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LIVE at the Writers House

About LIVE

"LIVE at the Writers House" is a long-standing collaboration of the people of the Kelly Writers House and of WXPN FM (88.5). Six times annually between September and April, the Writers House airs a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art, along with one musical guest -- from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. "LIVE" is broadcast on WXPN. "LIVE" is made possible through the generous support of BigRoc.

For more information about the show, or if you are interested in reading or being a part of the audience, contact series producer Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu) c/o "LIVE at the Writers House," 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104-6150.

"LIVE" stands in a tradition of "new writing" on radio; Cid Corman, a poet and great supporter of experimental poetry in the 1950s, created his own broadcast, "This is Poetry," over WMEX-FM (Boston).

Episode 72 - 10/20/2008

Produced and hosted by Erin Gautsche.
Full program

  1. Erin Gautsche - Introduction
  2. L.A. Banks - Introduction
  3. L.A. Banks - Reading
  4. Solomon Jones - Introduction
  5. Solomon Jones - Reading
  6. The Twin Poets - Introduction
  7. The Twin Poets - Reading
  8. Monette Sudler - Introduction
  9. Monette Sudler - Performance
  10. Ed Shockley - Introduction
  11. Ed Shockley - Reading
  12. Monette Sudler - Performance

Episode 71 - 9/22/2008

Produced and hosted by Erin Gautsche.
Full program

  1. Erin Gautsche - Introduction
  2. Thomas Devaney - Introduction
  3. Thomas Devaney - Reading
  4. Trapeta Mayson - Introduction
  5. Trapeta Mayson - Reading
  6. Randall Couch - Introduction
  7. Randall Couch - Reading
  8. Hezekiah Jones - Introduction
  9. Hezekiah Jones - Performance
  10. Ish Klein - Introduction
  11. Ish Klein - Reading
  12. Scott Edward Anderson - Introduction
  13. Scott Edward Anderson - Reading
  14. Hezekiah Jones - Performance

Episode 70 - 03/31/2008 - Mad Poets Society

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  2. Eileen DAngelo - Introduction
  3. Eileen DAngelo - The Failings of Memory
  4. Eileen DAngelo - Marksman
  5. Eileen DAngelo - August, Perseids Meteor Shower
  6. Eileen DAngelo - For Eric
  7. Eileen DAngelo - Love Letter to a Moody Sea
  8. Stephen Delia - Introduction
  9. Stephen Delia - Easter
  10. Stephen Delia - Roadside Sideshow
  11. Stephen Delia - 4 AM Commerical
  12. Stephen Delia - Perception
  13. Stephen Delia - Ode to Cecily
  14. Stephen Delia - Winter Night on 2nd Street
  15. Stephen Delia - Angel Gloss
  16. Stephen Delia - When I Get Married
  17. Missy Grotz - Introduction
  18. Missy Grotz - Do You See My Face
  19. Missy Grotz - Can I Be Myself
  20. Missy Grotz - Creativity
  21. Missy Grotz - Advil Isnt Cutting It
  22. Missy Grotz - Morning Paper Guy on 12th and Curlan
  23. Missy Grotz - Who Do I See But What Do I Care
  24. Devin Greenwood - Introduction
  25. Devin Greenwood - This Over Here
  26. Autumn Konopka - Introduction
  27. Autumn Konopka - The Stuff of Poems
  28. Autumn Konopka - Potato Salad Isnt Only for Picnics
  29. Autumn Konopka - Couplets for William and Abigail
  30. Autumn Konopka - Paper Boy
  31. Autumn Konopka - Hush
  32. Dan Maguire - Introduction
  33. Dan Maguire - The Lateness of the Day
  34. Dan Maguire - Reprise
  35. Dan Maguire - Finding the Words
  36. Devin Greenwood - Dragon City

Episode 69 - 02/25/2008 - Leeway Award Winners

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  2. Rachel Goffee - Introduction
  3. Rachel Goffee - Interview
  4. Kameelah Waheed - Introduction
  5. Michelle Posadas - Introduction
  6. Michelle Posadas - Journal Excerpts
  7. Paper Trees - Introduction
  8. Paper Trees - Pretender
  9. Wakzanai Mhute - Introduction
  10. Wakzanai Mhute - Short Illness
  11. Wakzanai Mhute - The Torrent
  12. Judith Truestone - Introduction
  13. Judith Truestone - Imagine
  14. Judith Truestone - A Kinder, Gentler Murder
  15. Paper Trees - Seesaw Shuffle

