Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAmy Cornell’s stories are quiet in tone and pacing, but leave the reader questioning. One mode of composition she works in is “flash fiction,” about which Cornell says, I guess for me flash fiction is not just short word-count-wise, but it is a flash of insight or …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:37 — 81.9MB)Subscribe: RSSEn este episodio nos acompaña Marco Lema, quien es originario de Bolivia, y quien tiene una formación académica militar. Sin embargo, nos comparte cómo la vida le llevó por los caminos de la literatura y la poesía.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe launch into this episode with our monthly roundup of prison disturbances, as compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Afterwards, we have audio from a prisoner, Paul Lee, reporting on a massive transfer of inmates back in February from Pontiac, Illinois correctional facility to Centralia Correctional Center due to …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhen will you come, O Hidden One Portuguese dream of every age, To make me more than the faint breath Of an ardent God-created yearning? Ah, when at last will you, Returning, turn my hope into love? In the aftermath of the death of his father (by …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:35 — 80.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is the first of two shows on Fernando Pessoa, perhaps the greatest modern Portuguese poet, who proclaimed himself greater than Luís Vaz de Camões, author of The Lusiads, an epic fantasy of the adventuring, marauding, slaving, nation published in 1572. And in a like manner, Pessoa …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:23:38 — 114.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we repeat our May 25th episode with poet, dramatist, essayist, and novelist, Thalia Field. This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the scientific methodology of the Positivists and Claude Bernard; a …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:02 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a somewhat altered version of a program that first aired on November 3rd, 2015, called Tracking Subversives with the noted scholar of the “literary Left,” Alan Wald. According to Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” Wald has …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:58 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | More(Original air date: May 19, 2020) In the United States of the 1950s there was a struggle over the very idea of what it would mean to be an American. After World War II, an American could ride high on military power and new technologies. But the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Stardust,” a song written by Indiana native Hoagy Carmichael and here performed by Dave Brubeck off the live album Jazz at Oberlin recorded in May of 1953. In June of that same year Sylvia Plath would find herself in New York as an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we feature the radical work of Muriel Rukeyser, whose poetics treatise, The Life of Poetry, first published in 1949, can be called an anti-Fascist manifesto. We struggle at times to place Rukeyser inside our understanding of politics and poetry as she herself struggled to not be …
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