Podcasts about my mother was

Bronx-based artist Laura James' first children's book is a tribute to her mother, an Antiguan immigrant who worked as a nanny, seamstress and office cleaner to make ends meet. She joins to discuss, My Mother Was a Nanny, and we take calls from listeners about being a child of a caregiver. *This segment is guest hosted by David Furst.

Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The first discussion features aja monet. Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and movements for social transformation with pathbreaking artists and scholars. Speakers: aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title in 20072007 and aja monet follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. Her first full collection of poems is titled, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter on Haymarket Books. Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality. In 20182018, she was nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry and in 20192019 was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry for her cultural organizing work in South Florida. aja monet cofounded a political home for artists and organizers called, Smoke Signals Studio. She facilitates “Voices: Poetry for the People,” a workshop and collective in collaboration with Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders. She is currently working on her next full collection of poems entitled, Florida Water. aja Monet also serves as the new Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against all women and girls. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Join the upcoming events in the Freedom Dreams Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/freedom-dreams-with-robin-dg-kelley-1288129 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/BBoQI9HU1rk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

AVAILABLE NOW ON CD AT www.RedfieldArtsAudio.com SONGS OF GIANTS: THE POETRY OF PULP is a collection of 26 poems by writers H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard. Inspired by the illustrated book of the same name by artist Mark Wheatley. The poetry is read by Mark Redfield with a full orchestrated score and sound design by Jennifer Rouse to compliment the theme and dramatic feel of each poem. TRACK LIST 1. Introduction 2. Halloween In A Suburb 3. Flaming Marble 4. Poverty 5. Battle Song 6. Dreaming On Downs 7. Ode For July 4th, 1917 8. A Lady’s Chamber 9. My Mother Was A Wild Cat 10. Surrender 11. The Cats 12. Solomon Kane’s Homecoming 13. The Passing O’ My Pal Bill 14. The Wood 15. The Riders Of Babylon 16. Astrophobus 17. The Madness Of Cormac 18. Red Thunder 19. Good St. Nick 20. March 21. The Sea 22. The Nightmare Lake 23. Song At Midnight 24. Nemesis 25. Tides 26. I Stood At The Bar 27. Pan 28. End Credits SONGS OF GIANTS is a trademark of Mark Wheatley and the content is copyright Mark Wheatley, except where noted. All Rights Reserved. All artwork is copyright Mark Wheatley. All Rights Reserved. Robert E. Howard is a trademark of Robert E. Howard Properties, Inc. "My Mother Was a Wild Cat," "The Passing o' My Pal, Bill,"and "I Stood at the Bar" are all from “The Bandit at Hell's Bend” by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Copyright Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademark Edgar Rice Burroughs owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and used by permission. This audio book is inspired by the fully illustrated SONGS OF GIANTS book, featuring the the Poetry of Pulp by Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft. The book is illustrated by Mark Wheatley, with an introduction by Jack McDevitt. Copies are available at www.SONGSofGIANTS.com This recording of Songs of Giants, The Poetry of Pulp, vocal performance and music, copyright The Mark Redfield Company. All World Rights Reserved.

Enjoy a minicast featuring several revolutionary poets who have performed on theLFShow including Cynthia Dewi Oka featured in revolutionary mothering an anthology giving voice to mothers of color and marginalized mothers, Janani Balasubramanian of Dark Matter, a trans gender south asian performance duo, Aja Monet author of “My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter” and from the movement music scene, Climbing Poetry.

There's a fine line between treason and Flynnsanity. Jon Gabriel ( @ExJon) and Stephen Miller (@RedSteeze) discuss the latest Mueller news as it breaks, chastise the latest slew of sexual harassers, and mock the horrible verdict in the Kate Steinle murder trial. The intro/outro song in “Death and the Maiden” by The Verlaines. Jon's song of the week is “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist” by... Source

There’s a fine line between treason and Flynnsanity. Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) and Stephen Miller (@RedSteeze) discuss the latest Mueller news as it breaks, chastise the latest slew of sexual harassers, and mock the horrible verdict in the Kate Steinle murder trial. The intro/outro song in “Death and the Maiden” by The Verlaines. Jon’s song of the week is “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist” by The... Source

Poetry doesn’t come much more powerful than Aja Monet’s. She joined us to read this year’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.

