UIndy’s Potluck Podcast: Season 6

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UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 6 – Episode 1 – Elizabeth Kate Switaj

This is UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize to a book each year that demonstrates an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2023 theme was Mythology, and in this episode, the student judges in ENGL479 (Abigail Bailey, Emma Bond, Olivia Cameron, Camille Dobbs, Sierra Durbin, Amber Phillips, and E. Alexander Phillips-Hedge) have a conversation with poet Elizabeth Kate Switaj, author of the winning collection, The Bringers of Fruit. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Nicholas Flowers for editing this episode.

Elizabeth Kate Switaj has worked at the College of the Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific since 2013. She is the author of Supply Chain Problems and The Bringers of Fruit. Her third full-length poetry collection, At (Ghost) Depth, is forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press.

UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 6 – Episode 2 — Brian Evenson

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond, Piper Parks, and Emma Knaack interview fiction writer, Brian Evenson, 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. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Sean Montgomery for editing this episode.

Brian Evenson is an award-winning American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction. He’s prolific, with many works of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, most recently Good Night, Sleep Tight: Stories, which was released in 2024. Since 2016, he has taught in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.

UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 6 – Episode 3 — Sarah Layden

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond, Piper Parks, and Emma Knaack interview fiction writer, Sarah Layden, 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. A big thank you to Undy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

Sarah Layden is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This, Trip Through Your Wires, and The Story I Tell Myself About Myself. Her recent nonfiction appears in The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Salon, and The Millions.

UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 6 – Episode 4 — Rebecca McKanna

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond, Piper Parks, and Emma Knaack interview fiction writer, Rebecca McKanna, 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. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

Rebecca McKanna was born and raised in lowa. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, and her debut novel, Don’t Forget the Girl, was published in 2023. Her short stories have been published in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, and other publications, and recognized as distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2019.

UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 6 – Episode 5 — Maggie Graber

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Bond and Ella Harner, with Prof. Barney Haney, interview poet, Maggie Graber, 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. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

Maggie Graber is a queer millennial poet from the Great Lakes. She is a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow, a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a certified Wilderness First Responder. She currently serves as poetry editor for Yalobusha Review and lives and teaches in Oxford, Mississippi, where she earned her Ph.D. in English – Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.

UIndy’s Potluck Podcast – Season 6 – Episode 6 — José Olivarez

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Knaack and Griffin Cloyer interview poet, José Olivarez, 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. A big thank you to Ulndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the author of Citizen Illegal and Promises of Gold, the co-author of Home Court, co-editor of BreakBeat Poets 4: LatiNEXT, and the co-host of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been published in the BreakBeat Poets, the Adroit Journal, the Rumpus, and other places. He earned a BA from Harvard University. Named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers, he is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Conversation Literary Festival.

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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