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
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
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
From the archive: 2013 Farnoosh Fathi reads from Great Gus (Canarium Books 2013). We talk about Brazil, translation, Emily Dickinson, art and interviewing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-03-13-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 13, 2013 Photo credit: Alan Bernheimer
Heather McHugh reads from Upgraded to Serious (Copper Canyon Press 2009). We talk about syntactic flexibility and music and skeletons. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-01-23-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! Photo credit: WBEZ
From the archive: 2012 Terrance Hayes reads poems from Lighthead ( 2010) and Wind in A Box (Penguin Books 2006). We’ll talk about the making of titles, Antony & the Johnson’s album “I am a Bird Now” and writing MJ Fan Letters. We’ll also talk about life choices that lead to Pittsburgh and reading (and perhaps memorizing) the
From the archive: 2012 Toi Derricotte reads from The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011). We talk about nuns, about chaos, about balance and a sense of what’s true. We also hear Toi lead off the show singing one of her favorite songs by Billie Holiday. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-21-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: November 21, 2012
From the archive: 2012 Philip Levine talks about writing every day. We also talk about Aunt Belle, Spain, anarchism, Larry Levis, pianist Bill Evans, Detroit, and Adrienne Rich. Books on the table with us: NEWS OF THE WORLD (2009), BREATH (2004), THE SIMPLE TRUTH (1994), WHAT WORK IS (1991) and NEW SELECTED POEMS (1991) http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-10-10-163001-EDT.mp3
Anne Waldman reads from The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment–a project that spanned 26 years (Coffee House Press). We talk about collaboration, Ginsberg, manatees, and walking meditation. We also talk about her archive at the University of Michigan Library. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-04-25-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *recorded April 12, 2012
In a special live Living Writers evening event celebrating WCBN FM’s 40th Anniversary, Naomi Shihab Nye reads from Transfer (BOA Editions Ltd 2011) and also There is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories (Greenwillow Books 2011). We talk about fathers, elementary school poets and fig trees. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-live-2012-01-25.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Chehalis Hegner
