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Search     New Letters     On the Air     Combined Search     Google              SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AWARDS FOR WRITERS MARK TWAIN WORKSHOP *WRITING CONFERENCE* BACK ISSUES ABOUT US NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR PODCAST NEW LETTERS TV INTERNSHIPS BKMK PRESS LITERARY LINKS MAILING LIST INDEX TO BACK ISSUES AUDIO RECORDINGS ADVERTISING ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTACT US		New Letters on the Air Catalogue of Audio Recordings Search also by keyword in the search field to the left.   Name 2009 Review Description A look back at 2009 in literature with Kai Wright, U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Sandra Cisneros, Tobias Wolff, Alberto Rios, James Still, Robert Olen Butler and the late John Updike. Program Number 122509 Genre Anthology Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name 20th Anniversary of NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Description Judy Ray and Robert Stewart, the co-founders of NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, discuss two decades of the show. Program Number Genre Theme Year 1997 Interviewer Name 25th Anniversary of NEW LETTERS magazine Description Former NEW LETTERS editors David Ray and James McKinley discuss the importance of small literary journals and their relationship to new and emerging writers. Program Number Genre Theme Year 1996 Interviewer James McKinley Name Adams, Alice Description The best-selling author of SUPERIOR WOMEN, Adams reads the title story from her collection AFTER YOU'VE GONE and talks about the plight of contemporary women. Program Number 100590 Genre Fiction Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Addonizio, Kim Description Kim Addonizio’s poetry and prose is known for confessional and humorous work with a touch of the blues. She talks about her poetry and reads from her fourth collection WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE, while accompanying herself on the harmonica. Program Number 110207 Genre Poetry Year 2007 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Ai Description Ai is best known for her persona poems. She reads two from her book SIN and from a long poem-in-progress. She also discusses writing and her mixed ethnicity. Program Number 020588 Genre Poetry Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Albom, Mitch Description Writer Mitch Albom's rabbi asked him to deliver his eulogy when he died. The ensuing eight years of meeting with the rabbi as well as working with homeless shelters reconnected Albom with lost beliefs. He reads from his newest book, HAVE A LITTLE FAITH. Program Number 121109 Genre Fiction Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Alcosser, Sandra Description Sandra Alcosser reads from A FISH TO FEED ALL HUNGER. In the collection, nature follows the inevitable, yet beautiful course toward rot and decay, taking on the colorful images of rust, lichen, brilliant fungi, peacock moths, and faded photos. Program Number 101185 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Name Alegria, Claribel Description Alegria, one of Central America's most widely read poets, reads from her collection FUGUES. She talks about her late husband, translator, and co-writer, Darwin Flakoll and about the political involvement that forced them into exile. Program Number 030496 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Alegria, Claribel Description The Nicaraguan-based poet and writer talks about her autobiographical novel LUISA IN REALITY LAND. The program was recorded by Tim Richards in the author's home in Managua. Program Number 040591 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1991 Interviewer Tim Richards Name Alexander, Elizabeth Description Poet Elizabeth Alexander captures African-American voices and traditions from slavery to the present in her book, AMERICAN SUBLIME, nominated for a 2006 Pulitzer Prize. She reads from this and ANTEBELLUM DREAM BOOK. Program Number 101106 Genre Poetry Year 2006 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Alexie, Sherman Description Alexie, "the first stand-up poet," is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction including SMOKE SIGNALS, which was made into a motion picture. He reads several selections and talks about projects he is working on. Program Number 052103 Genre Poetry Fiction Drama Year 2002 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Ali, Kazim Description Poet Kazim Ali discusses ways portrayals of biblical characters vary in Islam, and the similarity between the Persian poet Rumi and Emily Dickinson. He reads from his two books, BRIGHT FELON: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CITIES and THE FAR MOSQUE. Program Number 20110128 Genre Poet Year 2010 Interviewer Angela elam Name American Greats: A Celebration of American Writers Description This program features archive recordings of some of the country's major award winners, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, William Stafford, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, William Kennedy, Richard Ford, and Barry Lopez. Program Number 062998 Genre Theme Year 1998 Interviewer Name American Poetry Medley Description This audio collage contains some of America's favorite poets reading their works including past U.S. Poet Laureates Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, and Rita Dove. Also featured are Pulitzer Prize winners Stanley Kunitz and Carolyn Kizer. Program Number 041900 Genre Theme Year 2000 Interviewer Angela Elam Name American Sanctuaries Description September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and to honor that, this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists talk about how they found inspiration and refuge in public libraries. Featuring Junot Díaz, E.L. Doctorow, Anne Lamott and others. Program Number 091109 Genre Anthology Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Amerika, Mark Description The Colorado author reads from his experimental novel THE KAFKA CHRONICLES and talks about his connections to "Generation X" and writing that samples pop music and computer technology. Program Number 050294 Genre Fiction Year 1994 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Amichai, Yehuda Description Amichai is considered by many to be one of the world's greatest living poets. His works have been translated into 33 languages, including Chinese and Japanese. He shares several of his favorite poems in this reading at the Midwest Poets Series. Program Number 090899 Genre Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Drama Year 1997 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Amis, Martin Description Amis reads from his 1995 novel, THE INFORMATION, which brought him notoriety in the press. In the interview, he talks about how his own life eerily began to parallel the book. Program Number 052796 Genre Fiction Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Ammons, A.R. Description Ammons, recipient of many poetry prizes, reads from LAKE EFFECT COUNTRY and A COAST OF TREES. Program Number 022484 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Name Anaya, Rudolfo Description Anaya's first novel, BLESS ME ULTIMA, has been an international bestseller since it was published in 1972. Anaya is considered one of the most important Latino writers. He talks about growing up in New Mexico and about his novel ALBUQUERQUE. Program Number 091994 Genre Fiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Andersen, Kurt Description Kurt Andersen, who gained distinction as a journalist, founding co-editor of SPY magazine, and now host of public radio's STUDIO 360, talks about a relatively new passion: writing novels. He reads from HEYDAY and TURN OF THE CENTURY. Program Number 051509 Genre Fiction Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Anderson, M.T. Description Young Adult writer M.T. Anderson discusses his National Book Award-winning novel, THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, which is set during the Revolutionary War. He also discusses writing for a teenaged audience. Program Number 070408 Genre Fiction Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Anderson-Dargatz, Gail Description This Canadian writer has been twice nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize. The first nomination was for her novel THE CURE FOR DEATH BY LIGHTNING and again for A RECIPE FOR BEES, which she talks about in this interview. Program Number 112801 Genre Fiction Year 2001 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Aplon, Roger Description The San Francisco poet reads from STILETTO and FROM DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT AT 120 MILES PER HOUR. Program Number 020384 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer Name Arias, Arturo Description A prominent Central American writer, Arias helped write the screenplay for the movie EL NORTE, about Guatemalan immigration to the U.S. Here he reads from his novel AFTER THE BOMBS. Program Number 011891 Genre Fiction Year 1990 Interviewer Tim Richards Name Ashbery, John Description Ashbery, one of America's most acclaimed poets, reads from his SELECTED POEMS in a public presentation recorded at the Kansas City Art Institute. Program Number 092686 Genre Poetry Year 1986 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Auel, Jean Description The author of a popular trilogy of novels set in pre-history, THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR, VALLEY OF THE HORSES, and THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS, talks about events that changed her from an unemployed Portland housewife to a best-selling author. Program Number 012387 Genre Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Auster, Paul Description Auster is a best-selling writer in Europe with a solid reputation in the United States. He first gained acclaim with "metaphysical detective stories" and then with playful postmodernist autobiographical novels. Here, Auster reads from MR. VERTIGO. Program Number 092694 Genre Fiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Averill, Thomas Fox Description Fiction writer Averill talks about his novel SECRETS OF THE TSIL CAFÉ, which explores our relationship to food