What Is Work?

from The Unruly Muse · host Carrie Shipers, Kelly Yenser, David R Merrill, Lynda Miller, Lynn C Miller, John V Modaff

Teaser: Sinclair Lewis, American writer, 1915, “The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life” Song 1: Good Time written and performed by John V. Modaff Poem 1: “Reasons the Suggestion Box Has Been Removed” by Carrie Shipers. Carrie teaches higher ed. In Providence, RI. This poem first appeared in bosque journal #6, 2016: www.bosquepress.com. https://www.carrieshipers.com/ Short story: adaptation of “Regret” by Lynn C. Miller from a collection in process “Inside the Archive.” www.lynncmiller.com Poem 2: “Broadcast” by Kelly Yenser from The News as Usual, UNM Press. A new collection is forthcoming, WALKING UPHILL AT NOON. https://www.unmpress.com/books/news-usual/9780826360205 Song 2: Technology Run written and performed by David R. Merrill Theme and incidental music by John V. Modaff Episode artwork by Lynda Miller Next up on episode 10: “Landscapes Real and Imagined” Thank You to our listeners around the world. Please tell your friends about the podcast. Lynn & John

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The Unruly Duo takes a trip onto the twisty road of WORK: How can we think of work without considering play? Sometimes work is sustenance and at others a joy. In the end do we dream about a ‘labor of love’––work as passion and reward? And let’s not forget the question of how work gives us our identity…or takes it away.