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Get a Little Lit Episode 3: The American Revolution in Print
Get Lit Podcast - July 07, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're back for our 3rd Get a Little Lit Episode, just after the 4th of July: The American Revolution in Print! We take a closer look at the role of the printing press, ink, and paper and their roles in the early American colonies! Plus, there's a National Treasure reference... Research and edi...
Get Lit Episode 222: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Get Lit Podcast - July 05, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis 4th of July, we salute the incredible Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Sedgwick chronicled the voices of those not often represented or heard in America in the 19th century. Her work was wide-ranging in subject and style, and she was among the most prolific women writers of her time! She also prol...
Get Lit Episode 221: Zines
Get Lit Podcast - June 28, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're celebrating the end of Pride Month with a special episode about the Queer intersections of Zines! Zines (short for magazines) have a rich history in helping amplify the voices of marginalized groups in a physical, immediate, and responsive way. We're featuring the early queer zines of the ...
Get Lit Episode 220: Howard Ashman
Get Lit Podcast - June 21, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, Dan Esquivel guest stars during Pride month to feature Howard Ashman, the iconic lyricist, playwright, director, and more behind many of our favorite Disney classics. We have Ashman to thank for things like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and even Little Shop of Hor...
Get Lit Episode 219: Anne Lister
Get Lit Podcast - June 14, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe continue our celebration of Pride Month with Anne Lister - diarist, mountaineer, business woman, travel writer, and of course, lesbian! Lister was the first woman to do many things, including, by many accounts, the first 'same sex' marriage in England. Her preserved and beautifully detailed d...
Get Lit Episode 218: Arnold Lobel
Get Lit Podcast - June 07, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're kicking off Pride Month with a celebration of Frog & Toad creator Arnold Lobel! Lobel wrote simple, significant works that validated the feelings of children (and adults too!) with his whimsical drawings and wit! We honor his legacy, tragically marred by the AIDS crisis in the 1980's, and ...
Get Lit Episode 217: Elie Wiesel
Get Lit Podcast - May 31, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're ending our exploration of Jewish American Heritage Month with Elie Wiesel. Wiesel's iconic memoir 'Night' is for many, an introduction to the Holocaust. His work as an author, activist, and teacher helped advocate for those whose stories had been ignored. We respect and honor his story and...
Get Lit Episode 216: Norman Mailer
Get Lit Podcast - May 24, 2023 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJon takes us all on a JOURNEY through Norman Mailer's life. Mailer was as much of a character as those he wrote. We discuss his colorful life, his Pulitzer Prizes (plural), his wives (also plural), and more! Join us to learn more about this novelist, co-founder of The Village Voice, and boxer(?).
Get Lit Episode 215: Nora Ephron
Get Lit Podcast - May 17, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsNeed a respite this week? Join us for Nora Ephron whose masterful screenplays capture so much of what we love about love and love about each other. Her career spanned decades as she captured audience's hearts and minds in her essays, articles, movies, plays, and more. Celebrate Nora Ephron's leg...
Get Lit Episode 214: Emma Goldman
Get Lit Podcast - May 10, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIT'S. EMMA. GOLDMAN. This incendiary Jewish icon used her voice to fight for worker's rights, women's independence, access to birth control, prison reform, anarchy, and so much more in a time when the world might not have been ready to hear it. Join us this week to unpack her rather complex leg...
Get Lit Episode 213: Nelly Sachs
Get Lit Podcast - May 03, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMay is Jewish History Month and we're heading out of Poetry Month with Nelly Sachs, a Jewish poet whose writings serve as a deep and abiding record of the experiences of Holocaust survivors. She won a Nobel Prize for this work, crafting haunting and hopeful messages that have helped generations ...
Get Lit Episode 212: Allen Ginsberg
Get Lit Podcast - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJon takes over for our last week of Poetry Month with Allen Ginsberg! Ginsberg revolutionized the poetry scene and helped define the beat generation for artists and activists. Ginsberg's life is storied and strange so come along for this wild ride across the globe and between the lines!
Get Lit Episode 211: Edgar Lee Masters
Get Lit Podcast - April 19, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, another very-important-poet-with-three-names-the-first-of-which-is-Edgar... That's right! It's Edgar Lee Masters. Masters was known for his innovative poetry, specifically, Spoon River Anthology. He challenged the understanding of small town America with his more scandalous writing an...
Get Lit Episode 210: Sara Teasdale
Get Lit Podcast - April 12, 2023 02:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're kicking off our 5th season with an episode on Sara Teasdale - master of lyric poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner, and archeologist of emotions. Teasdale wrote many beautiful works of poetry that were popular during her lifetime, but not always appreciated by critics. We celebrate her life, Nati...
Get Lit Episode 209: L. Frank Baum (Live!)
Get Lit Podcast - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're celebrating the last episode of our 4th season with a trip to Oz! We're discussing the life of the legendary writer, chicken farmer, playwright, businessman, newspaper man, and theatre artist L. Frank Baum! His books about Dorothy and others in the land of Oz have had a truly sensational i...
