The TothWorld Podcast

The Colin Powell Tragedy: An Opera of Sorts

Inside the Vietnam-Iraq fevered mind of Colin Powell, from lion of war to disgraced national icon. A psycho-portrait of modern fallen man. No "why," only, "How?"

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A revamped TothWorld Podcast. Distorted sounds for disoriented minds.

It's Prozac Paxil Cymbalta Effexor Zoloft time. Take 'em while you got 'em and chill to the sounds of the empire falling.  It's all over now, blue babies.

This week, we check in with TothWorld favorite Jesse Loren.  Jesse is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront 2007 and is an MFA graduate of UNO.  She is also co-editor of Mourning Sickness which will be released in May and available at spdbooks.org or amazon.com.  Her poetry can be found in Octaves, Kingly Blue, The New Virginia Review, Yawp, and Ellipsis. Jesse writes an editorial column and doesn't kill spiders.

Toth's novel #3, Finale, is finally on schedule for publication in 2009.

This week's guest is Lina Ramona Vitkauskas.  She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Wright State University, is co-editor of online literary/visual arts magazine, milk, and contributing editor to UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry (Lithuania). She is the author of THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2008), Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006), and Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). She has been published in the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (Outside Voices, Ed. Jessica Smith), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007); The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, White Fungus (New Zealand), Aufgabe, Moria, MiPoesias, PFS Post, Seven Corners, LocusPoint, Van Gogh's Ear (Paris), Rampike (University of Windsor), Paper Tiger (Australia), In Posse Review Multi-Ethnic Anthology (Ilya Kaminsky, editor), The Mississippi Review, The Wisconsin Review, Lituanus (Lithuanian Quarterly Journal), and many others.

She won an Honorable Mention in the STORY Magazine's 1999 Carson McCullers Award contest and was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Cleveland State University Open Poetry Series. She has read at various venues all over Chicago and the Midwest including The School of the Art Institute (Chicago), The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Northwestern University, Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Quimby's, Woman Made Gallery, Myopic Books, Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Indiana University-Northwest, North Park University, Lewis University, and Santara-Sveisa Lithuanian Arts, Literature, and Political Conference. Upcoming work will be featured in Blossombones, Another Chicago Magazine, and Arabesques (Algeria). Click here to visit her website.

Guests: Dave and Lillian Brummet. Their websites include:

Main Website
Talk Radio Show
MySpace Site

Also, new music and the ressurrection of Additive Headlines.

I finally reveal my true identity: the Jesus Christ of anger. Also featured: the corpse of E.E. Cummings, plus music and other poems.

Goodbye to the U.S.A., plus dead author Robert Frost.

This week's guest is author Gabriel Ogrease, with a very interesting piece and equally interesting commentary. The show also features one diatribe, several turtle doves, and plenty of quasi-music.

A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., with a special piece by Brian Douthit, author, editor, reviewer, and digital artist. He has written book reviews for ForeWord Magazine and writes music and book reviews independently. His contacts with both musicians and poets led him to produce audio pieces for The Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a nonprofit service for distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio pieces for public radio. Although he no longer broadcasts on his radio station, Brian continues to write reviews for audio pieces for PRX. Currently, Brian is creating video reviews for books in an innovative format he calls "Haiku Video Reviews" - an entire book review narrowed down to the seventeen syllables of a Haiku. He is also working on his own CD album of New Age music and is planning on releasing a new book in 2008.

Back with Steven Mayoff, only this time in the guise of his alter ego, Mojomatic.  The Mojomatic songs featured: Trance-Sylvania; God Is Alive; Highway 61 Revisited.

Also, more of the usual hijinks and jinxes.

The Confessions of Paul A. Toth, Part II (with only a pinch of madness).