houses. I had no damn idea…

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Ep8: Two Careers and Kids with Becky Sui Zhen 1:01:10

7y ago1:01:10

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In this episode I talk to musician and creative producer Becky Sui Zhen about straddling two careers, and how to make creative career plans around life decisions like Having Children (currently one of my most potent fears). To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bor…

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Ep7: Designing Your Creative Life with Sarah Firth 46:02

7y ago46:02

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This week we have an interview with Sarah Firth talking about building an approach for your work, which really means building an approach for your life! In this episode we talk about collecting data on yourself, redefining success, and why you shouldn't pressure yourself to make money from your artwork. To discuss this episode, head over to the Sta…

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Ep6: How To Get Out Of Your Private Freelancer Tax Shame with Jeff Phillips 57:16

7y ago57:16

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Last week we had an episode about IDEAS, so this week we're going to do something more nuts and bolts: TAX. This week features an interview Jeff Phillips. Jeff is an artist, illustrator and tax genius, but he wasn't always this way. This week he tells us about his private freelancer tax shame, how he got out of it, and why he's now a complete boss …

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Ep5: Using Your Face To Sell Your Work with Caitlin Stasey, Carly Findlay and Gorkie 21:32

7y ago21:32

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This episode is the first of a new kind of episode, one where I take your questions, and try to get the smartest people I can think of to answer them. This time actress Caitlin Stasey, appearance activist Carly Findlay, and cartoonist Gorkie answer a question about the pressure on women to use their image to promote their creative work. To discuss …

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Ep4: Making A Living Through Instagram with Frances Cannon 1:04:31

7y ago1:04:31

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Frances Cannon is a full-time artist, body positivity activist, and Instagram queen. I've watched Frances' work explode online over the past few years, and I sat at home thinking "what does your life look like when that happens?" Fortunately Frances was kind enough to answer that question for me when I interviewed her a few months ago. We talked ab…

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I'm sick :( + I'm doing a FREE talk about art & money and you should come! 2:52

7y ago2:52

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Just a little update to let you know that I've been sick in bed for a week, so the next episode has been delayed (thank you for your patience) and to let you know that I'm doing a FREE talk this Wednesday and you should come if you're in Melbourne. You can register for the talk here. If you're not in Melbourne I'll be sending out all the notes for …

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I want to answer your questions! (or get someone way smarter to!) 4:08

7y ago4:08

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This is just a little update to let y'all know two things: 1) Starving Artist is changing it's upload time to 6pm Wednesdays AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) so it'll be ready for your mid-week commute. And 2) I'm starting a new segment where I try to answer your art + money questions! Instead of me answering though I'm trying to find the sm…

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Ep3: How I Made $87,000 On My First Kickstarter with Peter C. Hayward 53:51

7y ago53:51

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Last year Peter launched a Kickstarter for his first board game, Scuttle! Which raised 3000% over it's initial goal, and made $87,000. He then followed that up by releasing another game through Kickstarter later that year that made $89,000. In this episode we talk at length about the trials and tribulations of Kickstarter, what it's like to run you…

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Ep2: How To Negotiate A Raise with Wendy Syfret 37:46

7y ago37:46

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Wendy is the editor at i-D, a subsidiary of VICE, and basically the most bad-ass boss I know. She's a nuanced, emotionally intelligent hustler, but she wasn't always this way. A few years back she went through the process of asking for a raise. A big one. Along the way, she learned a lot about the art of negotiation, how much this stuff matters at …

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Ep1: F#ck Plan B with Tom Dickins 35:11

7y ago35:11

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Five years ago Tom Dickins did something that many people would find stupid: on the back of advice from his friend Amanda Palmer, he decided to quit his job and, without savings, live off his art. He had no plan, no idea, but a lot of enthusiasm and resourcefulness. This week you'll hear him reflect on that decision, what worked, what didn't, and w…

