Universe Of Poetry
In this week’s installment, several people read from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. With Carrie Dabelow as Addie, Jerry Bloom as Doctor Peabody, Spencer Parsons as Darl, Larry Garner as Anse, and Ryan Heindl as Vardaman.
Sapna Kumar and filmmaker Spencer Parsons read from Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from the Underground.”
In this week’s installment of The Gift poetry series, Poet Rachel Jamison Webster and filmmaker Spencer Parsons read from the monster’s narrative in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
In this week’s installment of The Gift poetry series, Poet Rachel Jamison Webster and filmmaker Spencer Parsons read from T.S.Eliot’s The Four Quartets.
In this week’s installment of The Gift poetry series, Poet Rachel Jamison Webster and filmmaker Spencer Parsons read from T.S.Eliot’s “The Wasteland.”
This week we hear from Chicago poet Parneshia Jones, who reminds us that poetry is about connection--with those who have gone before and with the parents, grandparents and friends who surround us.
Jay Ponteri, author of the lyrical book, Wedlocked, lets us in on the truth of his life and marriage. He reminds us that a deeper relationship is always possible if we do not become fixed or believe ourselves to be whole in a way that is final.
Student Charlotte Malin recites “What He Said” by Heather McHugh, reminding us that a poem is not complete until it has found its reader.
Poet Kwame Davis shares a poem called “Impossible Flight” in which he observes the 1980 Revolution in Jamaica and tries to hold his brother to earth – to its beauty and its pains.
In Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, one person holds the memories for the entire community. When the Giver grows old, someone must be chosen to receive the memories. How do you hold onto memories?
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Kate Daniels talks about the truth of motherhood – its strangeness, its wonder, and its lusciousness.
“I Know Why I Make the Past a Destination,” Rachel Jamison Webster begins, reminding us of the mystery of time – how sometimes we can “almost, but not quite, remember the future,” how we can live days that feel layered with earlier lives, earlier selves.
Poet Jennifer Steele discovered that poetry is a kind of prophecy for her, a way to discover what she does not yet know about herself. Jennifer reminds us of the voice that can speak – and illuminate – a little of our own mystery.
This interview with Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan drops us immediately into the depths – into the roots of hunger, where we are connected to life and to the animals.
Chris Adrian writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels both tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances.
D.A. Powell gives a reading as part of the Northwestern University English Department 6th Annual Creative Writers’ Festival. D. A. Powell is the author of a trilogy of books, including Tea (Wesleyan, 1998); Lunch (2000); and Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Award-winning Native American poet Joy Harjo reads from her new memoir, Crazy Brave, and reflects on how her childhood shaped her.
Writer Stuart Dybek talks about discovering metaphors as a child and the feeling that unleashed in him.