and the influence the west has had on the world's culinary culture. He also discusses the differences in crafting short and long fiction. Program Number 012302 Genre Fiction Year 2001 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Baber, Asa Description Baber reads an account of a visit to El Salvador and an excerpt from a story titled "Dufo's Blues." Program Number 070486 Genre Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Baca, Jimmy Santiago Description A Mexican-American, Baca taught himself to read and write while in prison for drug possession. He has published numerous books of poetry and WORKING IN THE DARK, a book of essays. Here he reads from his work. Program Number 041291 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1991 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Bakeer, Donald Description This high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles wrote a novel, CRIPS, so that his students would have something relevant to read. It was made into the film SOUTH CENTRAL by Oliver Stone. Bakeer talks about his experience and reads from a new novel. Program Number 061995 Genre Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Baker, Will Description Poet and nonfiction writer Will Baker reads poems, some relating to farm life in California. Program Number 072685 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1985 Interviewer Name Baker, David Description Poetry editor for The Kenyon Review, David Baker talks about the forms of poetry, how a written poem written differs from an oral poem, and the dueling influences of Puritanism and Romanticism in Baker’s poetry. Program Number 120104 Genre Poetry Year 2003 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Baker, David Description Baker's collection of poems SWEET HOME SATURDAY NIGHT incorporates his perceptions of rock 'n' roll, as well as baseball, car races, and, of course, love. Baker reads from this third collection and talks about his goals as a writer. Program Number 021492 Genre Poetry Year 1992 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Bakken, Dick Description Bakken is primarily known as a performance poet and a tireless organizer of poetry festivals. In the 1960s Bakken gave up a tenured job as an English professor and began touring the country chanting and reciting his work. Here he reads from his poems. Program Number 101990 Genre Poetry Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Bakken, Kerry Neville Description Award-winning short story writer Kerry Neville Bakken discusses her collection NECESSARY LIES. In this show, she talks about her New York background, and her characters who commit “small acts of neglect and violence.” Program Number 071808 Genre Fiction Year 2007 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Balaban, John Description Balaban tells stories of Vietnam and reveals the inspiration behind several of his poems, which he shares with the audience in this live reading. Program Number 052202 Genre Poetry Year 2002 Interviewer Name Balaban, John Description Balaban reads from SPRING ESSENCE, his translations of the 18th century Vietnamese concubine Ho Xuan Huong. He also discusses his work with the Nôm Foundation, which is trying to preserve an ancient Vietnamese language in danger of extinction. Program Number 041404 Genre Poetry Year 2003 Interviewer Name Balaban, John Description In this program, Balaban reads from WALKING DOWN INTO CEBOLLA CANYON and BLUE MOUNTAIN, poems that draw from Balaban's backpacking experiences along the highways of America. Program Number 050683 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer Name Bang, Mary Jo Description Mary Jo Bang, winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry collection ELEGY, talks about the grief following her son’s death that inspired the book. She also discusses her unusual path to poetry. Program Number 042508 Genre Poetry Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Banks, Russell Description Banks, author of CONTINENTAL DRIFT and many other books, reads "The Gully" from his book SUCCESS STORIES. "The Gully" is a political fable of vigilantes in a third-world ghetto. Program Number 112886 Genre Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Trish Reeves Name Banks, Stanley Description Kansas City poet Stanley E. Banks reads from his collected poems, BLUE BEAT SYNCOPATION, and talks about overcoming the hardships and the of growing up in the inner-city and the support he received from his grandmother. Program Number 072707 Genre Poetry Year 2007 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Banks, Russell Description Banks discusses and reads from his first historical novel, CLOUDSPLITTER. The novel is an account of one of the United States' most prominent and notorious figures—abolitionist John Brown. Program Number 092299 Genre Fiction Year 1999 Interviewer James McKinley Name Baraka, Amiri Description Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) is a poet, playwright, and essayist whose 1960s play, DUTCHMAN, became a standard for students of revolutionary theatre. Baraka reads poems from THE MUSIC: REFLECTIONS ON JAZZ AND BLUES. Program Number 021288 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Baraka, Amiri Description In this program, Baraka talks about his life and the influences on his work. He also reads from his poetry with a distinctive jazz flair. Program Number 020397 Genre Poetry Drama Nonfiction Year 1996 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Bargen, Walter Description Walter Bargen was fairly anonymous until being appointed Missouri’s first-ever poet laureate in 2008. In this live interview, Bargen discusses his beginnings, and reads poems about life in Missouri from THE FEAST and others. Program Number 051608 Genre Poetry Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Barich, Bill Description Barich, an oft-published essayist, reads from BIG DREAMS: INTO THE HEART OF CALIFORNIA, which looks at the state and its history by region, starting with the north and moving south to earthquake-ridden Los Angeles. Program Number 051694 Genre Nonfiction Year 1994 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Barks, Coleman Description Barks is well known for his translations of the 13th-century mystic Jalaluddin Rumi. Here Barks talks about the translations and how they have affected his own poetry. He also reads and sings from his collection GOURD SEED. Program Number 120296 Genre Poetry Year 1995 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Barnes, Jim Description Jim Barnes and Ann Struthers read from their poetry. Poet and fiction writer Ann Struthers reads poems about farm life and small towns in Iowa. Program Number 041489 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Judy Ray Name Barnes, Jim Description Barnes reads poems from THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, FISH ON POTEAU MOUNTAIN, and from an anthology, CARRIERS OF THE DREAM WHEEL. The works deal with Midwestern and Native American themes. Program Number 121077 Genre Poetry Year 1977 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Barnstone, Willis Description Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Barnstone is the author of dozens of books and a prominent translator of poems. Here he reads sonnets and talks about living in China. Program Number 041489 Genre Poetry Year 1989 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Barrax, Gerard Description Barrax worked in a steel mill, drove a cab, and carried mail before becoming a poet, a professor, and editor of a black literary magazine. In this program, he reads from THE DEATH OF ANIMALS AND LESSER GODS and talks about trends in black writing. Program Number 051289 Genre Poetry Year 1988 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Barrows, Annie Description Annie Barrows, a children’s book and adult nonfiction writer, helped her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer posthumously publish the novel she’d been working on for 20 years: THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY. Program Number 071709 Genre Fiction Year 2009 Interviewer Danette Alexander Name Bausch, Richard Description Bausch reads from "Ancient History," a short story about a young man's first Christmas after his father's death. Bausch's work is often sad, an ironic contrast to his previous career as a comedian. Program Number 121688 Genre Fiction Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Baxter, Charles Description Baxter's writing has been called "some of the finest being written in America today," and for this program, Baxter talks about his work, reads two poems and excerpts from "Gryphon," his best-known short story. Program Number 091589 Genre Fiction Poetry Year 1989 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Beasley Jr., Conger Description Beasley reads from WE ARE A PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD: THE LAKOTA SIOUX AND THE MASSACRE AT WOUNDED KNEE, which won the 1995 Western Writers Contemporary Spur Award, and talks about his participation in the 1990 Big Foot Memorial Ride. Program Number 071596 Genre Nonfiction Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Beasley Jr., Conger Description Environmental essayist Beasley has been called "a writer of extraordinary imagination." Here he reads about the Ogallala Sioux piercing ceremony from his book SUNDANCERS AND RIVER DEMONS: ESSAYS ON LANDSCAPE AND RITUAL. Program Number 031690 Genre Nonfiction Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Beattie, Ann Description The author of short fiction and novels, Beattie chronicles passages into middle age. Here she reads from and talks about her novel ANOTHER YOU. Program Number 110695 Genre Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Name Becker, Robin Description Poet and feminist Robin Becker talks about the development of her poetry and how her own closeted feelings about her sexuality kept her work, until her fourth collection, from being revealing. She reads from THE HORSE FAIR. Program Number 022801 Genre Poetry Year 2000 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Becker, Phyllis Description Kansas City-based poet Phyllis Becker reads poems her collection, How I Came to Love Jazz, and discusses her artistic impulses and her collaboration