Hiding Beer in the Piano: An Interview with Poet J.D. Schraffenberger

Poet J. D. Schraffenberger shares the process behind his latest chapbook, American Sad, plus how formal choices allowed the subconscious to come forward in these lyric, beautifully “nightmarish” poems—a conversation with Radha Marcum of Poet to Poet, poettopoet.substack.com.
 
We discuss:
* What “American” sadness suggests
* The formal and stylistic choices that helped Jeremy tap the unconscious while maintaining some control in the poems
* Whitman’s “O,” and how poems make meaning and emotion through vowel sounds
* Poetry as a “gift economy”—and advice on publishing

Buy American Sad at Main Street Rag Press (mainstreetragbookstore.com) or wherever you buy books.
 
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