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This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 27 Oct 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io Jay Springett is a writer, researcher, consultant, musician, podcaster, Royal Society of Arts Fellow, New Centre instructor, and decade long admin of solarpunks.net. Currently at work on a book exploring the history of Dungeons & Dragons (the so-called metaverse), Jay joins New Models to speak about the proliferation of “worlds” (perhaps in lieu of the 20th century public sphere) and strategies for existing within them. For more: thejaymo.net Jay's podcasts: https://thejaymo.net/permanentlymoved/ & https://experience.computer/

In this final episode of the season, I have a casual and meaningful conversation with a friend: essayist and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Leta McCollough Seletzky. Leta joins me to discuss the impact Black women had on this election, on Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, and we explore how the campaign affected us personally. We also discuss how the country's treatment of marginalized people, particularly Black women, is a bellwether for anti-democratic trends. This episode was made possible with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation through URL Media. In this Episode The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. KFF.org Report: Loneliness and Social Support Networks: Findings from the KFF Survey of Racism, Discrimination and Health Listen to All Electorette Episodes https://www.electorette.com/podcast Support the Electorette Rate & Review on iTunes: https://apple.co/2GsfQj4 Also, if you enjoy the Electorette, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on iTunes. And please spread the word by telling your friends, family, and colleagues about The Electorette! WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electorette on social media. Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip that will force Elizabeth to contend with her career, her ambition, and her troubling history. Disoriented by jet lag, debilitating migraines, and a dependence on prescription pills, Elizabeth turns to her charming and guileless translator to guide her around the labyrinthine island. Soon, the island's lushness--its heat and light, its textures and tastes--take hold of Elizabeth. And when she's introduced to her translator's inscrutable wife--a subversive artist whose work seeks to deconstruct the female form--she becomes unexpectedly enthralled by her. But once the nude's acquisition proves to be riskier than Elizabeth could have ever imagined, Elizabeth's and the statue's fate are called into question. To find a way out, Elizabeth must grapple with her past, the role she's played in the global art trade, and the ethical fallouts her decisions could leave behind. The Nude (Atria Books, 2024) is an evocative and intense exploration of art, cultural theft, and what it means to be a woman helming morally complicated negotiations in a male-directed world. C. Michelle Lindley's work can be found in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2024 and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and a BA in English and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. And most recently she is the recipient of the Freund Prize for exceptional creative writing. Recommended Books: JoAnna Novak, Domestirexia Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love Rose Boyt, Naked Portrait  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip that will force Elizabeth to contend with her career, her ambition, and her troubling history. Disoriented by jet lag, debilitating migraines, and a dependence on prescription pills, Elizabeth turns to her charming and guileless translator to guide her around the labyrinthine island. Soon, the island's lushness--its heat and light, its textures and tastes--take hold of Elizabeth. And when she's introduced to her translator's inscrutable wife--a subversive artist whose work seeks to deconstruct the female form--she becomes unexpectedly enthralled by her. But once the nude's acquisition proves to be riskier than Elizabeth could have ever imagined, Elizabeth's and the statue's fate are called into question. To find a way out, Elizabeth must grapple with her past, the role she's played in the global art trade, and the ethical fallouts her decisions could leave behind. The Nude (Atria Books, 2024) is an evocative and intense exploration of art, cultural theft, and what it means to be a woman helming morally complicated negotiations in a male-directed world. C. Michelle Lindley's work can be found in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2024 and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and a BA in English and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. And most recently she is the recipient of the Freund Prize for exceptional creative writing. Recommended Books: JoAnna Novak, Domestirexia Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love Rose Boyt, Naked Portrait  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip that will force Elizabeth to contend with her career, her ambition, and her troubling history. Disoriented by jet lag, debilitating migraines, and a dependence on prescription pills, Elizabeth turns to her charming and guileless translator to guide her around the labyrinthine island. Soon, the island's lushness--its heat and light, its textures and tastes--take hold of Elizabeth. And when she's introduced to her translator's inscrutable wife--a subversive artist whose work seeks to deconstruct the female form--she becomes unexpectedly enthralled by her. But once the nude's acquisition proves to be riskier than Elizabeth could have ever imagined, Elizabeth's and the statue's fate are called into question. To find a way out, Elizabeth must grapple with her past, the role she's played in the global art trade, and the ethical fallouts her decisions could leave behind. The Nude (Atria Books, 2024) is an evocative and intense exploration of art, cultural theft, and what it means to be a woman helming morally complicated negotiations in a male-directed world. C. Michelle Lindley's work can be found in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2024 and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and a BA in English and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. And most recently she is the recipient of the Freund Prize for exceptional creative writing. Recommended Books: JoAnna Novak, Domestirexia Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love Rose Boyt, Naked Portrait  Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Ronald Spatz is the editor-in-chief and co-founding editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. A formal National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mr. Spatz has been recognized with Alaska State Governor's Awards in Humanities and the Arts. He is currently a full professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he also served as the founding Dean of the University Honors College and Undergraduate Research & Scholarship and as the Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Ronald Spatz's abiding goal for Alaska Quarterly Review is to be innovative, risk-taking, and truth-seeking, all virtues born out during this interview and by the four essays discussed here. In “Hungry Ghost” by May-lee Chaie, a cascading series of misogynistic and racist acts within the family have contributed to a devastating degree of low self-esteem. The essay confronts the emotional abyss that plagues all concerned. In “Once” by Michael Bogan, the fairy-tale like qualities of a teenage romance become exposed to the harsh realities of mutual betrayal, and a marriage that ultimately crumbles. In “Mother Matter” by Meil Sloan the point of view shifts between the first- and second-person as the author deals with a suicidal, autistic son whose tribulations cause his mother to dip into her inner resources while at the same time seeking answers from physics as to how the world works. Finally, in “The Cave” by Debbie Urbanski an intrusive narrator transforms a short story into a hybrid piece, with meta-commentary about the act of writing and the search for what really was going on beneath the surface during a family outing gone wrong. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of ten books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. To check out his related “Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight” blog, visit this site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Ronald Spatz is the editor-in-chief and co-founding editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. A formal National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mr. Spatz has been recognized with Alaska State Governor's Awards in Humanities and the Arts. He is currently a full professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he also served as the founding Dean of the University Honors College and Undergraduate Research & Scholarship and as the Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Ronald Spatz's abiding goal for Alaska Quarterly Review is to be innovative, risk-taking, and truth-seeking, all virtues born out during this interview and by the four essays discussed here. In “Hungry Ghost” by May-lee Chaie, a cascading series of misogynistic and racist acts within the family have contributed to a devastating degree of low self-esteem. The essay confronts the emotional abyss that plagues all concerned. In “Once” by Michael Bogan, the fairy-tale like qualities of a teenage romance become exposed to the harsh realities of mutual betrayal, and a marriage that ultimately crumbles. In “Mother Matter” by Meil Sloan the point of view shifts between the first- and second-person as the author deals with a suicidal, autistic son whose tribulations cause his mother to dip into her inner resources while at the same time seeking answers from physics as to how the world works. Finally, in “The Cave” by Debbie Urbanski an intrusive narrator transforms a short story into a hybrid piece, with meta-commentary about the act of writing and the search for what really was going on beneath the surface during a family outing gone wrong. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of ten books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. To check out his related “Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight” blog, visit this site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Jason and Brett continue PRIDE 2024 with celebrated authors. They're joined in conversation with Jen Silverman (There's Going to Be Trouble), David Levithan (Wide Awake Now), and Emma Copley Eisenberg (Housemates) talking about the cyclical nature of history, queer inheritance, intersectionality of arts and queerness, and much more. Jen Silverman is a New York-based writer, playwright, and screenwriter. Jen is the author of novel We Play Ourselves, which is short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award, the story collection The Island Dwellers, which was longlisted for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, and the poetry chapbook Bath, selected by Traci Brimhall for Driftwood Press. Additional work has appeared in Vogue, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, LitHub, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Jen's plays have been produced across the United States and internationally. Jen is a three-time MacDowell fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fellowship, the Yale Drama Series Award, and a Playwrights of New York Fellowship. Jen is a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for Prose and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow for Drama. Jen also writes for TV and film.When not writing during spare hours on weekends, David Levithan is editorial director at Scholastic and the founding editor of the PUSH imprint, which is devoted to finding new voices and new authors in teen literature. His acclaimed novels Boy Meets Boy and The Realm of Possibility started as stories he wrote for his friends for Valentine's Day (something he's done for the past 22 years and counting) that turned themselves into teen novels. He's often asked if the book is a work of fantasy or a work of reality, and the answer is right down the middle—it's about where we're going, and where we should be.Emma Copley Eisenberg is a queer writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her first book, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, was named a New York Times Notable Book and was nominated for an Edgar Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and an Anthony Award, among other honors. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, VQR, American Short Fiction, and other publications. Raised in New York City, she lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts.**BOOKS!** Check out the list of books discussed on each episode on our Bookshop page:https://bookshop.org/shop/gaysreading | By purchasing books through this Bookshop link, you can support both Gays Reading and an independent bookstore of your choice!Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content! Purchase your Gays Reading podcast Merch! Follow us on Instagram @gaysreading | @bretts.book.stack | @jasonblitmanWhat are you reading? Send us an email or a voice memo at gaysreading@gmail.com

