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The American Writers Museum

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  • A National Museum Celebrating American Writers
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  • Episode 21: Baseball Writing

    Episode 21: Baseball Writing
    Oct 19 2020
    This week, get your peanuts and Cracker Jack ready because we’re chatting with essayist Joe Bonomo and sportswriter Rick Telander about their favorite baseball writing. This program took place and was recorded in June when Major League Baseball was still on hiatus. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS "Baseball especially encourages that, that feeling of connection to other games you’ve been to. And I think that engages imagination and engages memory and it maybe engages, for certain writers, a literary impulse to explore the game in its slowness, its kind of slow-baked quality. Which is what we love about the game.” “What I like most in baseball writing is a skepticism, a resistance to writing about baseball as this maudlin, sort of grand ole game that is America’s pastime. It is, of course, but it’s also full of scoundrels and fascinating people and a lot of coarse humor.” “As a sportswriter you have fandom kind of beaten out of you on
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    49 mins
  • Episode 20: Frank Waln & Tanaya Winder

    Episode 20: Frank Waln & Tanaya Winder
    Oct 12 2020
    Today, in recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day, we talk with Native poets and performing artists Frank Waln and Tanaya Winder, who will also play some of their powerful music. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Listen to more episodes here. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS “I really believe in helping people heal through the power of love and I try to infuse anything I write -- whether it’s poetry, nonfiction, music -- into that.” “We started writing poetry to process the world, and kind of as an act of survival. When our backs were against the wall and we were growing up in the aftermath of genocide and facing things like depression and historical trauma and PTSD and suicide, poetry and expressing ourselves through those words helped us get through that.” “I play a few instruments. Music was always an escape for me, a safe space for me, as was reading and writing. But music was my language.” “I was taught as a Lakota person, time is fluid for my people and when yo
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    1 hr
  • Episode 19: Juan Felipe Herrera

    Episode 19: Juan Felipe Herrera
    Oct 5 2020
    This week, AWM Facilities Supervisor, Cristina Carrera, chats with former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera about his new collection Every Day We Get More Illegal. We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer. Find more podcast episodes here. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS “Instead of more openness, the doors seem to be bigger and tighter and more locked up, in more ways than one. So I wanted to think about that and I want to have the readers and everyone reflect on those things. What kind of nation are we? What is America? Who are we?” “I write everyday...and scribble. Don’t think I write these big papers everyday. I just scribble, put a few words on paper and just follow those words.” “Actions can be illegal, perhaps. But how can people be illegal? That’s reducing. When we call someone illegal we’re reducing that human being into a phrase on a piece of paper. And a human being is not a phrase on a piece of paper. A human being is a beautiful being, with many dimensions.”
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    32 mins
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