UIndy’s Potluck Podcast: Season 3
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UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 3 – Episode 1 – Laurel Radzieski
In this episode of the UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479 students Hope Coleman, Cassi Dillon, and Imani Gilbert interview the 2020 Whirling Prize poetry 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 2020 theme was the genre of Horror, and the student judges talk with poet Laurel Radzieski, author of the winning collection, Red Mother. Special thanks to Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Laurel Radzieski is the Grant Writer for Lackawanna College and a Teaching Artist for the Arts in Education in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She is the author of Red Mother, and her poems have appeared in Rust + Moth, Atlas and Alice, SPLASH!, and other journals. In addition, her poems have been featured on roadsides and a street sign in Wisconsin. Laurel Radzieski has presented on-the-spot poetry installations in Chicago, IL; Scranton, PA; Reedsburg, WI; and elsewhere. You can check out her 2020 TED×Scranton talk “Writing Poems for Strangers” online.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 3 – Episode 2 — Joe Laycock
In this episode of the UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479 students Savannah Harris and Hope Coleman interview the 2020 Whirling Prize winner in prose. 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 2020 theme was the genre of Horror, and the student judges talk with Joe Laycock who edited the winning anthology, The Penguin Book of Exorcisms. Special thanks to Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Joseph Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University and a co-editor of the journal Nova Religio. He is the author or editor of several books about religion, including Speak of the Devil, Spirit Possession Around the World, and The Seer of Bayside, and has written for Quartz and The New Republic.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 3 – Episode 3 — Emily Skaja
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 478 students Chelsea Keen, Savannah Harris, McKenna Tetrick, and Olivia Williams interview poet Emily Skaja, 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 Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Emily Skaja’s first book, Brute, won the 2019 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Southern Indiana Review. Her poems have been published in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, and others. She is the winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets College Prize, and a 2019-2020 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Emily Skaja is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at the University of Memphis
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 3 – Episode 4 — Victoria Chang
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts ENGLISH 478 students McKenna Tetrick, Olivia Williams, and Chelsea Keen interview poet Victoria Chang, 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 Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Victoria Chang’s collections of poetry include Circle, winner of the Crab Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry; Salvinia Molesta; The Boss; Barbie Chang; and Obit. Her poems have been published in the Kenyon Review, Poetry, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Chang is the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. In addition to editing, Victoria Chang writes children’s books and teaches in Antioch University’s MFA program.
UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 3 – Episode 5 — Alison C. Rollins
In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 478 students Olivia Williams, Maiya Johnson, Chelsea Keen, and McKenna Tetrick interview poet Alison C Rollins, 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 Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio.
Alison C. Rollins currently works as the Lead Teaching and Learning Librarian for Colorado College. She also serves as faculty for Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Low-Residency MFA program. She is a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellow, as well as a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow. Alison C. Rollins’ debut poetry collection is Library of Small Catastrophes, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere.
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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