Season 4, Episode 27 - Buddy Rich's Teeth and the Corruption of Reality

"It's said that the sources of writing are mysterious, but the sources of not writing are pathological." Ron Slate spent more than two decades in the corporate world before returning to poetry and writing The Incentive of the Maggott, an award-winning collection praised by the likes of Robert Pinsky. We talk about his roots in poetry, how those "lost" years weren't so lost, what it's like to be the guy who sees things late, and how his life was forever changed when he saw Buddy Rich's teeth.