All Write in Sin City
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLet's talk about writers and writing, right here in Sin City. Before we were the Motor City, one of the nicknames we were known by was "Sin City." Maybe that's why we've got so many great stories to tell. Our Windsor-Detroit region is full of inspiring poetry, first rate fiction, outstanding non-fiction, amazing writers, and exciting publishers. At All Write in Sin City, we aim to bring them to you. Check out our shows here, or take a listen wherever you listen to podcasts.
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The Wicked Sister: New Thriller from Karen Dionne
August 02, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBKaren Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel, The Marsh King’s Daughter. It was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Karen has been active in the writing community for over twenty years. She co-founded the online writers community Backspace, organized the Backspace Writers Conferences in New York and the Bahamas, and served on the board of directors of the International Thriller Writers organization. Originally from ...
Detroit Love Stories with Esperanza Cintrón
July 26, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBEsperanza Cintrón is the author of three books of poetry: Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Sunrise (Stockport Flats Press, 2014), the 2013 Naomi Long Madgett Award winner What Keeps Me Sane (Lotus Press, 2013) and Chocolate City Latina (Swank Press, 2005). Her poetry has been anthologized many times. She has been awarded a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, the Metro Times Poetry Prize, Callaloo Creative Writing Fellowships at Oxford and Brown Universities and a National End...
Celebrating the Leacock Medal with Heidi L.M. Jacobs
June 28, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBDr. Heidi L.M. Jacobs was born and raised in Edmonton. A graduate of the University of Alberta, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Western University, she is currently the English and History Librarian at the University of Windsor. Those of you who are regular listeners may recall that we interviewed Jacobs last June, just after the release of her debut novel, Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear. Recently, Heidi L.M. Jacobs was announced as the winner of the 2...
Because She Has Lived Here - Carlinda D’Alimonte
June 21, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBCarlinda D’Alimonte grew up in Amherstburg and has lived in the Windsor area most of her life. She was Head of English at Walkerville Collegiate Institute, where she taught English and Creative Writing. Prior to her teaching career, she worked for CBC television in Windsor researching and writing for a current affairs program, and for the University of Windsor where she wrote and produced instructional and promotional works in a variety of media. D’Alimonte has been writing poetry since she ...
A Poetic Conversation with Marvin Gaye
June 14, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBBrian G. Gilmore was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters, a 2014 NAACP Image Award Nominee. He is both a Cave Canem Fellow and a Kimbilio Fellow, and he currently teaches social justice law at Michigan State University. Brian joins us today to talk about his Michigan Notable Book of poetry, Come See About Me, Marvin from Wayne State University Press. In this latest collection, Brian imagines a d...
A Poetic Conversation with Marvin Gay
June 14, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBBrian G. Gilmore was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters, a 2014 NAACP Image Award Nominee. He is both a Cave Canem Fellow and a Kimbilio Fellow, and he currently teaches social justice law at Michigan State University. Brian joins us today to talk about his Michigan Notable Book of poetry, Come See About Me, Marvin from Wayne State University Press. In this latest collection, Brian imagines a d...
City Beat: Herb Colling
June 07, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBHerb Colling has an abiding interest in, and respect for, local history. His first two books deal with the auto industry in Windsor. He cut his teeth in 1993 on Pioneering the Auto Age, about Windsor as an automotive capital of Canada, and went on to write 99 Days: The Ford Strike In Windsor, 1945, in 1995, and Turning Points: The Detroit Riot of 1967, a Canadian Perspective. His most recent book is Radio Transcriptions: Historical Vignettes of Essex County, which was edited for the Essex Co...
Close to the Heart: Poetry with Dorothy Mahoney
May 31, 2020 23:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBDorothy Mahoney is the author of several poetry collections including, Off-Leash (Palimpsest Press, 2016). Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies, most recently Heartwood, poems for the love of trees (The League of Canadian Poets, 2018). Her haibun, M PATHY, won an Honourable Mention in the Genjuan International Haibun Contest in Japan, 2017. Dorothy is a former member of the Literary Arts Windsor board. She is a Hospice volunteer in Windsor. You can find out more about her n...