Episode 68 - 01/28/2008 - Youth Poets from the Arts and Spirituality Center

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  2. Cathy Cohen - Introduction
  3. Cathy Cohen - Girl On Fire
  4. Cathy Cohen - Rose At The Door
  5. Cathy Cohen - Lines Of Your Journey
  6. Cathy Cohen - Speak A New Language
  7. Cathy Cohen - Walk In White
  8. Safi Aziz - Introduction
  9. Safi Aziz - Let Me Write
  10. Bernard Collins - Introduction
  11. Bernard Collins - Red
  12. Bernard Collins - The Conversation
  13. Bernard Collins - Warmth
  14. Bernard Collins - Two Thoughts
  15. Bernard Collins - Trains
  16. Marcy, and Jan Jeffries Francis - Akiwowo
  17. Brandon Ramirez - Introduction
  18. Brandon Ramirez - Speaking My Soul
  19. Brandon Ramirez - Love Choice and Trust
  20. Magda Martinez - Introduction
  21. Magda Martinez - Cuentito Peludo
  22. Magda Martinez - Untitled Poems
  23. Tammy Miller - Introduction
  24. Tammy Miller - Mother Where Are You
  25. Tammy Miller - As I Grew Up
  26. Tammy Miller - Man On That Wave
  27. Marcy, and Jan Jeffries Francis - Thank You For This Day
  28. Michaela Majoun - Ending

Episode 67 - 11/26/2007 - Winds of Change: Philly Politics 2007

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun
You can hear a recording of the entire program here

  1. Chris Satullo - Reading
  2. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  3. Dave Davies - Reading
  4. Dan Urevick-Acklesberg - Reading
  5. The Spinning Leaves - Try, Try, Try
  6. Tim Whitaker - Reading
  7. The Spinning Leaves - Bridges For Free

Episode 66 - 10/29/2007 - From Vaudeville to Video: 1812 Celebrates 100 Years of Comedy

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Tony Braithewaite - A Conversation
  2. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  3. Mary Carpenter - A Conversation
  4. Jennifer Childs - A Conversation
  5. Scott Greer - A Conversation
  6. Dave Jadico - A Conversation
  7. Various - Belle Barth impersonation
  8. Various - Bob & Ray impersonation
  9. Various - George & Gracie impersonation
  10. Various - Improvised radio show
  11. Various - Opening vaudeville-style song
  12. Various - Political humour mock news segment
  13. Various - Shel Silverstein song

Episode 65 - 09/24/2007 - Pocket Myths presents The Odyssey

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  2. Emily Abendroth - Introduction
  3. Emily Abendroth - Rather Than Things to Her Mouth, She Brought Her Mouth to Things
  4. Justin Audia - Introduction
  5. Justin Audia - A Torrid Eye
  6. Julia Bloch - Introduction
  7. Julia Bloch - Persephone
  8. Julia Bloch - Anticlea
  9. Julia Bloch - I Dream of the Death of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  10. My Invisible - Introduction
  11. My Invisible - Jelly
  12. CA Conrad - Introduction
  13. CA Conrad - Frank Poems
  14. Ryan Eckes - Introduction
  15. Ryan Eckes - Laertes
  16. Ryan Eckes - Stolen Car
  17. Ryan Eckes - Rite of Passage
  18. Ryan Eckes - Caption
  19. Ryan Eckes - If I Speak
  20. Ryan Eckes - Immortality
  21. My Invisible - Cypher

Episode 64 - 03/07/2007 - Philadelphia Zine Writers

Produced and hosted by Erin Gautsche.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Katie Haegele - Introduction
  2. Katie Haegele - Breakdancing for the Pope
  3. Katie Haegele - Helen's Hands
  4. Katie Haegele - Ode to New Life
  5. Katie Haegele - The Lesson
  6. Katie Haegele - Stearocyte
  7. Casey Grabowski - Introduction
  8. Casey Grabowski - Reverse Engineering, Redevelopment...
  9. King Wenclas - Introduction
  10. King Wenclas - War Hysteria
  11. King Wenclas - Expedition to Mars
  12. Birdie Busch - Introduction
  13. Birdie Busch - South Philly
  14. Birdie Busch - The Hub Singers
  15. Kate Amock - Introduction
  16. Kate Amock - on Stonemasons
  17. Justin Duerr - Introduction
  18. Justin Duerr - from Issue 54
  19. Justin Duerr - from Issue 51
  20. Justin Duerr - from Issue 50
  21. Julia Bloch - Anticlea

