Megan Levad reads poems from You Are Where You Live and from Another & Another: an anthology from The Grind Daily Writing Series published by Bull City Press. We talk about composing a libretto for an opera, the Vermont Studio Center, writing a poem every day–and sending poems out into the world. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-12-12-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio […]
From the archive: 2012 Terrance Hayes reads poems from Lighthead ( 2010) and Wind in A Box (Penguin Books 2006). We’ll talk about the making of titles, Antony & the Johnson’s album “I am a Bird Now” and writing MJ Fan Letters. We’ll also talk about life choices that lead to Pittsburgh and reading (and perhaps memorizing) the
From the archive: 2012 Toi Derricotte reads from The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011). We talk about nuns, about chaos, about balance and a sense of what’s true. We also hear Toi lead off the show singing one of her favorite songs by Billie Holiday. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-21-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: November 21, 2012
From the archive: 2012 Emma Straub reads from her debut novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures (Riverhead Books 2012). We talk about research in Hollywood, the Herrick Library, New York City, Twitter, and working as a bookseller. We also talk about short stories and her collection Other People We Married (Riverhead Books) also out this
Dan Gerber reads poems from Sailing Through Cassiopeia (Copper Canyon Press 2012). We are joined in the studio by Joseph Bednarik of Copper Canyon Press. We talk about creating experience in a poem and being awake, “the opportunity room,” ars poetica and deer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-07-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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From the archive: 2012 David Mitchell reads from his novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House Trade paperback 2011). We talk about “word nerdery” and future novels circling one’s head like planes in a holding pattern. We also talk about Dejima, Cloud Atlas and how music means everything, or close to it.
From the archive: 2012 Philip Levine talks about writing every day. We also talk about Aunt Belle, Spain, anarchism, Larry Levis, pianist Bill Evans, Detroit, and Adrienne Rich. Books on the table with us: NEWS OF THE WORLD (2009), BREATH (2004), THE SIMPLE TRUTH (1994), WHAT WORK IS (1991) and NEW SELECTED POEMS (1991) http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-10-10-163001-EDT.mp3
Oni Buchanan and Jon Woodward discuss their books of poems. We have Oni Buchanan’s “Must A Violence” (University of Iowa Press, 2012) and “What Animal” (University of Georgia Press, 2003) and Jon Woodward’s “Uncanny Valley” (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012) on the table. We talk about their collaboration with electroacoustic composer John Gibson “Uncanny
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Carrie Fountain reads from Burn Lake (2010) published by Penguin Books. We talk about history and region in poems, naming a book, The Broken Spoke and dancing in Austin. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-09-19-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
first show to add later A. Van Jordan reads from his books “M A C N O L I A” and “Quantum Lyrics” (W. W. Norton & Company). We’ll talk about finding poems in D.C. in his twenties, spelling and other equations. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-09-05-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: September 5, 2012 4:30-5:30
