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New Lyre Podcast #35: Ambitious Art with Jesse Keith Butler
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New Lyre Podcast #35: Ambitious Art with Jesse Keith Butler

Ambition, poetry and the mystery of making

Award-winning poet Jesse Keith Butler joins us to discuss his work, along with the higher questions of artistic vision, ambition in modern poetry, and the inescapable mysteries of art.

Read Jesse’s award-winning poem, “When Lightning Strikes Churches.”

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Jesse Keith Butler lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with his wife and two children. He recently won third place in the Kierkegaard Poetry Competition. You can find his poems in a variety of journals, including Arc Poetry Magazine, Blue Unicorn, Dappled Things, THINK, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and flo. His first book, The Living Law (Darkly Bright Press, 2024), is now available wherever books are sold.

Get a copy of Jesse’s new book

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