Episode 63 - 02/26/2007 - Penn Grad Student Poets

Produced and hosted by Erin Gautsche.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Erin Gautsche - Introduction
  2. Julia Bloch - Introduction
  3. Julia Bloch - from Letters to Kelly
  4. Julia Bloch - Persephone
  5. Julia Bloch - Anticlea
  6. Julia Bloch - Sky Time
  7. Julia Bloch - Ruinic
  8. Julia Bloch - Manhattanic
  9. Dorothea Lasky - Introduction
  10. Dorothea Lasky - On Old Ideas
  11. Dorothea Lasky - Outside Chattanooga, Tennessee
  12. Dorothea Lasky - Portrait of Me and Vladimer Mayakovsky
  13. Dorothea Lasky - The Fire That Burns the Bird
  14. Dorothea Lasky - Memories
  15. Dorothea Lasky - The Process of Explication
  16. Dorothea Lasky - The Animal
  17. Jason Zuzga - Introduction
  18. Jason Zuzga - Making Butter
  19. Jason Zuzga - City Life
  20. Jason Zuzga - Sea Horse
  21. Jason Zuzga - Diet
  22. Jason Zuzga - Documentary
  23. Adam Arcuragi - Introduction
  24. Adam Arcuragi - Broken Throat
  25. Adam Arcuragi - 1981
  26. Caroline Whitbeck - Introduction
  27. Caroline Whitbeck - Choke Cherry
  28. Caroline Whitbeck - They're All Out of Storm Names
  29. Caroline Whitbeck - See Daddy Make a Deal
  30. Caroline Whitbeck - Death Watch
  31. Caroline Whitbeck - from Inheritance
  32. Shonni Enelow - Introduction
  33. Shonni Enelow - Monologues
  34. Shonni Enelow - He Was National Jimmy...
  35. Shonni Enelow - unnamed
  36. Shonni Enelow - 1947 Washington High School...

Episode 62 - 01/22/2007 - Leeway Foundation Award Winners

Produced and hosted by Erin Gautsche.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Erin Gautsche - Introduction
  2. Thelma Shelton Robinson - Introduction
  3. Thelma Shelton Robinson - The Story of Corinne Sights
  4. Felicia Webster - Introduction
  5. Felicia Webster - Love?
  6. Maudeline Swaray - Introduction
  7. Maudeline Swaray - Let's Come Together Once More
  8. Maudeline Swaray - The Ring Song
  9. Gwynne Sigel - Introduction
  10. Gwynne Sigel - The Golden Peacock
  11. Gwynne Sigel - Frumla
  12. Gwynne Sigel - How Man Was Created
  13. Davina Stewart - Introduction
  14. Davina Stewart - from "Ciam Lakey"

Episode 61 - 11/13/2006 - Plan B Press

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.

  1. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  2. Daniel Collins - Introduction
  3. Daniel Collins - The Zen Man Seldom Held a Pen
  4. Daniel Collins - After
  5. Daniel Collins - Unthink, unstop, everwear blues
  6. Jim Mancinelli - Introduction
  7. Jim Mancinelli - Ask
  8. Jim Mancinelli - Vincenzo
  9. Jim Mancinelli - A Mill Life
  10. Jim Mancinelli - Saying Good-Bye
  11. Jim Mancinelli - from chapbook "Indeed"
  12. Ryan Eckes - Introduction
  13. Ryan Eckes - Market Street
  14. Ryan Eckes - Bus
  15. Ryan Eckes - Cover Letter
  16. Ryan Eckes - Development
  17. Ryan Eckes - Stolen Car
  18. Ryan Eckes - CVS
  19. Ryan Eckes - Natividad
  20. Ryan Eckes - Paying Respects
  21. Ryan Eckes - Out the Window
  22. Joshua Heard Park - Introduction
  23. Joshua Heard Park - Quilt
  24. Joshua Heard Park - One Wish
  25. Sandy Crimmins - Introduction
  26. Sandy Crimmins - The Element of Air
  27. Sandy Crimmins - Bird Wings
  28. Sandy Crimmins - John Paul
  29. Sandy Crimmins - on migranes
  30. Sandy Crimmins - Momento More
  31. Samantha Barrows - Introduction
  32. Samantha Barrows - Dish
  33. Samantha Barrows - Watered-Down Red
  34. Samantha Barrows - Louisiana Route 82

Episode 60 - 10/30/2006 - Philadelphia Stories

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Robin Parks - Introduction
  2. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  3. Robin Parks - Identifying Marks
  4. Curtis Smith - Introduction
  5. Curtis Smith - The Prettiest Lie
  6. Scott Glassman - Introduction
  7. Scott Glassman - Day One: Postmark
  8. Scott Glassman - Day Two: Burrough
  9. Scott Glassman - Day Three: Corporeal
  10. Scott Glassman - Day Five: Dunes
  11. Scott Glassman - Day Ten: Eminence
  12. The Baird Sisters - Introduction
  13. The Baird Sisters - Sugar Babe
  14. The Baird Sisters - Willie Moore
  15. Raima Evan - Introduction
  16. Raima Evan - untitled
  17. Marc Schuster - Introduction
  18. Marc Schuster - Everybody Knows...

