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Fluenz Mandarin 3
by Cynthia Rosi
For writers and readers who find solace in books, poetry, and essays, Word Carver explores the craft of writing. Host Cynthia Rosi gives insights into the life and craft of working writers, and reviews new work in books and literary magazines. With additional reporting by Amy Dalrymple. Music is Rise and Shine (2015) by Seastock on Jamendo.com.
Episodes
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Kourouma review, and new poems
In Word Carver 40, Cynthia Rosi and co-host Herbert Ndeki II explore poetry. Ndeki reviews Ahmadou Kourouma's "Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on Earth" (warning: strong language -- Kourouma makes liberal use of the n-word in his soldier-boy character) while Rosi...
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Translation, French to English, of Aimé Césaire
Herbert Ndeki II, a Cameroon native and American emigre, reads poems from Aimé Césaire's work Cahier D'Un Retour and analyses the translation choices. Aimé Césaire was born in 1913 and pioneered the concept of "blackness." He grew up in the French colony of Martinique and moved to Paris where he...
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Short story and book review
Herbert Ndeki reviews "How to Cook Your Husband the African Way" by Calixte Beyala, and Cynthia Rosi reads the short story "The Company" which arrived in a dream, and was written over two days.
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Calixte Beyala and Heather Christle
Herbert Ndeki reviews "How to Cook Your Husband the African Way" by Calixte Beyala. Heather Christle reads at Paging Columbus from her poetic works.
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African authors and an Indian architect
Herbert Ndeki, a native-French speaker from Cameroon, reviews authors from the African canon. Hemu Venkataraman speaks about her work as an artist, author, and architect.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars, Sherrie Flick
Flash fiction that coils back a spring and then packs a punch -- Sherrie was into flash before it had a name. We dropped into Grammercy Books to pick up a copy and hear Flick read her work, before sitting down to analyze the stories. Follow @wordcarverradio on Twitter.
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Word Carver, working lunch
Amy and Cynthia analyze poems they love and gossip about the writing life.
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Lee Martin | The Mutual UFO Network
Master writer Lee Martin takes us behind the scenes in his new short-story volume The Mutual UFO Network, a book that took 16 years to craft. Martin is a Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University, and the author of a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Bright Forever.
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Charles O'Donnell | #amwriting and Self Publishing
Self-publishing is easy -- if you've spent 35 years as an engineer in product development like Charles O'Donnell. The discipline and pacing of engineering means that the author of The Girlfriend Experience and Shredded can keep up a production schedule and a writing schedule simultaneously: not…
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The Husband | Aaron Daniel Behr
In The Husband, Aaron Daniel Behr explores the end of his marriage and debilitating anxiety. Behr reveals the roots of trauma in his life and how that impacted his relationships, but also how he has healed through self-awareness and a strengthening faith. The Husband is out from Columbus Press.…
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Re|Gun Reboot
Ronald Re|Gun -- a re-animated cyborg version of the dead President -- tries to take over the world. Only a tortoise from the Galapagos has the power to stop him. Listen to work from students at Columbus State, as they take you into an altered reality in "Re|Gun Reboot." Artwork by Ryann Chambers.
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Dustin Pearson and Hannah Stephenson
Dustin Pearson and Hannah Stephenson speak about their poetry collections. Pearson's "Millennial Roost" uses the metaphor of the chicken yard to describe violation. He's a McKnight Doctoral Fellow at Florida State University and has won many awards. Stephenson, who blogs at The Storialist read…
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Best Books of February with Gramercy's Linda Kass
Cold weather means hot chocolate and good books, so snuggle up and listen to the top picks. From Tayari Jone's Oprah Book Club winner to the latest from the author of The Nightingale plus many more, Linda Kass walks you through the best of the February titles in independent bookstores around the...
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Steve Abbott and A Green Line Between Green Fields
Poet Steve Abbott discusses his poetry volume, craft, and the acceptance of melancholy with show host Cynthia Rosi.
