Podcast appearances and mentions of julie carr

A conversation with poet and author Julie Carr about their book, "Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West" (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink (www.bwrensink.org) for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University (reddcenter.byu.edu). Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook or Twitter or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

In this pilot episode of Return the Key, Jason and Julie interview each other about our friendship, the origins of the podcast, and our Jewish upbringings. We list our “Jewish themes,” read a bit from our recent writing, and ask each other to talk about the vexing ideas of “oneness” and “the chosen.” Julie Carr is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, including Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein, Real Life: An Installation, Objects from a Borrowed Confession, and Someone Shot my Book. Earlier books include 100 Notes on Violence, RAG, and Think Tank. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2023. The Underscore, a book of poems, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2024. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over subsequent years. Carr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow, is a Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in English and Creative Writing, and is chair of the Women and Gender Studies department. She has collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes and Gesel Mason. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver. www.reallifeaninstallation.com; www.juliecarrpoet.com; www.counterpathpress.org. Jason Lipeles (he/him) is a writer, video artist, and human-being-with-feelings. He co-founded the ee!, a space for loving responses to zines and artbooks, with Marcella Green. He is an alumnus of Image Text Ithaca MFA; Reciprocity Artist Retreat; and Institute for Jewish Creativity. His book, Letters to M., a finalist for the Chautauqua Janus Prize, was published by Pilot Press in 2021. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Denver. Jasonlipeles.com

Three acclaimed poets with new books in multiple genres take on questions of history, trauma, and family in the Americas. This event took place on June 9, 2023. To celebrate the publication of Julie Carr's Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, May 2023), she will be joined by award winning authors Cristina Rivera Garza, whose new book is Liliana's Invincible Summer and Brandon Shimoda, whose forthcoming book is Hydra Medusa for a joint reading and to discuss how family histories unearth the remains of patriarchal, settler-colonial, and white supremacist violence in the Americas. In Mud, Blood, and Ghosts, Julie Carr traces her own family's history, and the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem – three-term Populist representative from Nebraska –through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism's tendency toward racism and exclusion. Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a child—during bus commutes, before bed, at sunrise. ​A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands. Liliana's Invincible Summer is the account—and the outcome—of Cristina Rivera Garza's quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—today. Speakers: Julie Carr's most recent books are Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West, Real Life: An Installation, Objects from a Borrowed Confession and the essay collection, Someone Shot My Book. She lives in Denver where she helps to run Counterpath and teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies, and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023). He is co-editing, with Brynn Saito, an anthology of poetry on Japanese American/Nikkei incarceration, forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2025. Mary Sutton (moderator) is senior content editor for Academy of American Poets. Before joining the Academy, Mary was public humanities fellow at Library of America, where she worked with Kevin Young on African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song and the book's companion website. Mary is currently also poetry editor at West Trade Review. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/MAOpEZ984qg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

  This week we have the second of a two-part interview as Dr. David Mason speaks with Dr. Julie Carr about her book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West published by the University of Nebraska Press. David is the director of the Asian Studies Department at Rhodes College. Julie is the director of the Women's Studies Department and professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.   

In Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (U Nebraska Press, 2023), University of Colorado poet and English professor Julie Carr uses family legend and lore to tell a history of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. By tracking the story of her larger-than-life great-grandfather, the late nineteenth century People's Party politician and Nebraska settler Omer Kem, Carr explains her family's ties to systems and trends critical to understanding the American past, including race, colonialism, capitalism, and religion. Told from a unique voice all her own, Carr's narrative seamlessly ties together family, local, and national stories into a tale of American West and the region's politics which speaks clearly to the political divides in today's America. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts shows how the spirits of the past linger shockingly close at hand, even in the present day. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. 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

In Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (U Nebraska Press, 2023), University of Colorado poet and English professor Julie Carr uses family legend and lore to tell a history of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. By tracking the story of her larger-than-life great-grandfather, the late nineteenth century People's Party politician and Nebraska settler Omer Kem, Carr explains her family's ties to systems and trends critical to understanding the American past, including race, colonialism, capitalism, and religion. Told from a unique voice all her own, Carr's narrative seamlessly ties together family, local, and national stories into a tale of American West and the region's politics which speaks clearly to the political divides in today's America. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts shows how the spirits of the past linger shockingly close at hand, even in the present day. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (U Nebraska Press, 2023), University of Colorado poet and English professor Julie Carr uses family legend and lore to tell a history of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. By tracking the story of her larger-than-life great-grandfather, the late nineteenth century People's Party politician and Nebraska settler Omer Kem, Carr explains her family's ties to systems and trends critical to understanding the American past, including race, colonialism, capitalism, and religion. Told from a unique voice all her own, Carr's narrative seamlessly ties together family, local, and national stories into a tale of American West and the region's politics which speaks clearly to the political divides in today's America. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts shows how the spirits of the past linger shockingly close at hand, even in the present day. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (U Nebraska Press, 2023), University of Colorado poet and English professor Julie Carr uses family legend and lore to tell a history of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. By tracking the story of her larger-than-life great-grandfather, the late nineteenth century People's Party politician and Nebraska settler Omer Kem, Carr explains her family's ties to systems and trends critical to understanding the American past, including race, colonialism, capitalism, and religion. Told from a unique voice all her own, Carr's narrative seamlessly ties together family, local, and national stories into a tale of American West and the region's politics which speaks clearly to the political divides in today's America. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts shows how the spirits of the past linger shockingly close at hand, even in the present day. Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west

  This week we have the first of a two-part interview as returning guest host Dr. David Mason speaks with Dr. Julie Carr about her book, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West published by the University of Nebraska Press. David is the director of the Asian Studies Department at Rhodes College. Julie is the director of the Women's Studies Department and professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.   

Julie Carr dives through her family history to discover the connection between populism and racism in her new book "Mud, Blood and Ghosts."

Amaranth Borsuk's work focuses on textual materiality—from the surface of the page to the surface of language. Her most recent projects are the chapbook W/SH: Initial Contact (Above/Ground, 2021), a speculative ecopoetic collaboration with Terri Witek; The Book: 101 Definitions (Anteism, 2021), a collection of definitions of the book by artists, writers, scholars, librarians, and book artists; and Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona (QPL, 2020), a printable chapbook of computer-generated curtal sonnets. Borsuk is also the author of The Book (MIT Press, 2018), a brief introduction to the book as object, content, idea, and interface published in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. Her books of poetry include Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016),  Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; and Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), a chapbook-length erasure. Abra (1913 Press, 2016), a book of mutating poems created with Kate Durbin, received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists' Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago and was released as a limited-edition book with a free iPad / iPhone app created by Ian Hatcher. The collaboration As We Know (Subito Press, 2014), selected by Julie Carr for the Subito Prize, reshapes 60 entries from Andy Fitch's summer diary into a collective confessional/constructivist collage that foregrounds the tensions of authorship. Collaboration and materiality are central to Borsuk's practice. Together with Brad Bouse, she created Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012; Springgun Press, 2016), a book of augmented-reality poetry. It has been featured on Salon.com, BrainPickings, Wired, and other media sites and has been exhibited widely. Through a grant from CT@Work and SiteProjects, Inc., Borsuk and Bouse completed Whispering Galleries (2014), a site-specific interactive text work for the New Haven Free Public Libraries that uses the Leap gestural controller to invite visitors to brush the dust from a historic diary, revealing poems hidden within it. Borsuk's other digital collaborations include Wave Signs, an immersive sound installation with Carrie Bodle; and The Deletionist, an erasure bookmarklet created with Nick Montfort and Jesper Juul. Borsuk is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also serves as Associate Director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics.  The book mentioned at the end of the interview was by Renee Gladman: Houses of Ravicka Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016) The Book (MIT Press, 2018)

Julie Carr, Head of Marketing and PR for Lisdoonvarna Match Making Festival explains why many Americans have taken a keen interest in the event in recent weeks.

S2 EP.11 - Julie Lyles Carr is a national speaker, best-selling author, and the host of the popular AllMomDoes Podcast where she has welcomed such guests as Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Bob Goff, Max Lucado, Scott Hamilton, and Jennie Allen. Julie has shared the stage with such talents as Candace Cameron Bure, Lysa TerKeurst, Mandisa, Natalie Grant, Sheila Walsh, Tim Tebow, Mark Batterson, and more. She also narrates audiobooks for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan and runs her own media company. Did we mention Julie does all of this while being a mother of eight?! Moms (and dads), you will be inspired and encouraged as you listen to Julie's story and all that she has to offer.

