Carolyn Forché reads from What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press 2019). We talk about El Salvador, keeping notebooks, what poetry can do in the world, and what people are called upon to do. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-05-01-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Luke Shaefer, co-author with Kathryn Edin of $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. They talk about how poverty in the U.S. has deepened and expanded in the last 25 years and about the role of public policy in those changes. They also talk about eye-opening data and the
Tune in today to hear Arundhati Roy talk about her introduction to B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition published by Verso this October. We’ll talk about ‘The Doctor and The Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: Race, Caste, and Colonialism.’ http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-12-17-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *This program was taped October 6, 2014 during Arundhati Roy’s campus visit. *Many thanks to Patrick Tonks at
