s2e8 Speaking Unspoken, Learning Unlearning
SHOW NOTES
s2e8
March 5, 2024
We feature live readings, recorded by Tony Robles at the Juniper Bends Reading Series in Asheville, NC. We’ll hear Amy Reed, author of the young adult novel, Tell Me My Name, one of the fifty most banned books in the country, and Kelly Kelbel, read from their work. In the second half hour Martha talks about two local climate resilience writers, Laura Lengnick and Meredith Leigh and how the world of climate resilience is related to the world of publishing. Tony Robles shares part of his virtual lecture on poetry, and Martha talks about the books she read recently, The Wisdom of Your Dreams, by Jeremy Taylor and The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier, the books she’s reading, It’s Not You by Dr. Ramani Durvusala and Outside Voices by Joan Gelfand, and the books on her to-be-read list, Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves by J. Drew Lanham and Village, by Latash N. Nevada Diggs.
The harvest in the audio garden this week, is all the tender offerings of an early spring, deeply personal, showing the vulnerability of budding youth betrayed, the unspoken stories behind the prevailing narratives that dominate the conventions we observe when we do speak to each other, and don’t speak to each other. If certain writers are banned, it is because they speak about the unspoken, the things that make people uncomfortable. Either because some people are bullies, or because they don’t want to confront the bullies directly, they clamor to cover what they don’t like, as if they can deny the light, but their covers and their cause will be degraded by the weather, and where there is love there will be light.
HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. FEATURED SPOKEN WORD: Martha Cinader, Amy Reed, Kelly Kelbel. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray.
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
Amy Reed
Amy Reed is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults, most recently of Tell Me My Name, one of the fifty most banned books in America in 2024. She also edited Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in Americ.
Kelly Kelbel
Kelly Kelbel co-owns a synthesizer company, Make Noise, with her partner, Tony, in West Asheville. In 2019, she started writing YA fiction and personal essays, and is currently working on a project called Chemo Companions, offering support to folks in the infusion room through writings, meditation, and music. www.makenoisemusic.com
FEATURED BOOKS
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Tell Me My Name
On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting–for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they’re together, Fern has purpose. She glimpses the secrets Ivy hides behind her…
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The Wisdom of Your Dreams
A renowned expert on the subject of dreams, Jeremy Taylor has studied dreams and has worked with thousands of people both individually and in dream groups for more than forty years. His discoveries show us how dreams can be the keys to gaining insight into our past and our conflicts, as well as excursions into…
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The Scapegoat
Two men—one English, the other French—meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes…
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It’s Not You
It’s not always easy to tell when you’re dealing with a narcissistic person. One day they draw you in with their charm and charisma, the next they gaslight you, wreck your self-esteem, and leave you wondering, What should I have done differently? As Dr. Ramani explains in It’s Not You, the answer is: absolutely nothing. Just as a…
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Joan Gelfand – Outside Voices
Second-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and the workplace. On election day, Joan Gelfand casts her vote for George McGovern and boards a plane from New York to California. With one introduction to…
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Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through seasonal shifts, societal unrest, and deeply personal reflection and traces a path from bitter history to the present predicament. Drawing canny connections between the precarity of nature and the long arm of racism, the collection offers…
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VILLAGE
In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labors…
SUBMISSIONS
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BANNED BOOKS
We invite you to share your voice
on the banning of books
in schools and libraries in the USA.
PEN America reported ‘While the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority demanding censorship, a 2022 poll conducted by The American Library Association found that over 70% of parents oppose book banning leaving many public school districts in a bind. We invite you to share your voice on the banning of books in schools and libraries in the USA.
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