Arthur Sze
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.
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Ryan Walsh
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.
CM Burroughs
CM Burroughs reads poems from The Vital System (Tupelo Press 2012). We talk about a sister, a red bird, experimental forms, and choosing art. We also get a preview of poems from Master Suffering out in 2020 with Tupelo Press.
Michigan Quarterly Review
Michigan Quarterly Review editor Khaled Mattawa, guest editor Benjamin Paloff and contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin talk about the Fall 2019 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review: What Does Europe Want Now? We talk about MQR’s mission, its history since 1962, and its future. We also talk about the issue’s central question, and the poetry, fiction, non-fiction, interviews
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Gala Mukomolova
Gala Mukomolov reads poems from Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019). We talk about fierceness and vulnerability, fairytales, and astrology.
Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa reads poems from Mare Nostrum (Sarabande Books/Quarternote Chapbook Series #16). We talk about emotion of displacement, forms and songs, narrative and character, and lyric as witness and as call to action.
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee talks about scarcity, best words, A Love Supreme, and the attempt to understand our collective human mission. The featured book is The Undressing (Norton 2018) http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-09-06-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Please note: there were audio difficulties with our phone connection during the live program; this episode of Living Writers is not the usual length.
Keith Taylor
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with poet & Pal of the Podcast Keith Taylor about his latest collection Ecstatic Destinations (Alice Greene & Co 2018). They talk about Canada, park benches and the joy of neighborhood walks. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-08-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Raymond McDaniel
Raymond McDaniel reads from his latest collection The Cataracts (Coffee House Press 2018). We talk about the ocean, 1981, micronauts, lyrical narrative and being a citizen. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-04-26-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf reads from Hagar Poems (University of Arkansas Press 2016). We talk about the intersecting stories of Hagar, Abraham and Sarah, traditional narratives, and reconfiguring stories for the current moment–and Mohja also reads poems from the new manuscript. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-04-18-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Mohja Kahf with Rima Hassouneh of The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in the
