Tag: writer
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s2e5 Poet Laureates and Publishing in the South
Martha Cinader speaks with Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt, the first Poet Laureate and Teen Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC and they also share some poetry. We also speak with Meg Reid, Executive Director of Hub City Publishing in Spartanburg, SC about what kind of books they look for, and her upcoming workshop about…
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S1E41 – Writers Reading part 3
In which we feature writers we interviewed during Season One reading from their books. Vanessa Lee Miller – Wai Luku, Lou Syquia – For Al Robles, Yvette Murray – Hush, Puppy, Avotcja – Oaktown Blues, Oscar Peñaranda – Followers of the Seasons, Glenis Redmond – The Listening Skin, Opal Palmer Adisa – Pretty Like Jamaica,…
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S1E40 – Writers Reading part 2
In which we feature writers we interviewed during Season One reading from their books. Featured Writers and Their Books: Oliver De La Paz-The Diaspora Sonnets, Anne Myles-Late Epistle, Karen Luke Jackson-Grit, David Cameron and Tabitha-Open Mic, Scott Kikawa-Char Siu, Nancy Sloan-The Gravel Driveway, Betty Ann Quirino-Every Ounce of Courage, Darren Todd-The Ugly Mug, Eric Nelson-House…
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S1E39 – Writers Reading part 1
In which we feature writers we interviewed during Season One reading from their books. Lesley-Ann Brown – Blackgirl on Mars, Keali’i McKenzie – Mana of Salt, Frank Gioia – The Mercury Man, Randy Gonzalez – Settling St. Malo, Tony Alderondo – Open Mic, Tony Robles – Thrift Store Metamorphosis, Rachel Barton, Connie Soper, Reika Reid,…
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S1E38 – Blackgirl on Mars
Martha Cinader speaks with Lesley-Ann Brown in Denmark, about her memoir, Blackgirl on Mars, a physical and spiritual search to discover home. The free-flowing conversation covers the mind of Carl Linnaeus, the waters of modern life and up-to-the-minute decolonization of our minds, and also how she got published and her thoughts on banned books. Also…
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S1E37 – A Song of Salt
Tony Robles speaks with poet, Keali’i MacKenzie, The Mana of Salt, and visits a reading in Greensboro, NC where he speaks to Caroline Cottom, love and nuclear testing and Ross White about EKG’s, poetry, and banned books.
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S1E36 – Writers on Writing
Podcast 36 – Fresh from the field Tony Robles, our own people’s poet, storyteller and radio reporter spoke to the Executive Director of the North Carolina Writers Network, who has a new book out, poets, historians, memoirists, publishers and a poet laureate, about the state of writing, the mental state of writers and their thoughts…
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Writers on Writing
Fresh from the field Tony Robles, our own people’s poet, storyteller and radio reporter spoke to the Executive Director of the North Carolina Writers Network, who has a new book out, poets, historians, memoirists, publishers and a poet laureate, about the state of writing, the mental state of writers and their thoughts about banned books…
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S1E33 – A Southern Thing with Ron Rash and Vinnie Vineyard
Tony Robles speaks southern author, Ron Rash, about about craft and sports. I speak with Vinnie Vineyard the director, producer and star of WJHC AM. Also supernatural Cherokee legend, Spearfinger, and Masque of the Red Death
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This Black August: A Ferguson, MO 2014 Reflection
Almost ten years later, here we are making known another Black August, bringing attention to another Black August as the same dangers exist for Black women and men as they did when Mike Brown was shot down in Ferguson, MO.
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The Downside of a Creative Mind
Much has been written about creative types and their tendency to overanalyze the world around them and question their place in it. That writing comes from minds more scientific and medical than mine; however, I related two truths with complete confidence: He’s not alone in his struggles, and a certain amount of angst can be…