Not Fit for Composition
August Smith, Eleanor Eli Moss, Marcus Khoury
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Join August, Eleanor, and Marcus, as we take an acerbic look at the worst excesses of the contemporary poetry landscape: celebrity poetry books, influencer vanity projects, the finest verse of instagram, the flarf, the slam, the alt lit, all of it—we’ll be reading the cream of the crop of the lowest of the brow.
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Episode 008: The David Duchovny Files (w/ Steven Michael Holmes)
Hi everyone, hope 2025 was good! Sorry for the hiatus. I was busy. In this episode, we chat with friend of the pod Steven Michael Holmes about VHS archival work and our shared lore before we jump…
Episode 007: The Inauguration Poet Special
It's the new year! It's also inauguration day (boooo)! We're serving up something different for 2025's beefy first episode. First, we take a look at the year ahead with some literary predictions from…
Episode 006: Alright Alright Alright (w/ Stephanie Yue Duhem)
I bet you thought this podcast was dead. I bet the celebs thought they were safe from our scathing critiques. WRONG! To close out the year, we resurface like the dragons in "Reign of Fire" with guest…
Episode 005: Jewel Thieves (w/ Bob Sykora)
Our first guest episode! We welcome dear friend and poet-colleague Bob Sykora to the podcast, where we talk about his upcoming book, Ivanka Trump's quatrain, grade school poems, the relevance of…
Episode 004: Donna Ashworth, Coworker Poet
It's normie time. We talk about: ranking art forms (truncated convo), "coworker music," 2 viral poems about Gaza ("The Jesus Fridge" and "There's Laundry to Do and a Genocide to Stop"), and "Wild…
Episode 003: Drake's "Poetry" "Book"
Due to technical difficulties, this episode is woven together from two separate recordings. So just pretend the jarring cuts aren't there. In this one: August performs an opening monologue about…
Episode 002: Lawn of Del Rey
Did you know that 98% of podcasts never make it to a second episode? Just kidding, I made that up. In this one, we start off by talking about offing ourselves on mic, what kinds of plants we'd be,…
Episode 001: The Earnest Crimes of Ernie Cline
Okay, so we recorded this pilot a few months ago. That's okay, who cares. Sue me. In this opening salvo, we (August Smith, Eleanor Eli Moss, and Marcus Khoury) discuss: the name of the podcast, how…
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Not Fit for Composition has published 8 episodes since February 2024, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Not Fit for Composition is currently highly active with new episodes quarterly. Average episode length is 1h 14m.
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