New Letters on the Air
You've found the weekly podcast of the public radio literary program "New Letters on the Air." Listening to "New Letters on the Air" is like eavesdropping on intimate conversations with favorite writers who reveal secrets about their creative methods, read a few favorite passages, and ...
You've found the weekly podcast of the public radio literary program "New Letters on the Air." Listening to "New Letters on the Air" is like eavesdropping on intimate conversations with favorite writers who reveal secrets about their creative methods, read a few favorite passages, and inspire the listener's imagination.
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New Letters On the Air Junot Díaz
With nearly a decade between his first collection,�Drown�and his follow-up ...
With nearly a decade between his first collection,�Drown�and his follow-up novel�The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao�that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008...
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New Letters On the Air Nikki Giovanni
With a long writing career that stretches back to the ...
With a long writing career that stretches back to the 1960s and the Black Art Movement, Nikki Giovanni has nearly three dozen books of poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, and children's stories with numerous honors, including the American Book Award in 2008
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New Letters On the Air Working-Class Poets
The rigors, joys, and difficulties of work are examined through ...
The rigors, joys, and difficulties of work are examined through poetry, including the long work "Beauty" by B.H. Fairchild (shown) that was initially in his multi-award winning book The Art of the Lathe and is now in his 2014 book of new and selected work
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New Letters On the Air Dave Smith
This conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than ...
This conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction, is the second half of an interview recorded in late 2014 as part of the Midwest Poets Series. He talks about the importance of elegiac poetry and th
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New Letters On the Air Martha Serpas
Growing up in bayou country, the poet Martha Serpas is ...
Growing up in bayou country, the poet Martha Serpas is attached to the landscape and culture of southern Louisiana. Poems about the environment and the endangered Gulf shores permeate her work, including her 2006 collection, The Dirty Side of the Storm, a
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New Letters On the Air E.L. Doctorow: Past American Voice
We remember E.L. Doctorow who passed away on July 21, ...
We remember E.L. Doctorow who passed away on July 21, 2015, at the age of 84. The author of three books of short fiction, a stage drama, and twelve novels, including multi-award winners Ragtime�and�Billy Bathgate, Doctorow received many major...
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New Letters On the Air Sydney Lea
Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015), Sydney Lea is the author of ...
Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015), Sydney Lea is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, essays, and fiction, including three books published in 2013: I Was Thinking of Beauty, A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife, and ...
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New Letters On the Air Catherine Browder
Describing herself as a latecomer to writing, author Catherine Browder ...
Describing herself as a latecomer to writing, author Catherine Browder discusses her new book, Now We Can All Go Home, which pays tribute to Anton Chekhov and three of his plays, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Seagull. In this book, Browder picks up
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New Letters On the Air Martín Espada
In the second part of this public presentation by Mart�n ...
In the second part of this public presentation by Mart�n Espada for Park University's 2013 Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, the former tenant lawyer talks about how he was able to transfer his advocacy from the justice system
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New Letters On the Air Kenneth Irby
Poet Kenneth Irby was born in Texas and raised in ...
Poet Kenneth Irby was born in Texas and raised in the Midwest before serving in the U.S. Army. A graduate of Harvard and Berkeley, Irby settled in Lawrence, Kansas, where he's spent his teaching and writing career at the University of Kansas. Often associ