Episode 59 - 09/25/2006 - Dish: Food Writers Read

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Michaela Majoun - Introduction
  2. Jason Fagone - Introduction
  3. Jason Fagone - On History of the Chicken Wing
  4. Caroline Wyman - Introduction
  5. Caroline Wyman - History of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter"
  6. Caroline Wyman - On Pez
  7. Craig Laban - Introduction
  8. Craig Laban - Down the Wildwood Boardwalk
  9. Red Heart the Ticker - Jack Knives
  10. Red Heart the Ticker - Steel-Toed Drinking
  11. Alyssa Ludwig - Introduction
  12. Alyssa Ludwig - Local Food and the 100-Mile Diet
  13. Rick Nichols - Introduction
  14. Rick Nichols - Baker's Dilemma
  15. Rick Nichols - In the Searon of Love, and Maybe War

Episode 58 - 04/24/2006 - Spring Celebration

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.

  1. Tomasz Anisiko - Introduction
  2. Tomasz Anisiko - Return of the Argonauts
  3. Tracy Byford - Introduction
  4. Tracy Byford - How I Got Into Gardening
  5. Kevin James Holland - Introduction
  6. Kevin James Holland - Anyone Will Do But Me
  7. Kevin James Holland - Pushing Up Daisies
  8. Mike McGrath - Introduction
  9. Mike McGrath - The Little Willow That Could
  10. Moira Sheridan - Introduction
  11. Moira Sheridan - Backyard Gardener
  12. Ilene Sternberg - Introduction
  13. Ilene Sternberg - Life on a Large Lot

Episode 57 - 03/27/2006 - Leeway Foundation Grant Winners

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
You can hear a recording of the entire program here.

  1. Taina Asili - Introduction
  2. Taina Asili - The Art of Trust
  3. Taina Asili - The Birth of Yuppis
  4. Joshua Marcus - Introduction
  5. Joshua Marcus - Coloured Smoke
  6. Joshua Marcus - Introduction to "Man Threatening Pipe Wrench"
  7. Joshua Marcus - Man Threatening Pipe Wrench
  8. Ham'diya Mu - Introduction
  9. Ham'diya Mu - The Visit
  10. Ham'diya Mu - A Mother's Anguish to Children Incarcerated Everywhere
  11. Tamika Nwalipenga - Introduction
  12. Tamika Nwalipenga - My Story
  13. Susanne Povse - Introduction
  14. Susanne Povse - Draw Press to Machinist
  15. Patience Rage - Introduction
  16. Patience Rage - My First Kiss

Episode 56 - 02/20/2006 - Love: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
You can hear the recording of the entire program here.

  1. Gweny Love - You're Part of My Daily Routine
  2. Michaela Majoun - introduction of Greg Downs
  3. Greg Downs - The Second Mile
  4. Greg Downs - Adam
  5. Michaela Majoun - introduction of Curtis Sittenfeld
  6. Curtis Sittenfeld - from Prep
  7. Amy Pickard - Ashes
  8. Michaela Majoun - introduction of Nathaniel Popkin
  9. Nathaniel Popkin - from The Deep Was Round About Me
  10. Michaela Majoun - introduction of Niama Williams
  11. Niama Williams - Merging
  12. Niama Williams - For Vincent D'onofrio
  13. Niama Williams - Twin
  14. Niama Williams - Piazza Honda
  15. Niama Williams - For E
  16. Michaela Majoun - introduction of Gweny Love
  17. Gweny Love - I Need Love
  18. Amy Pickard - Cut From the Hopeless

Episode 55 - 12/12/2005 - Women Music Writers

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.

  1. Daphne Brookes - Introduction
  2. Daphne Brookes - All You Can't Leave Behind
  3. Buried Beds - Camellia
  4. Buried Beds - Song
  5. Buried Beds - Insomnia
  6. Daphne Carr - Introduction
  7. Daphne Carr - Why on Earth or Elsewhere
  8. Maura Johnston - Introduction
  9. Maura Johnston - Untitled
  10. Doree Shafrir - Introduction
  11. Doree Shafrir - The Shiva of Indie Rock
  12. Sara Sherr - Introduction
  13. Sara Sherr - Adventures in Record Retail

Episode 54 - 10/06/2005 - 2-1-5 Literary Festival

Produced by Erin Gautsche, hosted by Michaela Majoun.

