Tune in today to hear Millicent E. Brown read from Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond (The University of South Carolina Press 2024). We talk about the continuing work and strength of activism, the power of telling the story, and how it all began at 270 Ashley Avenue in […]
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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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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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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
Today Marie-Helene Bertino reads from Beautyland (FSG 2024). We talk about imagination, growing up, fax machines, and aliens. Please join us this afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-09-11-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim at the Zell Visiting Writers Series
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Tune in today to hear MK Czerwiec talk about her comic anthology Menopause: A Comic Treatment (Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2021).We also talk about MK’s graphic novel Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Graphic Mundi 2021) and her work as co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto (2015) and its website . We talk about teaching, community,
Stream or tune in today to hear Russell Brakefield read poems from Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West (Wayne State University Press 2024). We talk about bees, family history, writing with and to poets in your life, and also about death and geography. Hope you can join us this afternoon– T Hetzel ttp://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-03-27-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Stream or tune in today to hear Aria Aber read poems from Hard Damage (Prairie Schooner/University of Nebraska Press). We talk about countries and continents, multiple languages, geopolitics, home and family. We also talk about her upcoming debut novel. Hope you can join us this afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-03-13-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Sarah Kee for sending Hard Damage *thanks
*Annual Fundraiser Episode: This year with Ruth Behar!* Ruth Behar reads from Across So Many Seas (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin 2024). We talk about writing across generations of characters–across time and countries, as well as seas! We also talk about main characters who are twelve year old girls, about memoir and poetry, about having to leave home, and about finding the
Michigan’s Poet Laureate Nandi Comer read from Tapping Out (Triquarterly Books 2020). We talk about lucha libre, masks, Detroit, travel, and home. We also talk about being the Michigan Poet Laureate, the moment now and her vision to come. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-02-07-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Olivia Aguilar at Northwestern University Press *thanks to Jason Voss for engineering
