Today Michael Dickman reads from Pacific Power & Light (Copper Canyon Press 2024). We talk about poems, teaching, and life. Please join us this afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-09-04-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show
John Fulton reads from The Flounder and Other Stories (Blackwater Press 2023). We talk about writing about place, the role of first sentences and first paragraphs in short stories, and listening to the language to find a shape for revision. We also talk about drawing from your own life to create fictional characters and settings–and how some material may take
Jack Driscoll reads from Twenty Stories: New and Selected (Pushcart Press 2022). We talk about the music in language, place as character, hard work and tenderness. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-05-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Thanks to Sheryl Johnston for sending Twenty Stories *Thanks also to Cate Hotchkiss and Pete Fromm for photos *Thanks to Frank Uhle for engineering and for post-production
Hear Michele Oka Doner talk about her books Intuitive Alphabet and Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden and her visit to Ann Arbor to celebrate the anniversary of the naming of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and its speaker series. We will talk about seeing and making, carrying golden threads, collective consciousness, the Ann Arbor caldron, and banyans. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-06-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Susan J. Douglas talks about In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead (Norton 2020). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-10-14-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Michael Dickman reads from Days & Days (Knopf 2019). We talk about interconnectedness, structure, place and butterflies.
While in Ann Arbor, Kristin Hersh, Grant-Lee Phillips, and John Doe talk about their The Exile Follies 2020 tour. We talk about collaboration and process, mystery, and creating experience. We also talk about how music is fearless. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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Lo Dagerman and Nancy Pick read from The Writer and The Refugee (originally published by Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm 2017; English translation 2019). We talk about being a detective in your own family mystery, long term research projects, theater, powerful mothers, inspiration, and translation.
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Carolyn Forché reads from What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press 2019). We talk about El Salvador, keeping notebooks, what poetry can do in the world, and what people are called upon to do. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-05-01-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Guest host The Liz talks with Matt Doe, trumpet player of Too Many Zooz. They talk about brass house music; they also talk about starting out playing in the subway and now playing music around the world. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-03-13-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Too Many Zooz
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