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Hear Crystal Williams read from “Troubled Tongues” chosen for the 2009 Long Madgett Poetry Award. We’ll talk about chants, epistles and ars poeticas. We’ll also talk about writing plays and poems–and about growing up in Detroit, going to NYC and heading westward. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2009-10-07-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio

Hear poet Dean Young read new poems–yet to  grace the pages of magazine, web or book.  We’ll also talk about his current manuscript called “The Art of Recklessness” to be published by Graywolf Press later this year. We’ll talk about the process of creation, surrealism, and why he exhorts:  remember your first urges–why you wrote

Hear Lawrence Weschler in conversation about his book published by Vintage Books in 1996  “Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder:  Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology.”  Believe it or not, that’s just the half of it. We’ll also talk about the need for doubt, his Convergence Contest with McSweeney’s

Hear Carlos Ruiz Zafon read from his novel “The Angel’s Game” published this summer by Doubleday. We’ll talk about Gothic stylization, Barcelona, and novels in a series. We’ll also talk about visual storytelling and breaking out of what you believe to be your own constraints as a working writer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2009-07-01-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *this program was taped

Hear poet Adam Zagajewski read from his latest book “Eternal Enemies” published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. We’ll talk about Lvov, Poland and Milosz, Herbert, essays and eternity. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-12-24-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio *this program was taped on the 4th of December.