with jazz singer Angela Hagenbach. Program Number 021910 Genre Poetry Year 2010 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Becker, Robin Description The poetry editor of THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, Becker discusses the changes for women in publishing over the past 30 years. She also gives her approach to the teaching of poetry and reads from three poetry collections. Program Number 032101 Genre Poetry Year 2000 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Behn, Robin Description Behn talks about the sometimes painful nature of her work, about illness and hope, and reads from PAPER BIRD, which won the Associated Writing Programs poetry prize. Program Number 051190 Genre Poetry Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Bell, Marvin Description Bell reads a selection of his poems including "The Self and the Mulberry Tree" and "Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See", all from his book DRAWN BY STONES, BY EARTH, BY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRE. Program Number 011681 Genre Poetry Year 1980 Interviewer Name Bell, Charles Description Bell reads poems from DELTA RETURN, based on his childhood in the South. Program Number 041480 Genre Poetry Year 1980 Interviewer David Ray Name Bell, Marvin Description Bell has significantly influenced contemporary American poetry as the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the esteemed Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa. In this public poetry reading, he reads his work and shares stories about his craft. Program Number 101399 Genre Poetry Year 1999 Interviewer Name Bell, Marvin Description Bell talks about his work and reads poems including the title piece from DRAWN BY STONES, BY EARTH, BY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRE. Program Number 012585 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Bell, Charles Description Bell reads from a group of poems entitled The FIVE-CHAMBERED HEART and from his book SONGS FOR A NEW AMERICA. Program Number 051280 Genre Poetry Year 1980 Interviewer David Ray Name Benitez, Sandra Description Of mixed Puerto Rican heritage, Benitez grew up in El Salvador, Mexico, and the U.S. She reads from her novel A PLACE WHERE THE SEA REMEMBERS and talks about the blending of Christian and indigenous religion in Mexican culture. Program Number 111593 Genre Fiction Year 1993 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Berger, Thomas Description Berger, author of LITTLE BIG MAN and NEIGHBORS, reads a story and talks about writing for the movies. Program Number 071886 Genre Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Bertolino, James Description Bertolino, of Washington state, has edited more than 60 books and anthologies. Here he reads poems from his book FIRST CREDO. Program Number 100485 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Birkerts, Sven Description One of the most interesting and lively literary critics of our time, Birkerts is concerned with the effects of our electronic culture. He reads form his book of essays THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES. Program Number 103194 Genre Nonfiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Black, Gregory D. Description In a nonfiction work, Black looks at HOLLYWOOD CENSORED: MORALITY CODES, CATHOLICS, AND THE MOVIES. Black focuses on Hollywood's so-called "golden era" of the 1930s, during which the Catholic church controlled what audiences could and couldn't see. Program Number 012395 Genre Nonfiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Black Women Writers in History Description This program looks at some of America's earliest black women writers, beginning with Phyllis Wheatley through the present with readings by Pulitzer Prize winners Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove, who was also America's first black poet laureate. Program Number Genre Theme Year 1998 Interviewer Name Blackburn, Alexander Description In a rollicking, picaresque novel, Blackburn examines the lives of several persons born in the 1920s and '40s and follows them through the Hungarian Revolution, the Vietnam War, the American southwest, and Latin America. Program Number 033195 Genre Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Blackburn, Julia Description In THE BOOK OF COLOR, the English novelist Blackburn fictionalizes her grandfather's life as the son of a late 19th-century missionary living on an island in the Indian Ocean. She also discusses her fictionalized biography, DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT. Program Number 103095 Genre Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Blackmarr, Amy Description The author of GOING TO GROUND: SIMPLE LIFE ON A GEORGIA POND, Blackmarr has turned her Thoreauvian eye toward the Kansas prairie in her book of essays, HOUSE OF STEPS: FINDING THE PATH HOME. Program Number 100699 Genre Nonfiction Year 1999 Interviewer Mary Jo Draper Name Blevins, Win Description Award winning STONE SONG is a multi-layered and complex look at the life of Crazy Horse, the great war chief of the Sioux Indian nation. Blevins talks about his craft and this critically acclaimed book, which transcends the Western genre. Program Number 051297 Genre Fiction Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Bloom, Amy Description A renowned short-story writer, Bloom discusses her first novel, LOVE INVENTS US, and she also talks about how she came to writing later in life, veering off from her profession as a psychotherapist. Program Number 072897 Genre Fiction Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Blount, Jr., Roy Description Considered to be one of the funniest writers in America, Blount reads from his book of comic essays NOW, WHERE WERE WE?, which deals with such topics as Elizabeth Taylor's $2,500-a-day room service bills ("I Just Want What Liz Always Has"). Program Number 061689 Genre Nonfiction Year 1989 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Bly, Robert Description In this program, Bly discusses his best-selling book IRON JOHN. It also features Bly reading from his SELECTED POEMS. Program Number 120691 Genre Poetry Year 1991 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Bly, Robert Description The National Book Award-winning poet plays the dulcimer and reads his poetry, as well as translations of poems by Anna Akhamatova. Program Number 020379 Genre Poetry Year 1979 Interviewer Name Bogan, James Description Bogan, poet and folk humorist of the Missouri Ozarks, reads litanies and lists in Whitman style. Program Number 022886 Genre Poetry Year 1986 Interviewer James McKinley Name Boisseau, Michelle Description Boisseau is a poet whose intricate work deals with language and its connection to our basic concept of good and evil. Here she reads from UNDERSTORY, her second book of poetry, which won the Samuel Morse Prize. Program Number 111196 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Boisseau, Michelle Description Michelle Boisseau, author of three poetry collections and the textbook WRITING POEMS, reads elegiac poems that capture moments of personal reflection in TREMBLING AIR, and discusses important female literary influences. Program Number 032307 Genre Poetry Year 2007 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Boisseau, Michelle Description Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and dead, and wrestles with her own guilt over descending from a family of slave-owners. Program Number 011510 Genre Poetry Year 2010 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Boissiere, Robert Description In 1983, Boissiere began writing about his experiences living with the Hopi Indians during the 1940s and about his experience with the Hopi religion. He reads from his third book, MEDITATIONS WITH THE HOPI, in a recording made at his home in New Mexico. Program Number 042790 Genre Fiction Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Boland, Eavan Description Among the top living Irish poets, Boland has been published in THE NEW YORKER. She reads from and talks about her book IN A TIME OF VIOLENCE. Boland also talks about her native Dublin and her interest in politics. Program Number 112894 Genre Poetry Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Bourjaily, Vance Description Bourjaily reads excerpts from three novels: NOW PLAYING AT CANTERBURY, A GAME MEN PLAY, and THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY. Program Number 042382 Genre Fiction Year 1981 Interviewer Richard Miller Name Bowers, Neal Description An Iowa poet, Bowers reads from a series of love poems and from his book THE GOLF BALL DIVER. Program Number 042889 Genre Poetry Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Boyd, Blanche McCrary Description A humor writer for the VILLAGE VOICE and the author of THE REDNECK WAY OF KNOWLEDGE, Boyd reads from her story "My Town." She also talks about the effect drugs had on her writing and her life. Program Number 121187 Genre Fiction Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Boyle, T.C. Description T.C. Boyle, multiple O. Henry award winner and author of Drop City , among other works, discusses an Alaskan equinox, the successful marketing practices of Mao Tse-tung, and his own attempts to fulfill his wife’s wishes. Program Number 112404 Genre Fiction Year 2004 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Boyle, T. Coraghesson Description The popular short-story writer and novelist reads from THE TORTILLA CURTAIN, his novel about life in Southern California and discusses Proposition 187, the controversial measure passed in California to eliminate illegal aliens' access to social services. Program Number 010896 Genre Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Bradley, John Description Poets and editors John Bradley and William Winthrop discuss the book ATOMIC GHOST: POETS RESPOND TO THE NUCLEAR AGE. This anthology of works by over 100 poets around the world marks the significance of the atomic age on the modern psyche. Program Number 073196 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Bradley, David Description Bradley reads three excerpts from THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT, his PEN/Faulkner Award-winning historical novel about the murder of 13 runaway slaves. Program Number 