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Leslie Jamison

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 […]

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Sandra Cisneros

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

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Perry Janes

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

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

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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Phranc

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

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Marie-Helene Bertino

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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Michael Dickman

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 

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MK Czerwiec

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,

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Darcey Steinke

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

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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