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 […]
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
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:
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
Michael Dickman reads from Days & Days (Knopf 2019). We talk about interconnectedness, structure, place and butterflies.
A conversation with Literati Bookstore’s John Ganiard. We talk about upcoming events and ways to be involved at the bookstore as well as some winter book picks and what’s on the horizon (is it too early to look forward to spring?). We also read Mary Oliver poems and talk typewriters. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-01-23-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Bob Hicok reads from Hold (Copper Canyon Press 2018). We talk about the making of a poem and removing stops between things, like our minds do. We also talk about violence and stories and feeling invincible while writing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-01-09-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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
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!
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