030984 Genre Fiction Year 1984 Interviewer Judy Ray Name Bragg, Rick Description Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for THE NEW YORK TIMES, Rick Bragg reads from ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN', a memoir of his impoverished childhood in rural Alabama and a tribute to the mother who single-handedly raised him. Program Number 011399 Genre Nonfiction Year 1998 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Bright, Susan Description Bright reads from one of her 14 collections of poetry, HOUSE OF THE MOTHER and talks about the founding of the feminist press, Plain View Press, and the anger behind the feminist movement. Program Number 032596 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter Description Brinkmann, a German poet and translator, died in 1975. This memorial program features readings by Brinkmann, as well as translations presented by his friends. Program Number 030478 Genre Poetry Year 1978 Interviewer Name Brock, Van K. Description Retired Florida State University poet Van K. Brock reads poems from his 2005 collection LIGHTERED, and from UNSPEAKABLE STRANGERS: DESCENTS INTO THE DARK SELF, ASCENT INTO LIGHT in this public reading in Kansas City. Program Number 060706 Genre Poetry Year 2006 Interviewer Name Brock-Broido, Lucie Description The poetry winner of the 1986 NEW LETTERS Literary Awards reads from her prize-winning manuscript. Brock-Broido's first volume of poems was accepted by Knopf. She talks about finding acceptance for her poems after a period of rejections. Program Number 050187 Genre Poetry Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Brodsky, Joseph Description Exiled from his native Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987. He is the former poet laureate of the United States. In this recording, he discusses and reads from his work. Program Number 090691 Genre Poetry Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Brooks, Gwendolyn Description Brooks, the first black to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, reads some of her most famous poems and talks about her favorites. Program Number 042884 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Name Brooks, Gwendolyn Description Brooks reads from her work, talks about her childhood, her decision to leave Harper & Row for a black publishing company, and the realization of her own mortality. Program Number 110488 Genre Poetry Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Brown, Rosellen Description Brown talks candidly about her best-selling book BEFORE AND AFTER, and the disappointments she suffered from the resulting movie. Program Number 081296 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Brown, Dee Description Brown, author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, reads and talks about his research and writing. Program Number 102486 Genre Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Brown, Rosellen Description Rosellen Brown talks about CORA FRYE'S PILLOWBOOK, which combines two books of poetry into one: the first written in the '70s, with the second as a follow-up 18 years later. Program Number 060396 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Bruchac, Joseph Description Bruchac, who is part Native American, reads from his poetry book TRANSLATOR'S SON, and from his novel, DREAMS OF JESSE BROWN. Program Number 040183 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer Paula Gramlich Name Bruchac, Joseph Description A member of the Abenaki nation, Bruchac chants and reads poems and stories ranging from retellings of historical events to personal poems. He discusses his various roles as husband, father, and guardian of his ancestral home. Program Number 031293 Genre Poetry Year 1992 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Buckley, Christopher Description Poet and essayist Christopher Buckley talks about growing up in Southern California and reads poems about his father. He also discusses his other passions—cosmology and Georgia O'Keefe. Program Number 061096 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Budy, Andrea Hollander Description Budy spent more than 20 years teaching herself the craft of poetry through the works of others before she published her first book, HOUSE WITHOUT A DREAMER, at the age of 46. She reads from her 2001 collection, THE OTHER LIFE. Program Number 042402 Genre Poetry Year 2001 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Burns, Michael Description Springfield, Missouri, based author Michael Burns talks with Angela Elam about his poetry collection, It Will Be Alright in the Morning. Burns also talks about the sources for his poetry, including his Arkansas delta upbringing. Program Number 040504 Genre Poetry Year 2002 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Burroway, Janet Description Burroway reads from "Winn Dixie," a story about three women who find solace in an all-night Florida Laundromat. Program Number 112384 Genre Fiction Year 1984 Interviewer Name Burroway, Janet Description Burroway reads poems from MATERIAL GOODS. Program Number 042285 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Burroway, Janet Description Writer of poetry, plays, fiction, and a popular textbook, Burroway explores the genre of creative nonfiction with her book EMBALMING MOM: ESSAYS IN LIFE. Burroway reads from her book and discusses the parallels between her life and that of Sylvia Plath. Program Number 031203 Genre Poetry Drama Fiction Year 2002 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Burroway, Janet Description This program, part two of the 2002 interview, features more readings from Burroway's book EMBALMING MOM: ESSAYS IN LIFE, as well as her unpublished novel TIME LAPSE. Program Number 043003 Genre Fiction Nonfiction Year 2002 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Bush, Barney Description Bush is a member of the Shawnee/Cayuga tribe of Oklahoma. He reads poems from PETROGLYPHS. Hargo, who is Creek Indian, also reads poetry. Her books include SHE HAD SOME HORSES and WHAT MOON DROVE ME TO THIS. Program Number 051383 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer Name Butala, Sharon Description One of the Canada's best-selling novelists, Butala talks about her memoir of midlife discovery, PERFECTION OF THE MORNING: A WOMAN'S AWAKENING IN NATURE. Program Number 082597 Genre Fiction Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Butler, Robert Olen Description Writer Robert Olen Butler discusses writing “from where you dream,” which he says too many writers are guilty of not doing. He reads from his dream-like short story collections SEVERANCE and INTERCOURSE, as well as his newest novel, HELL. Program Number 090409 Genre Fiction Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Butler, Robert Olen Description The winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize reads from his erotic novel, THEY WHISPER. Butler says artists aren't intellectual, they are sensualists; and his protagonist in THEY WHISPER learns about himself by recalling his sexual relationships. Program Number 032194 Genre Fiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Butts, Anthony Description Butts' award-winning collection FIFTH SEASON gives insight into his childhood in Detroit's inner city, where he was educated in classes for the mentally impaired until he entered high school. Legally blind, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in literature. Program Number 092999 Genre Poetry Year 1999 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Byatt, A.S. Description British novelist and short story writer A.S. Byatt reads from her Booker-award winning POSSESSION and LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF STORIES, and talks about the pleasures of aging and her fascination with the supernatural elements that populate her work. Program Number 120705 Genre Fiction Year 2005 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Campbell, Bonnie Jo Description Award-winning short fiction writer, Bonnie Jo Campbell's imaginative stories include train wrecks, circus acts, river journeys, transpecies transmogrification, as well as growing up in Michigan. Here she reads from her book, WOMEN AND OTHER ANIMALS. Program Number 052400 Genre Fiction Year 2000 Interviewer Linda Sher Name Campbell, Bebe Moore Description Campbell reads from her first novel, YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE, based on the true story of Emmett Till, a black teenager lynched in Mississippi in the 1950s for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Program Number 112993 Genre Fiction Year 1993 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Carruth, Hayden Description The winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award reads from two books of collected poems, and speaks about his political anarchism. Also, the writer candidly describes his struggle for mental health. Program Number 100995 Genre Poetry Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Carruth, Hayden Description The winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award reads from two books of collected poems, and speaks about his political anarchism. Also, the writer candidly describes his struggle for mental health. Program Number 100295 Genre Poetry Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Carter, Jared Description Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, Carter reads from his 1992 collection, AFTER THE RAIN. The Indiana poet talks about his decision to consciously create a related body of work focusing on life in the Midwest. Program Number 092493 Genre Poetry Year 1993 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Cassill, R. V. Description Cassill edited the NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION and the NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION; he is the author of more than 22 books. Here he reads from his COLLECTED STORIES. Program Number 051890 Genre Fiction Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Castedo, Elena Description Castedo reads from her novel PARADISE, which won the 1991 "Book of the Year" award in her native Chile, where it topped best-seller lists for months. Program Number 061491 Genre Fiction Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Castillo, Ana Description Castillo