UIndy’s Potluck Podcast: Season 1
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UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 1 – Episode 1 – Angela Palm
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy English professor Barney Haney interviews creative nonfictions writer Angela Palm, 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.
Angela Palm is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, which won the 2014 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Short-listed for the Vermont Book Award and the Indiana Author Award/Emerging Author Award, Riverine was also noted for being an Indie Next selection, a Kirkus Best Book of 2017, and a Powerful Memoir by Powerful Women selected by Oprah. She was part of the 2018 Kellogg Writers Series’ Indiana Writers Spotlight.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 1 – Episode 2 – Mira T. Lee
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversation about the arts, UIndy students Creative Writing Major, Jessica Marvel and Nursing Major Erin Pool interview the 2018 Whirling Prize winning novelist. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at the 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 2018 theme was disability, and the student judges talk with Mira T. Lee about her winning novel, Everything Here Is Beautiful.
Mira T. Lee’s work has been published in numerous quarterlies and reviews, including The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, and Triquarterly. She was awarded an Artist’s Fellowship by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2012, and has twice received special mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is a graduate of Stanford University, and currently lives with her husband and two young sons in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Everything Here Is Beautiful is her debut novel.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 1 – Episode 3 – Christine Stewart-Nuñez
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy students Creative Writing Major Tayah Eakle, Finance and Professional Writing Major Kara Wagoner, and Professional Writing Major Sara Perkins interview the 2018 Whirling Prize winning poet. 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 2018 theme was disability, and the student judges talk with Christine Stewart-Nuñez about her winning collection, Bluewords Greening.
Christine Stewart-Nuñez, a Professor of English at South Dakota State University, writes at the intersection of experiences and research. She’s the author of four poetry books: Untrussed (University of New Mexico Press 2016), Bluewords Greening (Terrapin Books 2016), Keeping Them Alive (WordTech 2010), and Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008). Her work has appeared in Arts & Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah and her essay “An Archeology of the Secrets” was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2012.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 1 – Episode 4 – John Jodzio
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversation about the acts, Creative Writing and Professional Writing major Shauna Sartoris interviews fiction writer John Jodzio, 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.
John Jodzio’s work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 1 – Episode 5 – Amy Sekhar
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy Finance and Professional Writing major Kara Wagoner interviews independent scholar and disability rights activist Amy Sekhar, a guest of Communiversity. They talk about The Moonstone from the perspective of disability literature.
2018 marked the 150th anniversary of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, a book T.S. Eliot described as “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels, in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe.” To celebrate this milestone, UINDY hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 1 – Episode 6 – Randell Horton
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Bre Nunn and Electronic Media Communications major Taylor Woods interview poet and memoirist Randall Horton, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussion and free public readings.
Randall Horton is the author of the poetry collections Pitch Dark Anarchy, The Definition of Place, and The Lingua France of Ninth Street, and author of the memoir, Hook. Hortons is an associate professor of English at the University of New Haven. He is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders which recently received the 2018 American Book Award in Oral Literature.
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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