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Brittany Rogers

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 […]

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Jericho Brown

A conversation with Jericho Brown about his book of poems The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press 2019). We talk about spiral notebooks, semicolons and the Pulitzer Prize. We also talk about the music of formal poems and about the Duplex, his invented form. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2021-03-17-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio

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Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral reads from Guillotine (Graywolf Press 2020). We talk about attentiveness, structuring books, audience and interiority. We also talk about expanding possibilities and French pop songs. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-09-23-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Playlist:

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poet with his cat

Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar reads poems from Calling A Wolf A Wolf (Alice James Books 2017) and Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021). We talk about technology of language–its limitations and failures–and ways of working to subvert it. We also talk about addiction, country roads and cats. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-09-16-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Playlist: Angel Olsen, Creator, Destroyer T Rex, Cosmic Dancer

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Joy Harjo

From the archive 2017 Joy Harjo talks about Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and Crazy Brave (W.W. Norton).  We talk about perceived power, flying, stories and the saxophone, and debut her latest song! Joy Harjo gave the Second Annual Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Lecture in Native American Studies. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-03-15-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 15, 2017

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poet looking up and smiling, author photo

Tarfia Faizullah

From the archive: 2016 Tarfia Faizullah reads poems from Seam, chosen for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press). We talk about writing a long sequence. We also talk about imagination and research–and the unforgotten. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2016-11-30-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: November 30, 2016 For more about this poet, click here!

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Jean Valentine

From the archive: 2015 Poet Jean Valentine reads from Break the Glass and Shirt In Heaven (Copper Canyon Press). We talk about memory, elegy, music and dreaming. Take heart. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-04-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! Original airdate: April 22, 2015

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Ken Mikolowski

Tune in today to hear Michigan’s own Ken Mikolowski read from his latest book of poems “That That” published this year by Wayne State University Press in the Made in Michigan Writers Series. We’ll talk about that.  And that.  http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-03-25-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio

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Nikki Giovanni

From the archives: Nikki Giovanni reads from Chasing Utopia (William Morrow/HarperCollins 2013). We talk about passion and poems, speaking out and spoken word, mothers, grandmothers, watching, and wine.  Stay busy! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-12-11-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Nikki Giovanni

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A. Van Jordan

From the archive: 2013 A. Van Jordan reads poems from The Cineaste (W. W. Norton & Company 2014).  We talk about the love of film, family, and organists.  We talk about disappearing and emerging in stories.  We also have a drum roll! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-05-15-160001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: May 15, 2013

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