Julie Carr married my dad, Frank Ryan in 1960, and had me two years later. My sister, Beth, was born four years after that. While raising us, she worked as a teacher in Middle and High Schools and in various administrative positions. She's smart, sweet, and a hell of a mom. She doesn't do social media, bless her heart, but you can leave her messages when you order swag from "the cottage," as many of you have done over the years -- much to her delight. Find me on Instagram or Twitter. Please consider supporting this podcast. This Amazon affiliate link kicks a few bucks back my way. Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; "All Along the Watchtower," by Bob Dylan; "Smoke Alarm," by Carsie Blanton.

Watch the YouTube episode here: (https://youtu.be/oYWmqDqVZwc) This week, poet Julie Carr reads from her most recent work and discusses poetry as it relates to installation art, the body in relation to performance and dance, the resurgence of the lyric, and the concept of blending the self. -- About Julie: Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Julie Carr lives in Denver with Tim Roberts and their three children. She is the author of seven books of poetry and two works of prose, with forthcoming works in both genres. Her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as The Nation, Boston Review, APR, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Volt, A Public Space, 1913, The Baffler and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including: The Best American Poetry (Sribner); Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books); Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press); Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton); Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books; and &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing 2013, The Force of What's Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde (Nightboat Books), Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres (Rose Metal Press), The Volta Book of Poets (Sidebrow Books) among others. Honors and awards include The Sawtooth Poetry Award, A National Poetry Series selection, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2010-2011). A former dancer, she now collaborates regularly with dance-artist K.J. Holmes. With Tim Roberts she is the co-director of Counterpath, an independent literary press and a bookstore/gallery/performance space/community garden in Denver. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. where she teaches courses in poetry and poetics from the eighteenth century to the present. More on Julie: Website: (http://www.juliecarrpoet.com) // Real Life Installation: (https://www.reallifeaninstallation.com) // ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). Sign up for our newsletter on (thepoetryvlog.com) and get a free snail-mail welcome kit! ● --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Millions of people in the UK have a visible difference such as a mark, scar or condition that affects their appearance. Sadly many children and young people experience bullying or low confidence, and many adults are discriminated against, as a result of their visible difference.The Face Equality Day campaign, led by charity Changing Faces, calls for everyone to be treated fairly and equally whatever the appearance of their face or body. Sam Killick and Julie Carr of Changing Faces joined me in the Sheffield Live radio studio yesterday to discuss the charity's work.Also on the show: Dan Butlin and Kiran Antcliffe with exciting plans for the Abbeydale Picture House, why and how you can get involved and some rewards for people who do. The programe covers:Changing Faces has a specialist centre, funded by Children in Need and based in Sheffield, supporting children, young people and their families across the Yorkshire and Humber region.The charity's services are free to access.A new report, My Visible Difference, was published this week coinciding with Face Equality Day - we hear some shocking statistics.Coming soon: a super Changing Faces creative workshop at the wonderful Grimm and Co.There are particular "pinch points," where children and young people experience negative impacts as a result of a visible difference. The charity has a schools resources pack on its website.Changing Faces is FCS Associates' Charity of the Year.How to contact Changing Faces and how you can donate or support their work.Dan and Kiran work for CADS, which has been managing the Abbeydale Picture House for two years.It's a 100-year-old, grade II listed building which had fallen into disrepair. But over the past couple of years under CADS' stewardship it's hosted a diverse range of events, film screenings, gigs and music, community events and more - all under temporary event licenses. That means there's a limit to the number of events which can take place.CADS has levered in grants and other funding to help pay for the building's restoration. Now they are crowdfunding for building work needed get a full premises license.This would mean they can host events every day.The crowdfunding campaign is off to a fantastic start, backed by lots of folk excited about the plans. There are fantastic rewards for backers too - we hear about some of them.Dan and Kiran also cover some of the history of this amazing building.Timings:0 - 4:00 introduction and updates, including the Sheffield Food Festival, The Grey to Green Project transforming Castlegate, and my recent day volunteering for Bluebell Wood Hospice,4:00 get in touch!4:27 Sam Killick and Julie Carr,18:24 Dan Butlin and Kiran Antcliffe,45:40 wrapping up.

