Grinding Teeth
Grinding Teeth
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A podcast about the creative journey
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The podcast covers a variety of topics related to creativity, such as personal artistic processes, childhood influences, and emotional journeys. Specific episodes have discussed themes like the distinction between science fiction and horror, the art of clowning, and reflections on middle age and its complexities, providing a rich exploration of diverse creative perspectives.
On Grinding Teeth: A Podcast About The Creative Journey, host matt gahler sits down with artists to trace the full arc of their creative journeys, exploring the early experiences that shaped them and the paths that led to their current work.
This week on Grinding Teeth matt is in conversation with poet/writer Alexander Shalom Joseph. Join them as they discuss creating stories alone in the woods, the never-ending tension between art and capitalism, and the conversation with your past self during the editing and revision process.
Alexander: alexandershalomjoseph.com
Alexander’s Substack: alexandershalomjoseph.substack.com
Show: @grindingteethpod
matt: @norocknrollfun
Music by Matthew O. Thomas
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Alexander Shalom Joseph is a western existentialist and nature writer. He is an award winning playwright, poet, novelist and author of six published books with three more forthcoming in 2026. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School and an MA in English Education. Alexander writes a weekly poem on substack and teaches writing in universities, libraries, museums, hiking trails, schools, prisons and elsewhere across the Colorado Front Range. A literary Lorax, he does his best to write for the trees.
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