Short story/flash fiction reading by Tania Hershman. Tania Hershman’s short fictions have won her many prizes. She is a consummate author of extraordinary brief fiction that for me, crosses the boundary between poetry and prose in a very exciting way. Now, as well as two collections of short fiction, My Mother Was an Upright Piano (Tangent Books) and The White Road (Salt), Tania is also co-author of a forthcoming book from Bloomsbury’s academic imprint, Writing Short stories, which is A Writers' and Artists' Companion that she has co-written with another critically acclaimed short story writer and novelist, Courttia Newland. The recording was made on April 30th 2014 at the Gwdihw Cafe Bar in Cardiff during the launch of issue 2 of Bare Fiction magazine. Tania Hershman, one of our judges for the inaugural Bare Fiction Prize. For more details visit: www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/competitions/ Make sure you check back every Thursday for the best in new poetry, fiction and plays. You can purchase the magazine in print and digital formats by visiting www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk For more details about Tania Hershman visit: taniahershman.com The music for this podcast was "Sidewalk Shade" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Flash fiction—also known as short short fiction, sudden fiction, or "a smoke long" fiction—has been around since Aesop's Fables, but it's never been more popular, with magazines and websites now dedicated solely to it. It even has its own national day. In this Litro Lab episode, I talk to flash fiction writers David Gaffney (Sawn-off Tales, Salt, 2006), Tania Hershman (The White Road and Other Stories, Salt, 2008; My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Tangent, 2012) and Calum Kerr, director of National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD), about what makes great micro-fiction. We also hear some of their ultra-short stories, among pieces by Franz Kafka and Vanessa Gebbie. Featured stories (in this order): "Vegetable Mineral" by Tania Hershman, from My Mother Was an Upright Piano, Tangent, 2012. Read by Tania Hershman "The Cares of a Family Man" by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, from A Country Doctor, 1919.  Read by Greg Page "Flight" by Vanessa Gebbie, from Jawbreakers, NFFD, 2012. Read by Claire Lacey "Happy Place" by David Gaffney, from Sawn-off Tales, Salt, 2006. Read by Kenny Reid "Who's the Boss" by Calum Kerr Read by Richard Koworld "Of Human Kindness (Buenos Aires)" by Vanessa Gebbie Read by Claire Lacey MUSIC CREDITS: 'Piano Between', Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ —Emily Cleaver See full article at http://www.litro.co.uk/?p=30641

The forth podcast of extracts from the live Stand Up Tragedy that happened at The Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 7th April 2012. Our next night of live tragedy is on Monday 4th June 2012. This is our final night for the moment but exciting things will be happening in 2013! Tickets are available here: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events This episode of the SUT podcast contains a preview of the awesome acts that will be performing on Monday. The first episode of extracts from Mondays show will come out next Friday. For all SUT related things look here: http://standuptragedy.co.uk/ You can buy our merch here: http://standuptragedy.spreadshirt.co.uk/ This episode of SUT features... Music from Anton Frank: http://antonfrank.co.uk/ / http://soundcloud.com/antonfrank Short Fiction from Tania Hershman: http://www.taniahershman.com/ Tania read from My Mother Was An Upright Piano, which was published on May 3rd by Tangent Books, and is a collection 56 very short fictions: http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/products/My-Mother-Was-an-Upright-Piano%3A-Fictions-by-Tania-Hershman-Signed-by-Author.html Biblical Poetry from James McKay: http://www.mckaypoetry.com/ / http://soundcloud.com/mckay_poetry Outro Song from The Reactionaries: Their new album Bouncy, Poppy Songs About Death will be available online in the Autumn. Their first album can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries

The second podcast of extracts from the live Stand Up Tragedy that happened at The Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 7th April 2012. The next episode of this podcast will come out next Friday. Our next night of live tragedy is on Monday 4th June 2012. Tickets are available here: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events For all SUT related things look here: http://standuptragedy.co.uk/ You can buy our merch here: http://standuptragedy.spreadshirt.co.uk/ This episode of SUT features... True Story from Tony Hickson Tony was sourced from http://www.sparklondon.com See some of diverse work here: http://www.youtube.com/Drevilbreakfast Short Story from Jenny Adamthwaite: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/ performed by Louise Adams (who also performs and works with http://www.bigwheel.org.uk/) Caberet Comedy from The Twisted Twins Short Fiction from Tania Hershman: http://www.taniahershman.com/ Tania read from My Mother Was An Upright Piano, which was published on May 3rd by Tangent Books, and is a collection 56 very short fictions: http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/products/My-Mother-Was-an-Upright-Piano%3A-Fictions-by-Tania-Hershman-Signed-by-Author.html Music from The Dave: http://soundcloud.com/the-dave/sets/going-back-to-finish-the-job

The first podcast of extracts from the live Stand Up Tragedy that happened at The Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 7th April 2012. The next episode of this podcast will come out next Friday. Our next night of live tragedy is on Monday 4th June 2012. Tickets are available here: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events For all SUT related things look here: http://standuptragedy.co.uk/ You can buy our merch here: http://standuptragedy.spreadshirt.co.uk/ This episode of SUT features... Music from The Dave: http://soundcloud.com/the-dave/sets/going-back-to-finish-the-job/ Comedy from John Kearns: http://www.thatjohnkearns.co.uk/ Short Fiction from Tania Hershman: http://www.taniahershman.com/ Tania read from My Mother Was An Upright Piano, which was published on May 3rd by Tangent Books, and is a collection 56 very short fictions: http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/products/My-Mother-Was-an-Upright-Piano%3A-Fictions-by-Tania-Hershman-Signed-by-Author.html Short Story from Vanessa Gebbie: http://www.vanessagebbie.com/ Vanessa the author of the novel The Coward’s Tale, published last November by Bloomsbury: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Cowards-Tale/trade/details/9781408821565 and Music from Anton Frank: http://antonfrank.co.uk/ Anton Frank is performing on 15th May at 7pm @ Water Rats (328 Gray's Inn Road, London, Greater London WC1X 8BZ)

Mainstream and avant-garde poets and fiction writers have been exploring the literary potential of the computer for decades, creating work that goes far beyond today’s e-books. The creators of electronic literature have developed new interface methods, new techniques for collaboration, and new ways of linking language, computing, and other media elements. How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art? Katherine Hayles is professor in the literature program at Duke University. Her books include Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2008) and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005). Rita Raley is associate professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara where she directs Transcriptions, a research and pedagogic initiative on literature and the culture of information. Her most recent publications include the co-edited Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2.