  1. Absinthe Drinkers - Introduction
  2. Absinthe Drinkers - Macbeth
  3. Abscinthe Drinkers - Agamemnon's Return
  4. Christian Bauman - Introduction
  5. Christian Bauman - Exerpt from Woodoo Lounge
  6. CA Conrad - Introduction
  7. CA Conrad - To the President
  8. Jim Gladstone - Introduction
  9. Jim Gladstone - Elephants Who Need Elephants
  10. Lord Whimsy - Introduction
  11. Lord Whimsy - Green: The Color Divine
  12. Ron Swegman - Introduction
  13. Ron Swegman - Philadelphia on the Fly

Episode 53 - 04/05/2005 - All New York City Poets Live

Produced by Tom Devaney with assistance from Jeff Lieder, directed by Beth Warshaw, and hosted by Michaela Majoun.

  1. Edmund Berrigan - Caught in the Human Shredder
  2. Edmund Berrigan - Introduction
  3. Edmund Berrigan - Mostly Harmless
  4. Edmund Berrigan - Once I Had an Earthquake
  5. John Coletti - A New Round of Touche
  6. John Coletti - Champ Little Groom
  7. John Coletti - Everyone I Want to Be
  8. John Coletti - Human Flower
  9. John Coletti - Introduction
  10. John Coletti - It's a Substitute for Thinking
  11. John Coletti - Lost Weekend
  12. John Coletti - Old Black Boots
  13. John Coletti - Siphon
  14. Jordan Davis - A Brother on the Baltic
  15. Jordan Davis - Almost Named Horrace
  16. Jordan Davis - Chanting Monotonously
  17. Jordan Davis - Distance Learning
  18. Jordan Davis - How Are You I Am Fine
  19. Jordan Davis - Introduction
  20. Jordan Davis - Ira Will Not Be Attending the Meeting
  21. Jordan Davis - Relaxing Poems
  22. Sharon Mesmer - Gait Signatures
  23. Sharon Mesmer - I Wanted to Compose a Canticle of Exaltation and Praise
  24. Sharon Mesmer - Introduction
  25. Sharon Mesmer - My Juice
  26. Elinor Nauen - Introduction
  27. Elinor Nauen - Pink Highways

Episode 51 - 01/31/2005

Produced by Tom Devaney.

  1. William Esposito - Introduction
  2. William Esposito - City Life
  3. William Esposito - A Season in Galiso
  4. William Esposito - Hako
  5. William Esposito - Elephant
  6. William Esposito - Keshigomu
  7. William Esposito - Moon Boom
  8. William Esposito - Untitled
  9. William Esposito - Untitled
  10. William Esposito - Untitled
  11. William Esposito - Untitled
  12. William Esposito - Untitled
  13. William Esposito - Untitled
  14. William Esposito - Untitled
  15. William Esposito - Untitled
  16. J.C. Hallman - Introduction
  17. J.C. Hallman - Excerpt from The Chess Artist
  18. Ian Keenan - Introduction
  19. Ian Keenan - Poem with a Latter in the Back
  20. Ian Keenan - Poem with Cars
  21. Ian Keenan - Super Sestina
  22. Cynthia Mason - Introduction
  23. Cynthia Mason - Suede
  24. Cynthia Mason - Wit's End
  25. Octavia McBride-Ahebee - Introduction
  26. Octavia McBride-Ahebee - Homesick Spirits
  27. Octavia McBride-Ahebee - Sweetness of Pineapples
  28. Octavia McBride-Ahebee - The Water God
  29. Pattie McCarthy - Introduction
  30. Pattie McCarthy - Otherwise (an eke name)

Episode 50 - 12/13/2004 - Writers

Produced by Tom Devaney.
You can hear the recording of the entire program here.

  1. Like Moving Insects - Untitled
  2. John Shea - My Then Wife
  3. John Shea - How to be an Alarmist
  4. John Shea - Introduction
  5. Peter Nichols - Untitled
  6. John Prendergast - Introduction
  7. Peter Nichols - Introduction
  8. Ingrid Schaffner - Excerpt from Salvador Dal�'s Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funho
  9. Ingrid Schaffner - Introduction
  10. Like Moving Insects - Cornflakes
  11. Like Moving Insects - Introduction
  12. John Prendergast - Excerpt from The Last Lost Beachcomber
  13. Valerie Ross - Introduction
  14. Valerie Ross - Nosebleed Seats

Episode 49 - 11/15/2004 - All Women

Produced by Tom Devaney

  1. Karen Rile - Introduction
  2. Kathy Lou Schultz - Childhood to Market
  3. Karen Rile - Excerpt from Winter Music
  4. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Introduction
  5. Kathy Lou Schultz - Introduction
  6. Lisa Sewell - Front Page
  7. Lisa Sewell - Hands and Psalms
  8. Lisa Sewell - Mary Hamilton
  9. Judith Stein - Untitled
  10. Judith Stein - Introduction
  11. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Desert
  12. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Ireland
  13. Sandy Crimmins and David Falcone - Spring
  14. Meredith Broussard - Introduction
  15. Meredith Broussard - Untitled

