Miller Aud-cast #32: Brian Beatty

Hello and welcome to Aud-cast #32, featuring the latest poetry finalist for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize, Brian Beatty, and his stellar, haunting work, “47834.” Brian Beatty is the author of five poetry collections: Magpies and Crows (Ravenna Press, 2021); Borrowed Trouble (Cholla Needles, 2019); Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles, 2018); Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem (Kelsay Books, 2017); and Coyotes I Couldn’t See (Redbird Chapbooks, 2016). Beatty lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he works as an advertising creative. Hobo Radio, a spoken-word album of Beatty’s poems featuring original banjo and guitar music by Charlie Parr, was released by Corrector Records in January 2021. The “47834” sequence is culled from Brazil, Indiana and was originally recorded for Hobo Radio. Look for him on Twitter, where he is known as @brianbeattympls.