is one of the leading figures in the Chicana literary movement. Here she talks about mystical realism, her secret passion for painting, and the forces that drive her to write. Program Number 102196 Genre Fiction Nonfiction Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cavalieri, Grace Description Cavalieri reads poems from several of her books, including BODY FLUIDS, CREATURE COMFORTS, and SWAN RESEARCH. Program Number 030284 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Cave Canem Description This show features younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha Tretheway, Kyle Dargan, and Major Jackson. We'll also hear from co-founders, Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte. Program Number 020510 Genre Poetry Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cave Canem Poets Description Poets Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Opal Moore, Kyle Dargan and Nikki Finney talk about the significance of Cave Canem, an black writer’s collective, and read poems about the African-American experience. Program Number 042409 Genre Poetry Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Chabon, Michael Description Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has turned to essay writing with MAPS AND LEGENDS and MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS. He also discusses his love of genre fiction, and the circumstances under which he wrote his first book, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH. Program Number 2010068 Genre Fiction, memoir Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Chandra, G.S. Sharat Description Chandra talks with NEW LETTERS editor Robert Stewart and reads from FAMILY OF MIRRORS, a poetry collection nominated for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Program Number 040196 Genre Poetry Year 1993 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Chandra, G.S. Sharat Description Chandra, one of India's foremost poets, has lived in the U.S. for many years. In this program, he reads poems about both countries. Program Number 092383 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer David Ray Name Chang, Lan Samantha Description Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, discusses how her Chinese heritage influences the fiction she creates, and the problems with the short story, and reads from her books HUNGER and INHERITANCE. Program Number 092006 Genre Fiction Year 2006 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Chang, Victoria Description Poet Victoria Chang talks about approaching poetry from the business world, and the influence of her Taiwanese immigrant parents on her work. She reads from SALVINIA MOLESTA and CIRCLE. Program Number 010909 Genre Poetry Year 2008 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Chanukah Tales Description Writer Marilyn Kallet reads from ONE FOR EACH NIGHT: CHANUKAH TALES AND RECIPES, a collection of 8 food-inspired tales that explain traditional Chanukah dishes. We also join friends to test out some of her recipes. Program Number 121506 Genre Theme Year 2006 Interviewer Angela Elam, Linda Sher Name Charters, Ann Description Charters, editor of THE PORTABLE JACK KEROUAC and the BEAT READER, reads poetry by Kerouac, and recounts little-known trivia about the famous writer, with whom she worked briefly before his death in 1969. Program Number 050195 Genre Poetry Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Chen, Da Description Chen talks about his bestselling memoir, COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN, which tells how his land-owning family fell into disfavor under Mao's so-called "Cultural Revolution" and how he and his family managed to survive the system. Program Number 100301 Genre Fiction Year 2001 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cherry, Kelly Description The author of over a dozen books, Cherry reads from her most recent collection of poetry, DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION. She discusses this book, her attempt to capture loss in words, and the significance of storytelling. Program Number 112098 Genre Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Year 1998 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Cherry, Kelly Description Widely published poet and fiction writer Kelly Cherry reads poems arising from coming to terms with her aging parents' illnesses and with the death of her father. She also talks about the joy of writing poetry that deals with grief. Program Number 041087 Genre Poetry Fiction Year 1987 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Cheuse, Alan Description NPR's book reviewer is also the author of several books of fiction. Here he reads from FALL OUT OF HEAVEN, a nonfiction account of his father's adventures as a Soviet fighter pilot, plus Cheuse's own childhood and Russian roots. Program Number 101687 Genre Fiction Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Chicago, Judy Description As an artist, writer, feminist, and intellectual, Judy Chicago has made an impact on art and culture. Her renowned exhibit, THE DINNER PARTY, has toured the world and has brought her both intense criticism and praise. She reads from BEYOND THE FLOWER. Program Number 030599 Genre Nonfiction Year 1999 Interviewer Karen Rosica Name Chin, Frank Description The controversial Chinese-American author reads from his novel DONALD DUK and vehemently expresses his views on literature contributing to racial stereotypes, including the work of popular Chinese-American authors Amy Tan and Maxine Hong-Kingston. Program Number 031993 Genre Fiction Year 1991 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Christensen, Paul Description Christensen, a Texan, reads from THE VECTORY and SIGNS OF THE WHELMING, two of his books of poetry. Program Number 101984 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Name Ciardi, John Description These two authors and veterans share some poems and tales about their World War II experiences. Program Number 112985 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Ciardi, John Description The former poetry editor of THE SATURDAY REVIEW and host of National Public Radio's "A Word In Your Ear" reads poems for children and poems of war. Program Number 120183 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer Robert Wilson Name Ciardi, John Description Ciardi reads several poems from THE BIRDS OF POMPEII and talks with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR founder David Ray. Program Number 051884 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer David Ray Name Ciardi, John Description This memorial to Ciardi, author of more than 35 books and long-time poetry editor of THE SATURDAY REVIEW, includes a combination of earlier recordings. Program Number 050286 Genre Poetry Year 1986 Interviewer Name Cisneros, Sandra Description Sandra Cisneros, author of the now-classic novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, reflects on the 25th anniversary of the book's publication, as well as her growth as a fiction writer, essayist and poet. She also reads from LOOSE WOMAN and CARAMELLO. Program Number 091809 Genre Poetry, Fiction Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Clare, Josephine Description Clare reads from MAMMOTO-CUMULUS, her book of poems about family and motherhood. Program Number 030878 Genre Poetry Year 1978 Interviewer Judy Ray Name Clifton, Lucille Description Clifton talks about her poetry and reads excerpts from GOOD WOMAN, including a "memoir" in verse. In the work, she tells about five generations of her family, including her great-great-grandmother, who was a slave. Program Number 011389 Genre Poetry Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Codrescu, Andrei Description Codrescu is the author of several volumes of poetry and two autobiographies. He considers himself a revolutionary and a sexual reformer; his unconventional commentary is heard regularly on National Public Radio. Here he reads selections from his work. Program Number 010188 Genre Poetry Nonfiction Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Codrescu, Andrei Description Poet and essayist Andrei Codrescu reads from IT WAS TODAY and THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS; he discusses writing for radio versus for the page, why poets will never take over the world, and his relationship with the devil. Program Number 090606 Genre Essay Fiction Poetry Year 2005 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Coetzee, J.M. Description The South African writer has won Britain's Booker Prize and is considered among the best writers working in English today. The novelist reads from his book THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG, set in 19th-century Russia, with Fyodor Dostoevsky as its protagonist. Program Number 011695 Genre Fiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Cofer, Judith Ortiz Description Puerto Rican writer Judith Cofer talks about how her heritage has influenced her work. The author of five books, including a novel as well as collections of poetry and prose, she reads from THE LATIN DELI: TELLING THE LIVES OF BARRIO WOMEN. Program Number 100798 Genre Fiction Poetry Year 1998 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cofer, Judith Ortiz Description Cofer's work often reflects her Puerto Rican heritage and her childhood in New Jersey. In this interview, she reads from her work and talks about the challenges of writing while balancing a life of teaching and family in Georgia. Program Number 050598 Genre Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Year 1998 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cogan, Priscilla Description Winner of the Small Press Book Award for Fiction, WINONA'S WEB is based on Cogan's' own experiences as a psychologist as well as her 20-year exploration of Native American culture. Program Number 032398 Genre Fiction Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Colbert, Jaimee Wriston Description Jaimee Wriston Colbert, who won a 2008 Independent Publishers Book Award for DREAM LIVES OF BUTTERFLIES, discusses this story collection inspired by the people in a St. Louis apartment building in which she once lived. Program Number 060608 Genre Fiction Year 2007 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Coleman, Mary