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gnetic field performance space july 20 2008 featured jeffery beam production note august 3 2008 featured ken rumble production note august 10 2008 columbia s c novelist janna mcmahan visited wordplay to discuss and read from her fun insightful coming of age novel calling home the show featured tunes by van halen and even lynyrd skynyrd s free bird probably the only time that song has ever been played at wpvm now main fm or ashevillefm what can i say are there any coming of age stories set after 1960 in which sex drugs and rock n roll don t play a major part they certainly do in this one august 17 2008 long time co host sebastian matthews returned to host a show that featured recent work and recent reading august 24 2008 featured laura hope gill production note august 31 2008 featured glenis redmond production note september 7 2008 featured poet thomas meyer production note september 14 2008 asheville investigative poet pat riviere seel dropped by to share recent work and read from her book the serial killer s daughter a little known fact pat was on the original humongous wordplay production team september 28 2008 sebastian matthews again hosted october 5 2008 wordplay regular rose mclarney returned to share recent work and discuss her adventures in and out of creative writing programs october 12 2008 poet lee ann brown returned to wordplay to give us a look at her recent work another little known fact lee ann was the guest on the demo of wordplay submitted to wpvm s programming committee way back when production note november 2 2008 lee ann brown returned with british columbia poet peter culley who was completing a residency at marshall s french broad institute of time and the river november 9 2008 this show featured a reading peter culley gave in marshall a few days before and some archival recordings of the modernist great ezra pound production note november 16 2008 sebastian matthews landon godfrey laura hope gill glenis redmond and i celebrated the women of black mountain college including poet denise levertov november 23 2008 robert and arlene winkler dropped by to discuss their riversculpture project and to introduce the asheville reading by poet mark strand that they d sponsored production note december 14 2008 north carolina poet laureate kay byer featured in a reading from early 2008 at the asheville art museum production note december 21 2008 the extraordinary robert bly reading er performing would be more accurate at the diana wortham theater with the asheville world music trio free planet radio and discussing his translations of hafez his trip to iran with coleman barks and other wonders production note december 28 2008 laura hope gill sebastian matthews and glenis redmond dropped in for a lively show featuring their own work the upcoming wordfest and sebastian s new plan for his magazine rivendell production note 2009 january 11 2009 tim peeler surprised me by bringing the one of a kind mythogeographer ted pope along and we had a hoot talking about ancient egypt antarctica and baseball production note february 15 2009 featured jargonaut thomas meyer reading his elegy for jonathan williams part of which has now been published as kintsugi production note march 1 2009 asheville novelist wayne caldwell returned to share parts of cataloochee and his then unpublished new novel requiem by fire which random house brought out in february 2010 march 8 2009 hendersonville storyteller karen eve bayne graced the show with her stories and stories about her stories and made a pitch too for the do tell festival of poetry and stories held on july 11th 2009 in hendersonville march 22 2009 featured hickory poet scott owens march 29 2009 new hampshire poet mimi white down south to fly fish in the davidson river dropped by the studio to share her work and to talk about poets dogs and other complex life forms april 5 2009 landon godfrey gary hawkins steve samuels and i all weighed into a discussion of nature and what that term might mean for poetry and read some nature poems by poets from wordsworth to frank o hara april 19 2009 our easter show featured a reading by the late sage of scaly mountain jonathan williams from 1981 production note april 26 2009 performance poet patricia smith visited the studio to discuss her work with glenis redmond sebastian matthews and me just a few hours before her reading at wordfest 2008 production note may 17 2009 the last show for wordplay at its old home featured great canadian new american poet robin blaser reading in 1965 and 2004 and discussing his work in a bbc interview from 1994 production note september 27 2009 brought the very literate she cringes a bit when so described but only a very literate chanteuse could title a song mary shelly s hair singer songwriter angela faye martin to the studio at ashevillefm wordplay s new home to debut her new cd pictures from home produced by sparklehorse s mark linkous who died this past march we listened