Days of Wonder is about a young troubled woman, early-released from prison, struggling to reinvent herself as she searches for the child she gave up, and grapples with the mystery of an attempted murder she and her now vanished boyfriend supposedly committed when they were fifteen.  Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Days of Wonder, With or Without You,Cruel Beautiful World,Is This Tomorrow, Pictures of You, Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines, Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Many of her titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines. Many of her titles were Best Books of the Year and Indie Next Picks. A New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, she was also shortlisted for the Maine Readers Prize, and was a Goldenberg Fiction Prize winner.   Days of Wonder made the Amazon Pre-order Bestseller list, clocking in at #48, its first day. of pre-ordering.  

Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer, published by Ecco in 2023 and named a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and Tap Out, published by Ecco in 2019. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, APR, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.

Jason and Brett talk to Greg Marshall (Leg) about Speedos, the importance of finding your community, Speedos (there's a lot of Speedo talk), parents (of course, we're all gay), and how queer people are responsible for inventing culture. Greg Marshall was raised in Salt Lake City. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, Marshall is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays and been supported by MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo. Leg is his first book.**BOOKS!** Check out the list of books discussed on each episode on our Bookshop page:https://bookshop.org/shop/gaysreading | By purchasing books through this Bookshop link, you can support both Gays Reading and an independent bookstore of your choice!Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content! Purchase your Gays Reading podcast Merch! Follow us on Instagram @gaysreading | @bretts.book.stack | @jasonblitmanWhat are you reading? Send us an email or a voice memo at gaysreading@gmail.com

Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer, named a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and Tap Out. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, APR, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. We talked about vulnerability, how Edgar knows when a poem is finished, the influence of Luise Glück, death, divorce, agency, and Ellen Bryant Voigt's poem about smoking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep.167 features Ayana V. Jackson, (b. 1977 in East Orange, New Jersey; lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Johannesburg, South Africa) she uses archival impulses to assess the impact of the colonial gaze on the history of photography.  By using her  lens  to deconstruct 19th and early 20th century portraiture, Jackson questions photography's authenticity and role in perpetuating socially relevant and stratified identities. Jackson's practice maps the ethical considerations and relationships between the photographer, subject, and viewer, in turn exploring themes around race, gender and reproduction. Her work examines myths of the Black diaspora and re-stages colonial archival images as a  means  to liberate the Black body.  The various titles of her series nod to the stories she is reimagining. Jackson often casts herself in the role of historical figures to guide their narrative and directly access the impact of photography and its relationship to the human body. Jackson's work is collected by major local and international institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, New York), The Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey), J. P. Morgan Chase Art Collection (New York, New York), Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, New Jersey), The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, Illinois) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle, Washington). Jackson was a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow for Photography and the recipient of the 2018 Smithsonian Fellowship. In 2022, Jackson founded Still Art, an artist residency program focused on emerging Southern African contemporary artists of all disciplines in Johannesburg. In April 2023, Jackson opened her first major institutional exhibition at the National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution. Photographed by Andile Buka. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Artist https://www.ayanavjackson.com/ Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/27-ayana-v.-jackson/works/ Smithsonian https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/deep-wake-drexciya-ayana-v-jackson-opens-april-29-national-museum-african-art Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-the-inhabitants-of-the-mythic-world-of-drexciya-180982287/ Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/17/national-museum-of-african-art-from-the-deep/ Andy Warhol Foundation https://warholfoundation.org/grants/archive/from-the-deep-in-the-wake-of-drexciya-with-anyana-v-jackson/ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/09/from-the-deep-drexciva-smithsonian-washington Bomb Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/a-conversation-between-ayana-v-jackson-and-brad-fox/ Art News Africa https://artnewsafrica.com/from-the-deep-ayana-v-jacksons-immersive-aquatopia-exhibition-honors-survivors-and-envisions-a-resilient-future/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/09/smithsonian-national-museum-african-art-ngaire-blankenberg-resigned Elephant https://elephant.art/double-encounter-john-akomfrah-and-ayana-v-jackson-interview-each-other-10082022/ Ocula https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/fnb-art-joburg-partners-with-smithsonian/ Katherine E. Nash Gallery https://cla.umn.edu/art/news-events/news/picture-gallery-soul Aspire https://www.aspireart.net/auction/lot/76-ayana-vellissia-jackson-united-states-of-america-1977-/?lot=11964&sd=1 Montclair Art Museum https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/Charting-Path Georgetowner https://georgetowner.com/articles/2023/05/18/from-the-deep-afrofuturistic-aquatopia-at-national-museum-of-african-art/ DJ Mag https://djmag.com/news/drexciya-inspired-immersive-exhibition-deep-opens-washington-dc NGV https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ayana-v-jackson-intimate-justice-in-the-stolen-moment/ Resident Advisor https://ra.co/news/79053 FashionEVO https://fashionevo.style/tag/ayana-v-jackson/

Caroline Leavitt discusses the first pages of her upcoming novel, Days of Wonder, to be released in April. We talk about how and when to provide backstory and how not to answer questions, navigating two timelines and multiple points of views, and how those moments of self doubt and dread about your writing most likely means you're onto something good.Dalton's first pages can be found here.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.The above link will be available for 48 hours. Missed it? The podcast version is always available, both here and on your favorite podcast platform.Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen novels including Pictures of You, Is This Tomorrow, Cruel Beautiful World, and the Good Morning America online pick, With or Without You. Many of her titles were Best Books of the Year and Indie Next Picks. A New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, she was also shortlisted for the Maine Readers Prize, and was a Goldenberg Fiction Prize winner. Caroline was the founder of the Nothing is Cancelled Virtual Book Tour, an initiative she started when the Pandemic began. It quickly grew and she and novelist Jenna Blum co-founded A Mighty Blaze, which promotes independent book stores, authors who lost their tours, and helps readers. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and has an acting student son, Max.Thank you for reading The 7am Novelist. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