This week Heather Stone and Andy Ininns speak with Corianne Wells, Cofounder + Creative Director of Odessa Denver about women in the arts, empowering artists toward success before 40, and community development. Mentions: The great boss with the buzzer: Danny @Fromthehipphoto Angela Craven @AngelaCravenArt Tilt West @TiltWest Moe Gram @Mi_MoeGram Sammy Lee @sammy_seungmin_lee RedLine Contemporary Art Center @redlinedenver MCA @mca_denver Mauro C Martinez: @ztm_oruam Sierra Montoya Barela: @smbarela The Article by Julie Carr: https://hyperallergic.com/441854/who-decides-what-is-violent-in-the-museum/ Kristopher: @kristopherinthecut Follow Odessa @odessadenver Corianne: @corianne_der

Message from Mike & Julie Carr on July 15, 2018

Julie Carr is an athlete for life in heart and soul! She believes you need to stop surviving and start thriving. From crisis to crossroads to living on purpose, she is always seeking to live her authentic self. Julie Carr: An exemplary woman, a devoted wife and mother of 3; Julie keeps active by living on purpose as a motivational speaker, and a certified life and career coach. She is also the author of her new book, "Stop Surviving and Start Thriving". In her spare time, Julie is an accomplished triathlon athlete competing around the country. "I am always seeking to live my authentic self." ~ Julie Carr BOOK: Stop Surviving and Start Thriving by Julie Carr 3 Step Guide to Discover Your God-gifted Purpose Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed. Many gems of wisdom throughout this coffee chat. Sit back and let your heart hear yourself through Julie's story! Crisis and Crossroads Who am I? Why am I here? Learning and Growing Stretching Created to THRIVE Trapped in Survival Mode Where do you start? Scripts written by others You know what you want Belief College and Graduate School Gifts and Talents The Right Time Safety and Security Perceived Danger How often do we get locked up? Motherhood Empowerment Connect head to heart What I want? Who I am? Layers of own beliefs Fear Failure Risks What's the costs of NOT stepping out? Self-discovery Drug and Alcohol Addiction Faithfulness Living your life's purpose Respect The Terrible Monster Reactionary Mode Disobedience Success Journal Consistency 3 Step Guide to Discover Your God-gifted Purpose   Quotes and statements within the interview: "It is always a journey." "Where's the wealthiest place on earth? The grave yard." ~ Miles Monroe "Consult the Manufacturer of your soul." "I was choosing the path of least resistance." "All comfort is not created equal." "Regret for the things I have done is consolable. Regret for the things I wish I would have done and didn't do is inconsolable." ~ Unknown "The teacher can never teach to an individual who's not ready to learn." ~ Miles Monroe "It's the every day battles we give up." "Take the small risks!" "I will die completely empty." "My mess had turned into someone's miracle." "We give fear more credibility than God." What would you say to people who are struggling now? Get alone with God. Listen to your heart. Ask God, "God what do you want me to do with my life?" What has your story gifted you? I know that I know that I know that it is possible to THRIVE and LIVE your life's purpose. Resources mentioned in the episode: Connect with Julie Carr; http://coachjuliecarr.com BOOK - Stop Surviving and Start Thriving 3 Step Guide to Discover Your God-gifted Purpose Facebook: facebook.com/coachjuliecarr Twitter: twitter.com/coachjuliecarr LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/juliecarr5   "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!" 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Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, professor, translator, dancer, choreographer Julie Carr about her book Think Tank and her many other recent projects. They discuss narrative, abstraction, prose envy, pleasure, desire, movement, reading with a group, compositional process and writing habits, homophonic translation, writing-through-reading, pheromonal meter, improvisation, form, mode, and “the poetics of containment.” Carr describes how she and her husband Tim Roberts founded Counterpath Press and the evolution of the focus and identity of the press. Zucker and Carr talk about Carr's role as editor of Rachel’s book, MOTHERs. They also discuss teaching, the financial crisis, money, the daily, moving into more engagement with others, social and political activism and poetry as site of individual change, desire and arousal.