Reading Preview: Vis-à-Vis Society

May 24, 2007

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.

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Reading Preview: Anna Maria Hong

May 17, 2007

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.

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Tales for Small Worlds – Angela Jane Fountas

May 15, 2007

In this program, fiction writer Angela Jane Fountas reads from her Tales for Small Worlds series of short stories for the 2006 Jack Straw Writers Program Reading Series, recorded with a live audience during the Spring of 2006 at Jack Straw in Seattle.

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Reading Preview: Doug Nufer

May 10, 2007

A preview of the Jack Straw Writers reading on May 17th, 2007. “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.

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Joan Swift: “Five From Kona”

March 1, 2007

In this podcast, poet Joan Swift begins with a sonnet she wrote for poet Theodore Roethke, who was her teacher in his last class. That is followed by a group of poems called “Five from Kona,” which she wrote for the 2006 Jack Straw Writers Program. This reading was recorded with a live audience during […]

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Ruzicka/Little Rose – Susan Casey

February 15, 2007

In this podcast, poet Susan Casey reads from a series of poems entitled Ruzicka/Little Rose for the 2006 Jack Straw Writers Program Reading Series. This performance was recorded with a live audience during the Spring of 2006 at Jack Straw in Seattle.

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