This week on The Maris Review, Sarah Viren joins Maris Kreizman to discuss To Name the Bigger Lie, out now from Scribner. Sarah Viren is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of the essay collection, Mine, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and teaches in the creative writing program at Arizona State University. Her new book is called To Name the Bigger Lie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collections Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023) and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019), a New York Times New & Noteworthy pick. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Teaching Fellow at Vanderbilt University, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. New poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. www.edgarkunz.com Gregory Ariail grew up in Buford, Georgia. In 2019, I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. I've earned degrees from Oxford University and the University of Michigan and recently completed my MFA at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. You might love cats as much as me, but you don't love them more. https://www.gregoryariail.com All Music Provided by Alicia Blue: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4suxU7SfC7vp6wMComAlQG?si=HC1MmtMjRdmTSyRuJXNmog Special Thanks goes to: Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org Woodbridge Inn: www.woodbridgeinnjasper.com Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com Liberty Trust Hotel: www.libertytrusthotel.com The host, Clifford Brooks', The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please reach out to him at: cliffordbrooks@southerncollectiveexperience.com Check out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: www.brooks-sessions.teachable.com

James Davis May is the author of Unusually Grand Ideas, forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in February 2023. His previous collection. Unquiet Things, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2016 and named runner-up for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in Five Points, Guernica, The Missouri Review, New England Review, The New Republic, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships and fellowships from The Sewanee Writers' Conference, Inprint, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar. In 2016, his poem “Ed Smith” won the Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Mercer University, where he directs the creative writing program, and a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry. Find much more here: https://jamesdavismay.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a time you faced a moral dilemma. Next Week's Prompt: Write the long poem in a single sentence. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

(October 13) Caroline Leavitt is the NYT Bestselling author of 13 novels, including With or Without You and Cruel Beautiful World. She is also the cofounder of A Mighty Blaze, a blogger/columnist for Psychology Today, and a book critic for People Magazine. A New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, she was long-listed for the Maine Readers Prize, and was a Sundance Screenwriting Lab finalist.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors. Each episode is streamed live on Facebook and YouTube, then released as a video and audio podcast. writermothermonster.comSupport the show

Angel Eduardo (http://angeleduardo.com/) is a writer, musician, photographer, and designer based in New York City, who serves an Advisory Board member, FAIR in the Arts Fellow, and Director of Messaging & Editorial for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR - https://www.fairforall.org/), where he helps shape the organization's pro-human approach to our often contentious and divided discourse. He is also a contributor to the Center for Inquiry's blog, where he writes on science, communication, skepticism, and morality for a column entitled Searching for Better Angels, and is best-known for coining and promoting the rhetorical concept of star-manning. Angel holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from CUNY Hunter College, and has had writing featured in Newsweek, Areo Magazine, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and The Caribbean Writer, among other print and online publications. Angel's photographs have been featured in various exhibitions and used as cover art for books—most notably in Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo for Fordham University Press, which makes use of his photograph, “Early Bird.” Angel has been writing, performing, and recording music since the age of 15, and has been intimately involved in every creative facet of his projects, from songwriting, producing, mixing, and mastering, to designing and overseeing the creation of album artwork, concert posters, and merchandise. Be it with music, writing, photography, or design, Angel is an artist inspired to inspire. His hope is to pay it forward—providing others with the same solace, inspiration, perspective, and opportunity for personal and intellectual growth that the work of others has done for him. In the social realm, Angel advocates for a compassionate, honest, and civil approach to discourse, even when we're incentivized to bare our teeth and dig in our heels. Through his work he hopes to foster more productive conversations on the topics of the day, all bolstered by his own six words of advice: Be kind; we're all first drafts.

