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April 2008 –
Horsing Around with Maxine Kumin and Henry Taylor (encore 1997)

In honor of National Poetry Month join poets Henry Taylor and Maxine Kumin in this encore edition of HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing Life.  They begin with a story of how eight years earlier Kumin was asked to read at a comedy club and told to bring along a protégé. She brought Henry Taylor and together, dressed in riding clothes, they read poems about horses and the equestrian life.  They discuss the benefits of having “friends” (horses) who don’t use language, as we know it, and say that for a writer, this is “a wonderful gift.” Among the poems read by Taylor are: “Riding Lesson,” “Riding a One-Eyed Horse,” “The Flying Change,” and “Remembering Kevan MacKenzie.”  Poems read by Ms. Kumin include: “Credo” “Ars Poetica: A Found Poem,” Praise Be,”  “Chores,” and “Amanda Dreams She has Died and Gone to Elysian Fields.”

MAY 2008 – Eavan Boland hosted by Grace Cavalieri (Debut 2008)

JUNE 2008 – Charles Guggenheim talks to Reynolds Price (Encore 1998)

In this edition of The Writing Life, Charles Guggenheim, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who made a documentary about Price, after spinal cancer left the distinguished writer wheelchair bound, talk about life and insights on the human condition.  The documentary, Clear Pictures, echoes Price’s midlife memoir growing up in Depression-era North Carolina. Creating A Whole New Life since, Price, the poet, professor and novelist, has become even more prolific.

JULY 2008  - Roland Flint talks to Lucille Clifton (Encore 1991)

In this encore edition of HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing Life poet Roland Flint speaks and laughs Lucille Clifton, his longtime friend, former Maryland Poet Laureate and winner of the coveted 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation Prize.  As they chat, Ms. Clifton reads ten poems from “forgiving my father” to “what the mirror said” and “lucy one eye.”  

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