Welcome to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits are flowing all year long!
In this inaugural episode, your hosts, Amanda and Marty, get lit on White Russians while they talk, argue, and write about Joseph Brodsky's book Nativity Poems. Grab some vodka, Kahlua, half-and-half. Pour them over ice, and join us in the kitchen for a little conversation about a Russian love shack, the definition of Christmas lit, poetry, and, of course, the perennial question at all Christmas parties--how drunk we really are.
BONUS POINTS: Count how many times Marty says "you know" during the episode! (In his defense, he WAS drunk.)
RECIPE FOR WHITE RUSSIAN:
Ingredients:
Ice
2 oz. Kahlua
2 oz. vodka
2 oz. heavy cream (or half-and-half, or milk)
Directions:
Fill a rocks glass with ice. Pour Kahlua and vodka into glass. Pour heavy cream/half-and-half/milk over top and serve.
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, alsoon Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
This month's Christmas lit:
Brodsky, Joseph. Nativity Poems. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