Today I talked to Howard Jay Smith about his new novel Meeting Mozart (The Sager Group, 2020). It's 1946, and a young army intelligence officer is awakened early by a gruff priest who needs another tenor for his church service. But Corporal Jake Conegliano has been invited to see a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and his ride is leaving soon. The Abbe Luigi Hudal won't take no for an answer, and threatens eternal damnation, until Jake says that he's Jewish, but will be happy to sing in the choir the following week. The priest tells him that having a Jewish heathen in his church would be like bringing Satan himself to his door. As luck would have it, that's the day Jake meets the love of his love and sets in motion a journey to discover both his own history and the history of a famous ancestor, known to history as the librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. He was a Catholic priest who wrote the librettos for three of Mozart's most beloved operas, and he was also Emmanuel Conegliano, a converso from a Jewish community in Italy. In rich detail, Smith weaves stories from different centuries and countries into the saga of a family that continued to be proud of its Jewishness despite expulsions, antisemitism, royal maneuvering, political intrigue, and wars. And even as the centuries progressed, their love of Mozart's music is a binding force. Howard Jay Smith is an award-winning writer who recently won a John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts, Literature Division Scholarship, The James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award. Smith is a former Bread Loaf Scholar and Washington, D.C. Commission for the Arts Fellow, who taught for many years in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and has lectured nationally. His articles and photographs have appeared in the Washington Post, the Beethoven Journal, Horizon, the Journal of the Writers Guild of America, and the Ojai Quarterly. While an executive at ABC Television, Embassy TV, and Academy Home Entertainment, he worked on numerous film, television, radio, and commercial projects. He serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony and is a member of the American Beethoven Society. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Howard Jay Smith about his new novel Meeting Mozart (The Sager Group, 2020). It's 1946, and a young army intelligence officer is awakened early by a gruff priest who needs another tenor for his church service. But Corporal Jake Conegliano has been invited to see a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and his ride is leaving soon. The Abbe Luigi Hudal won't take no for an answer, and threatens eternal damnation, until Jake says that he's Jewish, but will be happy to sing in the choir the following week. The priest tells him that having a Jewish heathen in his church would be like bringing Satan himself to his door. As luck would have it, that's the day Jake meets the love of his love and sets in motion a journey to discover both his own history and the history of a famous ancestor, known to history as the librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. He was a Catholic priest who wrote the librettos for three of Mozart's most beloved operas, and he was also Emmanuel Conegliano, a converso from a Jewish community in Italy. In rich detail, Smith weaves stories from different centuries and countries into the saga of a family that continued to be proud of its Jewishness despite expulsions, antisemitism, royal maneuvering, political intrigue, and wars. And even as the centuries progressed, their love of Mozart's music is a binding force. Howard Jay Smith is an award-winning writer who recently won a John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts, Literature Division Scholarship, The James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award. Smith is a former Bread Loaf Scholar and Washington, D.C. Commission for the Arts Fellow, who taught for many years in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and has lectured nationally. His articles and photographs have appeared in the Washington Post, the Beethoven Journal, Horizon, the Journal of the Writers Guild of America, and the Ojai Quarterly. While an executive at ABC Television, Embassy TV, and Academy Home Entertainment, he worked on numerous film, television, radio, and commercial projects. He serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony and is a member of the American Beethoven Society. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Stefan Forbes and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his film Hold Your Fire, conflict resolution, toxic masculinity, messy conversations, risk and bridging the gap and how we might be able to transcend street justice.TrailerFor more info check out the website.Synopsis:Brooklyn, 1973. When Shu'aib Raheem and his friends attempted to steal guns for self defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to avert a bloodbath, reform police methods, and save the lives of hostages, police, and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict.About Stefan: Stefan Forbes is an Emmy-nominated director. His award-winning documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story won the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was nominated for a WGA Award for Best Theatrical Documentary. It played 40 US cities theatrically and was seen on PBS's Frontline, The BBC's Storyville, the CBC's Passionate Eye, and was a Critic's Pick in newspapers worldwide. The Washington Post called it “one of the best political films ever made.” Mr. Forbes' award winning hourlong documentary One More Dead Fish (2004), about environmentally friendly fishermen in Nova Scotia fighting globalization, was broadcast on PBS. Ken Loach called it “excellent” and Howard Zinn termed the film “an inspiring example of working people resisting the giant forces of globalization, in the great tradition of civil disobedience on behalf of justice. Mr. Forbes wrote and directed the cinematic musical performance Monk Recut with Grammy-nominated jazz ensemble MONK'estra, which Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley called “fabulous…breathtaking.” Mr. Forbes is a former New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and has served on the nominating committee of the Independent Spirit Awards. Image Copyright and Credit: Fab 5 Freddy and Stefan Forbes.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 7With special guest Paula HustonPaula is a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow, author of two novels and eight nonfiction titles including her newest book—‘The Hermits of Big Sur'I want our listeners today to read your new book—The Hermits of Big Sur—I know it is a lot to ask a writer to give the elevator speech about the book—so tell me in a minute or two why you wrote this book—and why someone should pick one up?If you are Christian we are obviously in the Lenten season—40 days in the wilderness—if you do not have a Christian background if you are human (an earthling as one has called us) then you too are probably in the wilderness in one way or another right about now. As Paula says, “time spent in the wilderness can be a catalyst for transformative spiritual experience, and the Big Sur Coast is one of America's last true wildernesses.  For the monks, “the very hardness of the wilderness was reassuring to them.  Worldly people would not follow them there.  They would be free to seek God with  all that was in them.”  Paula, would you talk to us a little more about how you see this transformation playing out in general and through the Big Sur—the New Camaldoli Hermitage? One of the things I am trying to do with the Soul Cafe Podcast is to get conversations of the soul beyond just the church—to make God more accessible so to speak—of course God has no trouble with that—-so sometimes I find myself playing the Devil's Advocate—which ironically may be a term that goes back to 1587—when a role that was created for when someone was nominated in the Catholic Church for either beatification and canonization—-the Devil's Advocate (of course there was a more religious sounding title) was to draw up a list of arguments against the nominee becoming blessed or canonized.  I say all that to point out that we play the devils advocate we are on some long and good ground.So…..do you need to go to an hermitage to experience a transformative wilderness experience?  Do we need places like Big Sur to find the answer to the longing for fuga Mundi, or flight from the world?  Along with Hermits of Big Sur I have been reading books by Scott Stillman—one in particular entitlled WILDERNESS—The Gateway to the Soul.  Stillman makes a pretty compelling case that we need to get out into any wilderness we can find—“through all the noise and the madness, how could we have possibly heard what the Earth is so patiently trying to tell us?  Now something as natural as silence has become increasingly rare.  Wilderness is our only hope.  The one place we can always come back to.”So…do we need the Big Sur—-or do we need just to get out into any wilderness and be still—-or do we need both?And all that kind of leads to your comment in the book—“transformation is no small thing and also fairly rare—-at the hermitage, miraculous transformation sometimes occurs in individual monks after decades of contemplative practice and the communal bonds formed through the practice of the ‘privilege of love'.  You do not become a contemplative overnight.  In fact to become holy and full of wisdom in this way requires years of slow, painful un-selfing.”Can you talk a little about this process at the Big Sur?That should about do it for questions.Get outside and experience the wilderness as Della Mae sings ‘For the Sake of My Heart'The Soul Cafe…where life is served-up freshly brewed.

As always the Soul Cafe Podcast begins as we reflect with Della Mae's song about how we might all be in need of a Rude Awakening or just any old awakening will do.So who do you ask to be a guest on the Soul Cafe Podcast when you and your wife are celebrating your 40th Wedding Anniversary? Invite wife Jill to join you of course and invite None other than author of the intriguing book…How to be Married…Jo Piazza. Jo is also author of some great fiction…Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win…co author with Lucy Sykes of Fitness Junkie and the Knockoff….and her newest fiction co author with Christine Pride…the great work entitled..We Are Not Like Them. Throw in a couple Nonfiction books…If Nuns Ruled the world: Ten Sisters on a Mission and Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money….and of course near to my heart as a Podcaster..her acclaimed Podcast…Under the Influence and Committed….are we lucky and honored today to have Jo Piazza…welcome Jo Piazza to the Soul Cafe.jopiazza.comNow since this is the Soul Cafe Podcast 40th Wedding Anniversary/Love editionToday we are going to focus primarily on Jo's book…How to be Married. Now How to be..came out in 2017…no doubt a few things have changed with Jo and marriage since then..more on that later. The book starts with a note from the author that tells us…”after many years spent wandering the world for both work and pleasure, I well know that you can't witness the truth of any country or culture in a single visit , or even in many. I'm a traveler and a journalist, not an anthropologist, psychologist, or historian “…..my words….she just wanted to know…how to be married. Jo also says upfront that her goal in writing How to be Married is to start a dialogue about partnership, sex, love, marriage, fidelity, monogamy, polygamy, money, power, equality, kids, men and women, and how all these things fit together in a world that's changing faster than most of us ever thought possible”…Oh my……..So Jo…What did you learn in 5 minutes or less…what still applies?Ok…now on to my favorite chapter that my wife and laughed hard for at least a day after reading…chapter 4..Maine…Were a Team? No way better I suppose to learn about How to be Married than heading up to Sunday River, Maine for The Wife Carrying Championship……..please tell is a little about what was learned that day at Sunday River."?.and of course she will be telling it from the perspective of the one being carried…..Tell it JoSo…this is the Soul Cafe…where life is served up freshly brewed….and you are talking to some guy who went to Divinity school or seminary or cemetery as some call it….I could not help but notice that in addition to degrees in economics and journalism you also have one in religious studies…..Now what was that about?So, I promised that we would come back to the obvious question…well obvious coming from someone who has been married for 40 years…and coming from someone that very often starts the day with those words from Thomas Merton..”My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me….”It has been 7 plus years since writing..How to be Married…..what still applies…and what now seems like fools talk?So…Jo this has been amazing….thanks so much for taking the risk to talk with us today….I will send you the link to this episode soon…..please post on all your social media and help out a person who after 40 is still learning and growing.Peace. (You can mute and exit)This love—this relationship we are talking encompass so much more than even marriage—as Author and Activist Valerie Kaur says:Love is more than a rush of feeling. Love is sweet labor: fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life giving—a choice we make again and again. Love is not any one emotion. love is All our emotions: Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger is what we harness to protect that which we love.Revolutionary Love is the choice to labor for others, for opponents, and for ourselves—to transform the world around us, and within us.”I am a lucky man…to have shared life and love with my best friend for 40 years…been blessed with 3 of the coolest children anywhere and 2 super cool grandchildren and a dog named River…and of course to be able to interview such a person as Jo Piazza…get all of her books soon. jopiazza.comNext month on the Soul Cafe Podcast I will be having somewhat of a wilderness/Lenten theme…with a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow and author of many books….Paula Huston..focusing in on her brand new book..The Hermits of Big Sur…so be ready for some wilderness conversation.And in April…drum roll..I will be taking with Jo Piazza's co author Christine Pride about their brand new book..WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM.And that book reminds of the depth of love—we are talking even more than marital love—as Desmond Tuta said, “our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other”Remember…the table is huge….all are welcome at the Soul Cafe where life is served-up freshly brewed.Wrap upToday since it is a special 40th anniversary love episode I will leave you with a super love song with the permission of Drew and Ellie Holcomb…..(Drew Holcomb and NEIGHBORS)“It's in the wine we drink, dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, and the lights go out till the sun comes up; we are not alone. It's in the miles we drive, never having to say goodbye to the things we tell each other without saying a word.You are the one thing that I know.”Thanks for joining us to today at the Soul Cafe.

