New Letters on the Air Podcast
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New Letters quarterly and its audio companion, New Letters on the Air, are part of a national literary tradition that serves readers and writers across the world. On this Web site, you can search for a particular poem, story or essay from the past 70 years of New Letters or its previous title, The University Review. You can search the database of over 7,500 poems, stories, and essays from over 120 back issues. New Letters actively maintains a calendar of literary events and readings in the Kansas City region, as well as information about our international writing contests and two summer writing workshops.
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Heidi Durrow
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Author: New Letters on the Air
Wed, Feb 8, 2012
Author Heidi Durrow, much like the heroine in her book-club favorite novel THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, grew up in a biracial household. She talks about the odd dichotomy of being both African-American and Danish, and the impact of her mixed heritage. Durrow also discusses the long road she took to write this novel that ended up being published in 2010 as the winner of the Bellwether Prize for Literature and Social Change, an award established by Barbara Kingsolver. 
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James Richardson
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Wed, Feb 1, 2012
The poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His 2004 book, INTERGLACIAL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS AND APHORISMS, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and his 2010 book BY THE NUMBERS: POEMS AND APHORISMS, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He reads from the latter collection and explains why he thinks it's crucial to his creative process to take "unproductive, wasted" stretches time between books.
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Peggy Shumaker
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Wed, Jan 25, 2012
After recovering from a nearly fatal accident, all Peggy Shumaker wanted to do was read. The poet, and Alaska's State Writer Laureate from 2010-2012, eventually began to write again as well, and while she didn't intend to write a memoir, that's what her collection of vignettes, called JUST BREATHE NORMALLY, became. Shumaker reads from the book and from her poetry collection, GNAWED BONES. She also discusses how writing allows her to take what she calls a kaleidoscopic look at the "broken shards" of her experience, incorporating her physical recovery from the accident with family memories and ancestral stories.
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The Symphony
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Thu, Jan 19, 2012
The Symphony is a poetry collective comprised of John Murillo, Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackson. They first met at Cave Canem, the black writers' symposium, and discovered they all had a shared love of the late African-American poet Etheridge Knight. The four bonded, kept in touch, and now present readings of Knight’s work, as well as their own. In this recording they read from their books and discuss writing about the African-American male experience, from that of an ex-convict to a magna cum laude graduate.
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Lorraine Lopez
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Thu, Jan 12, 2012
Fiction writer and Vanderbilt University professor Lorraine Lopez was shocked in 2010, when her book of short fiction, HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES, became a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Published by a small press, the book was up against the work of Sherman Alexie, Barbara Kingsolver, and Lorrie Moore. Lopez reads from her now recognized collection and talks about why she truly loves writing short stories, and how it differs from writing novels. Her 2011 releases include THE REALM OF HUNGRY SPIRITS, a novel, and a collection of essays that she co-edited, called THE OTHER LATINO: WRITING AGAINST A SINGULAR IDENTITY.
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Michelle Boisseau
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Mon, Jan 2, 2012
A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS takes its title from the notion that inside the long stretch of geologic time, human history happens in the blink of God's eye as he rolls over during a Sunday nap. Michelle Boisseau traced some of her own family history back to a Virginia plantation for her fourth collection that is centered around the long poem, "A Reckoning." Made up of 15 sections, it explores the connections between the heirs of slaveholders and slaves, and the repercussions felt in today's society.
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Robert Bly
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Wed, Dec 28, 2011
Robert Bly, the preeminent poet, translator, and cultural commentator, reads from his 2011 poetry collection, TALKING INTO THE EAR OF A DONKEY. Winner of a National Book Award and two Guggenheims, Bly has published over twenty collections of poetry, and is highly regarded as a great translator of international poetry. In this recording of his reading at Rockhurst University's Midwest Poets Series, he performs with sitartist David Whetstone and also reads from MY SENTENCE WAS A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY: POEMS, his own adaptation of the Mideastern ghazal form in three-line stanzas.
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Christie Hodgen
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Author: New Letters on the Air
Fri, Dec 9, 2011
In this interview before an audience at the Kansas City Public Library, Christie Hodgen talks about the heartbreaking, yet funny characters in her novels HELLO, I MUST BE GOING and ELEGIES FOR THE BROKENHEARTED. Both books began as short stories, so Hodgen discusses the craft of writing short and long-form fiction and why, despite her own happy childhood, her work often deals with dysfunctional families, handled with her trademark humor. She also talks about commonalities she shares with her father, poet John Hodgen.
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Michael Chabon
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Wed, Nov 30, 2011
For Thanksgiving weekend, we revisit Michael Chabon, who shares stories about family and food. Since winning the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY, an epic novel that brings together the creation of Superman, Jewish myths, and forbidden love, Michael Chabon has written novels that bring science fictional elements to literary fiction. His books for young readers include the 2011 picture book, THE ASTONISHING SECRET OF AWESOME MAN, and the baseball fantasy novel, SUMMERLAND, now out in paperback. He talks about his book of essays on his creative process, called MAPS AND LEGENDS, and his 2009 memoir, MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS: THE PLEASURES AND REGRETS OF A HUSBAND, FATHER, and SON.
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Wayne Miller
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Wed, Nov 23, 2011
Wayne Miller calls himself an "obsessive reviser" who tries editors' patience; ironic given that he edits PLEIADES: A JOURNAL OF NEW WRITING at the University of Central Missouri, where he also directs the Creative Writing program. Miller reads from his 2011 collection, THE CITY, OUR CITY, and talks about how history and war shape culture and language. He also discusses the art of translation and what it can teach young poets, and shares award-winning poems from his 2006 book, ONLY THE SENSES SLEEP, and his 2009 collection, THE BOOK OF PROPS.
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