Podcast appearances and mentions of weldon kees

Read by Weldon Kees Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Episode Summary:In the 1930s, the notion of making an incubator for creativity in a region devastated by the Great Depression got tested in Nebraska. This episode looks at what happened there when the Writers' Project came to town, through a group of creatives from contrasting backgrounds, including a hobo, a nurse and a hardware store poet – all under the watchful eye of a university professor and a celebrated novelist. Starting from chaos, they ignited a surprising alchemy and made the Lincoln office one of the most productive Writers' Project hubs in the country. The Season 1 finale listens in as Americans face war clouds on the horizon, and a national radio show asks, “Can we count on youth to uphold the American Way?”Speakers: Stephen Cloyd, librarian and historianMarilyn Holt, historianJames Reidel, biographer and poetDouglas Brinkley, historianLinks and Resources: Rudolph Umland and the Federal Writers' ProjectThe Nebraska Federal Writers' Project - Lincoln City LibrariesMari Sandoz and the Writers' ProjectWeldon Kees reads his poem, "1926"WPA Guide to Nebraska (free PDF)Prairie SchoonerReading List: Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees, by James ReidelNebraska During the New Deal, by Marilyn Irvin HoltSoul of a People by David A. TaylorThe Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy EganThe Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, edited by Donald JusticeCrazy Horse, by Mari SandozCreditsHost: Chris HaleyDirector: Andrea KalinProducers: Andrea Kalin, David A. Taylor, James MirabelloWriter: David A. TaylorEditor: Ethan OserAssistant Editor: Amy YoungStory Editor: Michael MayAdditional Voices: Jared Buggage, Sam Hanks, JoJo Drake Kalin, Antonio Macias, James Mirabello, Mariko Miyazaki, Kate Rafter and Sarah SmackFeaturing music and archival from: Aaron CoplandAlexandria Symphony OrchestraJoseph VitarelliBradford EllisMike SayreCeiri TorjussenPond5Library of CongressNational Archives and Records AdministrationNew York Public Radio Archives CollectionNebraska Public MediaFor additional content, visit peoplesrecorder.info or follow us on social media: @peoplesrecorderProduced with support from: National Endowment for the HumanitiesHumanities Nebraska Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Read by Terry Casburn

Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Aferrado a la nada en un revuelo de hojas, aquí en esta ciudad en ruinas, llena de humo, pienso en vos, en la otra punta del continente, probando tu sonrisa que maduró en catástrofe, maravillosamente lista para la muerte ahora. La raída promesa de nuestra herencia es hábito ahora; ese otro año se convirtió en invierno mientras que contemplábamos los fragmentos de un mundo cayéndose a pedazos igual que un ramo ajado; nos faltaba el olor, si bien supimos darle un nombre a aquella época. Ahora conocemos ese olor, me parece, hasta donde es posible. E incluso mientras subo los peldaños, deseándote suerte, llena los porches y las calles, y un viento fétido sopla por tu habitación desierta. No se puede saber qué vientos aun más fétidos podrían soplar. El de esta noche sopla en la mente y es falsa cada sílaba, y está marchita. Adiós, adiós. A los extraños, a una calle vacía.

Read by Weldon KeesProduction and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Hechos con Palabras - Weldon Kees by Radiotelevisión de Veracruz

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Kathleen Rooney is the guest. Her new novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, is available from Penguin Books. This is her second time on the program. She first appeared in Episode 274 on May 4, 2014. Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She teaches in the English Department at DePaul University, and her most recent books include the national best-seller, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin’s Press 2017 / Picador 2018) and The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte (Spork Press, 2018). A winner of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine, she is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the novel O, Democracy! (Fifth Star Press, 2014); the novel in poems Robinson Alone (Gold Wake Press, 2012), based on the life and work of Weldon Kees; the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint, 2010); and the art modeling memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (University of Arkansas Press, 2009). Her first book is Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), and her first poetry collection, Oneiromance (an epithalamion) won the 2007 Gatewood Prize from the feminist publisher Switchback Books. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the co-author of the poetry collection That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008) and the chapbook The Kind of Beauty That Has Nowhere to Go (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013).. And with fellow DePaul professor Eric Plattner, she is the co-editor of Rene Magritte: Selected Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Her reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Poetry Foundation website, The New York Times Book Review, BITCH, Allure, The Chicago Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Si esta habitación es nuestro mundo, que este mundo se pudra. Abrí este techo, para que venga un último y monstruoso diluvio que barra con el suelo, con las sillas y esta cama que no me lleva a ningún sueño. Bajo el oscuro cielo de nuestra circunstancia y el murmullo de húmedos barómetros contemplo el polvo urbano que ensucia los cristales mientras el trueno muere. A unos kilómetros de aquí mueren los héroes, su sangre mana espesa por el pasto, dulce e inquieta, coagulada, inmunda, corre hacia al río, rumbo al mar, el mar, de donde viene ese voraz diluvio que yo espero, que me va a hacer morir.

Production and Sound Design By Kevin Seaman Poems included: Robinson, Robinson at Home, Relating to Robinson

Weldon Kees - "For My Daughter" by WorksCited

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas - we are in the studio with Ian Thomson discussing the unlikely collaboration between a Neo Dadaist and Dante; we talk to Mark Ford about Weldon Kees, the American poet you should have heard of; and Michael Caines delves into the theatrical mind of the great Peter Brook. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952.