Episode 48 - 10/18/2004

Produced by Tom Devaney

  1. Espers - Daughter
  2. Espers - Riding
  3. Espers - Untitled
  4. Elise Juska - Excerpt from
  5. Kenneth Kalfus - Excerpt from
  6. Shawn McBride - Excerpts from
  7. Diane McKinney-Whetstone - Excerpt from

Episode 47 - 05/10/2004

Produced by Tom Devaney

Episode 46 - 04/05/2004 - Spoken-Word

Produced by Venise Battle Co-produced by Jennifer Snead

  1. Tracy Gilbert and Amma Asare - Pro-Life
  2. Venise Battle - A Bop Poem
  3. Venise Battle - Home Altar
  4. Venise Battle - Meeting Mother at the Waters
  5. Venise Battle - Veronica
  6. Adam Fieled - Icarus in New York
  7. Adam Fieled - On Jazz
  8. Adam Fieled - To Bruce Norman
  9. Guy Ramsey - Dream Number Two Seventeen
  10. Guy Ramsey - Stolen Moments
  11. Caroline Rothstein - Noah
  12. Caroline Rothstein - The White Version of Diversity
  13. Caroline Rothstein - They Call Me Granola
  14. Nicole Tabolt - Preparations for Judy and Claire
  15. Nicole Tabolt - Rest in Peace
  16. Nicole Tabolt - Theft
  17. Omar F. Telan - Familiar
  18. Omar F. Telan - Gigolo Serenade Part Fifteen
  19. Omar F. Telan - Gigolo Serenade Part Two
  20. Omar F. Telan - I've Been Thinking a lot about Death Lately
  21. Omar F. Telan - Michaelangelo's Pieta
  22. Omar F. Telan - Suburban Love Affair

Episode 45 - 03/01/2004 - Creative

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney

  1. Box Social - Suburban Outfitters
  2. Box Social - Tex Avery Dream
  3. Box Social - Untitled
  4. Lorene Cary - Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night
  5. Lorene Cary - Woman Escaping in a Box
  6. Alan Gilbert - Excerpt from Relative Heat Index
  7. Jena Osman - Memory Error Theater
  8. Jena Osman - The March
  9. Adam J. Sorkins - A Visit to Pelis Castle as Seen from Pennsylvania
  10. Adam J. Sorkins - November First, 1996
  11. Adam J. Sorkins - The Dragon
  12. Adam J. Sorkins - The Golden Mean

Episode 44 - 11/11/2003 - Greater

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Leslie Esdaile Bank - Untitled (2)
  2. Leslie Esdaile Bank - Untitled
  3. Jim Cory - A Lie
  4. Jim Cory - An Admirer
  5. Jim Cory - Hmm
  6. Jim Cory - Memoire Spring Seventy Seven
  7. Jim Cory - Wife
  8. Jim Cory - Word from the Mainstreet Cafe
  9. Lynn Levin - Action Hero
  10. Lynn Levin - Homo Erectus Recalls the Better Days of Man
  11. Lynn Levin - The Bride of the Ladies' Auxiliary Luncheon
  12. Steven Allen May - Auld Known Stories
  13. Steven Allan May - Dream Remembered at Three Forty Nine AM
  14. Steven Allan May - Fast Weight
  15. Steven Allan May - Run from Some Drunken Dream
  16. Steven Allan May - Tea Fleshhood
  17. Steven Allan May - Time
  18. Nick Montfort - City
  19. Nick Montfort - Reflections
  20. Nick Montfort - The Exhaustion of Libraries
  21. Nick Montfort - The Unrelenting
  22. Snapperhead Zydeco - S'eux Malade ne pas Danser
  23. Snapperhead Zydeco - Tous les Temps en Temps
  24. Snapperhead Zydeco - Untitled
  25. Snapperhead Zydeco - Zydeco Boogaloo

Episode 43 - 10/20/2003 - All

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Samantha Barrow - The Dixie Tavern
  2. Randall Couch - Maghrib in Philadelphia
  3. Randall Couch - The Abandoned Woman
  4. Randall Couch - Untitled
  5. Al Filreis - Excerpts from the Fifties Thirties
  6. Seth Laracy - Untitled
  7. Adrienne Mishkin - Hands
  8. Adrienne Mishkin - In Any Language
  9. Adrienne Mishkin - The Dinner War
  10. Adrienne Mishkin - The Only Poem Inspired by Puerto Rico
  11. Adrienne Mishkin - Whispered in the Kitchen
  12. The Penny Loafers - Someday
  13. The Penny Loafers - Take it Off
  14. The Penny Loafers - Wonder

