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.
Ilya Kaminsky reads from Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press 2019). We talk about language and silence, fabulism, the imagined town of Vasenka with its puppet theater, and poets that inspire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Carmen Bugan reads from Lilies from America: New & Selected Poems (Shearsman Books UK 2019). We talk about narrative poems, memoir, and recording a documentary. We also talk about resistance, reclaiming your story, and planting a garden. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-01-15-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Poet Shane McCrae reads from The Gilded Auction Block (FSG Originals 2019). We talk about history and the contemporary moment, meter, narrative, epigraphs and a robot bird.
Arthur Sze reads from Sight Lines, (Copper Canyon Press 2019) the 2019 National Book Award winner for poetry. We talk about poems in a series, the natural world, and language systems.
Ryan Walsh reads from his book of poems Reckonings (Baobab 2019). We talk about a poem’s responsibility, connecting across time, and a spelter zinc plant.
