Following Little Red
Jul 17th, 2009 by jennie
Through her series of poems about Little Red Riding Hood, Lana Hechtman Ayers has pushed a storybook character into the throes of real life. Red deals with complex relationships, temptation, and frustration with traditional gender roles. Lana says in her live reading that she was abducted by Red and consumed with writing about her.
Lana Hechtman Ayers runs Night Rain Poetry, which offers poetry editing, a manuscript organization service, and writing and publishing workshops. She publishes the Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series, the Late Blooms Poetry Postcard Series, and is Poetry Editor of Crab Creek Review. She is a Hedgebrook alumna, a Jack Straw writer, a Pushcart nominee, and has been awarded honors from the Discovery/The Nation competition and the Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Her Red Riding Hood Collection, A New Red, has been accepted for publication by Pecan Grove Press and is due out spring 2010.
This podcast was produced as part of the 2009 Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at www.jackstraw.org.
Music in this podcast is performed by the Tom Varner Tentet and was recorded as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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