Tag Archives: reading

Spencer Pride Offers Banned Book Club to Embrace Unrestricted Reading

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:16 — 4.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOver three years ago, Spencer Pride began it’s Banned Book Club, which was founded by member, Julie Parmenter. The group meets the fourth Thursday of every month to discuss books that have been banned or discussed of getting banned in red states. These books entail of historic …

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April 30, 2021: Studying Against Repression

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn today’s episode, we share two perspectives on the role of study, as practiced in the face of repression and directly against repression.  First, we complete our interview with Garrett Felber, with a focus on his termination by the University of Mississippi in retaliation for his outspoken …

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Standing Room Only: A Poetry Reading By Ross Gay

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 …

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