Poetry & fruit wine, bebè! We recommend watching episode 6 of season 1, “Wine & Roses.” You’ll remember the experience! Troye Sivan Mellet is a South African-born Australian singer-songwriter, actor and YouTuber. Watch the official video for Sivan’s song, “Bloom” here. While Aaron cites another music writer’s critique of “Bloom” as a song about bottoming, I prefer this close-reading of the song, written by one Bobby Finger for Jezebel. Watch Eduardo C. Corral’s reading at the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference—the first reading he gave from Guillotine (~15 minutes).Read Eleanor Lerman’s poem “The Mystery of Meteors” here.Mark Bibbins makes use of pop culture in his poems, like this excellent example (“In the Corner of a Room Where You Would Never Look,” first published in the New Yorker). Watch Maureen Seaton read her poem “Fourth Stage Metaphoric Breast Cancer” here.You can watch G.C. Waldrep’s hat discuss his latest collection, Earliest Witness, here (~12 min).Atsuro Riley read for the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and you can watch that reading here (90 minutes). Lynn Emanuel reads her poem “Desire” at the Jazz Poetry concert and the performance can be viewed here (~3 min). Watch Francine J. Harris read “Red is the Mess” for Button Poetry here (~3 min). Watch Eleni Sikelianos in conversation with Christos Chomenidis at the Museum of Delphi here (~45 min). Watch Beckian Fritz Goldberg read at Arizona State in 2015 here (~12 min). You can follow Alex Dimitrov on Twitter @alexdimitrov Wayne Koestenbaum makes some trance-y Instagram posts. Go follow him on Insta at @wayne.koestenbaum

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