http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave A weekly program of poetry reading hosted by Jenny Kander and produced by WFIU Public Media in Bloomington, Indiana. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:49:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 2006-2009 http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510241 aschweig@indiana.edu (WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org)) aschweig@indiana.edu (WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org)) Poetry 1440 poetry, books, literature, wfiu, poetry podcast, jenny kander, indiana A production of WFIU Public Media from Indiana University. A weekly program of poetry reading hosted by Jenny Kander and produced by WFIU Public Media from Indiana University. WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) aschweig@indiana.edu No no http://wfiu.org/podcasts/images/poets_podcast.jpg http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave 144 144 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/alyce-miller-life-stuff/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/alyce-miller-life-stuff/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:49:28 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=412 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/alyce-miller-life-stuff/feed/ 0 7:20 Alyce Miller's most recent book, Water, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Prize. She is ... Alyce Miller's most recent book, Water, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Prize. She is the author of two other books of fiction, The Nature of Longing, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and a novel, Stopping for Green Lights.nbsp; Her work has also won the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, the Lawrence Prize, and numerous special mentions in Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Stories, Best American Essays, etc.nbsp; A recentnbsp; essay, "All My Children," selected by Kathryn Harrison, appears in the current Ploughshares issue on creative nonfiction. She has published more than 150 poems, stories, and essays in magazines and journals, and is completing a memoir, Home Repair, in addition to a series of essays on animals. A recent essay, "Naming Dogs," appearing in the current issue of Florida Review, describes her experience working with damaged pitbulls rescued innbsp; a dogfighting raid here in Indiana. A transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area, which she still considers "home," she leads a double life in Bloomington, Indiana, as a professor in the English department at Indiana University, and as a pro bono attorney specializing in animal rights law.nbsp; She calls poetry her "third genre," and says that writing poetry opens up new spaces for her prose. On this extended web edition of The Poets Weave, Professor Miller reads from the series "The Pacific is a Woman Just Like Me," as well as the poems "Gift," "On Finding A Legless Doll at the Beach Called Park Facing Southeast California," "Heirlooms," and "Sisters to the Bone." podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/magda-sokolowski-reads/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/magda-sokolowski-reads/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:53:17 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=409 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/magda-sokolowski-reads/feed/ 0 5:23 ldquo;Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.rdquo; --Heraclitus Born in Warsaw, Poland, Magda Sokolowski is currently an ... ldquo;Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.rdquo; --Heraclitus Born in Warsaw, Poland, Magda Sokolowski is currently an MFA poetry student at Indiananbsp;University. She was the 2009 recipient of the Creative in Kathmandu Fellowship to study and write in Nepal where she led a workshop with local schoolchildren and trekked to a high-mountain village in the Himalayas. When not in Indiana, she and her partner explore the wilds in and around their home in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. On this edition of The Poets Weave, Magda reads her poems "Dreamscape," "On the Empire Builders," "Implements," and "Saturday Reversal." podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/cat-jeoffry-christopher-smart/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/cat-jeoffry-christopher-smart/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:53:05 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=405 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/cat-jeoffry-christopher-smart/feed/ 0 4:51 A popular 18th-century English poet and magazine writer, the prodigious drinker and spendthrift Christopher Smart was incarcerated from 1756 to 1763 for a form of ... A popular 18th-century English poet and magazine writer, the prodigious drinker and spendthrift Christopher Smart was incarcerated from 1756 to 1763 for a form of religious madness that compelled him to pray constantly, often in the street.nbsp; During this confinement for religious mania, he wrote the long poem Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb) from which our poem today is taken. podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/alyce-miller-theme-animals/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/alyce-miller-theme-animals/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:50:53 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=407 