Lauren Milici is a poet, writer, and pop culture connoisseur based in Metro Detroit. Teresa Douglas is a Mexican-American woman writing from Vancouver, B.C. torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020). (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I'm your host, Drew Hawkins. Constellations, animal bones, and angry colonies. This episode includes microfiction and poetry that casts an array of small particles across a canvas and finds meaning in the space between. Enjoy. First up is a poem With a certain level of distance from the narrators own emotion- except for the title. It's called “Okay, Florida.” It was written by Lauren Milici and published by Longleaf Review. Enjoy. “Okay, Florida” by Lauren Milici in Longleaf Review Lauren Milici is a poet, writer, and pop culture connoisseur based in Metro Detroit. You can find her on social media at @motelsiren, or on her website at laurenmilici.com. Our second piece is—by contrast—is so filled with emotion that it makes a physical manifestation, vivid and unsettling. It's called “Spores.” It was written by Teresa Douglas and published by Bombfire. Enjoy. “Spores” by Teresa Douglas in Bombfire Teresa Douglas is a Mexican-American woman writing from Vancouver, B.C. You can find her on social media at @TeresaReport, or on her website at teresamdouglas.com. Our final piece is a prose poem at once epic and specific, modern and mythological. It's called “Phlebotomy, as Told by the Skin.” It was written by torrin a. greathouse and was originally published in her debut poetry collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, published by Milkweed Editions. Enjoy. “Phlebotomy, as Told by the Skin” by torrin a. greathouse in Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions) torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @tagreathouse, or on her website torringreathouse.com. Micro is edited and curated by Dylan Evers, our social media is managed by fellow curator M.M. Kaufman, and the show is produced and hosted by me, Drew Hawkins. Our theme song is by Matt Ordes. You can find all of the information about this episode's writers, their featured work, and the publications where they were published, as well as a transcription of this episode in the show notes. Find more of our shows wherever you listen to podcasts, on LitHub's website, or check out our website at micropodcast.org. And follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at podcastmicro.  Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lauren Milici is a poet, writer, and pop culture connoisseur based in Metro Detroit. Teresa Douglas is a Mexican-American woman writing from Vancouver, B.C. torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020). (Transcript) Welcome to Micro,Continue reading "Milici x Douglas x greathouse"

Otago University have just announced their Arts Fellowships for 2022 and it's a hugely diverse collection of artists. To find out about what fellowships like this mean for artists, I'm joined by three of the Fellows, Musician, Sean Donnelly, writer Swapna Haddow and visual artist Sorawit Songtaya.

We sit down with Dr. Mira Neshama Niculescu and discuss her journey through Zen meditation to Jewish meditation, her studies on the JuBu phenomenon and the incredible work she does teach Jewish meditation worldwide. (38:41) Is when the meditation begins Dr. Mira Neshama Niculescu is a Paris -born scholar and teacher of Jewish spirituality and meditation. She received her Doctorate in Sociology of Religion from the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Oxford. A former Arts Fellow from the Drisha Institute of Jewish Education and a certified Experiential Jewish Educator from the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies as a Yesod European Leader Fellow, she currently learns Torah as a rabbinic fellow at Beit Midrash Har'El in Jerusalem. A certified Jewish Mindfulness Teacher from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, she teaches Torah and Jewish meditation for Or HaLev, Applied Jewish Spirituality, Romemu, IJS, Moishe House, and at various institutions in Europe and in the United States. https://www.miraneshama.com/ www.orhalev.net https://www.appliedjewishspirituality.org/experiencing-jewish-meditation https://romemu.org/about/yeshiva/ https://www.jewishspirituality.org/ https://www.friendsofroots.net/  

Rachel Kushner in conversation with Dana Spiotta celebrating the launch of Rachel Kushner's "The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020," published by Scribner. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker- and NBCC Award–shortlisted "The Mars Room;" "The Flamethrowers," a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and "Telex from Cuba," a finalist for the National Book Award. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in Los Angeles. Dana Spiotta is is the author of four novels: "Innocents and Others,"(2016), which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was shortlisted for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; "Stone Arabia" (2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; "Eat the Document" (2006), which was a National Book Award Finalist in fiction and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and "Lightning Field" (2001). Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.

In this episode, Dr. Cynthia Cherrey discusses the past, present, and future of the International Leadership Association.  Her story of the founding is rich and descriptive - an experience of a lifetime.Cynthia Cherrey is President and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA), a global community committed to increasing quality research, teaching, and practices of leadership contributing to the common good around the world. As president of a multi-sector and global professional association, she promotes rigor and relevance of leadership at the intersection of theory and practice. Previously, Cynthia served as Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Vice President for Campus Life at Princeton University. Dr. Cherrey speaks to non-profit and for-profit organizations around the world and writes in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education. Cynthia’s interests and research explore new ways to live, work, and lead in a knowledge-driven, interdependent, global culture. Recently she did a podcast series for VoiceAmerica’s business channel on global leadership with Maureen Metcalf, host of Innovative Leaders Driving Thriving Organizations. A sought-after advisor, Cynthia serves on the editorial board of Asian Women and the President’s Advisory Group at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Fellow at the World Business Academy, a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow, and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship. Quotes From This Episode"This was an experience of a lifetime to be sitting in the same room with James McGregor Burns, who was one of the founders of the ILA along with Georgia Sorenson. And, of course, the person who helped with the funding of that program was Lorraine Matusek, who was a program director at the Kellogg Foundation at the time.""So we had 100 professionals from across the country who came together to further this conversation. And I think one of the pivotal moments for me out of that conversation was...it was the first time that Warren Bennis and James McGregor Burns got together in person.""In the sense of Lorraine (Matusak) and Georgia (Sorenson), we lost to our founders. And when you think about what they did, in leaving a legacy that's going to echo for generations.""I think one of the things that we have learned in leadership, and especially with crisis leadership, is that it opens the opportunity for change."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter IsaacsonHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill GatesThe International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Connect with Your Host, Scott AllenLinkedInWebsite

What place does engagement in social justice issues have, if any, within vipassana meditation centers in the tradition of S.N. Goenka? That is question Clyde Ford is asking, and is at the heart of a training session he led for teachers and students at Dhamma Kunja, a vipassana center in Washington state. In addition to being a corporate trainer on racial justice, Clyde is himself a dedicated vipassana meditator in the Goenka tradition. He is also a software engineer, a chiropractor, a psychotherapist, an environmentalist, a 12-time, award-winning author, and currently a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. He has appeared on Oprah and NPR, among other shows, to share his expertise. In this episode, Clyde shares what led to his ground-breaking training at Dhamma Kunja, and what topics he covered in the session. We talk about spiritual bypass, past attempts at targeting courses for African American communities being blocked by the US leadership, proactive outreach opportunities to communities of color, ensuring that vipassana centers are more inclusive, the appointment of Black teachers, and finding a balance between spiritual practice and worldly affairs. This fascinating discussion provides an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at how one North American vipassana center in the tradition of S.N. Goenka is exploring ways to transition into greater sensitivity in the second decade of the 21st century. If you would like to support our mission, we welcome your contribution. You may give by searching “Insight Myanmar” on PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, Go Fund Me, and Patreon, as well as via Credit Card at http://www.insightmyanmar.org/donation (www.insightmyanmar.org/donation). Support this podcast

