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12.02.08 [ podcast ]
David Vann is the nationally bestselling memoirist of A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea, featured on NPR, Voice of America, and Fox News. Listen as he reads from his new award-winning short story collection, Legend of a Suicide.
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11.18.08 [ podcast ]
Ethan Canin reads from his new novel, America America, then confesses that he wishes the election had never ended.
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11.11.08 [ podcast ]
Gretchen Legler reads from her latest book of nonfiction, On the Ice, and discusses her experiences living in Antarctica. Lisa Zimmerman’s follows with poems from her newest book, The Light At the Edge of Everything.
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10.21.08 [ podcast ]
Screenwriter and novelist Richard Price reads from his latest book, Lush Life.
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10.14.08 [ podcast ]
Katy Lederer reads from The Heaven-Sent Leaf, and Brian Turner reads from his award-winning first book, Here, Bullet. [ listen ]
9.30.08 [ podcast ]
Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry and previously worked as the Curator of the Poetry Room at Harvard University and Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review. His collection Union, was a finalist for the Boston Globe/PEN New England Winship Award for outstanding book. His other books include Seneca in English and I Have Lots of Heart, translations of Miguel Hernandez, which received the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize. Listen to him read from his most recent collection of poems, Squandermania. [ listen ]
09.09.08 [ podcast ]
Steve Almond, author of short story collections The Evil B.B. Chow and My Life in Heavy Metal, non-fiction books Candyfreak, a Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America and (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions and the novel Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions (jointly authored with Julianna Baggott), delivers a hilarious and uproarious reading of non-fiction pieces, guidelines for writers, and letters in response to hate mail from the frothing American right wing. Listen to the podcast to hear about Almond’s first handjob, how one ought to write a sex scene, and much much more. [ listen ]
09.02.08 [ podcast ]
Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler reads from his most recent short story collection, Intercourse, and his forthcoming novel, Hell. [ listen ]
07.28.08 [ podcast ]
Adventurer Bucky McMahon reads his account of traveling to the Peruvian jungles to ingest the mother of all hallucinogens, ayahuasca, and Don Yaeger, bestselling author and longtime associate editor of Sports Illustrated, reads from his forthcoming novel, Running for My Life, about the life of NFL running back Warrick Dunn. [ listen ]
06.24.08 [ podcast ]
Stephen Dobyns reads a selection of poems, with topics ranging from talking dogs to erotica. [ listen ]
05.30.08 [ podcast ]
Jeanne Leiby reads from her collection, Downriver, and Rick Campbell reads from his collection of poems, Dixmont. [ listen ]
05.17.08 [ podcast ]
Jeanne Leiby, editor of the Southern Review, offers her insight on the submission process. [ listen ]
03.28.08 [ podcast ]
Salman Rushdie talks about craft, language, and hanging out with Bono. [ listen ]
02.27.08 [ podcast ]
Mark Jarman reads from his latest collection of poems. [ listen ]
02.14.08 [ podcast ]
Hal Crowther gives us his insights into Key West and Lee Smith reflects on writing and its relationship to real life. (30mb) [ listen ]
01.25.08 [ podcast ]
Julianna Baggott delivers a scintillating reading ranging from raucous Bode-isms to dark meditations. [ listen ]
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2009 SER CONTESTS
World’s Best Short Short Story * Poetry * Narrative Nonfiction (second ever!)
Judges: Robert Olen Butler, Julianna Baggott, David Vann
Deadline: March 6, 2009! [ guidelines ]
1.6.2009
Interview with Arielle Greenburg
“Being a feminist means speaking up, without fear, about my own experiences as a woman, and for the rights of women, and for women's experiences in general.”
Read about Arielle Greenburg’s philosophies on feminism and how having a child has affected her “brainspace.” [ read ]
12.17.2008
Poets on Process: Andrew Hudgins
“No, I am absolutely not a first thought, best thought kind of person. I consider first drafts a necessary evil to get to the good stuff and one of the hardest things that I had to learn as a writer was not to get depressed by early first versions of things.”
This is SER’s first episode of Poets on Process. Listen in as Andrew Hudgins discusses his writing process with Frank Giampietro. [ transcript & podcast ]
11.20.2008
Interview with Kenneth Hart
“So I think my poems are more representational—seeing something in the world, responding to it, and then there’s kind of a dialogue between me and the thing, or the thing and something else.”
Discover what kind of poetry moves Kenneth Hart and how he makes the balance between the abstract and the concrete in his book Uh Oh Time. [ read ]
11.13.2008
Interview with Rachel Zucker
“I’m obsessed with the spine. It seems so fragile, so smart, so important, so ridiculous.”
Read this interview with Rachel Zucker about her new book of poetry The Bad Wife Handbook and learn about her obsession with squirrels and how you can be a bad wife. [ read ]
11.12.2008
Interview with Sam Witt
“I’d like to attempt to seduce a woman I really care for with a poem I wrote just for her, then burn that poem the next day, whether it worked or not.”
