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Warehouse Reading with Kristine Snodgrass and Sandra Simonds -- February 10, 2009 Kristine Snodgrass and Sandra Simonds Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Antonya Nelson -- February 3, 2009 Antonya Nelson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Dustin Atkinson and John Crawford -- January 27, 2009 Dustin Atkinson and John Crawford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Ashley Capps and Clint McCown -- January 20, 2009 Ashley Capps and Clint McCown Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with David Kirby -- January 13, 2009 David Kirby Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with David Vann -- December 2, 2008 David Vann Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Ethan Canin -- November 18, 2008 Ethan Canin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Gretchen Legler and Lisa Zimmerman -- November 11, 2008 Gretchen Legler and Lisa Zimmerman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Lisa Nikolidakis and Michael Garriga -- October 28, 2008 Lisa Nikolidakis and Michael Garriga Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writers Harvest with Richard Price -- October 21, 2008 Richard Price Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Brian Turner and Katy Lederer -- October 14, 2008 Brian Turner and Katy Lederer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Avni Vyas and Rebecca Lehmann -- October 7, 2008 Avni Vyas and Rebecca Lehmann Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Don Share -- September 30, 2008 Don Share Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Katie Cortese and Holly Wilson -- September 23, 2008 A reading of stories revolving around the desires of children. Katie Cortese, a first year Ph.D. student in fiction, delivers a funny and touching story about a budding teenage romance complicated by the death of a gerbil that lived for seven years, or about 180 years in human age. Holly Wilson, a third year Ph.D. student in fiction, reads from her story "Night Glow," which won third place in the Narrative magazine First Person Story Contest, involving Quakers and bloody tampons and gumm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Rebecca Hazelton and Jay Snodgrass -- September 16, 2008 Rebecca Hazelton, researcher of scientific poetics, armed with the New Dickinsonian poetic calculus, delivers a charming, eloquent set of extremely high quality poems in the ideal scientific form. Jay Snodgrass, Dr. Snodgrass, lover of heavy metal and football with cheerleaders, Dr. Jay Snodgrass, reads poems about zombies, eye twitches, subway platforms, and the oculus witness. Listen to this podcast to hear the scientifically-proven perfection and importance of Rebecca Hazelton's poetr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Steve Almond -- September 9, 2008 Steve Almond, author of short story collections _The Evil B.B. Chow_ and _My Life in Heavy Metal_, non-fiction books _Candyfreak, a Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America_ and _(Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions_ and the novel _Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions_ (jointly authored with Julianna Baggott), delivers a hilarious and uproarious reading of non-fiction pieces, guidelines for writers, and letters in response to hate mail from the frothin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Robert Olen Butler -- September 2, 2008 Robert Olen Butler reads from his most recent short story collection, _Intercourse_, and his forthcoming novel, _Hell_. Author of ten novels and five short story collections, including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning _A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,_ Butler's work has garnered two National Magazine Awards and appeared in _The New Yorker_, _Playboy_, _Best American Short Stories_, _The Atlantic Monthly_ and numerous other publications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Eric Lee and Steve Kistulentz -- August 5, 2008 Eric Lee and Steve Kistulentz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Bucky McMahon and Don Yeager -- July 15, 2008 Bucky McMahon takes us to drug camp and Don Yeager takes us to Angola Prison with Warrick Dunn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Ashley Harris and Samantha Levy -- July 8, 2008 Ashley Harris takes us to rural Alabama for this hilarious tale read, in her south Alabama voice. Samantha Levy explores the currently relevant topic: polygamy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kudzu Review Reading at the Warehouse -- April 22, 2008 Kudzu Review is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, written, edited and published yearly by English Department undergraduate students at Florida State University. This is a podcast of readings by some of the authors and staff of the 2008 Kudzu Review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Scott Bailey and Peter Alvarez -- April 15, 2008 Scott Bailey and Peter Alvarez Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Susan Finch and Brandy Wilson -- April 8, 2008 Susan Finch and Brandy Wilson. Brandy reads from her disertation novel _The Palace Blues_. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Stephen Dobyns -- April 1, 2008 Stephen Dobyns Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Stephen Mills and Evan J. Peterson -- March 25, 2008 Stephen Mills and Evan J. Peterson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Jeanne Leiby and Rick Campbell -- March 18, 2008 Jeanne Leiby and Rick Campbell Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Steve Kistulentz and Eric Lee -- February 26, 2008 Steve K. places two bottles of Dos Equis and one bottle of water on the side table, raises the mic-arm about 18 inches, and lets loose some poetic meditations on the greats, including but not limited to Evil Knievel, David Lee Roth and Rick Springfield. Eric Lee opts only for something amber in a tall class, to accompany his thoughts on Southern roadside diners, New Orleans, and childhood friends. Do not miss the break-up poem featuring Godzilla, and stuff you never knew about Ghengis Kha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Hal Crowther and Lee Smith -- February 5, 2008 Hal Crowther and Lee Smith Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Mark Jarman -- February 12, 2008 Mark Jarman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Sharon Heiny and Aaron Moore -- January 29, 2008 Sharon Heiny and Aaron Moore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Julianna Baggott -- January 22, 2008 Julianna Baggott Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WVFS Voicebox Shoe -- January 16, 2008 WVFS Voicebox Show This show aired January 16, 2008, and features readings by Aaron Moore, Brandy Wilson, Rebecca Pennell and Evan Peterson with host Nicholas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Karen Abbott and Joshilyn Jackson -- January 15, 2008 Karen Abbott and Joshilyn Jackson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Katie Burgess and Allen Keller -- December 4, 2007 Katie Burgess and Allen Keller Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Jennifer L. Knox -- November 27, 2007 Jennifer L. Knox Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writers Harvest with Barry Hannah -- November 13, 2007 Writers Harvest with Barry Hannah Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Lynn Aarti Chandhok and Jane Springer -- November 6, 2007 Lynn Aarti Chandhok and Jane Springer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Valerie Wetlaufer and Dustin Atkinson -- October 23, 2007 Valerie Wetlaufer and Dustin Atkinson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benefit for The Southeast Review: Discussion with Mark Winegardner, Barbara Hamby and Robert Olen Butler -- October 9, 2007 Mark Winegardner, Barbara Hamby and Robert Olen Butler Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Susan Vreeland -- October 2, 2007 Susan Vreeland Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Rose Bunch and Kara Candito -- September 25, 2007 Rose Bunch Kara Candito Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with B Smith-Seetachitt and Frank Giampietro -- September 18, 2007 At the end of this reading, you'll know that B doesn't like spiders, and you'll know that Frank... let's just say you'll know a few things about Frank--and also little too much about the dude with the lawn chair and the hand lotion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Peter Meinke -- September 11, 2007 Poems, "Left Wing Poems," and a story of a man who dreams he is a murderer, and wakes to wonder if perhaps he is a murderer who has dreamt he was dreaming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with David Kirby -- September 4, 2007 Mysteries, duende, a dog with a lampshade around its neck, an older man looking in a window to see his younger self in despair over the illness of his infant son, and more things "tragic yet beautiful about life." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Rebecca Lehmann and Forrest Anderson -- July 7, 2007 Take Rebecca Lehmann's tour of her poetry collection, _Maison_, and stick around for an explosive ending to Forrest Anderson's short story "A Dying Breed." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Julianna Baggott -- June 26, 2007 Death lurks all around us, in many guises. A young Julianna and her mother avoid a brush with potentially fatal grocery store mop bucket only to face more dangers at home, in this hilarious and touching excerpt from a work-in-progress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by the Blue Door Poets -- April 17, 2007 Blue Door Poets Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Joann Gardner -- April 10, 2007 Joann Gardner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by George Pelecanos -- April 3, 2007 George Pelecanos reads from his book, _Drama City._ Newsweek Magazine has noted, "Pelecanos has the first-rate writer's ability to entertain you and break your heart on the same page," and you can hear the truth in these words when you listen to him read the stories of three ex-addicts and their daily struggles to stay on the straight and narrow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Sheri Allen and Jay Snodgrass -- March 27, 2007 Sheri Allen You can't taste the macaroons that Sheri Allen brought to her reading, but through her descriptive poetry you can almost smell the fish at the market, see the colors of the falling fruit. and Jay Snodgrass Jay Snodgrass reads from his new book _The Underflower._ Psalms and symbols and enthusiastic audience anticipation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Mark Bibbins and Thisbe Nissen -- March 20, 2007 Mark Bibbins and Thisbe Nissen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Amber Pearson and Derek Phillips -- March 13, 2007 A highly recommended night of poetry.Amber Pearson waxes poetic on wax crayons, Minnesota, and introduces us to her new character,"It."And the audience claps after every one of Derek's poems. ("Damn it!") Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Roxane Beth Johnson and Steve Watkins -- February 27, 2007 Roxane Beth Johnson and Steve Watkins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Sandra Simonds and Melvin Sterne -- February 20, 2007 Sandra Simonds and Melvin Sterne Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Carl Phillips -- February 6, 2007 Carl Phillips Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Richard Bausch -- January 30, 2007 Richard Bausch is the kind of guy who tells you a few stories before he reads one, and then he tells a story about the one he's reading--which only makes it better. His tale this night is called "Nobody in Hollywood," and chronicles the adventures of Ignatius, beginning with the lines, "I was pummeled as a teenager. For some reason I had the sort of face that asked to be punched." How could you pass this up! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Doug Cox and Eric Lee -- January 23, 2007 Says Doug Cox,"If you don't like pinball you ain't a friend of mine, and if you don't like sonnets, you've got issues bigger than that."Don't worry though, because Doug will make you like sonnets, and poems about graphic T-shirts, Mohawks being in bands and maybe even love.Take note of Eric's first poem, which warns: Eric Lee poems may be habit forming, can cause multiple side effects and should, in fact, only be takenunder medical supervision. So, listen at your own risk. But listen! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Matthew Zapruder -- January 16, 2007 Matthew Zapruder Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Erin Belieu and Diane Roberts -- January 9, 2007 Erin Belieu reads from her newest poetry collection, Black Box, from which she pulls such gems, "I Heart Your Dog's Head," "The Birthmark," and "In the Red Dress that I Wear to Your Funeral." At times unsparing in her observations, Belieu never forgets that "it's best to keep two hands on your sense of humor." Diane Roberts reads to us from a work in progress. Set in the 1980's in which she introduces us the character of Judith, a southern belle who, after winning a scholarship to Oxford ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading of Barry Hannah by Michael Garriga and Bob Shacochis-- November 28, 2006 Barry Hannah Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Sandy Longhorn and Todd Pierce -- November 14, 2006 Sandy Longhorn Todd Pierce Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Morri Creech -- October 24, 2006 Morri Creech -- Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Katie Burgess and Tom Bligh -- October 17, 2006 Katie Burgess Tom Bligh Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Sami Levy and Steve Kistulentz -- October 10, 2006 In her short story, "The Outlaw of Marriage," Sami Levy shifts the marriage paradigm and creates a world, where the view on relationships has gone the way of cars: Why buy when you can lease? As the term of her monogamy contract comes to an end, Janet must decide what to do when she fears that her driver might be planning to trade her in... Ninety passengers, six crewmembers, ninety-six lives ending as the airliner, "Belinda," begins her ill-fated approach into the Dallas/Fort Worth Air ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Anthony McCann -- October 3, 2006 Anthony McCann, steps off the Poetry Bus to read us selections from his two collections, Father of Noise, and Moongarden. Strange, and funny, and beautiful, McCann's poems bring us wildebeests and elks and wild dogs and Jesus. (And as a special bonus, McCann delivers, courtesy of a class of 7th graders in Ames, Iowa,"Eels.") Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by Ken Foster -- September 26, 2006 Like a Haley Joel Osment for the canine set, Ken Foster sees dogs. Next to roads, at truck stops, pictured on flyers tacked to phone poles--Ken notices the fur covered population that most people find invisible, and he stops when most people would walk by. In _The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind,_ Ken introduces us to Valentino, the lovable Pit Bull, outlines the nuances of lost-dog-flyer art, and tells us about the day in traffic he narrowly missed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading by David Vann -- September 19, 2006 In his new, unpublished memoir Crocodile: Memoirs from a Mexican Drug-Running Port, David "the ATM Machine" Vann, faces off with Gordo, "the Numero Uno Bandido," numerous local henchmen, and other creatures "smaller than a person, bigger than a cockroach," as he valiantly attempts to regain his lost outboard motor. Does he ever find it? He doesn't say--but we do know that he doesn't have to go to Mexican Prison, which is "really great!" This is the prequel to David's bestselling memoir: A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ali Baba Reading by Amber Coady Amber Coady reads "The Making of Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog" by Mark Leyner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ali Baba Reading by Becky Pennell Becky Pennell reads several short stories by Dave Eggers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ali Baba Reading by Matt Hobson Matt Hobson reads "Bigfoot Stole My Wife" and "I am Bigfoot" by Ron Carlson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Roger Turnau and Dara Green Roger Turnau reads from his novel in progress The Avenue of the World Dara Green performs her special brand of spoken word poetry. Not to be missed!!!! This is the last Warehouse reading until September, however, we will try to fill in the dogdays with something different. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Stephen Mills and Leslie Whatley Stephen Mills is one of the founders of the Black Tarp movement in poetry and his fans call him "General Mills." He writes about the complexities of family, the goofiness of life, and sex. Leslie Whatley reads from a novel about revenge called Anonymity. He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize and his work has been published in Hotel Amerika, The Absinthe Literary Review and Slant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Debra Woolley and Zac Hanson Debra Woolley reads her poetry about Jamaica with a lilt that makes one feel as if he is on the beach at Negril. Zac Hanson reads his Metal Poetry along with works that aren't so metal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Runaway With Words Runaway With Words Readers: Joann Gardner Sara Pennington Dominika Wrozynski Carissa Neff Monica Magnan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Lisa Tucker Lisa Tucker "This should be catnip for book clubs, whether they devour it as a page-turner about parenting and family or discuss its subtle meditations on fate and coincidence, wealth and poverty, freedom and safety, fairy tales and American dreams." I don't know what it means to have _Publisher's Weekly_ compare your latest book to catnip (though it was meant as a compliment and if my cat were a reviewer he'd undoubtedly agree), but from the start, _Once Upon a Day_ does seem like a pag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading by Yusef Komunyakkaa Yusef Komunyakkaa It was such a terrific reading that my own words seem unnecessary. Here's one poem he read last night whose final two lines have been haunting me ever since I heard them. Facing It My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn't, dammit: No tears. I'm stone. I'm flesh. My clouded reflection eyes me like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning. I turn this way--the stone lets me go. I turn that way--I'm inside the Vietnam ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Joseph McElroy Joseph McElroy "He found it all around. It opened and was close. He felt it was himself, but he felt it was more." These two lines are the beginning of Joseph McElroy's, Plus, a book that opens and closes--fanlike, as one tries to grasp all of its implications. It's a book that a number of us have read in Ralph Berry's avant-garde lit class and like all books this semester, it has erased and revealed and multiplied the criteria by which we "know" a poem or a piece of prose. Not only were ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Steve Tomasula and Diane Glancy Steve Tomasula As part of his introduction, Ralph Berry called our attention not simply to the writer (not his biography or his writing history), nor to the physical pages of the book itself, but as he said, "to its very existence." Tomasula's work isn't merely about finding the right word for the right expression, but instead (and perhaps more interestingly), an order for that word and the next (i.e., a design) so that the writing isn't given the chance to disappear into itself. Tomasul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Elizabeth Dewberry Although the protagonist in _His Lovely Wife_ insists she isn't a poet, the same assertion can't be made by Elizabeth Dewberry. Like all good poets, she has an ear for music. Her keenly observing eye translates into prose that which is wry and funny and exactly right. We all know what it's like to be caught in the undertow of an uncomfortable social outing and, worse, we know what it's like to drink a little too much and hash it out with one's beloved just after. From here on I was remind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Michael Garriga and Sara Pennington If you go to Tutwiler Mississippi, you'll find a grocery store, and old blue gas station (long unused). It might take a few minutes to walk the whole town so you can't miss the brick wall with "Map of Grave Site" painted on it and a map to the grave of bluesman, Sonny Boy Williamson II. You might have to drive back to this map several times to get a handle on where the grave is actually located because it's just sort of off a dirt road all by its lonesome. Sonny Boy recorded for the King B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Brandy Wilson and Dominika Wrozynski Their Similarities: they are both talented writers, PhD candidates, warm and wonderful human beings. Their differences: Brandy is soft spoken and soothing, a writer of fiction, who hails from Paris, Texas. Dominika is enthusiastic and energetic, a poet, who was born in Poland. Together they provided us with an entertaining and pleasurable evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Brigitte Byrd and Tony Morris To encounter Brigitte Byrd's poems from Fence Above the Sea for the first time, read by the author, is to encounter the experience of reading