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Episode 6 – James Cook

Unfortunately there was a mixup with the station and James and I could not do the show. I am hoping that James will accept to be my guest sometime in the not too distant future.

James Cook signifies and represents in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He educates and administers. He fathers-forth but presents change. He husbands. He did his student-teaching at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. He is currently the principal of Gloucester High School. He taught English for eighteen years in between. He has been the co-editor of the literary magazine Polis, and his work has appeared in Wards of the Wards, Let the Bucket Down, Jacket2, Process, Gaff, and Underutilized Species.

Works:

  • The Fool Reads The Varieties of Hydrozoan Experience (collaboration with artist Stevens Brosnihan)
  • Cartoglossographia: A Draft (A Polis Supplement)
  • “Some Arguments” (Openmouth Press), from Arguments & Letters (Pressed Wafer)

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Episode 3 – Amanda Cook

Amanda Cook lives in Gloucester with her husband, James, and children Abigail and Samuel. She sees writing as an integral part of life. She knits, spins yarn, plays fiddle, feeds people and dances when she pleases. She teaches and works at the Gloucester Writers Center. Her book, Ironstone Whirlygig, was published by Bootstrap Press in 2017. She is currently working on Letter to Maximus, a poem-by-poem reaction to Olson’s Maximus poems.

“Distribution” by Rae Armantrout 

You think category
isn’t sexy, isn’t
sex. Seems you’re wrong.
 
Don’t worry. We have
dozens of them, each revamping
the last. A thing
 
must be recognizable
in order to be
a thing. After a while
 
you’ll want to introduce
some novelty, but since
it’s been a while
 
this could come off
as desperate.
Don’t be mad.
 
You’d like to punish
the smug, crisply packaged
faux finite?
 
We have accessories for that.
Published in the The New Yorker