Episode 42 - 09/29/2003 - 2-1-5

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Tom Devaney - Not a Ralph
  2. Tom Devaney - Obi Wan Kenobi
  3. Tom Devaney - Trying to Live as if it Were Morning
  4. Tom Devaney - Untitled
  5. Jay Kirk - Watching the Detectives
  6. Iain Levison - Untitled - Excerpt
  7. Elisa Ludwig - Touchy Feely
  8. The Wayward Wind - Postcards from the Wind
  9. The Wayward Wind - Sweet Willow Walking
  10. The Wayward Wind - The Smokers' Pavilion
  11. Kathleen Volk Miller - Driving

Episode 41 - 03/03/2003 - A

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Tanya Maria Barrientos - Excerpt from Frontera Street
  2. Andy Bresnan and Big Flamehead - Untitled
  3. Andy Bresnan and The Big Mess Orche - Being in Love
  4. Andy Bresnan and The Big Mess Orch - For One, Two or Three
  5. Andy Bresnan and The Big Mess Orche - Untitled
  6. Allie DAugustine - Echoes
  7. Allie DAugustine - Inheritance
  8. Allie DAugustine - My America
  9. Allie DAugustine - Perception
  10. Allie DAugustine - Rules for a Good Life
  11. Allie DAugustine - The Way We Are Now
  12. Allie DAugustine - The Weight of Something Missing
  13. Allie DAugustine - To Have and Have Not
  14. Allie DAugustine - Truth
  15. Dan Histon - A September with a Twist
  16. Dan Histon - I Fought the Odds
  17. Dan Histon - Ode to the Pimple on my Nose
  18. Dan Histon - River of Tears
  19. Dan Histon - Shake, Rattle and Roll
  20. Dan Histon - The Book
  21. Dan Histon - The Monster
  22. Courtney Mandryk - 315 South Fifteenth Street Appartment 2F
  23. Robert Strauss - Untitled
  24. Ron Swegman - A Friendly Tavern in Sight
  25. Ron Swegman - An American View
  26. Ron Swegman - Closing Sequence of Philadelphia on the Fly
  27. Ron Swegman - Form
  28. Ron Swegman - Hell Exhaling
  29. Ron Swegman - Lucky Number
  30. Ron Swegman - Prologue to Philadelphia on the Fly
  31. Ron Swegman - Sonnet for Camden, New Jersey
  32. Ron Swegman - The Desire Building
  33. Ron Swegman - Untitled
  34. Dan Histon - On the Bench

Episode 40 - 02/03/2003 - Writers

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Alicia Askenase - News in Brief
  2. Alicia Askenase - State of Union
  3. Alicia Askenase - Untitled
  4. Mishael Nicole Devlin - Monody
  5. Mishael Nicole Devlin - Write me a Letter
  6. Dan Fishback - Speech to Introduce Students for Peace Reading
  7. Leonard Gontarek - Arrangement
  8. Leonard Gontarek - Blowback
  9. Blake Martin - Linda
  10. Kerry Sherin - Autumn Lullaby
  11. Kerry Sherin - Untitled
  12. Kerry Sherin - Western Wind
  13. Sze Lena - Gusts
  14. Lena Sze - Guzzle for Genoa
  15. Lena Sze - Suicide
  16. Lena Sze - Untitled
  17. Lena Sze - Very Short Fragment
  18. Lena Sze - You Are

Episode 39 - 12/02/2002 - Civic

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Michael Barsanti - In an Auction Room
  2. Michael Barsanti - Letter by Keats
  3. Michael Barsanti - On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letter
  4. Tara Burke - Moonlight Sonata
  5. Tara Burke - Ransack the Park
  6. Beandrea Davis - Going Home Going Forward the Life of a West P
  7. Lise Funderburg - Dumpster Diving Dusted off and Fondled
  8. Greg Giovanni - January Second, 1992
  9. Greg Giovanni - Untitled
  10. Simpson Bennett - Ten Buck Phone Card

Episode 38 - 11/11/2002 - Good

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Deborah Burnham - Apples September
  2. Deborah Burnham - Mirror
  3. Deborah Burnham - Still
  4. Hassen - Digging a Hole to China
  5. Hassen - Fratercula Arctica Private Eye
  6. Hassen - For David Reminder
  7. Hassen - Fragility
  8. Hassen - Sheltered
  9. Hassen - Third Eye Psalm of Euca
  10. Kenn Kweder - Freedom from Sense
  11. Kenn Kweder - Places
  12. Harriet Levin Millan - Andromeda
  13. Harriet Levin Millan - Birder
  14. Harriet Levin Millan - Quaker City Music Festival
  15. Harriet Levin Millan - Survey of Debris
  16. Harriet Levin Millan - Wrought
  17. Bob Perelman - Djuna Moon
  18. Bob Perelman - Driving to the Philadelphia Poetry Festival at
  19. Bob Perelman - Today's Lament
  20. Joey Sweeney - Excerpt from Piece on Bruce Springstein
  21. John Timpane - The Five Steps to Physical Intimacy
  22. John Timpane - The Reopening of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  23. John Timpane - Untitled

