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Poetry Foundation Partnership Underway
We are delighted to announce a collaboration with The Poetry Foundation that will bring recordings from the Key West Literary Seminar <a href="http://www.kwls.org/lit/podcasts/">audio archives</a> to a much larger audience. The Chicago-based foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world, the publisher of the historic <em>Poetry</em> magazine, and the creator of <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/" target="_blank">poetryfoundation.org</a>- arguably the most comprehensive resource for readers of poetry on the web.
Billy Collins: 2003
This recording was made in January of 2003, during Billy Collins's second term as Laureate. He reads a selection of poems, including "Shoveling Snow With Buddha," "Monday," "Flock," "Creatures," "The Lanyard," "The Country," "Surprise," "No Time," "Love," "Sonnet," "Japan," "Forgetfulness," "Consolation," "On Turning Ten," and "Nightclub."
podcast:<br>Edmund White: A Man's Own Story
Edmund White talks about finding a style and a mode of expression to approach the gay subject matter which has been his life's work. Discussing social, professional, and aesthetic attitudes toward gays and "gay literature," White reveals his experience...
Podcast: Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala reads from a nonfiction work-in-progress about people living with HIV/AIDS in northern Nigeria. Set in and around a rural hospital in northern Nigeria, the excerpt focuses on a young man named Ifanye, and his struggle with "the something"...
Podcast: How does a publisher find a new voice?
Elisabeth Scharlatt, publisher of Algonquin Books, and Manuel Muñoz, author of The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, discuss the hurdles and biases Muñoz encountered along his way to publication. Muñoz's roots in California's Central Valley and his concern with...
Key West Loves Lee Smith
Here's a treat for Lee Smith fans: two podcasts, one of her 2008 Keynote Address, and a gem from the 2005 Seminar. Left, the lovely Smith with Miles Frieden, Executive Director of the Seminar, moments before she delivered her home-run...
Podcast: What does a new voice sound like?
Edmund White, Maggie Nelson, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Patrick Ryan (R to L) discuss "newness" in authorial voice, using Harold Bloom's idea of "the anxiety of influence" as a jumping-off point. Nguyen's theory of "the Asian once-over," Ryan's "Impostor Syndrome,"...
Podcast: Janna Levin in conversation with James Gleick
Pulitzer finalist James Gleick and theoretical physicist-cum-novelist Janna Levin discuss the tensions between science and art evidenced by her novel, "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines." Why stray from the "facts," Gleick wonders, in telling a story of Alan Turing...
Junot Diaz Podcast Now Available
Junot Díaz reads from his 2007 novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," and, in far-ranging comments, addresses the danger inherent in a dominant authorial voice. "No matter how many ruses I use," Junot says, "I'm the only...
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