Words Radio
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Literary Arts Festival - Fast Approaching!
This post is a reminder about the fast approaching Grey Borders Literary Arts Festival, happening throughout the month of June. The festival will feature many writers, including Catherine Owen, Terry Trowbridge, Adam Dickinson, and Gregory Betts. I will be joining other executives of the Brock Creative Writing Club at a book sale at the Niagara Falls Public Library on Saturday, June 4 from 10:00-5:00. See you there!
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Our Art Now: Reminder: Poetry Launch
The BUCWC is glad to announce the launch of the 2010-2011 Anthology “this book is about you”
Date: April 21, 2011
Time: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Place: Pan Cafe (120 St. Paul street, St. Catharines)
Come one and all to celebrate the launch of the anthology!
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Our eleventh show! Featuring some Millay, some beauty, and local poet and the curator, coordinator and host of the Grey Borders Reading Series, Eric Schmaltz!
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-0:23.
0:00: “Welcome to Words”
2) Edna St. Vincent Millay: 0:23-2:13.
0:23: “[Thou art not lovelier than lilacs]”
1:16: “[Into the Golden Vessel of Great Song]”
3) Alexander Forbes (writer), Henry Small (music) Tina Moore (voice): 2:13-16:10.
2:13: “The Beauty of the City in the Last Hour of the Night”
4) Our guest Eric Schmaltz!
16:10: Interview.
24:50: Untitled
26:35: “About Our Clam”
5) Outro: 28:25-28:42
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We’re now double-digits! Featuring the final section of “People of the Dark”, various other script-writing and poetry, and we welcome this week’s guest Stephanie Tingzon!
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-0:55
0:00: “Welcome to Words”
0:10: Announcements (A. Rawlings Reading).
***The date is no longer accurate, this reading was canceled due to weather conditions and is rescheduled for Thursday, February 17th. All other details remain the same however.
2) Conclusions, creatures, Shakespeare and Ships: 0:55-17:40.
0:55: Conclusion of “”People of the Dark”.
4:55: Unknown Author, “The Two Corbies”.
5:48: Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven”.
12:37: William Shakespeare, section from Act 5, scene 1 from “Hamlet” (graveyard scene)
15:13: Shawna Lemay, “Useless Opalescent Wings”.
16:32: Lewis Carroll, “The Mouse’s Tale”.
17:13: D.H. Lawrence, “Ship of Death” (and a couple lines from another poem we read accidentally. Woops.)
3) Our guest, Stephanie Tingzon! 17:40-29:12
17:40: Interview with Stephanie.
25:05: “Damned”.
26:33: “Rush”.
28:00: “Love & technoLOGIC”
4) Outro: 29:12-29:32.
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Our ninth show! Featuring Pt. 2 of Robert E. Howard’s “People of the Dark”, and guest Emi Morimoto!
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-0:40
0:00: “Welcome to Words”
0:09: Announcements - Grey Borders and BUCWC reading
2) Robert E. Howard (2): 0:40-18:14
0:40: R.E.H. Anecdote
1:53: Part 2 of “People of the Dark”
3) Our Guest Emi Morimoto! 18:14-29:00
18:14: Interview with Emi
22:45: “Teaching Poetry”
24:55: “Discolouration”
26:23: “Hopeless Romantic”
28:02: “Extended Metaphor #1”
4) Outro: 29:00-29:27
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Our 8th show (and the first of the new semester)! Featuring the work of Robert E. Howard.
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-3:16
0:00: “Welcome to Words”
0:41: Announcements - Grey Borders Reading, BUCWC event, and the remodelling of our blog.
2) Robert E. Howard: 3:16-25:36
3:16: Short Bio
5:49: “People of the Dark”, Pt. 1.
3) Outro: 25:36-25:50
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Our seventh and final show of the semester! Look for us next January, starting the 7th! We’ll be on tuesday afternoons, 3:00-3:30 pm, and as always on 103.7 FM!
Special thanks to Taylor Mali and Shawna Lemay for giving us permission to read your works, and to all the dead poets, whose works we ruthlessly pirated :)
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-4:30
0:00: Folktale
4:00: “Welcome to Words”.
2) Random Poems - No theme, just plain ol’ literature: 4:30-28:23
4:30: Taylor Mali, “Miracle Workers”.
8:35: Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat”
13:46: Shawna Lemay, “Gluttony of Paper”.
15:00: Duncan Griffiths, “The Cajun”.
26:56: Shawna Lemay, “Reclining on Velvet”.
3) Outro: 28:23-28:55
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Our sixth show. HAPPY RIMBAUD DAY!!!!!! Also featuring writer Jade Wallace!
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-2:17
0:00: “Welcome to Words”
0:13: Explanation of “Rimbaud Day”
0:57: Duncan Griffiths, “Rimbaud Day”
2) The Man. The Legend. 2:17-18:33
2:17: Biographical details
5:59: Arthur Rimbaud, “A Season in Hell”
3) Our guest Jade Wallace! 18:33-27:58
18:33: Interview with Jade.
21:56: “Savings”
23:23: “But I, Composing a Rhyme, Decided to Stay”
24:20: “The Recession Did Not Take Place”
25:55: “In a Small Office in the Great Ivory Tower…”
26:59: “Call to Revoice”
4) Outro: 27:58-28:34
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Our fifth show, where your hosts, Edmund Schmidt and Captain Duncan, go on a Safari!
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-0:49
0:00: “Welcome to Words” and going up the river.
2) New Technology: 0:49-6:00
1:30: Taylor Mali, “The Half-tail of Winchester”
3) At the Mouth of the River: 6:00-11:34
6:48: E.J. Pratt, “The Shark”
7:44: Charles D. Robertson, section of “Terror of the Sea Caves”.
8:54: “The Mosquito”.
9:50: Irving Layton, “The Bull Calf”.
4) At the Shoreline: 11:34-23:15
12:24: Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
14:29: “The Ants”
16:10: Edward Lear, “The Owl and the Pussy”.
17:48: John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”.
5) In the Field: 23:15-27:45
23:15: Interview with a Jabberwock Keeper.
6) Outro: 27:45-28:47
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Our fourth show, featuring heros and anti-heros!
*remember, click the arrow pointing downwards or go to the links on the “show recordings” page to go to the site where the audio file is hosted, it won’t play here on the blog itself!*
1) Intro: 0:00-6:08
0:00: Homer, section of the “Iliad”.
5:50: “Welcome to Words”
2) The Words of Extraordinary Heroes and Villains 6:08-20:40
6:08: Bertolt Brecht, “Moritat of Mackie the Knife”
9:00: Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses”.
12:36: William Shakespeare, “Henry V: (Speech at Agincourt)
14:51: John Milton, “Paradise Lost” (part of Book I)
16:24: Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” (Death of Kurtz).
17:09: Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Charge of the Light Brigade”.
18:55: Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock” (Part of Cantos I).
3) Everyday Heroes: 21:20-24:47
21:20: Taylor Mali, “What Teachers Make”.
24:11: Shoutout to “Dead Gender” (visit their blog at http://deadgender.blogspot.com/)!
24:47: Discussion on what it means to be a hero.
4) Outro: 29:48
