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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:19 — 64.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners’ Writing Project, a piece by Shaka Shakur, entitled “Black Pain”, and a song by local musician Billy Young. Shakur is currently serving time in the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:23 — 52.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More“Doing no violence to living things, not even a single one of them, wander alone like a rhinoceros.”* All of our songs tonight feature the whirlwind as a kind of tribute to a central essay called “The Vortex,” written by our guest Eliot Weinberger and found in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:12 — 52.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Tuesday, August 9th, poet Ross Gay took the stage at the Bloom Magazine Book Club to recite some of his poems and talk about his writing process. Ross Gay is an award-winning poet who is housed here in Bloomington. Gay was reciting poems from his book …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:48 — 9.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhen you think of the Indianapolis 500, poetry probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. The race hasn’t had an official poet since 1920, when William Herschell’s poems were printed in the race program each year. This year, the organization Indiana Humanities wanted to bring …