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In this episode, Cliff Brooks and Michael Amidei interview Jeffery Skinner. http://jeffreyskinner.net/ Poet, playwright, and essayist Jeffrey Skinner was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. Skinner’s Guggenheim project involves a conflation of contemporary physics, poetry, and theology. He served as the June, 2015 Artist in Residence at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015 he was awarded one of eight American Academy of Arts & Letters Awards, for exceptional accomplishment in writing. His most recent prose book, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets, was published to wide attention and acclaim, including a full page positive review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. His most recent collection of poems, Glaciology, was chosen in 2012 as winner in the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, and published by Southern Illinois University press in Fall, 2013. Skinner has published five previous collections: Late Stars (Wesleyan University Press), A Guide to Forgetting (a winner in the 1987 National Poetry series, chosen by Tess Gallagher, published by Graywolf Press), The Company of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series), Gender Studies, (Miami University Press), and Salt Water Amnesia (Ausable Press). He has edited two anthologies, Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance; and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors. His numerous chapbooks include Salt Mother, Animal Dad, which was chosen by C.K. Williams for the New York City Center for Book Arts Poetry Competition in 2005. Over the years Skinner’s poems have appeared in most of the country’s premier literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, FENCE, Bomb, DoubleTake, and The Georgia, Iowa, and Paris Reviews. Also a playwright, Skinner’s play Down Range had a successful run at Theatre 3 in New York City in the Spring of 2009, and another in Chicago in 2014. His play Dream On had its premier production in February of 2007, by the Cardboard Box Collaborative Theatre in Philadelphia. Other of Skinner’s plays have been finalists in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference competition, and winners in various play contests. Skinner’s writing has gathered grants, fellowships, and awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts (1986, & 2006), the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, Vermont Studios, and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. His work has been featured numerous times on National Public Radio. In 2002 Skinner served as Poet-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. He is President of the Board of Directors, and Editorial Consultant, for Sarabande Books, a literary publishing house he cofounded with his wife, poet Sarah Gorham. He teaches creative writing and English at The University of Louisville.
On the season finale of the Miracle Monocle podcast, Nicole and Brent put a bow on Issue X and their experiences as editors. Stick around to listen to readings by Sarah Gorham, Kristi Maxwell, Kayla Rae Whitaker, and Jessica Newman, recorded at the Issue X launch party.
Sarah Gorham and Jeff Skinner read at the University of Louisville as a part of the Axton Reading Series on October 19, 2017.
In part 2 of their conversation, James and Mike Scalise, author of the memoir THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE, discuss an old wound, social media, and how winning the Center for Fiction's Christopher Doheny Award let to the incredible sequence of events surrounding the sale of Mike's book. Then, Sarabande Director of Marketing and Publicity/ Mike's editor/ excellent writer Ariel Lewiton joins James to discuss her many roles and how she got to where she is. Mike Scalise: http://mikescalise.tumblr.com/bnc Mike and James Discuss: THREE FEET HIGH AND RISING by De La Soul Laura van den Berg Urban Waite The Dzanc Prize "The Root" by Kim Deal Grub Street Christopher Castellani Janet Silver Zachary Shuster Harmsworth WILD by Cheryl Strayed Emerson College Book Court Paul Dano Rachel Cantor Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Center for Fiction Christopher Doheny Award Franz Kafka Housing Works Brooklyn David Tomas Martinez Sarabande Books Ariel Lewiton Paul Yoon - Ariel Lewiton: http://www.ariellewiton.com/new-page/ Ariel and James discuss: Sarah Gorham ON IMAGINATION by Mary Ruefle Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature Kristen Radtke McGraw-Hill Education CHINA DAILY The University of Iowa GUERNICA HIM, ME, MUHAMMAD ALI by Randa Jarrar BUZZFEED BLUETS by Maggie Nelson THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson AUDIBLE IN FULL VELVET by Jenny Johnson ANIMALS STRIKE CURIOUS POSES by Elena Passarello - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio gives voice to all trying to improve the world for those living with dementia. Today we have to top chefs with us who have been touched by dementia and decided to make a difference. Stone Morris and Sarah Gorham created "Grind Dining," a new way to experience food and allow those living with dementia to maintain their independence and dignity as long as possible. Also joining the conversation will be Deb Osterhaudt, the VP of Sales and Marketing of the Arbor company who has implemented Grind Dining into their residential experience. This is a fascinating and exciting concept! Come listen and join the conversation. Grind Dining Website Email Chef Morris and Chef Gorham The Arbor Company The second half of the show will be OPEN MIC! We always love to hear what's on your mind regarding dementia and caregiving. Do you have an idea for a radio show. Call in and lets start talking. For more information on dementia and caregiving check out our website at www.AlzheimersSpeaks.comSupport this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio gives voice to all trying to improve the world for those living with dementia. Today we have to top chefs with us who have been touched by dementia and decided to make a difference. Stone Morris and Sarah Gorham created "Grind Dining," a new way to experience food and allow those living with dementia to maintain their independence and dignity as long as possible. Also joining the conversation will be Deb Osterhaudt, the VP of Sales and Marketing of the Arbor company who has implemented Grind Dining into their residential experience. This is a fascinating and exciting concept! Come listen and join the conversation. Grind Dining Website Email Chef Morris and Chef Gorham The Arbor Company The second half of the show will be OPEN MIC! We always love to hear what's on your mind regarding dementia and caregiving. Do you have an idea for a radio show. Call in and lets start talking. For more information on dementia and caregiving check out our website at www.AlzheimersSpeaks.comSupport this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.