Joan Description Colman reads from TAKE ONE BLOOD RED ROSE, a novel about the Appalachian region. Brian Lloyd, a West Virginia native, sings and plays the guitar. Program Number 060979 Genre Fiction Year 1979 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Collier, Michael Description A Pushcart Prize winner and director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference, Collier talks about the life of the writer and reads from his collection of poetry, THE NEIGHBOR. Program Number 062397 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Collins, Billy Description Then in his second term as U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins reads several of his poems and gives valuable advice about the reading, writing, and appreciation of poetry. He talks about his position as Poet Laureate and his 2002 collection, NINE HORSES. Program Number 040893 Genre Poetry Year 2002 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Colter, Cyrus Description The African-American novelist and short story writer reads the story "A Chance Meeting," from his award-winning short-fiction collection, THE BEACH UMBRELLA, in a live recording at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Program Number 122280 Genre Fiction Year 1980 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Conley, Robert J. Description Author of many mass-market books about Native Americans, Conley reads from his literary novel on the subject. MOUNTAIN WINDSONG: A NOVEL OF THE TRAIL OF TEARS tells about the relocation of Cherokee Indians from North Carolina to Oklahoma in the 1830s. Program Number 041194 Genre Fiction Year 1993 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Connell, Jr., Evan S. Description This program features a rare interview with the author of MR. BRIDGE, MRS. BRIDGE, and SON OF THE MORNING STAR, a biography of George Armstrong Custer. Program Number 051791 Genre Fiction Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Conroy, Jack Description Conroy, author of the famous 1930s novels THE DISINHERITED and A WORLD TO WIN, reads "The Fields of Golden Glow," an autobiographical story. Program Number 110378 Genre Fiction Year 1978 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Conroy, Jack Description A tribute to the proletarian writer and novelist who, as the 1930s editor of literary magazines THE REBEL POET and THE ANVIL, helped establish the careers of writers including Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. Here he reads from one of his stories. Program Number 033090 Genre Fiction Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth Description Poet, literary scholar, and Native American feminist, Cook-Lynn talks about her book WHY I CAN'T READ WALLACE STEGNER AND OTHER ESSAYS, and reads from her poetry. Program Number 030397 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cooley, Peter Description In this recording, the New Orleans poet and contributing editor of the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW reads a sampling of poetry from three of his collections: THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS, NIGHT SEASONS, and THE VAN GOGH NOTEBOOKS. Program Number 053086 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Cooper, Jane Description Cooper reads from her prize-winning book SCAFFOLDING: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS and from THREADS: ROSA LUXEMBURG FROM PRISON. Program Number 111486 Genre Poetry Year 1986 Interviewer Judy Ray Name Cooper, J. California Description Cooper reads from FAMILY, her novel about generations of slaves, and talks about the "spirits" that dictate her novels to her. Program Number 021591 Genre Fiction Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Creeley, Robert Description Creeley reads poems and discusses writing about personal subjects and aging. Program Number 041588 Genre Poetry Year 1988 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Creeley, Robert Description A recording of Creeley, the cofounder of the Black Mountain School of Poetry, at a public reading. Program Number 092581 Genre Poetry Year 1981 Interviewer Name Crenner, James Description Crenner reads from his book of poems MY HEAD FLIES ON AGAIN. Program Number 021982 Genre Poetry Year 1982 Interviewer Josephine Claire Name Cruz, Victor Hernandez Description In RED BEANS, Cruz's poetry and prose evoke the history of his native Puerto Rico from the perspective of one who spends much of his life on the American mainland. Cruz talks about his crusade to demonstrate the mixing of Spanish and English. Program Number 032795 Genre Poetry Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Curley, Daniel Description Curley reads "Trinity," and an excerpt from "The Contrivance." Both short stories were published in NEW LETTERS. Program Number 030483 Genre Fiction Year 1983 Interviewer David Ray Name Curtis, Tony Description Curtis, a Welsh poet who won a 1985 award from the British National Poetry Society, reads poems about Wales and about World War II. Program Number 092785 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Name Curtis, Christopher Paul Description African-American children's writer Christopher Paul Curtis talks about going from an auto worker to full-time writer, and how he won Newberry awards for his books THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM – 1963 and BUD, NOT BUDDY. Program Number 022307 Genre Fiction Year 2006 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Cutler, Bruce Description Cutler reads from his books of poetry THE YEAR OF THE GREEN WAVE, A WEST WIND RISES, SUN CITY, and A VOYAGE TO AMERICA. Program Number 040778 Genre Poetry Year 1978 Interviewer David Ray Name Dacey, Philip Description Dacey reads selections from published works, including ALL ABOUT GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, a representation of the life of the Jesuit priest and poet. Program Number 021883 Genre Poetry Year 1983 Interviewer Name Dana, Robert Description Dana reads selections from three of his poetry collections: IN A FUGITIVE SEASON, SOME VERSIONS OF SILENCE, and THE POWER OF THE VISIBLE. Program Number 100580 Genre Poetry Year 1980 Interviewer David Ray Name Dana, Robert Description Former Iowa poet laureate Robert Dana talks about growing up in small New England towns, and how they linger in his memory. He reads poems from THE OTHER in memory of his friend and Iowa Writers Workshop classmate Donald Justice. Program Number 070309 Genre Poetry Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Danticat, Edwidge Description Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award for her collection of stories called KRIK? KRAK!, Danticat again visits her homeland of Haiti through her second novel, THE FARMING OF BONES. Program Number 110499 Genre Fiction Year 1999 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Daum, Meghan Description Social satirist Meghan Daum’s work delicately balances somewhere between essay and memoir, truth and fiction in both her essay collection, MY MISSPENT YOUTH, as well as her novel, THE QUALITY OF LIFE REPORT. Program Number 012605 Genre Fiction Essay Year 2004 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Davison, Peter Description Davison, a poet from Massachusetts, reads from WALKING THE BOUNDARIES and A VOICE IN THE MOUNTAIN. Program Number 040883 Genre Poetry Year 1982 Interviewer Judy Ray Name Day, Robert Description Day reads from an essay about attempting to make his novel THE LAST CATTLE DRIVE into a movie. Program Number 010987 Genre Nonfiction Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Judy Ray Name Day, Robert Description This program is a dramatization of Day's story "Speaking French in Kansas." Program Number 041384 Genre Nonfiction Year 1984 Interviewer Judy Ray Name de Kok, Ingrid Description South African poet Ingrid de Kok writes verse that exposes the horrors of apartheid, and celebrates the rugged landscape and people of her homeland. She reads from her collection SEASONAL FIRES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Program Number 012607 Genre Poetry Year 2006 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Deagon, Ann Description Deagon is a professor of classics and author of several books of fiction and poetry. Here she reads some of her poems including "Invoke the Muse" and "Researches." Program Number 071186 Genre Poetry Fiction Year 1986 Interviewer Judy Ray Name DeFrees, Madeline Description A former Roman Catholic nun, DeFrees has written a series of "Holy Sonnets" that have been compared to the work of English poet John Donne. DeFrees reads poems and talks about her life and work before and after leaving the nunnery. Program Number 031789 Genre Poetry Year 1989 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Desaulniers, Janet Description Janet Desaulniers sold the second short story she ever wrote to THE NEW YORKER. It changed her life in unexpected ways. Nearly 25 years after that story sold, she completed her first collection WHAT YOU’VE BEEN MISSING. Program Number 071305 Genre Fiction Year 2004 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Di Blasi, Debra Description Di Blasi's work has been called "postmodern American gothic." She talks about her 1999 collection of edgy short stories, PRAYERS OF AN ACCIDENTAL NATURE and her novella, DROUGHT. Program Number 051000 Genre Poetry Fiction Drama Year 2000 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Diaz, Junot Description Junot Diaz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, discusses his novel THE BRIEF, WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, about Dominican immigrant teenagers living in New Jersey. He also discusses genre fiction’s importance. Program Number 100308 Genre Fiction Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dickey, James Description Dickey won the National Book Award in 1966 for BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE, but he is best known for the novel DELIVERANCE, which was made into a feature film. He reads a poem and talks about Southern culture and his original intentions for DELIVERANCE. Program Number 120487 Genre Poetry Fiction Year 1987 Interviewer Robert Aubrey Davis Name Dickey, James Description This memorial program contains excerpts from Program I with updates about