Writers Voice with Francesca Rheannon | A radio book show and podcast featuring interviews with authors, poets, playwrights and more

We talk with creator of the Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, about her new book, INSECURE AT LAST: Losing It In Our Security Obsessed World. (…)

We talk with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia about poetry, the state of reading in America, and what role government can play in fostering the popular love of literature. (…)

In Part Two of this week’s podcast, we play an interview we first aired last year with the great “Eclectic Disc Jockey”, Studs Terkel. (…)

 

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In Part One of this week’s show, we talk with author and poet Richard Michelson about growing up Jewish in an African-American neighborhood in New York and his books for children coming out of that experience. (…)

 

 Richard Michelson & Maxine Kumin [31:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Part Two of Writer’s Voice show broadcast on WMUA 91.1 FM on December 15, 2006. Podcast pioneer Rob Walch tells us the TRICKS OF THE PODCASTING MASTERS. (…)

 

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Part One of show broadcast, WMUA 91.1 FM December 15, 2006. Peter Bowerman talks with us live about THE WELL-FED SELF-PUBLISHER. (…)

 

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We talk with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia about The Big Read. We also play selections from POETRY OUT LOAD, a CD produced by the NEA. (…)