<p><strong>EXTRA, EXTRA! EXTRA SPECIAL INTERVIEW!</strong><br></p><p>This time Colin and Emily sit down and talk form, drama, poetry — what it is, what it does, and *why* —with Chicago multi-hyphenate writer, translator, performer and (in our professional opinion) hidden gem, Robert Eric Shoemaker!<br></p><p><strong>NOTE: </strong>Recorded Nov. 2024.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>GUEST BIO:Robert Eric Shoemaker</strong> (he/him) is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. His book, <em>Magical Poetics: The Magic of Language and Real-World Effect Poetry, </em>is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He is the author of <a href="https://partialpress.net/2021/06/06/ca-venezia/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Ca’Venezia</em></a><em> </em>(Partial Press, 2021), an artist’s book of hybrid writing and visual art; <a href="https://actapublications.com/we-knew-no-mortality/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>We Knew No Mortality</em></a> (Acta Publications, 2018), poetry and memoir; and the poetry chapbook <a href="https://www.amazon.com/30-Days-Dry-ebook/dp/B015UMNBU8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1452473593&sr=1-1&keywords=30+days+dry" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>30 Days Dry</em></a> (Thought Collection Publishing 2015).</p><p><br></p><p><strong>CONTENT: </strong>Very brief and sensitive discussion of sexual trauma later on in discussing Eric’s ever-evolving Tiresias cycle. Approx. time stamp: 1h 30m.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>WEBSITE: </strong><a href="http://reshoemaker.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">reshoemaker.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>NEW PLAY EXCHANGE: <a href="https://newplayexchange.org/users/95195/robert-shoemaker" target="_blank">https://newplayexchange.org/users/95195/robert-shoemaker</a></p>
