5. Brandon O'Brien, Performance Poet and Author of Can You Sign My Tentacle

Hello Looking Glass Travellers, and welcome to the month of November.

For this month's episode, I got to chat with Brandon O'Brien, performance poet, game designer, former poetry editor of Fiyah Magazine, and author of Can You Sign My Tentacle, a poetry collection that combines the horrors of Lovecraftian myth with hip-hop to explore monsters both fictional and real, in the form of racism, sexism, and violence.

Links mentioned:

Find Brandon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therisingtithes
Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therisingtithes/
Or catch one of his Twitch streams: https://www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
Check out his debut collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle: https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/canyousignmytentacle.html
Rattlecast: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/
Shivanee Ramlochan: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/shivanee-ramlochan
Ramlochan's collection, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting: https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/everyone-knows-i-am-haunting
Emily Dickinson: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson

For full episode notes, and the prompt of the month, visit https://lookingglasspoets.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/brandon/

Until next time,

Later, lookingglass travellers!

Theme music: Wonderland by Alexander Nakarada (serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License