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Session 19
This session features poet Terri Ford reading her work lakeside in Minneapolis. It’s the second part of our series in that city and it’s fantastic.
Huge thanks to Jacquie Moody-Fuller for putting together the Minneapolis sessions. Check out her great project How I Found You.
Session 20
Of all the literary events sponsored by my graduate program in Las Cruces, NM, the fall benefit reading is one of my favorites. Proceeds from tickets sold for the event go directly to one of the local food banks. Last year’s event was excellent all around. It featured top-notch readings by Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, and it became a kind of homecoming event for alumni of the program.
While in Las Cruces, I also had the chance to record Tim Staley for Session 20. It’s great. Tim and I used to talk about writing during and after our weekly racquetball games in grad school. He’s an old friend and it’s an honor to have his reading included in the project.
Check out the bonus poem recorded in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park a week earlier at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
Session 21
After a restful first half of the summer, we’re fortunate to get back into the swing of things with an excellent session featuring poet and friend Connie Voisine reading in Southern New Mexico. The reading was recorded last fall and it has aged rather nicely over the intervening seasons.
Connie reads a few poems from her fantastic collection Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize last year.
Check out the bonus poem.
Session 22
After taking nearly a year off, Lively Words is bringing back the goodness. And the 2011 literary goodness starts with Christina Olson, a fantastic poet I met while I was in Vermont last month. Her first book of poetry, Before I Came Home Naked, won the Spire Press annual contest and was published last year.
I’m excited to present Christina’s reading as the opening to a set of several sessions I recorded in Vermont. I’ll be posting these as the summer unfolds.
In the meantime, enjoy this great reading.
Session 24
There’s so much to like about Carl Adamshick’s poetry.
I’m not the only one who thinks so. His collection Curses and Wishes won the 2010 Walt Whitman Award.
Check out this reading we recorded in May at the Vermont Studio Center. It’s gold.
