Sat, 24 November 2007
This week's guest, Cicily R. Janus is an active-protagonist turned writer, nurse and mother
living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her works have appeared in or are
scheduled to appear in Underground
Voices, Aesthetica, Eclectica, Del Sol Review, Hecale,
The Guild of the Outsider Writers,
Writers Post Journal, Venus Envy: A Magazine For Women, Perspectives Magazine,
Dogzplot Fiction, Tuesday Shorts, and Handmaidens, to
name a few. Currently, she is on staff as an assistant editor for the literary
magazine Bust Down the Door and
Eat All the Chickens: A Literary Journal of the Absurd and Surreal. A
chap-book featuring her essays, poetic prose and rants, entitled, The Pencil
Pusher's Prose, is due out in mid-2008 by Scintillating
Publications, and her first novels, The Burden of Betrayal and
The Reluctance of the Ruling are currently in progress. For some tips
on writing the novel, see
this site. You can contact Cicily through her widely popular blogs on Myspace, and visit her Myspace profile. Finally, visit her website, under construction but
due to be finished within the next few weeks.
Other works include a few songs and some of your host's work. |
Tue, 20 November 2007
Featuring a collaboration between author Carol Novack and
Donald C. Meyer. Dr. Meyer is a composer and musicologist who collaborates with choreographers,
filmmakers, theater directors, and authors to create multi-media works that
interweave classical and contemporary sounds into poly-vocal aesthetic
structures. He is the author of articles on American cultural history and rock
music and a music appreciation textbook called Perspectives on Music (Prentice
Hall, 2003). Dr. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Music
Department at Lake Forest College.
New Yorker Carol Novack, a former criminal defense lawyer and Australian
government grant recipient, is the author of a chapbook of poetry, play,
collaborative CD and two collaborative films. Writings may or will be found in
many publications, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets,
Action Yes, Del Sol Review, Diagram, 5_trope, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental
Fiction, La Petite Zine, LIT, Notre Dame Review, Otoliths, and the
Star*Vigate anthology of best online writings. Carol publishes the
multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters'
Review, curates a reading series, and leads lyrical fiction writing
workshops. She'll be a resident at The Vermont Studio Center next year. For
additional details, see her blog.
Minnows is in the current issue (18) of American Letters & Commentary. |
Sun, 11 November 2007
This week's show includes a fabulous audio presentation by Jesse Loren, an MFA graduate of UNO. She studies poetry, gardens, and teaches high school journalism. Jesse is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront. Since 2005 she has had a deep relationship with an Infantry medic and purple heart vet who is the subject of one of her two pieces, You Will Be Measured. The other is entitled What Babies Really Do. Looking to please the king of TothWorld? Listen to these pieces.Additionally, let it be known that I will soon resume phone recorded readings. First, I must have a tooth removed or, apparently, half my face sawed off. For those of you who responded to the Poets and Writers (home of the world's most pretentious bio photos) classified ad, and couldn't handle recording yourselves, I'll be getting back to you in the order in which I find your original emails. Finally, cheer up: The world can't get any better. |
Fri, 2 November 2007
This week's show is a tribute to "writer's writer" (read: unread) Stanley Elkin,
the unsung John Coltrane of the novel. Also included: a collaboration between
Scott Schroen of Ugly Radio Rebellion and
myself.
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