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James Richardson

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The poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His 2004 book, Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, was National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and his 2010 book By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He reads from the latter collection and explains why he thinks it's crucial to his creative process to take "unproductive, wasted" stretches time between books.

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Peggy Shumaker peggy shumaker
After recovering from a nearly fatal accident, all Peggy Shumaker wanted to do was read. The poet and Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, eventually began to write again, and while she didn't intend to write a memoir, her book of short pieces, Just Breathe Normally, is one. Shumaker reads from the book and from her poetry collection, Gnawed Bones. She also discusses how writing allows her to take what she calls a kaleidoscopic look at the "broken shards" of her experience, incorporating her physical recovery from the accident with family memories and ancestral stories.

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Coming soon: heidi durrow

Much like the heroine in her coming-of-age novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, author Heidi Durrow grew up in a biracial household. She talks about being both African-American and Danish, and how she used her own mixed experience, along with a tragic newspaper story, to create her 2010 novel. Durrow also discusses the years she spent writing the novel, which won the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an award established by Barbara Kingsolver.

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New Letters on the Air, hosted by Angela Elam, is the half-hour radio companion to the literary quarterly magazine New Letters. Past guests include U.S. Poet Laureates Ted Kooser, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner and novelists Jim Harrison, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo. The program, which also features emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction, is produced by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and distributed via the Public Radio Satellite System's Content Depot, and the Public Radio Exchange.

 










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MEET THE STAFF OF NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR:
The New Letters on the Air production team includes producer/host Angela Elam, assistant producer Annie Walsh, technical editor Stephanie Hughes, and our intern Andrew Hansbrough. Robert Stewart is the executive editor.

THE STORY OF NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR:
This radio companion to the distinguished literary quarterly, New Letters, was founded in 1977, by David and Judy Ray with help from their staff, including Robert Stewart, now the editor of the magazine. Rebekah Presson Mosby worked as a producer and then host from 1982 until 1995. Now, producer/host Angela Elam continues the tradition. New Letters on the Air is a weekly program broadcast over many public radio stations, and is also one of the largest and best collections of recordings of contemporary authors from the United States and around the world.

Many of these important writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Jane Kenyon, Howard Nemerov, Michael Dorris, James Dickey, John Gardner, and Gwendolyn Brooks, have now passed from the literary scene. Many are Nobel laureates, winners of Pulitzer Prizes or National Book Awards. Most programs from our extensive archives are offered for sale on audiocassette or CD.

 
 
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