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Podcast: DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley
Episode: Author Brian Sonia-Wallace (The Poetry of Strangers): "I'm Like An Uber Driver For Your Emotions"
Description: Dennis is joined via Zoom by author and poet Brian Sonia-Wallace to talk about his book The Poetry of Strangers, which documents his adventures traveling the country as a typewriter poet-for-hire. He recalls the stunt that led to him first getting into public typewriter poetry when he declared during an open mic type show that he was going to make his rent money doing nothing but poetry. It worked...and led to his career as what he calls a "rent poet," which is like a rentboy but for poems. He talks about some of the places this vocation has t...