Episode 37 - 10/14/2002 - The

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Meredith Broussard - The New Fall Season
  2. Meredith Broussard - Anecdotes of Love
  3. Daisy Fried - American Brass
  4. Patrick Kelly - I Fall Upon the Bed of Life I Sleep
  5. Daisy Fried - Broken Radios
  6. Patrick Kelly - Days of Prickly Heat
  7. Paul Green School of Rock Musi - Have a Cigar Son
  8. Paul Green School of Rock Musi - Heart of the Sunrise
  9. Paul Green School of Rock Musi - The Rain Song
  10. Neal Pollack - Untitled
  11. Mary Richarson Graham - Excerpt from "Appetite"

Episode 36 - 04/01/2002 - All

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle
Here is a commentary by Tom Devaney on his appearance on this show.

  1. Edmund Bacon - Editorial
  2. Edmund Bacon - Thoughts on the Design of Cities
  3. Meredith Broussard - Letters
  4. Ferguson Carey - November 12, 1990
  5. Ferguson Carey - November 12, 1998
  6. Julie Gerstein - Customer Communication Cards
  7. Julie Gerstein - Untitled - Letter (2)
  8. Julie Gerstein - Untitled - Letter
  9. Richard Julian - Good Life
  10. Richard Julian - Please Renee, Not Now
  11. Jane Ludin and Jennifer Snead - School Notes
  12. Michaela Majoun - Letter from Upper Volta
  13. John Moore - Letter from Jeff Young
  14. John Moore - Untitled - Letters

Episode 35 - 03/04/2002 - McSweeney's

Written and Produced by Tom Devaney Assistant Producer: Venise Battle

  1. Amy Fusselman - Excerpt from "The Pharmacist's Mate"
  2. Amy Fusselman - Hell's Bells
  3. Neal Pollack - A Spoken Word Poem for America
  4. Neal Pollack - It is Easy to Take a Lover in Cuba
  5. Neal Pollack - The Rise and Fall of the New Economy
  6. Ted Casterline's Ninja Academy - Mental Feelings
  7. Ted Casterline's Ninja Academy - Teenagers from Mars
  8. Ted Casterline's Ninja Academy - The Non-Sexual Date

Episode 34 - 02/04/2002 - All

Written by Venise Battle and Co-produced by Tom Devaney

  1. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - Into the Abyss
  2. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - Lady H
  3. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - My Choice
  4. Linda DiFeterici Stehling - No More
  5. Dr. Ketchup - Mercy Mercy Mercy
  6. Dr. Ketchup - Miss Iceleen
  7. Simone Eccleston - False Idols
  8. Simone Eccleston - The Myth
  9. Tonya Marie Evans - Angry Don't Live Here No More
  10. Tonya Marie Evans - Find Your Own Shine
  11. Tonya Marie Evans - Rescue the Lyric
  12. Monique Gordon - A Square Dance
  13. Monique Gordon - All New All Times
  14. Monique Gordon - Augmented Sounds
  15. Monique Gordon - Blessed
  16. Monique Gordon - Full Moon
  17. Monique Gordon - Haiku
  18. Monique Gordon - He Played Her
  19. Marj Hanhe - A New York Winter
  20. Marj Hanhe - Brevity
  21. Marj Hanhe - Election Day 2000
  22. Marj Hanhe - No Place Like Home
  23. Marj Hanhe - Remembrance for September Eleventh Two Thousand O
  24. Jason Zuzga - On Beauty

Episode 33 - 01/14/2002 - Best

Written by Tom Devaney, co-produced by Venise Battle, and Hosted by Michaela Majoun

  1. Alicia Askenase - Oh Kosovo
  2. Jennifer Diel - Untitled
  3. Patrick Kelly - Last Will and Testicle
  4. Paige Menton - Bachmans Warbler
  5. Paige Menton - Centralia
  6. Paige Menton - Heath Hen
  7. Paige Menton - Labrador Duck
  8. Pochahontas and the Ribs - Tell Me
  9. Pochahontas and the Ribs - Walk with Me
  10. Stephen Potter - It's Hard for our Poems to be as Zippy as our
  11. Stephen Potter - Of Volume
  12. Elizabeth Scanlon - Infared Radiation
  13. Elizabeth Scanlon - St. Lucy's Day