Rattlecast #61 features former Nevada County Poet Laureate Molly Fisk and her newest project, California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. Molly Fisk is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (2019), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1999), and the author of two poetry collections: The More Difficult Beauty, and Listening to Winter, which was #4 in the California Poetry Series. She's a commentator for NPR and community station KVMR-FM Nevada City. Fisk was the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Nevada County, CA (2017-19) and is currently Poet Laureate of radio station KVMR and Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder, UT. Through her on-line workshop Poetry Boot Camp, she has taught more than 500 participants from around the world, including the South Pole. She also teaches expressive writing to cancer patients and trauma survivors, and works as a radical life coach. Her honors include grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the California Arts Council, and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize, the Dogwood Prize, the Billee Murray Denny Prize, and the National Writer's Union, Local 7 Prize. Fisk lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills, in Nevada City, CA. For more information, visit: http://www.mollyfisk.com/ As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem with a color as the title. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about an abandoned castle. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

Garth Greenwell is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His novel What Belongs to You has been widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. His latest book is Cleanness. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Episode 70 we speak with Cynthia Cherrey, President and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA), in the second episode of a three-part series exploring leadership during crisis. The ILA is a global association committed to advancing quality research, teaching, and practices of leadership for a better world. Previously, Cynthia served as Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Vice President for Campus Life at Princeton University. Dr. Cherrey speaks to non-profit and for-profit organizations around the world and writes in the areas of leadership, organizational change, and higher education. Cynthia’s speaking and writing explores leadership in an interdependent global culture, co-authoring Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of our Work, co-editing ILA’s Building Leadership Bridges book series, and Women and Leadership Around the World. Cynthia serves on the editorial board of Asian Women and Cambridge University Press Elements Series. She is a Moller Leadership Scholar at Cambridge University, a Fellow at the World Business Academy, a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow, and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship. 00:00 Intro 02:34 Getting to know Cynthia 12:25 Lessons learned from leadership in times of crisis 16:25 Making meaning from crisis 20:08 Differences that distinguish crisis leadership 22:35 The pace of change during a crisis 27:54 Transitioning out of crisis 34:27 Next questions about leadership 36:59 Outro Facebook: www.facebook.com/SALead Twitter: @naspaslpkc @johnmarkday Instagram: NASPA_SLPKC About the International Leadership Association (ILA) With members in over 70 countries, the International Leadership Association is the only global network that brings together leadership scholars and researchers, educators and students, coaches and consultants, public leaders and executives. Why does ILA bring people together? Because when we share our unique perspectives, experiences, and knowledge we come up with better, more integrated leadership thinking, practices, and solutions that can positively impact our complex global environment. The world needs better leadership and ILA’s mission of promoting a deeper understanding of leadership knowledge and practice for the greater good aims to make a difference. Organization Profile: Type: Association Sector: Leadership Geography: Global Based in: United States Website: www.ila-net.org Social Media Links: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/InternationalLeadershipAssociation YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ILAOfficial Twitter: http://twitter.com/the_ila LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/organization/872482/

This week's episode of Welcome to the (AfAM) House explores traditions of healing amongst Black people in the United States. Our guests for this episode are Dr. Deidre Cooper Owens, Thema Haida, Hanifa Nayo, and Leonne Tanis. Through their rich knowledge, we delve into the stories of the earliest known Black healers, Black women, and move through history to investigate how Black people have retained traditions that keep them healthy and cared for. Guest Speaker Bios Dr. Deidre Cooper Owens is the Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program. She is also an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history. Professor Cooper Owens is also the Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest cultural institution. Stay connected and learn more about her by visiting her website. Thema Haida is the co-founding Practitioner of One Village Healing. is a certified Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master Teacher, a 200hr Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Instructor, and a certified Advanced Metaphysical Healing Practitioner. While holding a space of non-judgement and care, Thema combines Reiki with intuitive energy assessments to facilitate and guide people on their healing journey to wholeness. Her practice as a energy healer and yoga instructor has focused on supporting community activists, artists, healers, and people of color- the people that hold and bring life to communities that are most affected by racism, systematic oppression and inequality. . Hanifa Nayo Washington is the Principle Organizer and co-founding Practitioner of One Village Healing. She is an award winning cultural activist, storyteller, singer songwriter, performing artist, and a certified Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master Practitioner who graduated from Beloit College in 2001 with a B.A. in Communications & Russian & Soviet Studies. Hanifa is a former Arts Fellow of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund and currently works with The Word Poetry, Co-Creating Effective and Inclusive Organizations (CEIO), serves as an Intern for Beyond Diversity 101, and is a leader of the New Haven Community Leadership Program. As a cultural activist Hanifa views her creativity as a radical tool for liberation, healing, and community building. Most recently Hanifa was awarded a Phenomenal Woman in the Arts Award by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Leonne Tanis is a change agent, evolving leader, former finance executive and current student midwife. Leonne Tanis left her 15 year financial career to pursue her calling in midwifery. Leonne’s mission is to change the birthing profession for birthing people especially black women and persons and people within the LGBTQIA community. Leonne believes that birthing care should be centered around the person giving birth and her/his/their chosen support structure. Leonne is a Haitian-American with an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Master’s of Science in Nursing candidate at the Yale School of Nursing a Board member of the National Association to Advance Black Birth. This episode is hosted, written and produced by Shantrice King.

Stephen Eastaugh is an Australian contemporary artist from Melbourne, Australia. He is known for producing semi-abstract, mixed media art, and his work is informed by his decades of experiences travelling. He has made nine trips to Antarctica: three trips as the official Australian Antarctic Arts fellow (2000, 2002–3, 2009), and six times as an artist-in-residence on tourist ships. On Eastaugh's third official trip to Antarctica, he over-wintered at Mawson station. In fact, he was the first Australian to overwinter in Antarctica as an artist since Frank Hurley. Today on the podcast we talk to Stephen about his multiple experiences as an Arts Fellow on Antarctic bases.   For more great stories and photos of his overwintering on the great white continent, see his blog: http://www.stepheneastaugh.com.au/2009   All photos courtesy of Stephen Eastaugh    HIGHLIGHTS 4:00 – How Stephen’s first Fellowship in Antarctica came about   5:30 – Stephen shares that most of the English-speaking Antarctic programs have Artists Fellowships – good news for creatives!   6:20 – What stood out to him the most upon arrival in Antarctica   8:30 – The (surprising) primary role of taking artists down to Antarctica   9:20 – Stephen takes us through a day in the life of an artist in Antarctica   10:30 – How the artist’s role is perceived by the rest of the team   12:20 – The biggest challenges he faced as an artist working in a remote environment   13:30 – Stephen shares whether being in that remote environment changed his perceptions or skills as an artist   15:25 – What prompted Stephen to decide to overwinter in Antarctica after two stints down there in the summer season?   17:05 – What was different about overwintering in comparison to being there with more people during the summer months?   18:50 – The thing that affects people the most in an isolated place…   20:10 – The most unique thing Stephen experienced while in Antarctica   22:10 – A possible cunning plan to get to the dry valleys near McMurdo, which is one place on the continent Stephen hasn’t seen but would really like to   23:30 – Stephen’s advice for any artists who are keen to do a residency in Antarctica   LINKS Stephen's website - http://www.stepheneastaugh.com.au/  The Australian Antarctic Division Artists Fellowship -http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/antarctic-arts-fellowship Video: Winterover - https://vimeo.com/20476025 Video: Beard growing - https://vimeo.com/16277406 Video: Blizz-lines - https://vimeo.com/20473735      AntArctic Stories is brought to you by Twin Tracks Expeditions - your experts in small-ship expedition cruises and unique adventures to the Arctic and Antarctica. We love sharing our insider knowledge to help you find your next polar adventure.   Find us on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/twintracks Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/twintracksexpeditions Our website - http://twintracksexpeditions.com