Read about Sam Witt, the British-born poet who talks about the running themes in his poetry such as death and silence. Also, learn about his childhood obsession with a certain fictional character that led him to walk around his neighborhood in a silk dressing gown and fedora. [ read ]
Best New Poets 2008
Congratulations to Landon Godfrey whose poem “Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown” was chosen for inclusion in Best New Poets 2008. Godfrey’s poem was originally published in Volume 26.1 of The Southeast Review.
Landon Godfrey was born and raised in Washington, DC, and now lives in Black Mountain, NC, with her husband, Gary Hawkins. She works as a freelance writer and artist. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including The Southeast Review, Lyric, Chelsea, The Beloit Poetry Review, The Cimarron Review, and POOL, as well as the anthology Best New Poets 2008.
10.06.2008
Getting to Know Angela Ball
“I had a vague belief in a kind of pantheism that trees, rocks, plants, all the elements of nature, had hidden lives that could be captured in language.”
Read this interview with Angela Ball, winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, talking about her lyrical, wry, and rueful poems that float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft. She creates a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous. Learn how Angela Ball became a writer and about her ideas of identity. [ read ]
10.03.2008
Affrilachia at the Nuyorican
“The night was alive with Nuyorican and Affrilachian spirits coming together to share stories, glasses of cheap wine, loud laughter, and linking hands across the mountains, across cities and towns. Our voices sounded like the earth opening up, and changing.”
Ellen Hagan’s Affrilachian manifesto illustrates that poetry can still be an influential force of change and that the radical power of a socially active community of artists is exactly what we need at this moment in history. She also discusses the history of Affrilachian poetry and paints a vivid scene of the famed Nuyorican Cafe. [ read ]
09.18.2008
Interview with Katherine Min
“To be a child of immigrants is to learn early on that there are two ways of being, one inside the home and one outside. It’s a constant negotiation – take off your shoes inside the house, use chopsticks, eat kimchi; outside the house, put on make-up, smoke cigarettes, make out with boys.”
Read about Katherine Min and her book, Secondhand World, in which an Asian-American teenager struggles to find her place. Min discusses how this book came to be and how she can relate with her main character, Isa. Also, find out what kind of child Min was and what writers she admires at the moment. [ read ]
09.08.2008
Interview with Jean Sprackland
“I don’t sign up to this myth of the suffering poet. No one is making me write poems—it’s a choice, and I feel very lucky to have stumbled across something I find so absorbing.”
Find out how poet Jean Sprackland reinvents everyday discarded items into poetry and why she’s so obsessed with water. [ read ]
08.28.2008
Behind the Scenes: Building the Sanibel Writers Conference
“I don’t use the word ‘quaint’ very often, but every time I drive down Big Arts’ street, when I see the ‘Caution—Gopher Tortoise Crossing’ road sign, I think ‘How quaint.’”
Read this interview with Tom DeMarchi, who built a writers conference from the ground up—on some of the most beautiful ground in the world. [ read ]
08.21.2008
Interview with Matthea Harvey
“This is where I tell you that I’m two people, Mat and Thea and we’re always at war, or that I’m actually an alien.”
Discover how Matthea Harvey creates centaurs and catgoats in a fairytale manner and her love of robots. Also, read about how she coped with 9/11 and her reaction to the fact that there are microscopic particles of barbeque floating over Houston, Texas. [ read ]
08.06.2008
Interview with April Ossmann
“My ego likes feeling different/special, but my spiritual self sees the apprehension of oneness or unity as the ideal, all as integral, but not interchangeable, parts of a whole.”
Discover April Ossmann’s view of her own writing and what kind of “music” she believes her poems play in this lovely interview containing new insight on her content and style. [ read ]
07.28.2008
Interview with C. Mikal Oness
“I emptied a large room and played several games of poetry solitaire with the poems, experimenting with arrangement.”
Learn about C. Mikal Oness’s obsession with Old English and how he survived at boating accident only to suffer a great loss afterward. Also: his taste for Clun Forest Sheep (yes, he eats them) and camping in rural Minnesota. [ read ]
07.14.2008
Interview with John Dufresne
“A fiction writer has no reason to lie. A memoirist has an illusion to protect.”
John Dufresne opens up about writing, inspiration, and his brand new novel, Requiem, Mass. [ read ]
07.05.2008
Quickie Quick Take with Steve Watkins
“All genres are challenging. Just different sorts of challenges, all of which I both fear and enjoy.”
Read how Steve Watkins balances life between writing and his family, what writer he envies most, and his favorite curse word. You’ll laugh out loud. [ read ]
06.24.2008
Antidote to Distraction: An Interview with Ross Gay
“Having the illusion of race a bit more concretely deconstructed on one’s body seems like a privilege. (But, to be clear, race is contested and deconstructed on everyone’s body: black, white, Asian, biracial or whatever.)”
Ross Gay discusses optimism and violence, syntax and sound, Milton and basketball, and the pleasures and purpose of poetry. [ read ]
06.14.2008
Something for the Pain
“I knew I’d feel lame trying to explain that the screaming woman who looked so much like my daughter had made me feel vulnerable and clumsy.”
Paul Austin’s essay is an open look into his life as an ER doctor. Read to find out how one particular case hit him close to home. [ read ]
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