s2e36 – The Cultural History of Writers in New Orleans, Writers in the Carolinas

Professor T.R. Johnson, POET Randy Gonzales, authors Cassidy Collins, Joseph Mills, Kathie Collins, and Michele Tracy Berger

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SHOW NOTES

s2e36
November 14, 2024

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Martha talks with Professor TR Johnson (A Writer’s City, New Orleans) about the origins of literature in New Orleans. Tony Robles talks to authors Cassidy Collins, Joseph Mills, Kathie Collins and Michele Tracy Berger at the NCWN Conference. We feature poet Randy Gonzales, thoughts on banning books, and some Earth poetry.

HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. FEATURED POET: Randy Gonzales. GUESTS: Professor TR Johnson, Authors Cassidy Collins, Joseph Mills, Kathie Collins and Michele Tracy Berger. 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. Living It! is from the CD, Living It!, Martha Cinader’s Po’azz Yo’azz.

GUESTS

T. R. Johnson – Professor of English, Author

T. R. Johnson is a Professor of English and Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane University. He is the author of New Orleans: A Writer’s City (2023) and the editor of New Orleans: A Literary History (2019). He has also written books about psychoanalysis, teaching, and prose-style. For over twenty years, he has lived in the…
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Tony Robles at The North Carolina Writers’ Network Conference – Part 2

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 novelists CASSIDY COLLINS and MICHELE TRACY BERGER, and poets JOSEPH MILLS and KATHIE COLLINS

Last week we featured interviews with KENLY CORYA from the North Carolina Literary Review, PAUL REALI, from Charlotte Lit and PETER GRIMES from Pembroke Magazine.

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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

Randy Gonzales – Poet, Community Historian

“Cultural Memory”

From his book Settling St. Malo

Randy Gonzales is a native New Orleanian of Filipino descent; a poet, writer, and community historian who researches and shares the stories of Filipino Louisiana; a scholar and educator, an associate professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who holds the Dr. James Wilson/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Professorship in Southern Studies; a…
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FEATURED BOOKS

T. R. Johnson – New Orleans: A Writer’s City

Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States—when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras floats in New Orleans. Poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Filipino communities and his…
Read more: T. R. Johnson – New Orleans: A Writer’s City
Randy Gonzales – Settling St. Malo

Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States—when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras floats in New Orleans. Poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Filipino communities and his…
Read more: Randy Gonzales – Settling St. Malo

The Accidental City, Lawrence N. Powell

Mules and Men, Zora Neal Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

Negro: An Anthology, Nancy Cunard

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows

VIDEOS

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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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T. R. Johnson – Professor of English, Author

Randy Gonzales – Poet, Community Historian

T. R. Johnson – New Orleans: A Writer’s City

Randy Gonzales – Settling St. Malo

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