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/alyce-miller-theme-animals/feed/ 0 5:00 "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien Alyce Miller's most ... "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien Alyce Miller's most recent book, Water, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Prize. She is the author of two other books of fiction, The Nature of Longing, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and a novel, Stopping for Green Lights.nbsp; Her work has also won the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, the Lawrence Prize, and numerous special mentions in Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Stories, Best American Essays, etc.nbsp; A recentnbsp; essay, "All My Children," selected by Kathryn Harrison, appears in the current Ploughshares issue on creative nonfiction. She has published more than 150 poems, stories, and essays in magazines and journals, and is completing a memoir, Home Repair, in addition to a series of essays on animals. A recent essay, "Naming Dogs," appearing in the current issue of Florida Review, describes her experience working with damaged pitbulls rescued innbsp; a dogfighting raid here in Indiana. A transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area, which she still considers "home," she leads a double life in Bloomington, Indiana, as a professor in the English department at Indiana University, and as a pro bono attorney specializing in animal rights law.nbsp; She calls poetry her "third genre," and says that writing poetry opens up new spaces for her prose. On this edition of The Poets Weave, Professor Miller reads her poems "Lion in Suburbia," "Elegy for My Cat," and "Christmas Lambs." podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/love-poems-edna-st-vincent-millay/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/love-poems-edna-st-vincent-millay/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:50:30 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=403 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/love-poems-edna-st-vincent-millay/feed/ 0 4:51 Born in 1892, poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s.nbsp; One ... Born in 1892, poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s.nbsp; One of the foremost writers of sonnets in her day, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for poetry, for her 1923 volume The Harp Weaver and Other Poems. Millay died in 1950.nbsp; On this edition of The Poets Weave, in honor of Valentine's Day, host Christopher Citro reads love poems from Millay's 1920 A Few Figs from Thistles. podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/steve-castro/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/steve-castro/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:46:38 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=400 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/steve-castro/feed/ 2 4:40 Steve Castro, a former Los Angeles Dodgers intern, was a finalist in the "University of Evansville's Sixth Annual Willis Barnstone Translation Prize," 2008.nbsp; The poet ... Steve Castro, a former Los Angeles Dodgers intern, was a finalist in the "University of Evansville's Sixth Annual Willis Barnstone Translation Prize," 2008.nbsp; The poet is currently working on a degree in Germanic Studies at Indiana University, and he has poetry forthcoming from Chiricuacute;. Steve reads his poems "Un monstruo oscuro encima de una gente clara" ("A dark monster on top of pale people") and "Country folk in tune with the times" on this edition of The Poets Weave. podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/dedicated-haiti-poems/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/dedicated-haiti-poems/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:12:23 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=394 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/dedicated-haiti-poems/feed/ 1 5:01 A list of charities providing support for emergency efforts in Haiti can be found at wfiu.org. In the wake of recent earthquakes in Haiti and the ... A list of charities providing support for emergency efforts in Haiti can be found at wfiu.org. In the wake of recent earthquakes in Haiti and the subsequent relief efforts, we are dedicating todayrsquo;s program to the victims and survivors of this tragedy by presenting poems by two American writers of Haitian descent. Nadine Pinegrave;de, PhD, is a two-time Indiana Arts Commission grant recipient, an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Whidbey Writers Workshop. Her writing has appeared in national publications, including The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Radcliffe Quarterly, the Matrix Anthology of Literary and Visual Arts, and Soundings Review. Nadine is the daughter of Haitian immigrants and a first-generation American. A graduate of Harvard University, she was the first Haitian-American to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University, where she received a master's in French and English Literature.nbsp; Nadine was formerly program coordinator for Grantmakers without Border, where she led a delegation to Haiti for the 30th anniversary of that nation's largest peasant movement.nbsp; She works at Indiana University and lives in Bloomington. Danielle Legros Georges is the author of a book of poems, Maroon, (Curbstone Press, an imprint of Northwestern University Press). nbsp;Her work has appeared in literary journals including