Tune in today to hear a conversation about Detroit Zine Fest with founder Yhasmin Wilder! We talk about the origin story of Detroit Zine Fest, what the fest is like today, and what the future may hold. We also talk about life as a writer, and about BOYmonsta, comics and visual novels. Hope you can join us as we get ready for Detroit […]
Today Michigan’s own Cody Walker reads new poems and reads from The Self-Styled No-Child (Waywiser 2016) and also The Trumpiad (2017), for which all proceeds go to the ACLU. We talk about the aliveness of poems, being elected the Poet Populist, writers in the schools, moving to new places and staying to build a home. We also talk about Seattle, the Bio Station, and Bear River.
Tune in today to hear poems by Poet Tree Town with featured poets Cam Finch, Ruth Mella–the 2024 Ypsi Youth Poet Laureate,Theo Poling, Ani Walker and Cody Walker. We talk about how Poet Tree Town became such a lovely part of April in the communities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. We also hear poems and talk about them
Today Weike Wang reads from her latest novel Rental House (Riverhead Books 2024). We talk about interludes, and writing challenges and discoveries. We also talk about family, race, class, money, dogs, and the beach. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-04-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim & Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Jason Voss for engineering, for website work, and for music
Stream or tune in today to hear Jane Wong read from Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir (Tin House 2023). We talk about familial and historical archives, research, and memoir. We also talk about poems, pizza, humor, and hermit crabs! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-02-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim & Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Isabel and Becky at
Tune in today to hear Divya Victor read from Curb (Nightboat 2021). We talk about form/function, art books, comfort and discomfort, questionnaires, creative writing programs and creative communities, and one’s own work space. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-01-15-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim at Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show
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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Wendy S. Walters read from her books Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande) and Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem). We talk about the blurring of genre in creative nonfiction, about long poems, lyric essays, Detroit electronica and more. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-03-29-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Ashley Bates and Zell Visiting Writers Series *recorded 23 March 2023 in the studio *many thanks to Frank Uhle for engineering
Today on Living Writers Mark Wunderlich reads from God of Nothingness (Graywolf Press 2021). We talk about trying to capture something that feels ethereal. We also talk about fairytale fixtures from childhood, invention and metaphor–and Fernando, the rooster! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2021-06-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *episode recorded on April 23, 2021
Elizabeth Wason talks about science writing and her work as managing editor for Resources for the Future, a DC think tank. We talk about getting accessible expert insight and research in front of policymakers. We also talk about writing through editing, about “getting out of the way” in collaboration, and about creating visually compelling composition.
