Annie Walsh
Recent Pieces from Annie Walsh
Husband and Wife Poets Terrance Hayes & Yona Harvey
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From: New Letters on the Air
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HEMMING THE WATER, discuss ...
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey
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From: New Letters on the Air
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses her 2007 Pulitzer Prize ...
Caribbean-American writer Jamaica Kincaid
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From: New Letters on the Air
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though she left there when she ...
Poet Rick Barot
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From: New Letters on the Air
Filipino-American poet Rick Barot started writing nonfiction. Now an award-winning poet, he discusses how the writing process should be one of self-exploration and ...
"Country Noir" and fiction writer Daniel Woodrell
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From: New Letters on the Air
Two of Daniel Woodrell's eight novels are now acclaimed films. The 1998 movie RIDE WITH THE DEVIL was adapted from his novel WOE TO LIVE ON, and the 2010 film WINTER'S BONE ...
National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard
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From: New Letters on the Air
The author of six novels, such as PROJECT X, Jim Shepard has taken to writing short fiction. His last three books are short story collections, including the 2007 Story Prize ...
Poet Tony Barnstone
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From: New Letters on the Air
The son of a poet and visual artist, Tony Barnstone was surrounded by great works of art, literature, and philosophy as a child and like his sister, Aliki, followed in his ...
American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui
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From: New Letters on the Air
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border town on the Fort Defiance ...
Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright
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From: New Letters on the Air
At the Kansas City Public Library, Irish author Anne Enright discusses her dark but humorous approach to writing about love, desire, death and family, and explains how having ...
