My guest James J. Siegel is a San Francisco-based poet and literary arts organizer. He is the author of the book "The God of San Francisco."
He is the host and curator of the popular monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, his first poetry collection, How Ghosts Travel, was inspired and fueled by his coming of age in the Midwest and was a finalist for an Ohioana Book Award. He was a scholarship recipient to the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and his poems have been featured in a number of journals including The Cortland Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Assaracus, The Fourth River, HIV Here & Now, The Good Men Project, and more. He was also featured in the anthology Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses.
Playlist
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Salve! by Wallis Bird (Antifragile Music) -
Play by Jax Jones (Polydor) -
FOREVER ANYWAY by Ryan Ashley on Guess My Friends Were Right (Self) -
Cheers by Mariah Counts (Self) -
Love On Myself (feat. Calum Scott) by Felix Jaehan (Virgin/Universal) -
Stand Up (Tom Morello, Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds & The Bloody Beetroots) by Tom Morello (Interscope) -
Runaway by AW (Allison Weiss) (SideOneDummy) -
Happily Ever After by Kisos (Self) -
If Only by Raveena (Self) -
Gronlandic Edit by of Montreal on Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl) -
Stock Image by Miya Folick on Premonitions (Terrible Records) -
All About You (ft. Foster The People) by The Knocks (Self) -
First Time He Kissed A Boy by Kadie Elder (Self) -
Siren by Kailee Morgue (Republic) -
Homonormo by Arthur Moon on Arthur Moon (Self-released) -
Last One (PVRIS Remix) by the aces (Red Bull Records) -
I Don't Do Boys by Elektra (Hands Up Music) -
Velvet by Adam Lambert on Velvet (EMPIRE) -
Residue by Tayla Parx on Residue (Atlantic Recording Corporation) -
American Boyfriend by Kevin Abstract (Question Everything Inc.) -
I U She by Peaches on The Teaches of Peaches (XL) -
Tell Me Smooth by Matthew V. (Self) -
Bitter Pills by Maggie Gently on Bitter Pills (Common Ground Collective) -
Hellhounds Of Alcatraz by Matt Jaffe (Self) Local -
Power Ranger by Pikes (Self) -
Kelly by The Aces on Under My Influence (Red Bull Records) -
mischief! by Zach Benson (Self) -
SFU by Cayley Spivey (Self) -
You Got Me Like by Barrett Crake (Self) -
And I Said Just Take Me Home by Ivan Grap (Self)