The Windsor Review journal at 50
May 24, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBThe Windsor Review has been in publication for half a century, an important accomplishment for a Canadian literary journal. André Narbonne is a lecturer in English literature and an award-winning poet and fiction writer. He is the fiction editor of the Windsor Review and oversaw the publication of the 50th anniversary issue as the general editor. Marty Gervais is a publisher, poet, developer of the Publishing Practicum course at the University of Windsor, and Poet Laureate Emeritus of the Ci...
Rewriting the Manuscript with Aimée Parent Dunn
May 17, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBAimée Parent Dunn is the publisher of Palimpsest Press, a local independent literary press. Aimée has a degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Windsor and a graduate certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University. She has over 15 years of experience editing fiction and is the literary fiction editor at Palimpsest. She is on the board for Literary Arts Windsor and the programming committee for BookFest Windsor. She lives in Windsor with her husband and two childre...
A Passion to Write with Rebecca Ledingham-Gbadebo
May 10, 2020 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBRebecca Ledingham-Gbadebo grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and attended the University of Windsor. She has been an elementary school teacher since 1995 and a member of Most Precious Blood Catholic Church in Windsor since 1983. She’s also been an avid volunteer around Windsor through the years, committed to causes that benefit children and youth. Rebecca’s new book, published by Cranberry Tree Press, is Movin’ On: Life after the Diagnosis. Rebecca’s epilogue includes these words: “A passion to w...
Teacher, Pizza Guy
May 03, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBJeff Kass is a 23-year teaching veteran of Pioneer High School. His book, Teacher/Pizza Guy chronicles Kass’s experiences working as a full-time English teacher, a part-time teen literary arts director, and a part-time pizza delivery driver during the 2016-17 school year. The book travels back and forth between Kass’ experiences in the classroom and the pizza shop. His poetry addresses some of the challenges and crazy events that happen in school and service industry jobs, aging, and his r...
"Writing Is My Social Activism” – A Conversation with Fartumo Kusow
April 26, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBBorn in Somalia, Fartumo Kusow immigrated to Canada in 1991, at the start of the civil war. After arriving in Canada with fluency in Somali and Arabic but with no knowledge of English, she went on to earn an Honours B.A. in English Language and Literature and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Windsor. She is now a high school English teacher for the Greater Essex County District School Board. Her first novel, Amran, was published in 1984 in Somalia. Her second novel, Tale of a B...
Poetic Suburbia
April 19, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBLaurie Smith is a graduate of the Creative Writing program (M.A.) from the University of Windsor. She has been publishing for over thirty years, as well as editing the work of others and facilitating workshops. She is co-publisher/editor of Cranberry Tree Press in Windsor. Laurie’s work has appeared in many publications across Canada and in the U.S. Collections include menagerie, The Truth about Roller Skating, smack in the middle of spotlit obvious, and Said the Cannibal with Urban Farmhou...
Taking Poetry Citywide in Detroit with Justin Rogers
April 12, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBJustin Rogers is a Black poet, educator, coach, and editor from Detroit. He most recently has work published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Gramma Press, is author of micro-zine Nostalgia as Black Matilda (Rinky Dink Press 2017) and he released his chapbook Black, Matilda in 2019 with Glass Poetry Press. He is also the coordinator of InsideOut’s after school program, Citywide Poets. Justin’s journey with InsideOut began first as a student at Cody High School where a Writer-in-Residence encou...
What It Might Feel Like to Hope: Short Fiction
April 05, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBDorene O’Brien is a Detroit-based creative writing teacher and writer. Her stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She has won fellowships from the NEA and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Madison Review, Chicago Tribune, Montreal Review, and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her first fiction collection won th...
Remembering Rampike and the Literary Scene with Karl Jirgens
March 29, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBDr. Karl Jirgens was born and raised in Toronto, and attended University of Toronto for his BA, Ontario College of Art for his BFA, and York University for his MA and PhD. He is a specialist in literary theory, contemporary literature with a focus on Canadian literature, and creative writing and publishing. He currently lectures at the University of Windsor. He is the author of several works on literary and art criticism, and digital culture and performance, and has published in several jo...