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Angela Genusa 40:56

8+ y ago40:56

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Angela Genusa is a writer and artist, formerly of Austin, Texas and now living in Louisiana. Her recent conceptual works include Simone’s Embassy (Eclipse Editions, 2015), Spam Bibliography (Troll Thread, 2013), Tender Buttons (Gauss PDF, 2013), and Jane Doe (Gauss PDF, 2013). Angela’s writing has also appeared in Abraham Lincoln, Jacket2, The Clau…

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Ara Shirinyan 25:50

8+ y ago25:50

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Ara Shirinyan is a poet and publisher living in Los Angeles. He runs Make Now Press and is a co-founder of the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi and Andrew Maxell. The PRB hosts a long-running reading series, publishes books, puts on exhibits, and generally advocates for experimental writing culture. Ara is also a co-founder of The Smell, …

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Steve Roggenbuck 54:02

8+ y ago54:02

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Steve Roggenbuck is a twenty-six-year-old Internet poet from rural Michigan. He has spent the last several years giving readings and talks all over the country, sleeping on couches, selling books and t-shirts, making thousands of friends. His full-length collections are CRUNK JUICE (2012) and IF U DONT LOVE THE MOON YOUR AN ASS HOLE (2013), both re…

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Joe Milutis 1:04:33

8+ y ago1:04:33

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Joe Milutis is a writer, media artist, musician, and Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington-Bothell. His latest book is Failure, A Writer’s Life (Zero Books, 2013).By Stephen McLaughlin

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Ben Friedlander 34:03

8+ y ago34:03

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In this inaugural edition of Into the Field, I talk with Benjamin Friedlander at his home in Bangor, Maine. Friedlander is a poet, critic, teacher, and member of the Flarflist Collective. He currently teaches at the University of Maine. Friedlander reads a selection of poems originally posted on the Flarflist, as well as several from his book A Kno…

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Andrew Zawacki 33:27

8+ y ago33:27

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I meet Andrew Zawacki in this episode of Into the Field, recorded on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. Zawacki teaches in the creative writing program at UGA, and holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, Oxford, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the University of Chicago. His books of poetry are By Reason of…

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Sina Queyras 43:24

8+ y ago43:24

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Sina Queyras is a poet and writer currently living in Montreal. She was raised in western Canada, and has degrees from the University of British Columbia and Concordia University. Queyras has lived in many places and held many jobs, and we talk about the ways geography and work have shaped her poetics. Her poetry collections Lemon Hound (2007) and …

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Tao Lin 42:08

8+ y ago42:08

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Tao Lin is a novelist, poet, and provocateur currently living in Brooklyn. He has written six books of fiction and poetry, including Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), and cognitive behavioral therapy (2008). Lin runs the publishing imprint Muumuu House, and you can find his website here. He also occasionally contribute…

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Kaplan Harris 35:08

8+ y ago35:08

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Kaplan Harris is a scholar and editor who writes about a wide variety of 20th- and 21st-century poetry, including the work of Ted Berrigan, Hannah Weiner, Susan Howe, and the Flarf poets. With degrees from North Carolina State University and the University of Notre Dame, he currently teaches at St. Bonaventure University in Western New York. For th…

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Souvankham Thammavongsa 24:49

8+ y ago24:49

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Souvankham Thammavongsa is a poet who lives and works in Toronto. Her parents were raised in Laos, and she was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1978. Thammavongsa's family moved to Canada when she was a year old. Her book Found (2007) describes these experiences, and was made into a short film by director Paramita Nath. Thammavongsa's first bo…

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Jeremy James Thompson 50:43

8+ y ago50:43

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Jeremy James Thompson is a renaissance man of the poetic arts: writer, publisher, printer, designer, teacher, and all-around organizer. On his website The Autotypograph, you can find his imprint Auto Types Press and his blog Autotypist, as well as a thorough list of his other projects and accomplishments. Thompson is also an elite bartender and mix…

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Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford 39:39

8+ y ago39:39

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Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is a poet and video artist of the first degree. I spoke with him in Athens, Georgia on a muggy July afternoon just over a year ago. These days Alejandro makes a living as a professional VJ, touring the world regularly with the band MGMT. You can see a bit of his work for them here, and Art21 Blog has recently poste…

