The Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast

Feb 24 2025 9 ep. 15 mins 3
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The Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast, the podcast tentacle of Exacting Clam magazine, offers an idiosyncratic and approachable perspective on contemporary arts and literature, with readings, interviews and more.

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Mine

Feb 24 2025 1 mins  
After a long hiatus, Kurt Luchs returns with another poem from his 2024 collection, Death Row Row Row Your Boat. This episode's poem is the second in the collection: "Mine".

A Mist in the Tree

Aug 19 2024 2 mins  
Today Kurt Luchs begins a series of readings of poems from Death Row Row Row Your Boat, his new collection from Sagging Meniscus. This episode's poem is the first in the collection: "A Mist in the Tree".

Guillermo Stitch's Winter Editorial

Nov 19 2023 7 mins  
In this episode, Guillermo Stitch, Executive Editor of Exacting Clam, reads his editorial from the Winter 2023 issue.

Mrs. Brodsky's Lament

Oct 09 2023 2 mins  
In this brief but informative episode, the host (or a pigeon, or perhaps Mrs. Brodsky herself), having damaged the sun and been bitten by a doorbell, is led to reconsider career options.

Kinderkrankenhaus at the Brick Theater

Sep 18 2023 40 mins  
Today we talk about the play Kinderkrankenhaus and its new production at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, with author Jesi Bender, director Nola Latty, and assistant director/dramaturg AJ Stoogenke.Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate NY. Her play, Kinderkrankenhaus, was published by Sagging Meniscus Press in late 2021 and debuted at Colgate University's Brehmer Th

Report from Wellfleet

Sep 08 2023 4 mins  
The Cephalopodcast returns to life with a brief report from an appropriately mollusk-friendly region—Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Featuring "observations and admonitions" from roving, raving publisher Jacob Smullyan and proper poems by Clam regulars Mike Silverton and Marvin Cohen, its nudities of meaning are gracefully hidden behind the murmur of a consuming sea.

The Becoming

Oct 13 2021 37 mins  
In this episode, Kevin Philip Sirois presents C.J. Spataro’s gorgeous, moving, strange yet familiar story, “The Becoming,” available in the print edition of Exacting Clam’s Autumn 2021 issue.C.J. Spataro is the MFA program director at Rosemont College and the editorial director of Philadelphia Stories and PS Books. She is an award-winning short story writer, Pushcart Prize

Faith in Art

Sep 04 2021 21 mins  
In this installment of the Cephalopodcast, Kevin Philip Sirois talks with publisher Jacob Smullyan about art's futility and necessity, the origins of Sagging Meniscus and Exacting Clam, the Cephalopodcast itself, and, especially, Royce M. Becker.

Clams Away!

Jul 31 2021 17 mins  
In this, the Cephalopodcast's inaugural episode, host Kevin Philip Sirois reads pieces by Kurt Luchs, Charles Holdefer, Steven D. Schroeder, and Daniel Beauregard.Books from this episode: Kurt Luchs: Falling in the Direction of UpCharles Holdefer: Dick Cheney in ShortsExacting Clam No. 1 — Summer 2021