The Power of Biography: Rise, Fall, and Redemption
March 22, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBVeronique Perrier Mandal has had a long and celebrated career, having won many awards for her work in both radio and print journalism, including Ontario Journalist of the Year, Windsor Woman of the Year, and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. She currently coordinates and teaches full-time in the Journalism and Media Convergence programs at St. Clair College in Windsor, and she is the host of the show Scribes and Songsters on YourTV. Veronique is also a successful author, writing both fiction and no...
Poets and Pies with Rubén Guevara
March 15, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBToday’s podcast features a live reading from the Explorers Room in the Detroit Public Library main branch. It’s an edition of Poets and Pies, a reading series sponsored by the Detroit Writers Guild and other literary organizations. It features: A rare treat for fans of rock legend Frank Zappa, a Detroit reading from Los Angeles Poet, Memoirist and Musician Rubén Guevara Detroit Essayist Lori Tucker Sullivan Detroit Poet Justin Rogers and The Rev. Michael Jones The Dancing Poet The even...
Poets and Pies with Rubén Guevara
March 15, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBToday’s podcast features a live reading from the Explorers Room in the Detroit Public Library main branch. It’s an edition of Poets and Pies, a reading series sponsored by the Detroit Writers Guild and other literary organizations. It features: A rare treat for fans of rock legend Frank Zappa, a Detroit reading from Los Angeles Poet, Memoirist and Musician Rubén Guevara Detroit Essayist Lori Tucker Sullivan Detroit Poet Justin Rogers and The Rev. Michael Jones The Dancing Poet The even...
By The River Readings: Three Poets
March 08, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBOn today’s podcast, we’ll visit the By the River reading series hosted by Urban Farmhouse press. This event took place at historic Mackenzie Hall here in Windsor, and it features readings by three poets: Samantha Badaoa, Windsor' Youth Poet Laureate. Listeners have heard an interview with Samantha on an earlier episode Sandra Ridley, an award-winning writer of four books of poetry: Fallout, Post-Apothecary, The Counting House, and Silvija—a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. She w...
By The River Readings: Three Poets
March 08, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBOn today’s podcast, we’ll visit the By the River reading series hosted by Urban Farmhouse press. This event took place at historic Mackenzie Hall here in Windsor, and it features readings by three poets: Samantha Badaoa, Windsor' Youth Poet Laureate. Listeners have heard an interview with Samantha on an earlier episode Sandra Ridley, an award-winning writer of four books of poetry: Fallout, Post-Apothecary, The Counting House, and Silvija—a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. She w...
Poetry and Painting: Practicing Multiple Disciplines
March 01, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBMelanie Janisse Barlow is a poet and a visual artist. Her first collection of poetry, Orioles in the Oranges (Guernica, 2009), was listed for the Relit Award, and her essay poems Detroit were listed in Best American Essays (2013). She has published in a variety of anthologies and journals in Canada and the US, and her painting practice includes The Poets Series, a popular portraiture series of contemporary poets which has been widely received and reviewed, most recently in Poets and Writers,...
Celebrating Black History Month with Poetry
February 23, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBOn this week’s podcast, we have a group of selected poetry readings from the annual Black History Month celebrations from 2019 and 2020. The 2019 readings were recorded before our All Write in Sin City podcast was launched last May. Our Windsor-Detroit region is rich with history, including the history of previously enslaved peoples of African descent. Today, it’s also a multicultural area, home to many people who have come from all over the world, including African and Caribbean nations...
Devil in the Woods: New Canadian Poetry
February 16, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBThis podcast features poet Daniel Lockhart, fresh from his tour of multiple Canadian cities. Lockhart holds degrees from Trent University, Montana State University, and Indiana University, and is the author of four poetry collections, The Gravel Lot That Was Montana, This City at the Crossroads, Big Medicine Comes to Erie, and most recently, Devil in the Woods. He has also written a collection of essays called Wënchikàneit Visions. His work has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations an...
