Phyllis Fletcher – Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
Radio producer Phyllis Fletcher created this audio documentary about her father for her 2003 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.
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Radio producer Phyllis Fletcher created this audio documentary about her father for her 2003 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.
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Linda Andrews‘ work – whether poetry, prose, or a hybrid of the two – is always written with an ear for the spoken word. She talks with 2015 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator Kevin Craft about writing for the ear, her experience as a teacher, and doing rewrites while driving through the Palouse. ” I […]
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For her Jack Straw Writers Program project, L. J. Morin (Lisa Carcia) wrote a series of poems inspired by the tale of a parrot in Venezuela who was the last known speaker of a dead language. She speaks with 2015 Writers Program Curator Kevin Craft about Alexander Von Humboldt, the tirelessly curious discoverer of this […]
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Anca Szilágyi‘s novel Paralegal looks at the runup to the 2008 financial crash through the eyes of Binnie Greenson, a diorama artist working a summer job in a corporate law firm and struggling with her identity as an artist. She talks with 2015 Jack Straw Writers Program curator Kevin Craft about Joseph Cornell, the gradually […]
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This piece was performed live on June 10, 2016 as part of James Borchers‘s New Media Gallery residency. The percussion parts were played using the hanging resonant metal objects in his installation Obiectum Resonare. Percussion: James Borchers, Dale Speicher, Daniel Webbon; cello: Peter Williams.
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Matthew Schnirman‘s poems combine humor, nostalgia, intimacy, and sex into a voice that’s by turns sardonic and sincere, ironic and heartfelt. He talks to 2015 Jack Straw Writers Program Curator Kevin Craft about his “Zac Poems,” whose titular character floats through the films of Zac Efron as viewed through Matthew’s poetic lens. THIS PODCAST CONTAINS […]
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The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble recorded three pieces by Michael Owcharuk as part of their 2014 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project. You can hear the whole set here.
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Laura Da’s poems explore the European-American takeover of the North American continent by examining the mapping and surveying that was an inextricable part of it. Narrative poems delve into the lives of two characters, while lyrical pieces look at the larger consequences. She talks to 2015 Writers Program Curator Kevin Craft about how she developed […]
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Clare Johnson‘s writing delves both into the past – resurrecting voices and stories from generations past – and into her own personal experiences. She talks with 2015 Writers Program curator about the influence of travel and homesickness on her work and her process for creating these patchwork pieces, which Craft refers to as “core samples […]
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Wendy Call and Irma Pineda produced these trilingual recordings of Irma’s poems through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The poems, originally in Zapotec, were translated into Spanish by Irma and English by Wendy. Read and hear more in this piece by Wendy Call at Orion Magazine.
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