Podcast appearances and mentions of rebecca gayle howell

Host Silas House and guest Rebecca Gayle Howell examine how we manage our time, how we make a living, how to submit, and how to devote ourselves to a life of art.

Rebecca Gayle Howell is a writer, translator, and editor of place-based literature. Howell's work has received critical acclaim from outlets such as The Los Angeles Times, Poetry London (U.K.), The Courier-Journal, Asymptote, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Millions, Arts ATL, MINT (India), and The Kenyon Review. Her genre-bending work is often underpinned by extensive documentary research, merging fiction, verse, and realism, gaining support from agencies like the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Foundation for Deep Ecology. She translated El interior de la ballena / The Belly of the whale (Texas Tech University Press, 2024) by Claudia Prado. Alice Bank interviews her with a beautiful conversation. *** Rebecca Gayle Howell es escritora, traductora y editora de literatura basada en el lugar. El trabajo de Howell ha recibido elogios de la crítica en medios como The Los Angeles Times, Poetry London (Reino Unido), The Courier-Journal, Asymptote, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Millions, Arts ATL, MINT (India) y The Kenyon Review. Su obra, que desafía los géneros convencionales, a menudo se sustenta en una extensa investigación documental, fusionando ficción, verso y realismo. Ha contado con el apoyo de instituciones como el National Endowment for the Arts, el United States Holocaust Memorial Museum y la Foundation for Deep Ecology. Tradujo El interior de la ballena / The Belly of the Whale (Texas Tech University Press, 2024) de Claudia Prado. Alice Bank la entrevista en una hermosa conversación.

Rebecca Gayle Howell and Ashley M. Jones on working-class poems, good food, and their fathers' bodies.

What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (UP of Kentucky, 2023) is the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century. Here, editors Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones bring together more than one hundred contemporary writers singing out from the corners of the 99 Percent, each telling their own truth of today's economy. In his final days, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for a "multiracial coalition of the working poor." King hoped this coalition would become the next civil rights movement but he was assassinated before he could see it emerge as the Poor People's Campaign, now led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. King's last lesson--about the dangers of dividing working people--inspired the conversation gathered here by Jones and Howell.  Fifty-five years after the assassination of King, What Things Cost collects stories that are honest, provocative, and galvanizing, sharing the hidden costs of labor and laboring in the United States of America. Voices such as Sonia Sanchez, Faisal Mohyuddin, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Silas House, Sonia Guiñansaca, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Crystal Wilkinson, Gerald Stern, and Jericho Brown weave together the living stories of the campaign's broad swath of supporters, creating a literary tapestry that depicts the struggle and solidarity behind the work of building a more just America. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Poor People's Campaign. Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. 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