To the River: The Family Story Behind the History
February 09, 2020 12:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBBefore they become history, historical events are often family stories. Today we have a live recording of the Windsor book launch for To the River: The Remarkable Journey of Caroline Quarlls. It’s about one of the most famous escape stories in Underground Railroad history, and co-author Kimberly Simmons is a direct descendant of the book’s heroine. The event was held at The Historic Sandwich First Baptist Church. The church was founded in 1820, and is the oldest active black church in Canad...
To the River: The Family Story Behind the History
February 09, 2020 12:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBBefore they become history, historical events are often family stories. Today we have a live recording of the Windsor book launch for To the River: The Remarkable Journey of Caroline Quarlls. It’s about one of the most famous escape stories in Underground Railroad history, and co-author Kimberly Simmons is a direct descendant of the book’s heroine. The event was held at The Historic Sandwich First Baptist Church. The church was founded in 1820, and is the oldest active black church in Canad...
All Access Café: Poetry and the Blues
February 02, 2020 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBOn today’s podcast, we feature poetry and the blues on a live recording from Third Man Records in Detroit. It’s more from the fourth All Access Café, and this program brings you two amazing performances that mix the blues with poetry. The All Access Café is a unique spoken word event with a special focus, serving differently-abled artists and audiences. First, we’ll hear from Robert Bradley, a Detroit-based blues singer-songwriter and musician, and then we’ll hear from writer and political ...
All Access Café: Music and Poetry That Transforms
January 26, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBToday’s podcast is a live recording of an event at Third Man Records in Detroit last November. It’s selected performances from the fourth All Access Café, and this program brings you transformative music and poetry performances. The All Access Café is a unique spoken word event with a special focus, serving differently-abled artists and audiences. On this episode you'll hear from: Detroit musician, poet and recording artist Tino G Jim Ferris, poet laureate of Lucas County and the Disabilit...
Dead Heat: Award-winning dark fiction from Hungary
January 19, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBToday’s podcast features a live recording of an event last fall with Benedek Totth, author of Dead Heat. It’s a book that has received a lot of positive reviews by major publications, but fair warning to the faint of heart: It’s a book for fans of dark, graphic literature. Totth studied American literature and now works as an editor and translator in Budapest. His translations into Hungarian include works by Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, andHunter S. Thompson. Dead Heat caused a sensation...
Getting the Band Back Together: 50 years of Black Moss Press
January 12, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBThis live recording took place at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor, Ontario on October 20, 2019. Part of the BookFest / Festival du livre Windsor celebrations, the annual Books and Brunch was given over to publisher Marty Gervais, who with wife Donna, started Black Moss Press 50 years ago. Peter Hrastovec is the emcee who introduces Marty, there's a special reading by Elise Gervais, and the authors gathered share stories and celebrate the press. Featured Guests on the podcast: ...
Looking Back at 50 Years of Publishing Success with Windsor's Black Moss Press
January 05, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBMarty Gervais is an award-winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, editor and teacher. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Windsor, Ontario, and now Poet Laureate Emeritus. His awards include the Toronto’s Harbourfront Festival Prize, the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award, the City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for literature, and nearly twenty awards for journalism. Marty is also is the founder and publisher of Windsor-based Black Moss Press, which celebrates its 50th ann...
Award-Winning Memoirist Lindsay Wong and THE WOO WOO
December 29, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBLindsay Wong is the bestselling, award-winning author of The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, And My Crazy Chinese Family. Her debut memoir won the 2019 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize, and it was a finalist for the Writers Trust’s 2018 Hilary Weston Prize, the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, and long listed for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal in Humour. It was also named a Best Book of 2018 by the Quill and Quire and a 2018 Globe 100 Book. She joined author Casey Plett for...
