The Magnificast

Alright gang, you've seen the news and you know that the libs are being weird about Fidel Castro, so we've got to do another episode on Fidel. In this episode, we talk about education and literacy in ...

28 Feb 202058min

We're rounding out our big poetry arc with Dorothee Sölle's book Of War and Love. Sölle's book is rad as hell and you're going to be way into it after this episode. We also take a test drive on a new ...

21 Feb 202057min

This week we're back with another real life poet! Dominick Knowles joins us to talk about his essay A Spectre in Every Street: George Oppen and the Poetics of Communism (https://www.viewpointmag.com/2...

14 Feb 202059min

We've spent the last few weeks reading poetry, but what if we talked to an actual poet? This week, we interviewed Teagen Steele-Fisher (@barnonepoems) about her new book of poetr, Apost(le)ate. Her wo...

7 Feb 202053min

Ernesto Cardenal is great, right? He is, but have you ever wondered who the Greatest Canadian Communist Christian Poet in the Soviet Union was? Well, it was Joe Wallace. Intro Music by Amaryah Armst...

31 Jan 202054min

We're starting a brand new arc! Over the next few weeks, we'll be cultivating our literary sensibilities and talking about poetry and politics. We're kicking the arc off with one of our all-time faves...

24 Jan 202053min

In this week's episode, learning about Jesus from Hollis Phelps. Hollis just wrote a cool new book called Jesus and the Politics of Mammon. You can find it here: https://wipfandstock.com/jesus-and-the...

17 Jan 202051min

We're back with the first new episode of 2020! In case you didn't hear, the imperialists are doing what imperialists do and starting up the war machine in Iran. In this episode, we explore some of the...

10 Jan 20201h