itself. Because she is beautifully French, and because she reads with a beautifully French accent, I found that at times I misunderstood words; that is, until she read to the end of the line and I realized my mistake. I heard"isolated" when I should be hearing "insulated" as in, "their house is not insulted, it is cold." What happens in these small ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Jay Snodgrass and Sandra Simonds Jay Snodgrass and I were in the same workshop last fall. I only got to see a few of his poems which wasn't enough to really get a sense of him. And when his poems did come around, as with all of us, there was such a serious logjam that we buzzed through work at top speed. A shame really, given how much I enjoyed his reading. From his birth among the loblollys of Florida (or palms or crocodiles), to the Tokyo of Godzilla(!) where he grew up, we come to learn that this poet has lived divers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Jean Valentine Jean Valentine Introduction by Sandra Simonds This from the second poem she read this evening, "Listening": My whole life I was swimming listening Beside the daylight world like a dolphin beside a boat These two lines, which begin the poem, limn what it is she does--what we all do when we really go about the business of being writers. She is a careful listener, and crafts such small, finely-wrought poems that Pound's lines to Whitman come to mind, "It was you that broke the new wood, N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Rick Campbell and Paul Shepherd These weekly readings arranged by the FSU English Department feature graduate students as well as a diverse and distinguished group of visitng writers. All readings are held at the Warehouse (706 W. Gaines) at 8:00 p.m. This spring semester Sami Levy and Steve Kistulentz are the co-hosts and the emcees. I walked into Rick Campbell's reading a little late, but in his case that's just fine. It's not as though he stacks all the good poems in the beginning and the whole thing goes down from th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Doug Cox and Jennifer Perrine Just before the end of the semester we had our last Warehouse reading. And it's safe to say that it blew some others out of the water. Doug Cox, having just trimmed the hair that inspired young men all around (even Brad Pitt once cited him as his own hirsute inspiration), took the stage first. Of many terrific poems, which articulate not just what's going on inside, but what lie around us (e.g. the environment, music, politics), I think my favorites was, "Punching the Poets who Punch Righ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Michael Mejia and Noy Holland Michael Mejia Noy Holland Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writers Harvest - Rick Moody Rick Moody author of THE ICE STORM Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writers Harvest - Reginald Shepherd Reginald Shepherd - poet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Betsy Carter and Tom Miller Tom Miller started his reading with a quote from John Gardner who said that all books can be boiled down to two plots, "Either you go on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." If you didn't find yourself at the Warehouse on Tuesday, you missed both the journey and the edifying strangers, but you can listen to the podcast. Betsy Carter, who kindly took questions, fielded one about writing fiction v. memoir, "Which is better?" Her answer came easily and almost with visible relief: "Fictio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Ann Patchett - Introduction by Elizabeth Dewberry Ann Patchett Taking the stage in cowboy boots and an attractive, unconcerned outfit, Ann Patchett looked cool. And I only mention this because I always size up the aesthetic choices of the readers, and because so much of what she would talk about had to do with, well, appearance. There was an ease about the way in which she illuminated her friendship with Lucy Grealy who is the subject of her memoir, Truth and Beauty. For those of you who don't know, Lucy Grealy died a few years ago after ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warehouse Reading with Josh Bell and Peter Quinn Josh Bell is the author of NO PLANETS STRIKE Peter Quinn is a novelist and essayist, and a chronicler of Irish-America. A third-generation New Yorker whose grandparents were born in Ireland, Quinn is the author of HOUR OF THE CAT and BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE, which won the American Book Award. An historical novel set amid the New York City draft riots during the Civil War, BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE combines Quinn's lifelong interests in New York City, Irish history and immigration, and th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading of Book III, Chapter I of Finnegans Wake This reading is part of a larger (proposed) 14 year study that Dr S.E. Gontarski has been running on James Joyce's momumental 20th century work: Finnegans Wake. This group, in its various premutations has featured a large number of MA and PhD students, a few faculty and visiting scholars, as well as a group of ambitious undergraduates. While critical discussion plays a considerable role in this group, it also provides us with what we want to present you with here: a chance to hear the lang ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website