The guests this month:

Christopher Funkhouser is a multimedia artist, musician, and writer. He is author of the books Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms, New Directions in Digital Poetry as well as several chapbooks.

Mark Allen is a writer, storyteller and comic who has contributed to The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, Huffington Post, The Awl, Vice, and others. His first film, Sock Job, is currently in production.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart. Her essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Glamour, Post Road, Salon, The New York Times, Dissent, Bitch magazine, and elsewhere.

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