Tune in today to hear Tyehimba Jess read from Olio (Wave Books 2016). We talk about music, forms, poems on a page that folds out, research, performance, and deconstructing received history and reconstructing it in a new way through poems and prose. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-02-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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
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
Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah talks about growing up in the Middle East and returning to the States for undergrad and med school. We talk about translation and adaptation, identity, and “what a Palestinian voice has to say to the world we live in.” http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-03-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Ashley Bates and Zell Visiting Writers Series
Catherine Lacey reads from Certain American States: Stories (Picador 2018) in a special Fundraiser 2020 episode of Living Writers. We talk about websites, irresolution, humor, dogs, and her novel Pew out in May 2020. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio WCBN Fundraiser 2020: visit www.wcbn.org to pledge on-line
Ilya Kaminsky reads from Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press 2019). We talk about language and silence, fabulism, the imagined town of Vasenka with its puppet theater, and poets that inspire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Jac Jemc reads from False Bingo (FSG Originals 2019). We talk about tactical elements of the writing life. We also talk about being playful, about finding and building community, and about a frog.
Summer host Amanda Uhle talks with Emmy Kastner about her book series Nerdy Babies (Macmillan 2019).
Carol Jacobsen reads from For Dear Life: Women’s Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus (University of Michigan Press 2019). We talk about social justice documentaries, the Michigan Women’s Justice and Clemency Project, feminism, human rights, survival, and art. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-02-13-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Danielle Lazarin reads from Back Talk (Penguin Books 2018). We talk about debut story collections, family, interiors of characters, second projects and push pins. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-09-19-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
