Podcasts about pitt greensburg

Dave Newman is the 2024 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award winner. He's worked as a truck driver, a book store manager, an air filter salesman, a house painter, and a college teacher. Dave is the author of seven books, including The Same Dead Songs: a memoir of working-class addictions (J.New Books, 2023), East Pittsburgh Downlow (J. New Books, 2019), The Poem Factory (White Gorilla Press, 2015), the novels Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children (Writers Tribe Books, 2012), Two Small Birds (Writers Tribe Books, 2014), Please Don't Shoot Anyone Tonight (World Parade, 2010) and the collection The Slaughterhouse Poems (White Gorilla Press, 2013), named one of the best books of the year by L Magazine. Winner of numerous awards, including the Andre Dubus Novella Prize, he lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley, with his wife, the writer Lori Jakiela, and their two children. Before starting at Pitt-Greensburg, he worked in medical research, serving elders. Pre-order his forthcoming book here: https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/newman/191 As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. 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 an echo you've heard more than a few times. Include as many sounds as possible. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a time you had to do someone else's job and found the result surprising. 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.

Our assistant producer, Tyler McCloskey, talks with writer and Pitt Greensburg professor, Lori Jakiela. about the costs and benefits of vulnerability in writing.

Ken Rector and Zac Jackson are joined by Zac's brother, Pitt-Greensburg coach Brody Jackson, for a discussion on the Div. III lifestyle, navigating a rebuild and and trying to turn things around. 

Pitt-Greensburg coach Brody Jackson joins Ken Rector and his brother, Zac Jackson, for a discussion on recruiting at the NCAA Div. III level, his first college head coaching job, the differences between good high school players and successful college players and his journey to this point. 

This episode of the podcast we sit down with Dan "Flick" Flickinger, owner/operator of the Westmoreland Sports Network, to discuss following your passion, finding your niche and starting a business from the ground up. In the conversation you'll hear how the WSN came to be and practical advice of how Dan continued to build his brand while battling through adversity. This was a very insightful conversation that we hope you find as inspiring as we did! The Westmoreland Sports Network covers high school and college athletics in Westmoreland County in a variety of media. Local sports fans can watch and listen to games live, read detailed feature and game stories, listen and watch interviews with players & coaches and get team schedules and rosters by just a click of the mouse. WSN is the exclusive broadcast home of Seton Hill University and Pitt-Greensburg athletics and covers Jeannette, Hempfield, Greensburg Central Catholic, Mt. Pleasant, Penn-Trafford, Derry Area, Greensburg Salem, Franklin Regional, Latrobe, and Norwin High Schools.