Dickey's life and work. Program Number 070797 Genre Poetry Fiction Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Digges, Deborah Description Digges discusses FUGITIVE SPRING, her prose memoir of life in a mid-20th century Midwestern immigrant family. Program Number 021492 Genre Poetry Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Dillard, Annie Description Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for A PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK. On this program, she reads from AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD, her memoir, and shares her views on pain, suffering, and God. Program Number 100287 Genre Nonfiction Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Description This award-winning poet and writer of fiction and creative nonfiction talks about her novel, SISTER OF MY HEART, which delves into the binding relationship between the two main female characters of the book. She also reads from her poetry. Program Number 090600 Genre Poetry Fiction Year 2000 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dobyns, Stephen Description Poet, novelist, and screenwriter Stephen Dobyns reads poems from his collection CEMETERY NIGHTS, combining formal elements and fantasy, and talks about the connections between poetry and the emotional life. Program Number 041886 Genre Poetry Fiction Drama Year 1986 Interviewer Trish Reeves Name Doctorow, E.L. Description E.L. Doctorow, author of RAGTIME and BILLY BATHGATE, reads from his award-winning book THE MARCH, an epic novel set around General Sherman’s march to the sea in post-Civil War Georgia. Program Number 030806 Genre Fiction Year 2005 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dooling, Richard Description In the author's second novel, WHITE MAN'S GRAVE, Dooling compares the American "bad medicine men" (attorneys) to their African counterparts and in so doing creates one of fiction's most memorable characters—Randall Killigan. Program Number 091294 Genre Fiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Dor, Moshe Description Dor is an Israeli poet who has won Israel's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bialik Prize. He was a war correspondent in the Israeli wars and wrote some of the country's best-known and best-loved folk songs. Here he reads representative works. Program Number 060890 Genre Poetry Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Dorris, Michael Description Dorris reads from his book of essays PAPER TRAIL and talks about his plans for the future. Program Number 053094 Genre Fiction Nonfiction Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Dorris, Michael Description This memorial program contains Program I with more details about the life and death of Michael Dorris. Program Number 071497 Genre Fiction Nonfiction Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dorris, Michael Description Dorris was chairman of the Native American studies department at Dartmouth College. Here he reads excerpts from A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER, his novel told in the voices of three generations of Native American women. Program Number 031288 Genre Fiction Nonfiction Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Doty, Mark Description Doty's poetic verse has been characterized as elegant and often melancholy, offering a combination of rural and metropolitan images. In this interview at the 1999 Midwest Poets Series, Doty talks about his work, including his memoir titled HEAVEN'S COAST. Program Number 063099 Genre Poetry Year 1999 Interviewer Carol Mickett Name Doty, Carolyn Description Doty's fourth novel, WHISPER, is described as "partly domestic realism, partly Victorian Gothic, partly a contemporary tale of obsession and psychological drama." Doty reads from WHISPER and tells how she came to write it. Program Number 051592 Genre Fiction Year 1992 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Dove, Rita Description Rita Dove discusses her poetry collections AMERICAN SMOOTH--including the housefire that led her to ballroom dancing--and MOTHER LOVE, which uses the myth of Persephone to show the love between mothers and daughters. Program Number 033005 Genre Poetry Year 2004 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dove, Rita Description Rita Dove reads from ON THE BUS WITH ROSA PARKS. She discusses the trials she faced as a first-time playwright, and the anguish and joy of seeing her play THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH produced, and reads from this epic work set on a southern plantation. Program Number 022305 Genre Poetry Drama Year 2004 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dove, Rita Description Dove, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet now teaching in Virginia, reads from THE YELLOW HOUSE ON THE CORNER and MUSEUM. Program Number 080985 Genre Poetry Year 1985 Interviewer Name Dove, Rita Description Dove, America's first African-American Poet Laureate, reads poetry and prose and talks about her development as an artist, as well as about the pitfalls of being a black woman trained in the classics. Program Number 050793 Genre Poetry Year 1993 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Dow, Philip Description Dow reads from his published collections of poetry PAYING BACK THE SEA and POTLATCH. Dow often uses classical forms, such as the ghazal, to shape his poems. Program Number 062379 Genre Poetry Year 1979 Interviewer Albert Bellg Name Du Plessis, Nancy Description Du Plessis presents a performance piece from her NOTES FROM THE MOROCCAN JOURNALS, the dramatization of a "passport marriage" between an American woman and a Moroccan musician. Program Number 011786 Genre Drama Year 1986 Interviewer Name Duemer, Joseph Description Poetry editor of the WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL in upstate New York, Duemer talks about his own collection of poetry STATIC and also reads from a collection he co-edited called DOG MUSIC: POETRY ABOUT DOGS. Program Number 052697 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dunant, Sarah Description Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of THE BIRTH OF VENICE talks about the completion of her trilogy on the Italian Renaissance with her new novel, SACRED HEARTS. Program Number 111309 Genre Fiction Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dunn, Stephen Description Dunn talks about his movement from basketball to poetry and how a "lie" he told on NPR led to writing an essay. He also reads from his two latest books, WALKING LIGHT and LOOSESTRIFE. Program Number 123096 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Dunn, Stephen Description Both Programs I & II include readings from Dunn's books of poetry and an interview with Robert Stewart. Program Number 112480 Genre Poetry Year 1980 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Dunn, Stephen Description Both Programs I & II include readings from Dunn's books of poetry and an interview with Robert Stewart. Program Number 052788 Genre Poetry Year 1988 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Dybek, Stuart Description Stuart Dybek's work is set in the south Chicago neighborhood of his youth. He discusses the importance of place in his books I SAILED WITH MAGELLAN and THE COAST OF CHICAGO, and reads poems from STREETS IN THEIR OWN INK. Program Number 071906 Genre Fiction Poetry Year 2006 Interviewer Michael Pritchett Name Eady, Cornelius Description Poet Cornelius Eady reads from his acclaimed 2001 collection, BRUTAL IMAGINATION, about the fictional black man whom Susan Smith, the mother who drowned her children in a South Carolina lake, accused of the murders. Program Number 020806 Genre Poetry Year 2005 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Eady, Cornelius Description The New York poet talks about his collection YOU DON'T MISS YOUR WATER, a remarkable tribute to his father that explores issues of family, death, and being black in America. Program Number 021698 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Early, Gerald Description Early, a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, has written extensively on the subject of jazz and African-American popular culture. Here he reads from TUXEDO JUNCTION and talks about his work. Program Number 022390 Genre Fiction Year 1990 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Eberhart, John Mark Description John Mark Eberhart, book critic for the KANSAS CITY STAR and poet, joins his brother Ken Eberhart, a percussive musician, as they present selections from John Mark’s music-based poetry collection BROKEN TIME. Program Number 072508 Genre Poetry Year 2008 Interviewer Name Eberhart, Richard Description Eberhart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, reads from FLORIDA POEMS and talks about his work. Program Number 010485 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Name Eck, Matthew Description Matthew Eck discusses his novel, THE FARTHER SHORE, touted as “the first great war novel of our generation.” Eck enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Somalia and Haiti before returning to the U.S. to earn degrees in literature and creative writing. Program Number 112108 Genre Fiction Year 2008 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Edel, Leon Description Edel won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his biography of Henry James. Here he reads from a biography of Henry David Thoreau that debunks many previously held notions about the writer/naturalist. Program Number 010689 Genre Nonfiction Year 1988 Interviewer James McKinley Name Edmond, Lauris Description A New Zealand poet and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Award, Edmond reads poems about her native land and talks about what it's like to be a woman of letters in New Zealand. Program Number 032087 Genre Poetry Year 1987 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Edwards, Louis Description While still in his 20s, Edwards made an impressive debut with his first novel, TEN SECONDS. Edwards reads from the story of a young African-American man who perpetuates many of the black male stereotypes, yet wins our sympathies. Program Number 092091 Genre Fiction Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Ehrlich, Gretel Description In her much-anticipated