Tune in today to hear poet Brittany Rogers read from Good Dress (Tin House 2024). We talk about writing, teaching, performance, podcasting, and the day-to-day work of humanity. Please join us this wintry afternoon– http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-01-29-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Becky and Isabel at Tin House *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show and Living Writers website […]
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 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
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
Today Phranc reads from The Butch Closet. Phranc is currently in residency with The Butch Closet exhibit at the Institute of Humanities Gallery. We talk about art and identity, making, the Women’s Center, LA’s punk movement, folk music, cardboard and tupperware–and a parrot named Pickles. Please join us this afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-09-18-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason Adam Voss
Hear a conversation with Kemp Powers in town last week to give the keynote lecture for the 2024 Hopwood Awards Ceremony. We talk about playwriting and screenwriting; the writers’ room; living life as a storyteller; and the special glories of editing. We talk about One Night in Miami, Soul (2020), and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-04-24-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thank you to Rebecca
Kathleen Rooney reads from Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (Penguin Books 2020). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-10-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Ebony Roberts reads from The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story (Amistad 2019). We talk about fathers, fairytales, prisons, resilience and writing memoir. We talk about Shaka Senghor and his book Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-03-04-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio program recorded: 21 Nov 2019; aired 4 March 2020
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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Kiley Reid reads from her debut novel Such A Fun Age (Putnam 2019). We talk about listening to your characters, writing about class and race, and building strong plots.
