The Social yet Distanced Pod Collective and Jack Varnell spend : A SundayAfternoon with American Poet Mike James

<p>The Social yet Distanced Pod Collective and Jack Varnell spend a Sunday afternoon&nbsp;</p> <p>in two different areas of the blooming balmy SouthEastern US, to talk music,&nbsp;</p> <p>poetry, voice, and the voices.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>We also cover just a scoche of Mike James' extensive wealth of work, and discuss&nbsp;</p> <p>relationships with poets, and poets relationships to the world.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Collections Include:</p> <p><br></p> <p>Leftover Distances, Luchador, 2021</p> <p>Double Feature (with John Dorsey), Analog Submissions, 2021</p> <p>Red Dirt Souvenir Shop, Analog Submissions, 2020</p> <p>Journeyman’s Suitcase, Luchador, 2020</p> <p>Parades, Alien Buddha, 2019</p> <p>Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor, Blue Horse, 2019</p> <p>First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places, Stubborn Mule Press, 2018</p> <p>Crows in the Jukebox, Bottom Dog, 2017&nbsp;</p> <p>My Favorite Houseguest, FutureCycle, 2017</p> <p>Peddler’s Blues, Main Street Rag, 2016</p> <p>The Year We Let the House Fall Down, Aldrich, 2015&nbsp;</p> <p>Elegy in Reverse, Aldrich, 2014</p> <p>Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011, Main Street Rag, 2012</p> <p>Shotgun Exchanges, Costmary, 2010</p> <p>Alternate Endings, Foothills, 2007</p> <p>Nothing but Love, Pathwise, 2004</p> <p>Pennies from an Empty Jar, Another Thing, 2002</p> <p>All Those Goodbyes, Talent House, 2001</p> <p>Not Here, Green Bean, 2000</p> <p><br></p> <p>Anthologies:</p> <p><br></p> <p>Howl 2016, Writers on Writing, The Working Poet, Along These Rivers,&nbsp;</p> <p>Stories About Time, Recession In Neverland, The Green Panda Anthology,&nbsp;</p> <p>The Best of Mad Swirl, Mother Mary Come to Me, and&nbsp;</p> <p>The Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Editorial Experience:</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Associate Editor, Unbroken, 2020-2021</p> <p>Associate Editor, Good Works Review, 2017</p> <p>Associate Editor, Kentucky Review, 2014-2016</p> <p>Judge for the Hot Metal Press Poetry Prize, 2008</p> <p>Associate Editor, Autumn House Press, 2004-2007<