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

2024, A-C, M-O, P-R, S-U, shows /

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

2024, G-I, S-U, shows, V-Z /

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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Darcey Steinke

2024, S-U, shows /

Tune in today to hear Darcey Steinke read from Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books). We talk about composition notebooks, Simone de Beauvoir, using the body to experience the world, and Lolita and Granny, the Orcas. Please join us this afternoon – T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-06-26-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *episode recorded 12

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Jane Smiley

2024, S-U, shows /

Stream or tune in today to hear a conversation with Jane Smiley about her latest novel  Lucky (Knopf 2024). We talk about using your own memory of your lived experience of a place as the setting for a character in a novel. We also talk about folk singers, horses, St. Louis, and walking. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-06-05-170001-EDT.mp3

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Diane Seuss

2024, S-U, shows /

Stream or tune in today to hear a conversation with Diane Seuss about her latest book of poems Modern Poetry(Graywolf Press 2024). We talk about form, musical structure, resistance, rawness and raw material, and listening to the lines in your head. We also talk about how writing life is an evolution. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-05-15-170001-EDT.mp3

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Luis Alberto Urrea

2024, S-U, shows /

Stream or tune in today to hear Luis Alberto Urrea read from his novel Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown and Company 2023). We talk about World War II and the Red Cross Clubmobiles. We talk about research, family, inspiration, and imagining the human stories of history. Please join us this afternoon– T  Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-04-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio

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Keith Taylor

2024, S-U, shows /

Michigan’s own poet Keith Taylor read from  All the All the Time You Want (Dzanc Books 2024). We talk about selecting poems, Isle Royale National Park, and being outdoors, no matter the weather or terrain. We also talk about bookstores, birds, traveling, fear/no fear, and love. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-01-17-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio

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Eleni Sikelianos

2023, S-U, shows /

Eleni Sikelianos read from Your Kingdom (Coffee House Press 2023). We talk about song poems, family, ecopoetics, and using the space of the page with words, images, drawings. We also talk about how a glossary and notes can be a kind of autobiography. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-11-22-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: T Hetzel *many thanks to Jason Voss for engineering and

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Paul Tran

2023, S-U, shows /

Paul Tran reads from their debut collection All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books 2022). We talk about history, family, trauma and resilience.  We also talk about story-telling, play, and inventiveness. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-11-15-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio

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Frank Uhle

2023, S-U, shows /

Frank Uhle reads from Cinema Ann Arbor: How Campus Rebels Forged A Singular Film Culture (University of Michigan Press 2023). We talk about the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Cinema Guild, revolutionaries, censorship, and cultural history. We also talk about primary documents, the archives, interviewing, and the mission to make this book and what it took. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-06-14-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Thanks to Rev Andrew for engineering *live show June 14, 2023

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