second book, ISLANDS, THE UNIVERSE, HOME; the author of THE SOLACE OF OPEN SPACES presents essays about the natural world around her Wyoming home. Program Number 111591 Genre Nonfiction Year 1991 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Elkin, Stanley Description This show revisits Elkins' reading of THE DICK GIBSON SHOW, and other work following his death in 1995. Program Number 120495 Genre Fiction Year 1995 Interviewer Name Elkin, Stanley Description A three-time finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle award, Elkin satirizes consumer and popular culture. He talks about the influence his father had on his work and reads from his novel, THE DICK GIBSON SHOW. Program Number 120288 Genre Fiction Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Elkin, Stanley Description The National Book Critics Circle Award winner reads from THE DICK GIBSON SHOW, a novel about a radio personality. Program Number 031579 Genre Fiction Year 1979 Interviewer Robert Stewart Name Elliot, Harley Description Elliot's books include ANIMALS THAT STAND IN DREAMS and THE SECRET LOVER POEMS. His poems reflect his Kansas prairie home, as well as human relationships. Here he reads from his work. Program Number 091782 Genre Poetry Year 1982 Interviewer Rich Miller Name Ellis, Jerry Description Ellis is known for books chronicling his historical journeys, including walking the Cherokee Trail of Tears and riding horseback along the path of the Pony Express. He reads from MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA: MY WALK WITH SHERMAN. Program Number 102995 Genre Nonfiction Year 1995 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Ellroy, James Description Author of over a dozen books, including L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, self proclaimed "Demon Dog" James Ellroy likes to shock with his graphic writing filled with violence, sex, and raw language. He discusses his 2001 book THE COLD SIX THOUSAND. Program Number 010803 Genre Fiction Year 2002 Interviewer James McKinley Name Emerson, Claudia Description Before poet Claudia Emerson won the Pulitzer, she was a bookseller, mail carrier, and real estate agent. But it was a different role that inspired her book LATE WIFE, which examines becoming the second wife of a widower. Program Number 042707 Genre Poetry Year 2007 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Englander, Nathan Description Nathan Englander talks about his novel THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES, set during Argentina's Dirty War in the 70s and 80s. He also discusses the influence of Judaism on his work, and the benefits of living abroad. Program Number 091208 Genre Fiction Year 2008 Interviewer Dennis Conrow Name Engle, Paul Description Paul Engle and Charles Langton are two poets closely associated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Langton studied there and Engle, for many years, directed it. Both read from their work. Program Number 012282 Genre Poetry Year 1981 Interviewer Name Epiphanies: Why They Wield the Pen Description Billy Collins, Sarah Vowell, Khaled Hosseini, A.S. Byatt, Andrei Codrescu, Walter Mosley, Lois Lowry, and others look at what prompted them to begin writing in the first place in EPIPHANIES: WHY THEY WEILD THE PEN. Program Number 010707 Genre Theme Year 2007 Interviewer Dennis Conrow Name Erdrich, Louise Description Erdrich is the author of the novels LOVE MEDICINE, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984, and THE BEET QUEEN. On this program she reads from TRACKS, her third novel. Program Number 082688 Genre Fiction Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Erdrich, Heid E. Description Poet Heid E. Erdrich talks about her talented family, as well as issues of genetics, identity, and her Turtle Mountain Creek Ojibwe heritage, which influence her books, FISHING FOR MYTH and NATIONAL MONUMENTS. Program Number 120409 Genre Poetry Year 2009 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Eshleman, Clayton Description Eshleman talks about the early influences in his artistic career and his work as a translator and literary editor. He reads some of his love poems and a poetic tribute to jazz musician Bud Powell. Program Number 091696 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Eshleman, Clayton Description Eshleman, a National Book Award winner evokes the 1950s in poetry influenced by the Black Mountain School. He reads from his book HADES IN MANGANESE. Program Number 052182 Genre Poetry Year 1982 Interviewer Name Eshleman, Clayton Description Poet, translator, and literary editor, Clayton Eshleman, whose works take us from his middle-American beginnings in Indiana to the exotic caves of Lascaux, France, explores the Paleolithic imagination and the underworld. Program Number 062496 Genre Poetry Year 1996 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Espada, Martin Description Winner of the American Book Award and a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his fifth book, IMAGINE THE ANGELS OF BREAD, Espada reads from his collection of poetry and talks about his life as a lawyer-turned-poet. Program Number 091697 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Espada, Martin Description In part two of the 1997 interview, Espada talks about the poem he wrote about Mumia Abu-Jamal, the African-American journalist serving a life sentence in prison for murder, and the refusal of NPR to air the poem because it was deemed too political. Program Number 040198 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Etter, Dave Description Etter's books include CORNFIELDS and CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. The poems in this reading depict characters from small Midwestern towns. Program Number 091381 Genre Poetry Year 1981 Interviewer Name Ezekiel, Nissim Description Recorded in Bombay, this program features Ezekiel, one of India's foremost poets, reading from HYMNS IN DARKNESS and THIRD. Program Number 052882 Genre Poetry Year 1982 Interviewer David Ray Name Fairchild, B.H. Description Poet B.H. Fairchild didn't receive recognition for his work until over age 50, when THE ART OF THE LATHE won seven awards, including a National Book Critics Circle Award. He also reads from and EARLY OCCULT MEMORY SYSTEMS OF THE LOWER MIDWEST. Program Number 113005 Genre Poetry Year 2005 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Farah, Nuruddin Description The Somali novelist reads from and discusses his trilogy, VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF AN AFRICAN DICTATORSHIP, which foreshadowed the conflict in his native country. Farah discusses clan structure and sexism as integral parts of the system's failure. Program Number 012993 Genre Fiction Year 1992 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Feminist Poets Description This program pays tribute to the feminist poets of the last century who opened doors for a vast number of talented women writers published today. Featured on the show are poets Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Maxine Kumin, Audre Lorde, and Carolyn Kizer. Program Number 030602 Genre Theme Year 2002 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Fennelly, Beth Ann Description Poet Beth Ann Fennelly has adopted Oxford, MS, as her home. She reads poems from her collections OPEN HOUSE, TENDER HOOKS, and UNMENTIONABLES, and discusses her book of non-fiction, GREAT WITH CHILD: LETTERS TO A YOUNG MOTHER. Program Number 042310 Genre Poetry Year 2010 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Fennelly, Beth Ann Description Beth Ann Fennelly talks about how Mississippi has shaped her work, and reads from her poetry collections OPEN HOUSE, TENDER HOOKS, and UNMENTIONABLES, and her non-fiction book, GREAT WITH CHILD: LETTERS TO A YOUNG MOTHER. Program Number 20100423 Genre Poetry Year 2010 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Description Ferlinghetti is the co-founder of City Lights Books. He published many of the Beat poets, including Allen Ginsberg. Here he talks about his novel LOVE IN THE DAYS OF RAGE and reads a long poem called "The Canticle of Jack Kerouac." Program Number 042988 Genre Fiction Year 1988 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Fforde, Jasper Description Comic British novelist Jasper Fforde parodies popular and literary fiction in his literary detective series, which began with THE EYRE AFFAIR. He also discusses and reads from THE BIG OVER EASY, and SOMETHING ROTTEN. Program Number 062106 Genre Fiction Year 2005 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Field, Edward Description Although he lives in New York, Field has been credited as being father of the Long Beach poetry scene. He won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1963 and is a master of the narrative poem. He takes as his subjects movie stars, gay life, Jewishness, and Buddhism. Program Number 041894 Genre Poetry Year 1994 Interviewer Rebekah Presson Name Finch, Annie Description Women's experiences, past and present, real and invented, fill the pages of EVE, the debut collection of poetry by Annie Finch. Known for her passionate belief in formalism, Finch explores various obscure poetic forms in a playful way. Program Number 031698 Genre Poetry Year 1997 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Finkel, Donald Description Poet Donald Finkel reads from WHAT MANNER OF BEAST and from THE DETACHABLE MAN. His wife, poet Constance Urdang, reads poems from LONE WOMAN AND OTHERS and discusses the origins of her poems. Program Number 011184 Genre Poetry Year 1984 Interviewer Name Finn, Maria Description Travel writer Maria Finn talks about her memoir, HOLD ME TIGHT & TANGO ME HOME, and shares her approach to writing creative non-fiction. Program Number 20100521 Genre Memoir Year 2010 Interviewer Angela Elam Name Finnell, Dennis Description In this public poetry reading, Finnell presents works from his new book, THE GAUGUIN ANSWER SHEET, as well as from his previous collections, BELOVED BEAST and RED COTTAGE. Program Number 120501 Genre Poetry Year 2001 Interviewer Name Finnell, Dennis Description Finnell, who won the Juniper Prize for RED COTTAGE, reads 14 poems and discusses his writing. Responsibility is a frequent theme. Program Number 111578 Genre Poetry Year 1978 Interviewer Robert Stewart