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Maggie Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Nick White: Highlights
Poet Maggie Smith of Good Bones, essayist Hanif Abdurraqib of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and novelist Nick White of How to Survive a Summer all appeared on Word Carver -- here are my favorite parts of our conversations. Smith talks about the relationship between her poetry and the lost...
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The Path Not Chosen: Stories of Mental Health
Columbus-based poet Alexis-Rueal created The Path Not Chosen event to provide an artistic alternative to stigma and silence. The poems you’ll hear offer candid, evocative, sometimes funny, and -- ultimately hopeful -- depictions of living with a different kind of mental health. Featured on the…
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Essayist and Poet Hanif Abdurraqib
Columbus native Hanif Abdurraqib talks about the themes running through his latest book, a collection of essays called "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us." Speaking with Word Carver host Cynthia Rosi, the two compare themes emerging in the essays with Abdurraquib's previous volume of poetry...
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Paging Columbus at Two Dollar Radio: Hanif Abdurraqib and William Evans
Hanif Abdurraqib reads from his new book of essays They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us at the latest Paging Columbus event. This event was at publisher Two Dollar Radio's new storefront location on Parsons Avenue, and the venue was packed. Abdurraqib was followed by William Evans, also…
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All Hallow’s Read – Stories of Hell and Heaven and the Places Between
The night before Halloween, Word Carver gathered with friends, family, and fans at Kafé Kerouac, one of our beloved local haunts (pun intended) for a night of sharing scary stories, both old and new. Trent McMahon’s story, “The Something Else,” considers elements of hell on earth; while Cynthia...
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Lulled by Sycamores: An interview with poet Kathy Fagan
Deeply rooted in place, Sycamore Poems follows two conversations as filigree-fine as cloisonne beads: one with the long-lived sycamores of Ohio, and the other about the loss of love. Kathy Fagan, Director of the Creative Writing MFA at Ohio State University, speaks of place, art, and the...
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The Book Doctor Makes House Calls: The Story Cure with Dinty W. Moore
Excellent professors like Dinty W. Moore teach at three levels: at Ohio University he lectures to undergraduates and graduate students, including mentoring PhD students in Creative Writing, and at summer workshops he works with adults in their 40s or older. It was for this audience that he...
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Good Bones -- New Poetry Volume from Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith's lasting and resonant poems live up to the wide popularity of the title piece "Good Bones." Smith discusses living in the place where she grew up, the influence of crankies -- traditional storytelling with shadow puppets which pre-dated movies -- on one of the narrative themes, and...
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Pat Snyder Hurley Poetry volume, and Peripatetic Poets
Columnist Pat Snyder Hurley talks with show host Cynthia Rosi about her forthcoming book of poetry from Night Ballet Press entitled Hard to Swallow, co-written with her husband Bill Hurley. The pair embarked on the poetic journey when Bill was diagnosed with cancer, and it formed a central part…
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Paging Columbus, Slam Poet Barbara Fant
Paging Columbus founder Hannah Stephenson speaks with Word Carver reporter Amy Dalrymple at the OSU Urban Art Space. Paging Columbus moves to the new $2 Radio location on Parson's Avenue in November. Slam poet champ Barbara Fant reads two stunning pieces. Amy explores the whimsy and wonder of…
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Coates, Rushdie and Calvino: Beyond Illusion
How many of you feel this alienation and discomfort almost as soon as you open the screen in your cellphone, dip into social media, answer email, or listen to the news? The sages from India called illusion maya and they pray: “from delusion lead me to truth." Literature helps us to deal with a...
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Poet Brings Plenty, and Native Perspective
Minnecojou Lakota poet Trevino Brings Plenty discusses two poems from his volume Ghost River, as well as Native culture, writing, and the protests at Standing Rock. You can buy Wakpa Wanagi, Ghost River, on Amazon or order it through your local bookstore. Music by Rise and Shine (2015), Seastock...
