If you missed any of this year’s Jack Straw Reading Series, you can tune in to the “Sound Focus” archive to hear portions of the live reading featuring poet and 2008 Jack Straw Writer Kevin Craft on the weekly literary segment produced by Elizabeth Austen. Kevin Craft hails from the mid-Atlantic zones of the […]
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Here you’ll find out which writer has a certain fondness for three-letter words, who uses language as a central theme, and why poetry matters. The podcast features clips from in-studio readings by writers Kevin Craft, Rebecca Hoogs, and Brian McGuigan as well as selections from their interviews with curator Judith Roche (pictured right). Here’s the […]
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Jack Straw Productions is proud to announce the literary artists selected by curator Judith Roche for the 2008 Jack Straw Writers Program. They are Wendy Call, Janna Cawrse, Kevin Craft, Sharon Cumberland, Waverly Fitzgerald, Merna Ann Hecht, Rebecca Hoogs, Brian McGuigan, Jennifer D. Munro, Ghida Sinno, Judith Skillman, and Michael Spence. “There are too few […]
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Jack Straw Productions has selected award-winning poet Judith Roche as the curator of the 2008 Jack Straw Writers Program. As curator, Roche will select the 12 participants in the upcoming cycle of the annual Writers Program, who will be announced in February 2008, and she will participate in a variety of public events, development trainings, […]
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In this preview of the final program in the Jack Straw Reading Series, curator Matt Briggs interviews collaborative literary performance group the Vis-à-Vis Society and takes one of their surveys. The Vis-à-Vis Society was founded in a year that felt like 1957 by Drs. Ink and Owning (aka Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler, of the […]
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In this preview of the second of three readings in the Jack Straw Reading Series, poet Anna Maria Hong reveals how she writes sonnets exclusively to curator Matt Briggs, and reads a new sonnet. Hong is a recent Pushcart Prize nominee and National Poetry Series finalist. She has published poems in various journals, and her […]
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Here’s a sliver of what you can expect at the first of three readings at Jack Straw Productions on May 17th. “I Still Love the Man I Killed,” a poem from Doug Nufer’s forthcoming collection of work, opens the podcast followed by an excerpt from his interview with Writers Program curator Matt Briggs. Doug Nufer […]
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In this podcast, a preview of the upcoming 2007 Jack Straw Reading Series, find out which writer was inspired to pursue a literary career because of a childhood nightmare about an incident at Kmart. The podcast features snippets of in-studio readings by writers Molly Tenenbaum, Corrina Wycoff, Doug Nufer, Cheryl Strayed, and Charles Potts, and […]
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The Jack Straw Writers Program is proud to announce the 2007 writers. This year’s curator Matt Briggs, winner of a 2006 American Book Award for his novel Shoot the Buffalo, has selected 11 writers and one writing team to participate. These literary artists will take part in various live readings, in-studio trainings, publication in the […]
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Welcome to the Jack Straw Writers blog! That’s right, your direct line to what’s going on with the Jack Straw Writers Program. We’ll post audio files, program news, and the latest from all Writers Program participants past and present. You’ll find links to their websites, event announcements, and hopefully random outburst of literary genius. Enjoy!
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