Join this cross-generational conversation between two dynamic Black American writers and cultural critics exploring the history and future of the American literary landscape. The legendary Ishmael Reed, Macarthur Genius Fellow, founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, and author of over 30 books including his newest “Conjugating Hindi,” sits down with rising literary star Morgan Parker, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Pushcart Prize winner, and author of the new poetry collection “Magical Negro.” Sponsored by Zoetic Press.

Brian Rutenberg’s paintings radiate the atmospheric haze, the shimmering heat, and the rich colors of the Deep South. He describes himself as a “Southern landscape painter living in New York.” Layers and details of the southern landscape have been peeled back in his paintings, leaving us with the dancing lines and shimmering pools of colors of the Carolina coastal wetlands. As I’ve gotten to know Brian through his Studio Visit videos on YouTube, and his book, Clear Seeing Place, I’ve come to expect the unexpected. What you won't hear from Brian are glib, often repeated “feel-good” sound bites we’ve come to expect from motivational books and videos for artists. What you do hear from Brian is his thought provoking unconventional wisdom–a wisdom that has been formulated and brewed in the depths of his mind from experience because day after day, year after year he has simply shown up to do the work of a painter. In this episode, Brian explains what abstraction is. Essentially “all art is abstraction,” according to Brian. However, most of us view it as a style. Brian argues abstraction is not a noun, but instead is a verb. Abstraction is not a style, but, rather, is a process. Using the tools of abstraction Brian seeks out the essence of the Southern landscape. The result are beautiful paintings full movement, color, and atmosphere. Brian Rutenberg is an internationally exhibited painter based in New York City. He was born and raised in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Brian received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the College of Charleston in 1987 and his master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Charleston in 2018 and delivered the commencement address. Brian is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation studio grant recipient, a Basil Alkazzi USA Award recipient, and an Irish Museum of Modern Art Residency Programme participant. He has had over 250 exhibitions throughout North America and in Europe. His popular Telly Award winning YouTube series, “Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits,” is viewed daily by people all over the world. Brian’s paintings are included in numerous museum collections including Yale University Gallery of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Greenville County Museum of Art, The Johnson Museum at Cornell, Mattatuck Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, and many others. Brian’s 2017 book Clear Seeing Place is an Amazon #1 bestseller and was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. His new monograph A Little Long Time is due out in spring 2020. Brian is represented by Forum Gallery, New York; Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte; LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe; Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco; and Tew Galleries, Atlanta. Links: Brian Rutenberg's website: www.brianrutenbergart.com Brian Rutenberg on social media: https://www.instagram.com/brianrutenberg/ https://www.facebook.com/brian.rutenberg https://twitter.com/brianrutenberg Brian Rutenberg's Studio Visits YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnjLpl20hRnPxkQf5UvBMcw Clear Seeing Place by Brian Rutenberg (affiliate link):https://amzn.to/31rhtq4 About the Artful Painter: Send me an email: https://carlolson.tv/contact My Artful Painter Sketchbooks: https://carlolson.tv/artful-painter-sketchbooks Artful Painter website: https://theartfulpainter.com Carl Olson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artful.creative/  

Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You,won the Hopwood Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the American Library Association's Alex Award. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and her latest novel is Little Fires Everywhere.Susie Boyt is the author of five other acclaimed novels and the much-loved memoir My Judy Garland Life which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, staged at the Nottingham Playhouse and serialised on BBC Radio 4. She has written about art, life and fashion for the Financial Times for the past fourteen years and has recently edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James. She is also a director at the Hampstead Theatre. Her latest novel is Love & Fame. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Diana Al-Hadid is an artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and immigrated to Ohio when she was five. In 2003, she received a BA in Art History and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio. In 2007, she received an MFA in sculpture fromVirginia Commonwealth University. She Also attended Skowhegan before setting up shop in her studio in East Williamsburg. Diana is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, amongst many others. Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, the NYUAD Gallery in Abu Dhabi, OHWOW Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Hammer Museum just to name a few. She’s received the The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and she’s a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and a a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture. Brian stopped by Diana’s studio in Brooklyn, where he used to have a studio in the same building for years to catch up and talk about art, music and life.

Brian Rutenberg is an internationally exhibited painter based in New York City. He received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the College of Charleston in 1987 and his master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989. Among his many accolades, Brian is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, an Irish Museum of Modern Art Residency Programme participant, and has had over 200 exhibitions throughout North America. His popular YouTube series, “Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits,” is viewed daily by thousands of people all over the world and his brand new book Clear Seeing Place is an Amazon Number One Bestseller.  Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/brianrutenberg In this episode, Brian discusses: -How and why he started his YouTube channel, “Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits.” -His attempt and the attempt of all creative people to “strip naked” and bear your soul in the most honest way possible. -The fear that comes when starting a new creative pursuit, especially when you are sitting in front of a camera. -Details about his new book, Clear Seeing Place and the process of creating it. -How he was able to achieve the #1 spot on Amazon in two different categories. -The idea of building a following of like-minded individuals and focusing less on the number of followers in terms of popularity. -How he reads every single comment and e-mail, but never reads reviews. -How the failures make up half of your creative career, and once you can embrace those bad things, you become stronger as a creative person. -A defining moment with Clement Greenberg. -The power that comes from letting go.” -How to get past the blocks that still occur even when you are in a locked room with your creativity. -The importance of finding your “postage stamp-sized niche.” -How he balances his time. -How boredom is jet fuel for creativity. -How artists and creative people can free their minds by wandering and getting out in nature. -His advice on how to know when a painting is done, even if that means it is time to throw it away. Brian's Final Push will make you realize that there is a difference between looking and seeing   Quotes: “I have the best job in the world.  My worst day is still better than the best day in most other jobs.” “Unfortunately success is too often confused with popularity.” “Success, in my opinion, is curiosity and effort.  Those are things that you control.” “I would say the defining word of my entire career is ‘Resistance.’” “There’s always going to be someone better than me and someone smarter than me, but there will never be anyone just like me.” “The recipe is to just be yourself, and then the rest is just practice.” “I’ve always believed that an artist is born the moment they give up, the moment you stop trying so hard.” “Repetition is very valuable for a painter, because it allows you to get really good at stuff.” “The narrower you are, the bigger the umbrella over you.” “Artists are malleable.  We are able to survive in almost any situation.” Links mentioned: Brian's YouTube Channel Clear Seeing Place by Brian Rutenberg Three Cornered World by Natsume Suseki Connect with Brian: Website / Books / YouTube / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter

Author, activist, educator, poet and performing artist Yosimar Reyes was born in Guerrero, Mexico and was brought to the US when he was three years old. He was raised by his grandparents in East Side San Jose, a place that fuels his storytelling with unique and comical narratives that cut to the core of his immigrant and queer experience. He is currently an Arts Fellow at Define American, an organization founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and is also developing a one-man show a'la Jon Leguizamo. Jesus sits down to talk to Yosimar about growing up ratchet, getting through college with a hood mentality, and finding one's place in the world as an artist but also trying to get paid - aka hustling.

