Wrbh Reading Radio Original Programming Podcasts

We are joined again by poet and professor Laura Mullen to share a curated look at some of her work, as well as the work of a few other poets she's been reading and admires. Laura Mullen is the author of eight books and the McElveen Professor of English at LSU. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. Her work has been widely anthologized, and she is the librettist for Nathan Davis’ a Sound Uttered, a Silence crossed (for choir and percussion) which was commissioned by the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. Recent poems have appeared in The Nation, Jubilat, 1111, and Lana Turner. She was the 2017-2018 Arons poet at Tulane and also affiliate faculty at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas for 2018. Her translation of Veronique Pittolo's Hero is forthcoming from Black Square. Originally aired on December 3rd 2018.

Amy talks with Chefs Mary and Greg Sonnier, proprietors of Gabrielle's Restaurant. Originally aired on November 14th 2018.

David chats with Antenna's new Room 220 editor and multi-disciplinary artist and writer Kristina Kay Robinson. Originally aired on November 29th 2018.

Amy talks with Susan Reid of King Arthur Flour. Originally aired on Nov 28th 2018.

Originally aired on November 22nd 2018.

Megan Burns gives an update on the opening of her new poetry-centric project-- The Dragonfly: Poetry and Performance Ritual Space located on St. Claude. More information about the space can be found here: https://www.noladragonfly.com/ Originally aired on November 15th 2018.

David talks with poet Peter Twal about his debut poetry collection, OUR EARLIEST TATTOOS. Originally aired on November 15th 2018.

Alex shares an original story based on his family history and lore. Originally aired on November 24th 2018.

Author and Dogfish co-founder Jessica Kinnison joins us in the studio to share some original work. Originally aired on November 10th 2018.

Sherry sits down with author Anne Lamott for a quick chat during her recent New Orleans visit. Originally aired on November 8th 2018.

Originally aired on October 23rd 2018.

April Blevins Pejic teaches writing and literature at Nicholls State University. Her work has appeared in The Cimarron Review, Arcadia Magazine, The Green Briar Review, Furious Season, Ellipsis, and the fiction anthology Monday Nights. Her essay, “A History We Can Live With” was chosen as a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2015. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Orleans and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. The piece she reads in this recording is called, "Clusters and the Cosmos" and was published in the spring issue of the Cimarron Review. Originally aired on November 3rd 2018.

Our monthly update with One Book One New Orleans' Megan Holt. This month its all about the upcoming Words & Music: A Literary Feast festival starting on Nov. 15th. Tune in to hear more about all the cool events and panels happening (including one with WRBH!). More information about it can be found here: http://wordsandmusic.org/about/ Originally aired on November 1st 2018.

Originally aired on October 31st 2018.

David speaks with poet and essayist Anne Boyer about her latest collection of essays A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE and upcoming memoir THE UNDYING. Originally aired on November 1st 2018.

David and Michael talk about his new Bobby Delery book CITY KRYSTAL SOULMAN. Originally aired on November 1st 2018.

Originally aired on October 24th 2018.

David sits down again with essayist and soon to be novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin to talk film, gentrification on Freret St, and how his novel WE CAST A SHADOW came to be. Originally aired on October 25th 2018.

Originally aired on October 18th 2018.

David talks with two writers today: Poet Donna Masini and author Ken Foster. Originally aired on October 11th 2018.