s2e35 Rust Belt Feminism and Carolina Lit Mags
Featuring Sherrie Flick, Kenly Corya, Paul RealI, Peter Grimes, and Homer Erotic
SHOW NOTES
s2e35
November 07, 2024
This week we feature Sherrie Flick, author of Homing: Instincts of a Rust Belt Feminist and North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference attendees, Kenly Corya (NC Lit. Review), Paul Reali (Charlotte Lit), and Peter Grimes (Pembroke Magazine). Spoken word by Homer Erotic, comments about banning books, and some garden poetry.
HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. GUESTS: Sherrie Flick, Homer Erotic, Kenly Corya, Paul Reali, Peter Grimes. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. “King of Ghosts” from the CD, Yield, by Homer Erotic. Sherrie Flick read from the essay “Bank Shot,” from her book of essays, Homing, Instincts of a Rust Belt Feminist. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray. Living it is from the CD, Living It!, Martha Cinader’s Po’azz Yo’azz.
GUESTS
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Sherrie Flick – Author, Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College
Sherrie Flick is the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College. She received a 2023 Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She served as co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018. Her third story collection, I Have Not Considered Consequences, will publish in April 2025 with Autumn House Press. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist published with University of Nebraska Press in September 2024 as part of their American Lives series. Her…
Tony Robles at The North Carolina Writers’ Network Conference – Part 1
Tony Robles attends the Fall 2024 North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Traditionally a three-day event, the 2024 Fall Conference changed the planned location from Asheville, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene. Tony speaks with KENLY CORYA from the North Carolina Literary Review, PAUL REALI, from Charlotte Lit and PETER GRIMES from Pembroke Magazine
Next week we will feature interviews with novelists CASSIDY COLLINS and MICHELE TRACY BERGER, and poets JOSEPH MILLS and KATHIE COLLINS.
[ Listen to Part 2 ]
Cassidy Collins, author of The Aria
Joseph Mills author of Bodies in Motion
Kathie Collins, Co-founder and creative director of Charlotte Lit
Kenly Corya, Editorial Assistant at the North Carolina Literary Review
Michele Tracy Berger, author of Doll Seed
Peter Grimes, Editor of Pembroke Magazine
Paul Reali, Author, Co-founder of Charlotte Lit
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
Homer Erotic
“King of Ghosts”
from the CD Yield
Barbara Barg and Maggie Dubris, two poets/musicians coming out of the New York School, decided to start Homer Erotic in 1990. After being in other bands, mostly led by men, they decided to start a band that was more of a democracy than a hierarchy led by one person.
When asked where the iconic name came from, Dubris talked about receiving a call from Barbara saying if they called the band “Homer Erotic” they could apply for a grant from the NEA, not get it because their art would be deemed homosexual, and then they’d sue to get money! Though the band started out as somewhat of a joke between the two, they played together for 10 years and after accomplishing everything they wanted to are still able to remain friends. Barbara recently passed away and the band reunited and performed in her honor.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Sherrie Flick – Homing
Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, returned to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, witnessing the region’s before and its after.
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Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could…
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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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Ongoing discussion
Climate Resilience with Laura Lengnick & Meredith Leigh
Climate change is the concern of every writer because it is the concern of every person. Every season, we meet with Laura Lengnick, Meredith Leigh and friends to discuss everything related to agricultural and climate resilience.
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