RESEPCT: The Poetry of Detroit Music
December 22, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBPart of a series that was recorded at BookFest Windsor/Festivale du livre 2019, this podcast features four poets in conversation about Respect, a new anthology of poems inspired by the incredible richness of Detroit music. The book was published in late 2019 by Michigan State University Press. Two of the poets in this interview were also editors of the book, Jim Daniels and M.L. Liebler. They are joined by Cindy Hunter Morgan and W.D. Ehrhart. We hope you enjoy this conversation with four ...
RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music
December 22, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBPart of a series that was recorded at BookFest Windsor/Festivale du livre 2019, this podcast features four poets in conversation about Respect, a new anthology of poems inspired by the incredible richness of Detroit music. The book was published in late 2019 by Michigan State University Press. Two of the poets in this interview were also editors of the book, Jim Daniels and M.L. Liebler. They are joined by Cindy Hunter Morgan and W.D. Ehrhart. We hope you enjoy this conversation with four ...
Revisiting Radisson: Mark Bourrie and Bush Runner
December 15, 2019 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBThis podcast is one of a series recorded at BookFest Windsor 2019. In this episode, we talk with Mark Bourrie, an award-winning writer and a respected military historian with a PhD in history. A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence Public Affairs Learning Centre and periodically teaches courses on media history, censorship and...
Two Novels: The Devoted and The Nap-Away Motel
December 08, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBOn the podcast this week, recorded at BookFest Windsor 2019, we’ll hear from two fiction writers, Blair Hurley and Nadja Lubiw-Howard. Blair Hurley received her A.B. from Princeton University and her M.F.A. from NYU. Her stories are published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, The Georgia Review, West Branch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Descant, Fugue, and elsewhere. She has received a 2018 Pushcart Prize and scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Kimmel Hardin...
Graphic Storytelling at BookFest Windsor
December 01, 2019 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBThis week’s podcast was recorded at BookFest Windsor 2019. Today, we’ll talk with Ben O’Neil and Jessica Bromley Bartram. Illustrator, artist, and screenwriter Ben O’Neil is currently based in Toronto, but was born and raised in London. He counts Matt Groening (The Simpsons) and Greg Capullo (Spawn) among his influences. It wasn’t until Ben attended OCAD for Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism that he rediscovered comic illustration. From there, Ben began self-publishing comics and zines...
Live Mystery Night Readings with Stan Rogal and Michael Januska
November 24, 2019 12:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBThis podcast was recorded live at Biblioasis bookshop in Windsor in October 2019. You’ll hear Biblioasis publicist Theo Hummer introducing each author. The first reader is Stan Rogal, reading from Investigation into the Death of Roberto Bolaño, and then you’ll hear author Michael Januska reading from Prospect Avenue. After the readings, there’s an insightful Q&A moderated by Theo. Stan Rogal is a poet, novelist and playwright. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, ...
Searching for Mystery in Windsor History
November 17, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBBorn and raised in Windsor, Michael Januska has worked with books his whole life, both as a bookseller and for several publishing companies. He is the author of the Border City Blues mystery series set in the Prohibition Era of Windsor/Essex. There are three books in the series beginning with Riverside Drive. Stories from Januska’s Prohibition-era Border City Blues novels have won two consecutive Scene of the Crime story prizes. He is also the author of Grey Cup Century. He now lives in Toro...
Chancing the Ducks for 15 Years at Biblioasis
November 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MB"To chance the ducks" is a nineteenth-century idiom that means to do something regardless of the risks or potential for disaster. Windsor's Biblioasis press has grown from a 1-person operation into "the first truly great new Canadian press of the 21st century" according to The Globe and Mail. In this podcast, you'll hear highlights of the celebratory evening if 15 years of chancing the ducks, including readings from Biblioasis authors: Taras Grescoe Possess the Air Pa...
Publishers Notes: Reflections on 15 years of success at Biblioasis
November 03, 2019 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBBorn in Chatham, Ontario, Daniel Wells attended the University of Windsor as a history and philosophy major. He opened a second-hand bookshop, Biblioasis, on Ouellette Avenue in Windsor in 1998. Dan and his wife Alexis helped to found BookFest Windsor in 2002, where he was inspired to think about publishing a book by another author. The Biblioasis bookshop was moved to Wyandotte Street in the trendy Walkerville district of Windsor, and now the Biblioasis press has grown, and now has its ow...
