S2E01- Jon Tribble (KFC & Blue Collar Work)

S2E01 – Jon Tribble (KFC & Blue Collar Work)

The new season of The Lit Fantastic is now airing on KBOO 90.7 Portland Community Radio (we’ve moved from podcast to radio, but will still have old and new episodes archived online at KBOO.fm, SoundCloud, and on iTunes).

Our season opener is an hour-long conversation with poet and editor Jon Tribble in which we discuss KFC, the cult of Colonel Sanders, and blue collar work in America. Also featuring some fascinating trivia about KFC (and a surprise or two if you listen all the way to the end).

 

https://soundcloud.com/thelitfantastic/s2-ep-01-jon-tribble-kfc-blue-collar-work

Jon Tribble is author of two collections of poems: Natural State (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), and, And There Is Many a Good Thing (Salmon Poetry, 2017). His third book, God of the Kitchen, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press in 2018. He is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship Award in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council and his poems have appeared in print in journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West,and The Jazz Poetry Anthology, and online at The Account, Dublin Poetry Review, The Blue Mountain Review, and storySouth. His work was selected as the 2001 winner of the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize from Sarah Lawrence College and as a winner in the 2016 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize Competition. He is managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and series editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry published by SIU Press.