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- Poet Mark Yakich, professor of English at Central Michigan University, talks about his education, developing an interest in poetry while working in Brussels, Belgium, his writing style, the cover of his book "The making of collateral beauty", and the relationship between teaching and writing. Yakich is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Poets Jack Ridl and Chris Dombrowski talk about teaching and the writing of poetry and the use of landscape in their writings. Ridl and Dombrowski are interviewed by Michigan Stae University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Poet and author Josie Kearns, professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Michigan, talks about teaching and writing, natural scenery in Michigan, her editorship of the book "New Poems From the Third Coast", her book "New Numbers", and other works in process. Kearns is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson from the Michigan State University Libraries for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-11-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan State University Professor Anita Skeen reads at the first MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry Reading, sponsored by the MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. Skeen, coordinator Center for Poetry, begins by recognizing a number of people who helped make the Center for Poetry a reality and then reads a passage from Muriel Rukeyser's book "The life of poetry." She also reads from her own books, "Outside the fold, outside the frame", "Resurrection of the animals", and her recent work with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor, "When we say shelter". Skeen describes the process of writing poetry and what influences her and how living in Canada and New Mexico have affected her work. She closes by reading from a work in progress. Skeen is introduced by Stephen L. Esquith, dean of the MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-10-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Award winning poet Stephen Dunn reads from his new book "Different hours" and a poem from a previously published book, as the featured speaker at the annual Michigan State University English Department Awards celebration. MSU Poet in Residence Diane Wakoski convenes the event and introduces the winners of the Jim Cash Creative Writing Awards.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-02-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Linda Nemec Foster talks about the title of her work, "Living in the Fire Nest", teaching poetry in schools and colleges, how her poems were displayed in exhibits for visual arts and poetry, inspirations of one of her poem, her writing style, and in-progress works. Foster is interviewed by librarian Jane Arnold for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-03-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Poet and author Carolyn Forché discusses her travels as a poet, meeting other poets in war-torn countries, and the role of poetry in politics, current events and in the academy. Michigan State University Professor Anita Skeen, arts coordinator and director of the MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities' Center for Poetry introduces Forché. Forché also takes questions from the audience. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Cosponsored by the RCAH Center for Poetry. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Elinor Benedict talks about her book "All that divides us", Christianity in her life and her writings, her family and relatives in China, and her work in process. Benedict is interviewed by librarian Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Judith Minty describes how she leads people to read and enjoy poetry, her poem "A Sense of Place," the role her heritage and background plays in inspiring her works, and other works in-progress. Minty is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Author Jeff Vande Zande talks about teaching and writing, poems vs. short stories, developing characters in his stories based on his personal experience, and his current projects. Vande Zande is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-02-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection