New Letters on the Air
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- http://www.newletters.org/radio
New Letters on the Air, public radio's longest-running literary program, is an independently produced half-hour program that originates from Kansas City, Missouri.
People who work with New Letters on the Air
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Dennis Conrow (Admin) | Assistant Producer | Kansas City, Missouri |
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Angela Elam (Admin) | Kansas City, MO | |
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Eric Mater | Broadcast engineer | Kansas City, MO |
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Robert Stewart | Editor of New Letters magazine | Cambridge, MA |
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Max Mosley | Kansas City, Missouri | |
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Annie Walsh | Kansas City, Missouri |
Pieces
A forgotten word makes a comeback in the book ACEDIA & ME, by poet and essayist Kathleen Norris. She examines the origin of acedia--a kind of emot...
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has turned to essay writing with his two newest books, MAPS AND LEGENDS and MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS. He ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
- Licenses: 1
Oncologist and poet C. Dale Young talks about the influence of medicine upon his creative life, and reads poems from THE SECOND PERSON and TORN, an...
- Added: Jun 17, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Poet Martha Serpas, a native of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, shares poems about her home’s eroding landscape, chronicled in her collection THE DIRTY S...
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Travel writer Maria Finn talks about her memoir, HOLD ME TIGHT & TANGO ME HOME, and shares her approach to writing creative non-fiction.
- Added: May 26, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Philosopher, translator, and teacher, Clancy Martin discusses his debut novel, HOW TO SELL, a coming-of-age story about a Canadian boy, who makes i...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Poet and editor of PRAIRIE SCHOONER literary magazine Hilda Raz discusses the dual acts of writing and editing. Raz also talks about coming to ter...
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Columnist and poet Demetria Martinez is known for her investigative journalism in the '80s on El Salvadoran refugees. She reads poetry and prose fr...
- Added: May 05, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Raised in the Chicago suburbs, poet Beth Ann Fennelly talks about her adopted home of Oxford, Mississippi, which she shares with novelist Tom Frank...
- Added: Apr 28, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Robert Dana, former poet laureate of Iowa, died in Feb., 2010. Interviewed on his last birthday, Dana read poems from his 2008 book, THE OTHER, an...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 00:33:50
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads poetry from his new collection GULF MUSIC, and talks about the role the sound of words plays in his w...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
- Licenses: 1
Ten poets reflect on love in all its forms in THE CRUELEST MONTH, a National Poetry Month special featuring Billy Collins, Charles Simic, Debra Mar...
- Added: Apr 07, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Celebrate Women's History Month with readings by poets Jo McDougall, Michelle Boisseau, Robin Behn, Alice Friman, Dorianne Laux, and Andrea Holland...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, as well as her ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Mar 24, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
- Licenses: 1
Kansas City-based poet Phyllis Becker reads poems her collection, How I Came to Love Jazz, and discusses her artistic impulses and her collaboratio...
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
2007 Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey reads from NATIVE GUARD and talks about the illegal courtship of her interracial parents in the segreg...
- Added: Feb 17, 2010
- Length: 00:35:21
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez became immortalized on the silver screen when Robert Downey, Jr., portrayed him in the 2009 movie THE SOLOIST, bas...
- Added: Feb 03, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...
- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