Get Lit Episode 208: Elizabeth Bishop
Get Lit Podcast - March 29, 2023 03:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsTo conclude Women's History Month and kick off National Poetry Month, we're proud to bring you Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop wrote clear and true about the landscapes she experienced and the world around her. She lived a hard life, but wrote with honesty, finding the beauty and elegance in the everyd...
Get Lit Episode 207: Elsa Maxwell
Get Lit Podcast - March 22, 2023 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJoin us for some tall tales, short tales, and some stories that are truly the stuff of fairy tales as we discuss Elsa Maxwell. Maxwell revolutionized what it meant to throw a good party. She lived deeply and joyfully, celebrating every part of life in the most fantastic ways. She wrote up the so...
Get Lit Episode 206: Lillian Hellman
Get Lit Podcast - March 15, 2023 03:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, we're celebrating the strong, passionate, and powerful presence of Lillian Hellman. Hellman wrote plays that broke barriers, advocated for workers and women, and stood up to the most powerful people in America. Her work and way of living are very inspiring, with just a touch of spite ...
Get Lit Episode 205: Sophie Treadwell
Get Lit Podcast - March 08, 2023 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week: murder, mayhem, and Machinal! That's right - we're bringing you Sophie Treadwell! This extraordinary woman was a groundbreaking journalist, author, actress, and playwright who forged forward, leaving chaos but paving the way for other women to follow. Her work, like her, is strong, po...
Get Lit Episode 204: Mary Church Terrell
Get Lit Podcast - March 01, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, we get to know Mary Church Terrell: activist, speaker, writer, and educator! Terrell's TIRELESS work changed the lives of Black people across the U.S. She advocated for women's voting rights, worked on anti-lynching and desegregation campaigns, all while teaching, writing, and lecturi...
Get Lit Episode 203: William Wells Brown
Get Lit Podcast - February 22, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, we learn about William Wells Brown! Who is he? An excellent question - Wells Brown was born into slavery, escaped, and spent his life advocating for abolition and rights for women through his writing, exceptional speeches and activism. He helped dozens of other enslaved people to free...
Get Lit Episode 202: Margaret Walker
Get Lit Podcast - February 15, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're continuing our celebration of Black History Month with Margaret Walker! This remarkable poet certainly walked the walk and wrote the... writing? She used the power of her pen to advocate for Black women, while teaching and creating space to celebrate and uplift Black creatives! Join us for...
Get Lit Episode 201: James Weldon Johnson
Get Lit Podcast - February 08, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, we're kicking off our Black History Month celebration by honoring the legacy of James Weldon Johnson, the brilliant writer behind 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'. BUT did you know that Johnson wrote numerous other poems, articles, and songs in addition to being a school principal, lawyer,...
Get Lit Episode 200: Dante Alighieri
Get Lit Podcast - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIt's our 200th episode! And we're descending into hell to learn more about Italian writer, poet, delegate, and apothecary Dante Alighieri! Dante's influence casts a wide net across politics, our understanding of 'hell', the Italian language and more! We're joined by Ailey Yamamoto and Dan Esqui...
Get Lit Episode 199: Sir Walter Scott
Get Lit Podcast - January 25, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, Jon takes over host duties to explore the legacy of a hugely influential author (and also clerk, sheriff, and other assorted jobs): Sir Walter Scott. Scott's historically oriented and romantically inclined work influenced authors from Jane Austen to Edgar Allan Poe, cementing his plac...
Get Lit Episode 198: Renée Vivien
Get Lit Podcast - January 18, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week: iconic lesbian bohemian poet Renée Vivien, everyone! She lived a fantastically wild life, writing work and living as her truest and most authentic self. She traveled the world wearing pants, left suitors in her wake, and wrote decadent and devastating poetry along the way. We celebrat...
Get Lit Episode 197: Ezra Pound
Get Lit Podcast - January 11, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week, we unpack and interrogate the legacy of modernist poet Ezra Pound, who had a heavy hand in shaping contemporary poetry, but also had some heavily problematic beliefs. From his initial limericks to his long cantos, there's a lot of things in this episode's suitcase! Join us for this AN...
Get Lit Episode 196: Ursula K. LeGuin
Get Lit Podcast - January 04, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're kicking off 2023 with an inspiration - Ursula K. LeGuin. A poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and fierce advocate for writers, there are many things we can learn from this exceptional story teller. Full of magic, courage, and heart, this is an episode you won't want to miss abou...
Get Lit Episode 195: Dylan Thomas
Get Lit Podcast - December 28, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis week: lyrical, brilliant, clever, and spectacular, we look at the life of poet Dylan Thomas who fused a variety of art forms to craft his stunning works. We have a guest reader to give you a taste of Thomas' poetry, along with the results of our Would You Rather game, name poll, and some au...
Get Lit Episode 194: A Ho-lit-day Anthology
Get Lit Podcast - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJust in time for your Holiday work or school party, we have a very special 'Ho-LIT-day' episode for you full of stories, games, and fascinating trivia! Find out which classic Christmas song was saved from the trash, the origins of sending Christmas Cards, and discover your new favorite Hanukkah ...
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