Agni, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Black Renaissance Noire, and has been widely anthologized. nbsp;She teaches at Lesley University and lives in Boston. Danielle's poem "Poem for the Poorest Country In the Western Hemisphere" was recently read on Bill Moyers Journal, click here. Recommended Reading List in Haitian Literature [Compiled by Danielle Georges (Lesley University) and Nadine Pinede (Indiana University)] Poetry Volumes Danielle Georges, Maroon Feacute;lix Morisseau-Leroy, Haitiad and Oddities Marilene Phipps, Crossroads and Unholy Water Patrick Sylvain, Love, Lust and Loss Special issues on Haitian culture (with poetry, prose, drama) Callaloo, Volume, 15.2 (spring 1992) Callaloo, Volume 15.3 (summer 1992) Callaloo, Volume 30.1 (winter 2007) Anthologies Edited by Claudine Michel, Marlene Racine-Toussaint #38; Florence Bellande-Robertson, Brassage: An Anthology of Poems by Haitian Women Edited by Edwidge Danticat, The Butterflyrsquo;s Way Edited by Paul Laraque #38; Jack Hirschman, Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry Fiction Jacques Stephan Alexis, In the Flicker of an Eyelid; General Sun, My Brother Georges Anglade, Haitian Laughter Marie Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones; The Dew Breaker Rene Depestre, Festival of the Greasy Pole Jan J. Dominique, Memoir of an Amnesiac Dany Laferriere, Heading South Rene Philoctete, Massacre River Jacques Roumain, Masters of the Dew Lyonel Trouillot, Street of Lost Footsteps Young adult novels Joanne Hyppolite, Seth and Samona Jaira Placide, Fresh Girl Tales/Picturebook Diane Wolkstein (compiler), The Magic Orange Tree: and Other Haitian Folktales Walter Dean Myers, with paintings by Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint Lrsquo;ouverture: nbsp;The Fight for Haitirsquo;s Freedom podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/ross-gay-poem-express-glee/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/ross-gay-poem-express-glee/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:00:54 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=372 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/ross-gay-poem-express-glee/feed/ 0 4:59 Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and grew up outside of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, ... Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and grew up outside of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Atlanta Review, among other journals. Ross is a Cave Canem fellow and has been a Breadloaf Tuition Scholar. In addition to holding a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University, he is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man, a painter, and a faculty member at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College. On this edition of The Poets Weave, Ross reads "A poem in which I try to express my glee at the music my friend has given to me," "The Voice" (dedicated to Gerald Stern), and -- from his new manuscript Bringing the Shovel Down -- "Ode to the Tongue Orchid." podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/tony-brewer-reads-chapbook-glove-big-hand/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/tony-brewer-reads-chapbook-glove-big-hand/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:50:43 +0000 Jenny Kander http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=361 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/tony-brewer-reads-chapbook-glove-big-hand/feed/ 0 4:59 Bloomington, Indiana-based poet, musician, and sound effects artist, Tony Brewer holds a B.A. in English from Indiana University and is the co-founder of MATRIX, a ... Bloomington, Indiana-based poet, musician, and sound effects artist, Tony Brewer holds a B.A. in English from Indiana University and is the co-founder of MATRIX, a forum for literary and visual artists. On this edition of The Poets Weave Tony reads three poems from his new chapbook Little Glove in a Big Hand (Plan B Press, forthcoming spring 2010), which is essentially a short novel in poem form about his cousin who died in a farming accident when they were both 4 years old. podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/jason-wesco-kentucky-bottoms/ http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/jason-wesco-kentucky-bottoms/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:00:10 +0000 Christopher Citro http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/?p=368 http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/jason-wesco-kentucky-bottoms/feed/ 0 4:59 Indiana-born poet Jason Wesco currently resides in southeast Kansas.nbsp; He has published two books ofnbsp; poetry and has been named one of the seven ... Indiana-born poet Jason Wesco currently resides in southeast Kansas.nbsp; He has published two books ofnbsp; poetry and has been named one of the seven emerging artists to watch by the Kansas City Star.nbsp; His most recent book of poetry is Rough Traces.nbsp; Jason is at work on a book-length creative biography of southeast Kansas labor leader, Alexander Howat, told through poems, prose, photos and period documents.nbsp; A suite of selections from the manuscript will appear in the forthcoming Coal City Review. Host Christopher Citro reads Wescorsquo;s poems ldquo;Kentucky Bottoms,rdquo; ldquo;city-broke,rdquo; "Cheat River Coffinworks," and ldquo;The Facts of a Placerdquo; on this edition of The Poets Weave. podcasts,,shows WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) no No