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Nick Montfort 36:20

8+ y ago36:20

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Nick Montfort is a writer and scholar specializing in digital poetics and computational media. He has a Ph.D. in computer and information science from Penn, and is currently an associate professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discuss his most recent book, Riddle and Bind (Spineless Books, 2010), as well as his p…

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Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen 52:18

8+ y ago52:18

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I interviewed Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen at their home in Austin last August. The two studied poetry at the New University of California, and they started the Skanky Possum imprint together in the late '90s. Hoa's book Hecate Lochia came out in 2009, and her new collection As Long as Trees Last will be published by Wave Books in 2012. Dale's most re…

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Sean Cole 32:58

8+ y ago32:58

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Sean Cole is a poet and radio producer currently based in New York City. I spoke with him last summer in Toronto, where he was living at the time. Sean's chapbook Itty City (Pressed Wafer) was published in 2003, and The December Project (Boog Literature), a collection of postcard poems, came out in 2005. Sean has contributed to numerous public radi…

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Patrick Durgin 29:37

8+ y ago29:37

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I met up with Patrick Durgin at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches literature, writing, and critical theory. Patrick has published books and journals under the Kenning Editions imprint since 1998, during which time he's lived in a number of poetry-rich locales: Iowa City, the Bay Area, Buffalo, Ypsilanti, and now the Windy…

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Steve Evans 36:28

8+ y ago36:28

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Steve Evans is a critic and scholar of poetry and poetics, and a professor at the University of Maine in Orono. He helps run the National Poetry Foundation and directs the UMaine New Writing Series, for which he's hosted numerous visiting writers and scholars. Steve's research often focuses on recorded poetry readings, and he's posted many of his p…

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Maureen Thorson 35:24

8+ y ago35:24

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Maureen Thorson is a poet, publisher, graphic designer, and trade lawyer living in Washington, D.C. Her first book is the haunting and hilarious Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011), recently reviewed in Jacket2. She has also written several short collections, including the PDF chap Twenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor (Dusie/flynpynt…

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Joey Yearous-Algozin 44:18

8+ y ago44:18

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Joey Yearous-Algozin is a full-time man of letters living in Buffalo, New York. He’s a Ph.D. candidate in the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program, co-editor of the journal P-Queue, and a member of the TROLL THREAD publishing collective. Joey’s books include The Lazarus Project: Friday the 13th (Gauss-PDF, 2011), Poor (Minutes Books, 2012), The Lazarus Pro…

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Paul Dutton 44:44

8+ y ago44:44

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Paul Dutton is a sound poet, visual poet, essayist, and novelist from Toronto, Ontario. Paul was a member of the seminal sound poetry group The Four Horsemen from 1970 to 1988, and since 1989 he's performed in the improvisational trio CMCC with John Oswald and Michael Snow. Paul has also worked with the vocal art supergroup Five Men Singing, among …

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Astrid Lorange and Eddie Hopely 53:31

8+ y ago53:31

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Astrid Lorange and Eddie Hopely are a pair poets living in Sydney, Australia with strong links to the Philly and New York writing scenes. Eddie has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University and currently works as a freelance editor, research assistant, and independent scholar. Astrid recently finished her Ph.D. at the University of Techn…

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Rod Smith 39:58

8+ y ago39:58

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Rod Smith is a poet, editor, and publisher from Washington, D.C. He’s a co-founder of Aerial Magazine and founder of Edge Books, which has published titles by Joan Retallack, Anselm Berrigan, Robert Fitterman, Benjamin Friedlander, K. Silem Mohammad, and many others. Smith, along with Friedlander and Mohammad, is a member of the Flarf Collective. S…

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Erín Moure with Chus Pato 47:53

8+ y ago47:53

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Erín Moure is a poet, translator, and communications specialist living in Montreal. She was born and raised in Calgary, and later spent two decades working for the Canadian passenger rail service Via Rail Canada. Erín’s mother was born in the Galicia region of northwest Spain, and as an adult Erín began visiting Galicia regularly. She picked up the…

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