Tune in today to hear a conversation about Poems for the People with poets Shira Erlichman, Angel Nafis, and Jeff Kass! We talk about becoming poets and being poets. We talk about the inspiring work of Jeff Kass at Pioneer High and beyond. We also talk about Sharon Olds, Patricia Smith, and Hanif Abdurraqib and other poets of influence today and […]
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Hear poems by PoetTree Town with founder poet Cam Finch and featured poets Kyunghee Kim, Haley Winkle, and Ben Davis-Beazley! We talk about the origin story of PoetTree Town, what the movement is like today. and what the future may hold. We also hear PoetTree Town poems and talk with their poets! Hope you can join us to celebrate the first day
Stream or tune in today to hear Craig Santos Perez read from Call This Mutiny: Uncollected Poems (Omnidawn Publishing 2024). We talk about refusal and resistance, American colonialism, the spirit, the natural environment, and ecopoetry. We also talk about the Pacific Islands of Guåhan and Hawai’i. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2026-03-11-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Stream or tune in today to hear Kelly Hoffer read from Fire Series (Pitt Poetry Series 2026). We talk about making and remaking, longing and language. We also talk about being a book artist, and, of course, fire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2026-02-18-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Stream or tune in today to hear Brenda Hillman read from In a Few Minutes Before Later (Wesleyan University Press 2022), Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days (2018), and Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality (University of Virginia Press 2024). We talk about form, photographs, biopeia, activism, and devices to make strangeness possible. We also talk about Annie Besant, C.D. Wright,
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
Tune in today to hear Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Michigan poets Brittany Rogers, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and M. Bartley Seigel talk about Michigan Words: the project and the poems. We also will hear their poems as we celebrate this work! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-12-11-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Michigan Words Michigan Words is a statewide billboard campaign celebrating contemporary Michigan poetry. The billboards
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Michigan’s Poet Laureate Nandi Comer read from Tapping Out (Triquarterly Books 2020). We talk about lucha libre, masks, Detroit, travel, and home. We also talk about being the Michigan Poet Laureate, the moment now and her vision to come. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-02-07-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Olivia Aguilar at Northwestern University Press *thanks to Jason Voss for engineering
Michigan’s own poet Keith Taylor read from All the All the Time You Want (Dzanc Books 2024). We talk about selecting poems, Isle Royale National Park, and being outdoors, no matter the weather or terrain. We also talk about bookstores, birds, traveling, fear/no fear, and love. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-01-17-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Airea D. Matthews read from Bread and Circus (Scribner 2023). D came through town this June. We talk about hybrid memoir, economics, family, capitalism, and resistance. We also talk about erasure poems and making things visible, Sicily, and being a poet laureate. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-08-30-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Thanks to Rev Andrew for engineering pre-recorded June 2023