Reflecting on a Nuclear Legacy When your family is from Hiroshima, you have strong feelings about the nuclear age, war, and its legacy.Who better to talk about the fallout of our nuclear past than artists? And better, artists who come from cities that were affected and involved. Visual artist Yukiyo Kawano takes her grandmother’s kimono and sews replicas of the bombs that were dropped on her city. She has made Little Boy and Fat Man sewn with her own hair. In a new creation, she has partnered with performance artist Meshi Chavez and poet Allison Cobb to create “A Moment in Time.” How is art an act of activism? Host Amy Pearl, Hatch Innovation Guests Yukiyo Kawano, Visual Artist Yukiyo Kawano, a third generation hibakusha (nuclear bomb survivor) grew up decades after the bombing of Hiroshima. Her work is personal, reflecting lasting attitudes towards the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kawano’s main focus is her/our forgetfulness, her/our dialectics of memory, issues around cultural politics, and historical politics. For the latest project, she used pieces of translucent kimono fabric and sewed together with strands of her hair (the artist’s DNA as a third generation hibaku-sha), for the possibility of looking inward, suggesting another/personal view to our official receptacle of memory. During the school show in Vermont, Kawano performed in front of the object in desperation about the urgency of expressing fears about the devastation of our human bodies. The historical conjuncture, with the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the legacy of the nuclear era opened up a space for the performativity of her/our questioning of history, memory, witnessing, and disaster in the present moment. Kawano is currently living in Portland, Oregon. email address: yuki@yukiyokawano.com Allison Cobb, Poet Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press); Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press); and After we all died forthcoming in September 2016 from Ahsahta Press, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Cobb’s work combines historical and scientific research, essay, and poetry to address issues of landscape, politics, and ecology. She was a 2015 finalist for the National Poetry Series; a 2015 Djerassi Resident Artist; a 2014 Playa Resident Artist; received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission; and was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-curates The Switch reading, art, and performance series. Meshi Chavez, Performance Artist Meshi Chavez lives and creates work in Portland Oregon. Meshi’s most recent productions include Being Moved,“...or be dragged.” and  We Two Boys. His work has premiered in both New Mexico and Oregon. In this episode you’ll hear How artists and art represent the impacts of science, war, and powerlessness What is Bhuto dance, and how it is a perfect medium for expression and collaboration How a speech by President Obama inspired a poem of sound and words to be shared How art activates a space for contemplation, catharsis, and healing, which is more important (sometimes) than acting Why art is key to helping make invisible things felt and experienced, and why this is so important   Links to Resources Mentioned Hatch Innovation Hatch Oregon  

Dana Spiotta is the author of four novels: Innocents and Others, published by Scribner in 2016; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document(2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Lightning Field (2001). Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Syracuse with her daughter Agnes and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You. He is also the author of a novella, Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Prize and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, StoryQuarterly, and VICE. He lives in Iowa City, where he holds the Richard E. Guthrie Memorial Fellowship at the University of Iowa. He is a pretty brilliant guy with a strong sense of his purpose as a writer: a gay writer standing in a tradition and engaging in a dialogue that challenges our deepest understandings of our relationships to our own bodies, and through them, to the rest of the world. Here, we discuss his embracing of the label "queer" author, the intense privilege and responsibility of writing one of the first novels to normalize homosexuality in Bulgaria, and how he sees novels as a technology for readers to engage a individual consciousness. We were proud to have him on the show.

In this episode, Jacke welcomes special guest Ronica Dhar, who presents Five Books (or actually Four Books and a Movie) To Lower Your Blood Pressure. Highlights include a poem by Ronica’s former teacher and mentor, letters to a samurai written by a zen master who invented a type of pickle, and a fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic who wrestled with God and her in-laws with a fierceness that would have made Beyoncé proud.  Ronica Dhar graduated from the University of Chicago and was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan where she received the Meijer award and the Hopwood award. Her first book, Bijou Roy, was called a “thoughtful, elegant novel” by the author Ann Patchett. After years spent living in Washington D.C. and New York City, Ronica recently returned to Detroit, the city of her childhood.  Works Discussed:  Bijou Roy (Ronica Dhar) Praise Song for the Day (Elizabeth Alexander) Aleutian Sparrow (Karen Hesse) I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (tr. Ranjit Hoskote) The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman (Takuan Soho) Samsara (directed by Ron Fricke) You can find more literary discussion at jackewilson.com and more episodes of the series at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or by leaving a voicemail at 1-361-4WILSON (1-361-494-5766). Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). “Sweet Vermouth” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Stapleton is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow living in Portland, Oregon. He has performed with Portland Story Theater in Urban Tellers®, is an author, painter, actor and award-winning set designer. Tim draws upon an extraordinary experience he had with an intruder to create an edge-of-your-seat scary story. www.twstapleton.com/ SPELLBOUND OCTOBER 24, 2015 Tim Stapleton on stage at Alberta Abbey for live storytelling with Portland Story Theater Hosted by Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard www.portlandstorytheater.com

A former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four books—The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, one of Slate's 10 best poetry books of 2013. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (Chicago, 2013).  He is also the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, and the poetry editor at Tikkun magazine.  He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2014 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, among others.  He teaches on the faculty of the MFA Program at the University of Maryland and lives with his family in Washington, D.C.Read poems by Brian Teare.Read poems by Joshua Weiner.Recorded On: Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The passionate love affair between Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald has been one of the tragic and storied romances of our time. Broken by mental illness, alcoholism, adulterous relationships, and financial ruin, the devoted pair – soul mates and Jazz Age sweethearts – were fiercely loyal to their floundering marriage even to their last rendezvous on Cuban holiday in 1939. The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds takes a look at the iconic Fitzgeralds, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 3 pm ET with author R. Clifton Spargo, Professor Emeritus of English and Fitzgerald scholar Jackson R. Bryer, and Thomas W. Thompson, Director of the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery, Alabama.In poignant, stunning detail, R. Clifton Spargo richly imagines the golden couple's final goodbye in Beautiful Fools, a novel thrumming with the hope and heartbreak that accompanies second chances and fractured love. R. Clifton Spargo is a Chicago-based novelist and cultural critic who writes “The HI/LO,” a blog for The Huffington Post. An Arts Fellow at the Iowa writer's Workshop, he has published stories and essays in The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, The Yale Review and more.Jackson R. Bryer is the co-editor of Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and of Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence.Thomas W. Thompson is the Director of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. The Fitzgerald Museum is working on its upcoming 25th anniversary, which will be celebrated the first week of May 2014. 

Graduate Student Matt Harris, the Fine Arts Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research has spent the academic year working with “The New Mexico Composers Archive. He is working toward his Master of Musical Performance degree. In this talk he explores the challenges that archivists face in digitizing information so it will be accessible in the future and the opportunity the archive offers scholars who are interested in composers who have strong ties with the university and with New Mexico. Harris says the NM Composers archive is interesting because it contains original baroque materials, and some audio archives. Work from 30 composers is available in the archive.