What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (UP of Kentucky, 2023) is the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century. Here, editors Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones bring together more than one hundred contemporary writers singing out from the corners of the 99 Percent, each telling their own truth of today's economy. In his final days, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for a "multiracial coalition of the working poor." King hoped this coalition would become the next civil rights movement but he was assassinated before he could see it emerge as the Poor People's Campaign, now led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. King's last lesson--about the dangers of dividing working people--inspired the conversation gathered here by Jones and Howell.  Fifty-five years after the assassination of King, What Things Cost collects stories that are honest, provocative, and galvanizing, sharing the hidden costs of labor and laboring in the United States of America. Voices such as Sonia Sanchez, Faisal Mohyuddin, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Silas House, Sonia Guiñansaca, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Crystal Wilkinson, Gerald Stern, and Jericho Brown weave together the living stories of the campaign's broad swath of supporters, creating a literary tapestry that depicts the struggle and solidarity behind the work of building a more just America. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Poor People's Campaign. Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (UP of Kentucky, 2023) is the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century. Here, editors Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones bring together more than one hundred contemporary writers singing out from the corners of the 99 Percent, each telling their own truth of today's economy. In his final days, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for a "multiracial coalition of the working poor." King hoped this coalition would become the next civil rights movement but he was assassinated before he could see it emerge as the Poor People's Campaign, now led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. King's last lesson--about the dangers of dividing working people--inspired the conversation gathered here by Jones and Howell.  Fifty-five years after the assassination of King, What Things Cost collects stories that are honest, provocative, and galvanizing, sharing the hidden costs of labor and laboring in the United States of America. Voices such as Sonia Sanchez, Faisal Mohyuddin, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Silas House, Sonia Guiñansaca, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Crystal Wilkinson, Gerald Stern, and Jericho Brown weave together the living stories of the campaign's broad swath of supporters, creating a literary tapestry that depicts the struggle and solidarity behind the work of building a more just America. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Poor People's Campaign. Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Rebecca Gayle Howell & Brett Ratliff (Photo by Howell-Ratliff)   As a finale to our fall pledge drive (thank you!), Eastern Standard presents the staff of WEKU with reports and interviews: Corinne Boyer on a hospital in covid crisis - Cheri Lawson visits with a couple who embody a marriage of arts - Stu Johnson on the latest efforts to bring down Kentucky's high rate of heart disease - Tom Martin gets season details on the Origins Jazz Series - Samantha Morrill on preparations to receive Afghan refugees - Wendy Barnett chats with the founder of Red Barn Radio, now entering its third decade. Your support in action. 1-800-621-8890 or online at WEKU.org  In Order of Appearance:  Corinne Boyer visits an Eastern Kentucky hospital that has been overwhelmed by cases of Covid-19 LISTEN  Cheri Lawson chats with husband and wife arts collaborators Rebecca Gayle Howell and Brett Ratliff LISTEN  Stu Johnson reports on efforts to reduce Kentucky's high rate of heart disease LISTEN  Samantha Morrill gets the latest on preparations to receive Afghan refugees from Derek Feldman of Kentucky Refugee Ministries LISTEN  Tom Martin talks with Eli Uttal-Veroff about the new season of Lexington's Origins Jazz Series LISTEN  Wendy Barnett visits with Ed Commons, founder and producer of Red Barn Radio, as the locally-produced program begins a 3rd decade LISTEN

April is National Poetry Month, and so, we're bringing you two episodes celebrating Appalachian poetry with women writing in the region. In Part One we'll hear from Pauletta Hansel, Rebecca Gayle Howell, and Rose McClarney!

 We talk with poet, editor, and teacher Rebecca Gayle Howell along with her partner musician Brett Ratliff about writing into received musical and poetic forms, Appalachia and resistance, moving across time and place, Young MC and an incompetent bandit. At the time we recorded this episode, Howell and Ratliff were living in Knott County, Kentucky, and both working at Hindman Settlement School. Now they live in Lexington, KY, where Rebecca still serves on staff at Hindman. Tune in at the episode’s halftime for this month’s writing challenge.

Host Bill Goodman had the pleasure of attending the 41st annual Writers' Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School. The Appalachian Writers' Workshop is Kentucky's premier writers' conference where both aspiring and seasoned writers gather in a creative environment to teach and refine their skills. While in Hindman, Bill had the opportunity to speak with Brent Hutchinson, Executive Director of the Hindman Settlement School; celebrated Kentucky novelist, Silas House; the James Still Writer-In-Residence, Rebecca Gayle Howell; and a first time student at Hindman, Tanya Torp of Lexington.

Gravy listeners, we invite you to join us in Lexington, Kentucky, June 21–23, for our annual SFA Summer Symposium. Today, listen to Kentucky poet—and Summer Symposium presenter—Rebecca Gayle Howell reading her poem "What Wealth Is."  Visit southernfoodways.org to learn more about the Summer Symposium and to purchase tickets.  Tune in on May 17 when we return from hiatus with a new episode. 

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2018 Residency "We write the same story over and over again...until we write our way out of the story." -- RGH Guest poet Rebecca Gayle Howell reads a selection of poems for the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council. Rebecca's AMERICAN PURGATORY won the 2016 Sexton Prize: http://www.rebeccagaylehowell.com

I had an incredible experience at my first Appalachian Writers' Workshop this summer, and I'm excited to bring you three readings recorded live at AWW: novelist Glenn Taylor, nonfiction writer Jeremy B. Jones and poet Rebecca Gayle Howell. WMFA is back with season two in September!

In this bonus mini episode, we discuss class and art—and the attitudes about both that we bring to creative work—with last week's guest, Rebecca Gayle Howell. 

Rebecca Gayle Howell is on this week's episode to discuss the art of listening, writing and faith, and creation as resistance.