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Carolyn Forché Comes to Loveland
For Immediate Release Kathleen Willard 970-481-3864 kathleen.d.willard@gmail.com March 26, 2024 Award-Winning Poet & Human Rights Advocate Carolyn Forché Reads at the Rialto Theatre to Celebrate National Poetry Month “It is my feeling that the twentieth-century human condition demands a poetry of witness.” asserts poet Carolyn Forché. The Loveland Poet Laureate Committee is hosting three events with award-winning poet and dedicated human rights activist. In addition to her five books of poetry, she has written non-fiction and translated poetry. Her memoir What You Have Heard is True was a finalist for the National Book Award.Read More
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A New Interview Published in Compulsive Reader
Thanks by my friend and fellow poet Ed McManis for thinking to interview me in the first place and then deciding to let me run my mouth for so long. Many thanks as well to poet, novelist, radio personality, and proprietress of Compulsive Reader, Magdalena Ball, for publishing this interview from her home base in New South Wales, Australia. You can read the full interview here.Read More
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Check Out This Podcast Interview and Reading
Last summer an American fiction writer living in the UK, Yvonne Battle-Felton, invited me to her podcast—called Bookable Space—for an interview and reading from Under Sleep’s New Moon. (To read a review of Ms. Battle-Felton’s debut novel, Remembered, click here.) Our conversation was great fun, and I’m happy to share it with you.Read More
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Join Me on April 4th for a Free Reading and Conversation with Pattiann Rogers
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Podcast featuring Lynn Kincanon and Moi
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Tracy K. Smith & Kevin Young in Conversation
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Stream Linda Hogan and Alberto Rios in Conversation
Don’t miss this beautiful episode of Poetry in America featuring two of the Mountain West’s most important poets, Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos.Read More
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Poets On Nature with Cally Conan-Davies & David Mason (Part 1)
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A Tribute to Robert Mezey
Thanks to Jodie Hollander and Aaron for this extraordinary assemblage of twenty-five friends and colleagues from all over the world who generously gave their time to honor the remarkable poet Robert Mezey. (See below for a few samples of his work.) The various interviews and when they appear in the podcast are listed below: Rhina Espaillat (2:17); Charles Wright (5:16); Dana Gioia (11:03); Jackie Coulette (16:13); Michael Collier (20:28); Olivia Ellis (25:21); Eugene Pugach (30:35); Charles Martin (33:32); Paul St.Read More
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Whitman in Conversation
I recently read Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America. As the editor, Brenda Wineapple, writes in her introduction that Whitman’s friend Horace Traubel visited Walt Whitman nearly every day in the poet’s two-story row house at 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey, beginning in March 1888, when Whitman was 69. As a bank clerk, Traubel was proficient in shorthand.Read More