Law and Disorder - Ontario history you didin't learn in school
October 27, 2019 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBPatrick Brode was born in Windsor, Ontario. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1977 and has practiced law ever since, most recently as Senior Legal Counsel for the City of Windsor. As a well-respected historian, he has written six books, including Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact, which was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award, and The Odyssey of John Anderson, a finalist for the Trillium Award. The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex-Crimes Panic, 1945-1946, ...
Law and Disorder - Ontario history you didin't learn in school
October 27, 2019 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBPatrick Brode was born in Windsor, Ontario. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1977 and has practiced law ever since, most recently as Senior Legal Counsel for the City of Windsor. As a well-respected historian, he has written six books, including Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact, which was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award, and The Odyssey of John Anderson, a finalist for the Trillium Award. The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex-Crimes Panic, 1945-1946, ...
Giving voice to the community with the Windsor Poets Laureate program
October 13, 2019 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBWindsor, Ontario is one of several Canadian cities that boasts a Poet Laureate program. In this podcast, we talk with the two current Poets Laureate of Windsor, Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern and Youth Poet Laureate Samantha Badaoa. Mary Ann Mulhern, Poet Laureate of Windsor, was a well-respected teacher before she embarked on a second career as a poet. Mulhern’s first book of narrative poetry, The Red Dress, which focused on her experiences living in a convent for eight years in the sixtie...
All Access Café: A program featuring differently-abled artists
October 06, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBNew this year, the All Access Café is a unique series of readings and performances that features differently-abled artists and is ASL-accessible through Deaf Can, Inc. It's sponsored by the Detroit Writer's Guild, the Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, the Detroit Public Library, Wayne State University and Third Man Records. In this episode, you'll hear performances from several artists: Ali McManus, a singer, songwriter and motivational speaker Mark Levin, a poet, musician and produc...
All Access Café: A program featuring differently-abled artists
October 06, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBNew this year, the All Access Café is a unique series of readings and performances that features differently-abled artists and is ASL-accessible through Deaf Can, Inc. It's sponsored by the Detroit Writer's Guild, the Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, the Detroit Public Library, Wayne State University and Third Man Records. In this episode, you'll hear performances from several artists: Ali McManus, a singer, songwriter and motivational speaker Mark Levin, a poet, musician and produc...
Empire's Legacy: Alternative medieval world fiction
September 29, 2019 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBMarian L. Thorpe grew up in Harrow, Ontario. She holds a Masters in Biology from the University of Guelph, and has recently retired as a Special Education supervisor at a school district in Ontario. Marian is the author of the alternative world medieval trilogy Empire’s Legacy. The series was rated Top Ten (#5, #7, and #8) in Alternate History, on Amazon.com, April 8, 2019. Her life-long interest in Roman and post-Roman European history informs her novels, while her avocations of landscape ...
Speculative Fiction and Escapist Fiction: Two Genre Authors, One House
September 22, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBThis week's podcast takes place at Gertrude’s Writing Room on the grounds of historic Willistead Manor in Windsor. We talk with two authors of very different genres who just happen to be married. They live in Windsor with adjoining writing spaces and their menagerie of animals. Alexander Zelenyj is the author of the books Blacker Against the Deep Dark, Songs for the Lost, Experiments at 3 Billion A.M., and Black Sunshine. Alex was also one of the authors selected for the Juniper Books Sprin...
Poets and Pies with the Detroit Writers' Guild
September 15, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week’s podcast brings you a variety of Detroit poets reading at Poets and Pies, a regular event hosted by the Detroit Writers’ Guild. This set of readings was recorded in August at the St. Clair Shores library. Joyce Jenkins is a Detroit native who has spent much of her life in Berkeley, California. Joyce has long been a noted Bay Area poet and the editor of “Poetry Flash,” as well as the producer and sponsor of the Northern California Book Reviewers and the Northern California Book A...