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    Episode 16 — Penteract Poetry Podcast
    Bok, C (Penteract Press, 2020)
    Research Background: Penteract Press in the UK is a recently created publisher, founded by the poet Anthony Etherin in order to showcase the work of avant-garde poets from around the world, and the publisher hosts a podcast that discusses the “poetics” of such writers, interviewing them about their research. The publisher offers prolonged dialogues with poets, who discuss their experimental contribution to the most innovative of all advancements in the field. Research Contribution: My podcast for Penteract Press constitutes my return to this series of broadcasts in response to the success of my inaugural interview. I discuss, in detail, my research on the topic of procedural constraint in poetry (with emphasis upon the social issues of both license and freedom in poetics). I again address my attitudes about the role of writing in the era of the Internet, expanding my ideas about the modern issues of concern in the field. Research Significance: Episode 16 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast has provided me with a forum to discuss my research, while addressing an audience that numbers in the thousands. The value of this contribution finds itself validated by the following indicators of significance: 1) The podcast appears alongside a pantheon of avant-garde poets from around the world, including the likes of Nasser Hussain, Samuel Andreyev, and Ken Hunt (among others). 2) The podcast has resulted in me securing a contract with Penteract Press to publish my next book of poetry, due to appear, as a deluxe volume in a limited edition, during June 2021. 3) The podcast has also resulted in a lengthy excerpt of my poetry, likewise, appearing in the anthology, entitled “Science Poems,” published by Penteract Press, late in 2020.
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    Episode 01 — Penteract Poetry Podcast
    Bok, C (Penteract Pres, 2020)
    Research Background: Penteract Press in the UK is a recently created publisher, founded by the poet Anthony Etherin in order to showcase the work of avant-garde poets from around the world, and the publisher hosts a podcast that discusses the “poetics” of such writers, interviewing them about their research. The publisher offers prolonged dialogues with poets, who discuss their experimental contribution to the most innovative of all advancements in the field. Research Contribution: My podcast for Penteract Press constitutes the inaugural interview for this series of broadcasts, and I discuss, in detail, my research for “The Xenotext” (a project that requires me to engineer a bacterium so that its genome might become not only an archive for storing a poem, but also a machine for writing a poem). I also discuss, in detail, my attitudes about the role of writing in the era of digital poetics, addressing modern issues of concern in the field. Research Significance: Episode 01 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast has provided me with a forum to discuss my research, while addressing an audience that numbers in the thousands. The value of this contribution finds itself validated by the following indicators of significance: 1) The podcast represents the first of all broadcasts in this series, and I have, in effect, “kickstarted” the audience for these interviews, all of which have proven popular. 2) The podcast has resulted in me securing a contract with Penteract Press to publish my next book of poetry, due to appear, as a deluxe volume in a limited edition, during June 2021. 3) The podcast has also resulted in a lengthy excerpt of my poetry, likewise, appearing in the anthology, entitled “Science Poems,” published by Penteract Press, late in 2020.