{"id":2668,"date":"2024-08-14T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2024-08-14T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:39:17","slug":"george-bilgere-cheap-motels-of-my-youth-and-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2668","title":{"rendered":"George Bilgere: Cheap Motels of My Youth and in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-14-at-5.59.37\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2669 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-14-at-5.59.37\u202fPM.png 420w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-14-at-5.59.37\u202fPM-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Poet George Bilgere, aka, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Man in Berlin<\/a>, drops by to discuss his latest, <em>Cheap Motels of My Youth<\/em>, which began at a caf\u00e9 in Berlin and won the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rattle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rattle Magazine<\/a><\/em> chapbook contest. We talk about his writing process, family, and approach to poetry in the digital age. He reads several of his poems, providing a fascinating glimpse into his creative life, largely brought on by being in Berlin (ok, I may be exaggerating here for reasons that will become clear when you listen to the podcast). For more from him, visit his radio show <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjcu.org\/wordplay\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wordplay<\/a><\/em> and his recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgebilgere.com\/poetry-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poetry Town<\/a>, an online poem-a-day series.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1297\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2668-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3\">https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2668-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_George-Bilgere.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet George Bilgere, aka, Our Man in Berlin, drops by to discuss his latest, Cheap Motels of My Youth, which began at a caf\u00e9 in Berlin and won the Rattle Magazine chapbook contest. We talk about his writing process, family, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}