2024 – LIVING WRITERS

2024

Michigan Words: Nandi Comer, Brittany Rogers, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and M. Bartley Seigel

Tune in today to hear Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Michigan poets Brittany Rogers, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and M. Bartley Seigel talk about Michigan Words: the project and the poems. We also will hear their poems as we celebrate this work! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-12-11-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Michigan Words Michigan Words is a statewide billboard campaign celebrating contemporary Michigan poetry. The billboards […]

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Morgan Parker

Tune in today to hear Morgan Parker read from You Get What You Pay For: Essays (One World 2024).  We talk about essays, poems, YA novels, the *best* titles, Los Angeles, and her dog. Shirley. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-12-04-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim at Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering

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Rebekah Modrak, Willie Carver and Martha Hickson

Tune in today to hear co-editor Rebekah Modrak read from Trouble In Censorville: The Far Right’s Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who Are Fighting Back (Disobedience Press 2024). We are joined via phone by Willie Carver and Martha Hickson, two of the book’s contributors, who will speak about their experiences and their lives now.  We

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Sawako Nakayasu

Tune in today to hear Sawako Nakayasu read from Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books 2020) and Pink Waves (Omnidawn Publishing 2022). We talk about performance, translation, using the space of a page, multilingualism, experiment and play. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-11-13-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadmin-Kim at Zell Visiting Writers *thanks to

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Andre F. Peltier

Tune in today to hear Andre F. Peltier read from his latest book of poems Petoskey Stones (Finishing Line Press 2024). We talk about writing place and writing memory in poems.  We also talk about online poetry, teaching, soccer, and comic books. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-11-06-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show

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 Public School Poetry

Tune in today to hear Public School Poetry : the co-founders and editors–Julie Babcock, Scott Beal, Megan Levad, Ellen Stone and David Ward– read poems and essays from Issue #3 of their online poetry journal. We talk about the origin story of Public School Poetry, its mission and vision, and what it takes to create one new kind of conversation

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Leslie Jamison

Tune in today to hear Leslie Jamison read from Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story (Little, Brown 2024). We talk about being specific, google searches into prose poems, memory, memoir, mothers, babies, exes, fathers, places, and writing. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-10-23-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadmin-Kim at Zell Visiting Writers *thanks to Jason Adam Voss

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Sandra Cisneros

Tune in today to hear Sandra Cisneros talk about The House on Mango Street (1984) and read poems from Woman Without Shame (Vintage 2022). We talk about memory, imagination, stories, a love for the image and the lyrical, the body and opera. Please join us this afternoon– http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-10-16-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thank you to Anthony Mora and Stuart Bernstein  *thanks to Jason Adam

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Perry Janes

Today Perry Janes reads from Find Me When You’re Ready  (Curbstone Books/ Northwestern University Press 2024).  We talk about poems and filmmaking, structure, myth, and moving cross country. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-10-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show

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Katie Hartsock, J.C. Scharl, and James Matthew Wilson

Today poets Katie Hartsock, J.C. Scharl, and James Matthew Wilson read poems from their latest collections, Wolf Trees (Able Muse Press 2023), Ponds (Cascade Books 2024), and Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds (Word on Fire 2024), respectively. We talk about what it means to each poet to understand their work in today’s world as they identify as Catholic poets. What

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