Aug 13, 2019
Listen to Tyler Gillespie and I discuss his beginnings being born and raised in Tampa Bay, Florida, his future plans, and listen to him read some of his excellent poems from his Florida Man: Poems and up and coming collections!
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
Order your copy here!
https://www.redflagpoetry.com/store/p19/Florida_Man%3A_Poems_by_Tyler_Gillespie.html
Bio:
Tyler Gillespie is a poet and
award-winning journalist published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian,
Vice, The Daily Beast, Salon, GQ, The Nation, and
Playboy.
He is the author of Florida
Man: Poems and the forthcoming nonfiction
collection Florida Men & Monsters: My Search for Pythons,
Pioneers and the Truth about Paradise (University Press
of Florida). He also wrote a chapbook Dirty Socks and Pine
Needles(Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012) and co-edited the humor
collection The Awkward Phase: The Uplifting Tales of Those
Weird Kids You Went to School With.
His creative work has been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and appears in publications
such as The New Yorker, Brevity, Los Angeles
Review, and the anthology LGBT Comedic Monologues
That Are Actually Funny.
He holds an MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of New Orleans and an MA in Journalism & Media
Studies from the University of South Florida.