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Gramercy Books, the making of a bookstore success
Linda Kass, owner of Gramercy Books in Bexley, talks about her journey into creating a bookstore which offers a vibrant space for authors and artists, as well as a children's area and inviting Kittie's coffee shop to be a (very close) neighbor. Behind-the-scenes information on researching a...
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Nita Sweeney, author interview and writing craft
Nita Sweeney writes the blog Bum Glue and puts out Write Now Newsletter a comprehensive listing of writer and reader events in central Ohio, through her writer website www.nitasweeney.com. She's also a student of Natalie Goldberg, and teaches Goldberg's work in Upper Arlington. Word Carver host...
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Nick White, How to Survive a Summer, Novel, Writing and Craft
Nick White talks about ex-gay ministry and gay conversion therapy in light of his first novel How to Survive a Summer with show host Cynthia Rosi, as well as problems of craft and construction. Music credit: Rise and Shine (2015) by Seastock on Jamendo.com.
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014 Word Carver, "The Little Cage of Ellis Bell" interview
Word Carver host Cynthia Rosi talks with poet Zoe Brigley Thompson about the ekphrastic art and poetry show hung at Ohio State University. Poetry by Thompson, with art from Victoria Brookland, including the title piece "The Little Cage of Ellis Bell."
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013, Designing a Writer's Retreat
For your writing enrichment this summer, the show recommends podcasts at Writers and Company and KCRW's Bookworm. That you subscribe to CRWROPPS Yahoo list-serve for writing markets, residencies, and job posts, or Duotrope and set up a Submittable account. Subscribe to Nita Sweeney's email list...
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Word Carver 012, Spiritual Memoir
The temptation while writing spiritual memoir is to focus only on the moment of transformation. This talk explores how the dark night of the soul is as important in spiritual memoir as the healing or resurrection experience. From a talk by Cynthia Rosi given at Columbus Writer's Conference at...
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011 Word Carver Writing Suspense 5.20
Recently, I spoke at the Columbus Writer’s Conference hosted by Columbus State in May. Be sure to put this free conference, with snacks provided (you won’t get that deal anywhere else!) into your writing calendar for next year. That day, I taught a session on maintaining narrative suspense in the...
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006 Word Carver, Two Dollar Radio and AWP 2017
In February, writers from across the country gathered in Washington DC for the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, also known as AWP. This is Word Carver, a show about writing and readers out of Columbus, Ohio on WGRN 94.1fm, LP, the green renaissance. I’m…
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010 Word Carver, Immigrant Stories
Today you will hear two immigrant voices speaking about the American Dream. The event at Wild Goose Creative was sponsored by Peace Catalyst International, Columbus Chapter, an organization which brings Christians and Muslims together for prayer, food, sharing stories, and building strong…
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007 Word Carver, Jill Johnson poetry, and Don't Come Back
Today Simon Hughes reads from Diary of the One Swelling Sea by Jill McCabe Johnson, a poet who lives in the San Juan Islands in Washington State. Hughes created an audioscape for the poem and reads with a deep, resonant voice. Following that, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, a writer and...
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008 Word Carver, The Way of the Writer review, Bryan Hurt reading
Today you will hear a review of the craft book “The Way of the Writer,” by author Charles Johnson. Columbus author Bryan Hurt reads from his short story collection “Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France” and Victoria Parks, station manager at WGRN, reads from her audioscape “Dawn over…
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009 Word Carver, Karen McClintock, and Voices audioscape
Today you will hear Karen McClintock whose book My Father’s Closet is out from Trillium, an imprint of the Ohio University Press which specializes in publishing work from Ohio authors. Amy Dalrymple, roving reporter and assistant editor, has written and edited a poetry soundscape called Voices...
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For writers and readers who find solace in books, poetry, and essays, Word Carver explores the craft of writing. Host Cynthia Rosi gives insights into the life and craft of working writers, and reviews new work in books and literary magazines. With additional reporting by Amy Dalrymple. Music is Rise and Shine (2015) by Seastock on Jamendo.com.
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