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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 1936, twenty-two-year-old Muriel Rukeyser, who had just won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book Theory of Flight, was suddenly (almost accidentally) in Spain as a journalist to cover the Olimpiada Popular, or People’s Olympiad, a protest event against the 1936 Berlin Olympics presided …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 44.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Ezz-thetic,” from the 1961 release Ezz-thetics by George Russell. In the conversation to come we’ll make reference to the American modernist poet Ezra Pound, and what the literary scholar Hugh Kenner termed “The Pound Era” in his 1971 book. Pound is perhaps best …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe whole country is in upheaval as a vast Movement for Black Lives continues to challenge white supremacy and the institutions of policing and prison. As monuments fall and precincts are seized in Minneapolis to Seattle, the lies and hidden truths of American society are being revealed. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 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 Cold War and Nuclear Anxiety undermined …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 41.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we speak with two writers, Laura Lasuertmer and Wendy Lee Spacek. Spacek and Lasuertmer run a writing workshop in the local jail. They tell us about the writing program, what led them to do this project, and its impact on folks in the inside. Then, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 33.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we air part of a conversation with Brandon Ackerson, a 36-year-old survivor of an 18 year prison sentence in the Indiana prison system. Newly released, he talks about using the skills he learned and honed during life in the DOC, in which he became a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:51 — 45.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst, we have updates on the Vaughn 17 and hunger strikes and noise demonstrations from immigrant detention centers around the country. After the news, we share a conversation with Phillip Roberts and Debra Des Vignes.  Des Vignes is the founder of the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:42 — 31.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we are returning to the topic of Carceral Capitalism. We interviewed the poet and author Jackie Wang in episodes 89 and 90 of Kite Line. You can access those on our website, kitelineradio.noblogs.org. There, Wang discusses the relationship between the growth of municipal debt and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:49 — 6.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRoss Gay, the award-winning, bestselling poet, is the teacher. Kacie Swierk, who relied on music to help get her through debilitating illness, is the student. Gay teaches creative writing in the Indiana University English Department. Swierk signed up for his course and found his unconventional teaching methods …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:17 — 47.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn September 7, the Deep Dialogue project opened in the Indiana Memorial Union with a panel discussion about race, history, community and healing in contemporary literature. The project is sponsored by the Writers Guild at Bloomington and Indiana University’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, …