UIndy’s Potluck Podcast: Season 4
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UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 4 – Episode 1 — Margaret Kimball
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, Barney Haney, assistant professor of English, interviews illustrator and writer, Margaret Kimball, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to Music Technology professor Dr Brett Leonard for editing this episode’s audio.
Margaret Kimball is an award-winning illustrator and the author of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets, a graphic memoir about mental illness and family dysfunction. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, LitHub, Ecotone, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere. Her hand lettering and illustrations have been published around the world, and she’s worked with clients like Smithsonian Magazine, Macy’s, Marks & Spencer, Boston Globe, Little, Brown, .
Simon & Schuster and many others. Her work has been listed as notable in Best American Comics.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 4 – Episode 2 — Lysley Tenorio
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, Barney Haney, assistant professor of English, interviews novelist Lysley Tenorio, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to Music Technology majors Sean Montgomery and Jackson Smith for editing this episode’s audio.
Lysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, the Edmund White Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-(Yee)Yi theater in New York City. Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 4 – Episode 3 — Richard Louv
In this episode of the UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479. students Caroline Wood and Abby Bailey interview the 2021 Whirling Prize prose winner. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize each fall to two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2021 theme was Nature,and in this podcast, the student judges have a conversation with journalist Richard Louv, author of the winning book, Our Wild Calling. Special thanks to Music Technology majors Jesse Wallace and Abby Fain for editing this episode’s audio.
Richard Louv is a journalist and author of ten books, including Our Wild Calling: How Connecting With Animals Can Transform Our Lives – And Save Theirs and Last Child in the Woods. His books have been translated and published in 24 countries, and helped launch an international movement to connect children, families and communities to nature. He is cofounder and Chairman Emeritus of the Children & Nature Network, an organization helping build the movement. As a journalist and commentator, Louv has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Times of London, Orion, Outside and other newspapers and magazines. Richard Louv speaks internationally on nature-deficit disorder, a concept he first introduced in Last Child in the Woods; on the importance of children’s and adults’ exposure to nature for their health, and on the need for environmental protection and preservation for greater access to nature and the health of the Earth.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 4 – Episode 4 — Tyree Daye
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, English majors Olivia Cameron, Brandon Hickey, and Sam Jackson, interview poet Tyree Daye, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to Music Technology major Jesse Wallace for editing this episode’s audio.
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns and Cardinal. Daye is a Cave Canem fellow and winner of the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara. Daye is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist, and most recently, he was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 4 – Episode 5 –TAK Erzinger
In this episode of the UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, English major Kim Owen and Etchings Press’ advisor, Liz Whiteacre, interview the 2021 Whirling Prize poetry winner. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards Each fall, The Whirling Prize is awarded two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 20201 theme was Nature, and in this podcast, the student judges have a conversation with poet TAK Erzinger, author of the winning collection, At the Foot of the Mountain. Special thanks to Music Technology major Jesse Wallace for editing this episode’s audio.
TAK Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. She is also an alumna of Boston University and an English teacher. Erzinger is the author of the collections Found: Between the Trees and At the Foot of the Mountain. Her poetry has been featured in Bien Acompañada, The Muse, River and South Review, Welter, The Rational Creature, and more. Her audio drama Stella’s Constellation was produced by Alt.Stories and Fake Realities Podcasts, out of the UK in 2021. Erzinger’s illustrations/art have been featured in Latina Magazine, The American Visionary Art Museum, Ponder Savant, Pen to Print Magazine, Fishfood Magazine and more. She lives in a Swiss valley with her husband and cats.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 4 – Episode 6 — Curtis Crisler
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, English majors, Sam Jackson, Brandon Hickey, and Olivia Cameron, interview poet Curtis Crisler, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to Music Technology major Jesse Wallace for editing this episode’s audio.
Curtis Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He currently teaches at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Crisler is a prolific, award-winning poet. Some of his collections that Undy students engaged with are Tough Boy Sonatas, Black Achilles, Wonderkind, Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy, Don’t Moan So Much (Stevie): A Poetry Musiquarium, “This” American-ah, and most recently, Indiana Nocturnes, which he co-authored the collection with Kevin McKelvey. You can find his poems in many publications with a quick Internet search! Crisler has been nominated for the Eliot Rosewater Award and the Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award, and has won the Library Scholars Grant Award, the Indiana Arts Commission Grants, Eric Hoffer Award, and the Sterling Plumpp First Voices Poetry Award.
We thank you for listening to UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy’s Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.
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