to some of the cd and angela also sang live in the studio october 18 2009 a few weeks later poet microfictionalsit playwright john crutchfield visited the studio and brought his banjo to boot his songs of robert had just been selected as outstanding solo show at the new york fringe festival and he was in high spirits he s since had several new productions open at the new magnetic field performance space in asheville s river arts district including ruth and the labyrinth a new play solstice opens this month january 2012 here s his previous wordplay appearance from february 2007 november 15 2009 brought tryon poet cathy smith bowers long time poet in residence at queens university in charlotte into the studio to celebrate her birthday we listened to george jones nina simone and leonard cohen and she read from her most recent volume the candle i hold up to see you a few months later of course she became north carolina s poet laureate and then co hosted wordplay once a month from february 2010 through february 2011 2010 january 10 2010 featured lucy tobin who explores a middle ground between lyric and narrative in her very interesting work music by allison kraus the mountain goats and heretic pride january 3 2010 celebrated the publication of thomas rain crowe s blue rose of venice the archiving system dropped part of the show but what survived is worth a listen caleb beissert sat in and shared his translations of neruda an earlier note on the show is below here january 17 2010 brought graham hackett director of catalyst poetix into the studios for an interview and extraordinary performance really if he was reading from anything it must have been glued to the back of his eyelids after serving as acting director of the asheville area arts council in 2011 graham is now back with catalyst poetics february 21 2010 cathy smith bowers launched the laureate s radio hour series by talking about the impact the laureateship had already had on her life and discussing her intentions and hopes for the duration of her tenure including featuring poets once a month on wordplay musical cuts by nina simone and her daughter lisa simone march 21 2010 cathy smith bowers co hosting once again for the laureate s radio hour welcomed her former student stephanie biziewski to the show and work shopped a poem stephanie had underway with her april 18 2010 cathy welcomed the very versatile michael beadle to the show and he read texts that ranged in voice from the personal lyrical through the historical to the performative may 29 2010 this time around the laureate turned the tables on the host and wrangled me into reading some of my own work poems from natures and some mostly unpublished pieces so far i plan to include in a second book in a fit of what must have been borderline insanity i even threw in a few very recent pieces that prove conclusively that a sixty five year old man can still write idiotic jejune love poetry music from pierre bensusan the grateful dead the allman brothers and the steve kimock band july 18 2010 for this laureate s radio hour cathy hosted poet katherine soniat author of alluvial a shared life notes of departure and other titles including the the swing girl published in 2011 by the lsu press july 25 2010 the summer brought poet landon godfrey to the microphone to share some of her work including some of the poems which would be gathered in her first book second skin rhinestone spangled nude soufflé chiffon gown pu blished early 2011 it was selected by david st john for the cider press book award listeners may remember that landon s been on wordplay several times before back on july 6 2008 and with gary hawkins her husband and fellow poet on january 27 2008 and april 5 2009 here s the original program note for the july 08 appearance remember the link to the program in that note has long since expired and she can come back any time august 22 2010 sebastian matthews joined cathy and me to share some of the work of his father the poet william matthews and to treat us to some of his own new poems musical breaks by charlie mingus bill evans and mccoy tyner another laureate s radio hour september 19 2010 brought a couple of wordplay veterans thomas rain crowe and nan watkins back to ashevillefm as guests of poet laureate cathy smith bowers for another of her laureate s radio hours cathy particularly wanted to celebrate their translation of yvan and claire goll s 10 000 dawns on this outing and crowe and watkins were happy to oblige music included tracks by paris swing era guitar masters oscar aleman and django rinehardt and composers maurice ravel and claude debussy crowe an old friend has been a frequent character here at natures program notes for two of his appearances on wordplay can be found here noting his show this january and here celebrating his rare birds notes on watkins previous appearances both featuring her work translating the poetry of yvan goll can be found here and here september 26 2010 this summer brought novelist sujatha hampton to the mountains for readings at marshall s french broad institute and asheville s malaprops bookstore from her as it was written the day after her malaprops reading sujatha visited ashevillefm for an interview that featured not only discussion of the book but how she came to write it and much more october 17 2010 featured western north carolina poet jeannette cabanis brewin on a laureate s radio hour november 21 2010 had cathy interviewing charlotte writer jim mcgavran about his lovely deeply felt memoir in the shadow of the bear for one of her laureate s radio hours december 19 2010 brought poet susan lefler to the studio for a preview of her upcoming book rendering the bones since published by wind publications another laureate s radio hour january 16 2011 eastern nc poet musician jim clark made the trek to the mountains to join cathy and me in the studio for a celebration of his cd the service of song this lovely cd provides clark s musical settings of poems by appalachian poet byron herbert reece the bard of the north georgia mountains who died in 1958 at age 40 we listened to several cuts from the disc and some tracks as well from one of jim s other cds the buried land you ll find links to some mp3s from both over at clark s website a laureate s radio hour february 13 2011 our scheduled guest came down with the flu so this sunday found cathy and me alone in the studio for what would prove to be our last show together since it was the day before valentines day we talked not about love poetry but about poetry that we loved poetry that had made us want to join the ranks of poets ourselves you ll hear us read from the work of and discuss gerard manley hopkins randall jarrell elizabeth bishop robert creeley sylvia plath and gary snyder with musical interludes by the beatles john coltrane leonard cohen and the grateful dead it s quite the mix the final laureate s radio hour and as always more to come posted by jeff davis at 12 38 am 1 comments friday september 16 2011 asheville poets join 100 000 poets for change saturday a week the 24th of september a good group of poets will gather at grateful steps to raise their voices and read poems for the international poetry initiative 100 000 poets for change click on the image for a readable version 100 000 poets for change has certainly engaged a host of north carolina poets as the linked post notes including former poet laureate katherine stripling byer joseph bathanti kathryn kirkpatrick richard krawiec dorianne laux gail peck chris vitiello beth browne valerie nieman debra kaufman tim peeler scott owen and a host of others all of them will be reading and performing other acts of poetry in places that span the state from wilmington to sylva and include venues in charlotte durham greensboro hickory hillsborough and boone the asheville event should be a fine occasion so if you re in these mountains do put it on your calendar and if you re not well there s probably an event near you posted by jeff davis at 5 37 pm 1 comments big doings in little sylva coming up on september 23rd quite a gathering of writers among them charles frazier wayne caldwell thomas rain crowe keith flynn you ll need to click twice to get a readable image once to open the image in a separate tab or window depending on how your browser s configured and then again to enlarge it some of these folks frazier for example rarely make public appearances locally so it ll be a bit of a special night posted by jeff davis at 4 56 pm 1 comments wednesday may 18 2011 wordplay a new show with rick chess a good show with unca s rick chess this past sunday we got a bit into his investigations into the kabbalah and he read for the first time some of the poems that had come out of that work remarkable compressed pieces of real intensity as well as poems written in more expansive modes claire burson s lovely cd silver and ash provided our musical interludes it s still on the station archive accessible from the wordplay program page rick also invited me to talk a bit about the class i ll be doing hopefully this summer for t he great smokies writing program offered by unca the class will work with procedures as part of the arsenal of tricks poets have available to them and my real hope is that we ll use those procedures some developed by black mountain poet jonathan williams others by the members of the french oulipo workshop to get to the heart beyond the head lee ann brown tells a good story about a discussion she had with rosmarie waldrop one of the foremost american procedural poets who was at the time working with text cut out of articles from the new york times you know waldrop said i may be working with cutout text but i m still writing about my mother whatever strategies we use we ll be using them likewise to write about things that matter deeply to us even if we do have some fun with language along the way if you re interested in exploring this territory and i think you ll find it a fascinating trip wher...