Episode 139: Joshua Burton

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Joshua Burton is a poet and educator based in Houston, TX. The poems in Joshua’s debut collection, Grace Engine, ask what grace means in a hostile world of lynchings, mental illness, self-hate, and suicide. These poems offer no solace, yet nevertheless reach toward beauty and peace. In our conversation, Joshua and I talked about what a grace engine is, processing shame through poetry, and what can be unlocked by returning to the same subject in multiple poems. Then for the second segment, we talked about creating mythology as a way of honoring those whom history may have overlooked.

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Show Notes:

Joshua Burton
Purchase Grace Engine: Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Mike’s video review of Grace Engine
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Mono no aware
Lynching of Jim McIlherron
Lynching of Mary Turner
Lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson (note: link contains graphic images)
Royal Robertson
William O’Neal
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 108: The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview
Joshua Burton - Fracture Anthology
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Wave

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Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

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