Lit-Cast

Ok, so after a two-year hiatus, I’m attempting to add some more content. I’ve wrestled with explaining to everyone why I haven’t been able to keep up with Lit-Cast, but it is the usual financially-oriented woe, so I’ll just leave it at that. Nonetheless, I hope to add contently as often as I can, and living in Portland should open up new opportunities to find readings.

Ozzie the Burro

Featured in One Dog Happy, Iowa Book Award Winner. This was from the Indiepalooza reading given at Powell’s Books on March 16, 2009.

 Ozzie the Burro [15:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Men More Than Mortal

Featured in Best New American Voices, 2008. Visit Elizabeth’s
Blog.

 Elizabeth Kadetsky - Men More Than Mortal [6:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Cory Doctorow reads Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. This is the direct link to the .mp3. Please forgive the lack of content over the past few months as I have been preoccupied building online courses for a few universities to help pay the bills here in Sunny Florida. I hope to be done with it by February, and ready to launch a new year of downloadable literary audio!

Also check out Cory’s material, via his website, craphound. Don’t let the name fool you! Cory is one of the leading innovators in new media and science fiction. You can also find his books in the Lit-Cast Amazon store, Overclocked, Down and Out in the Magical Kindgom, and others.

Annelida
The Missing Wife
Pyromania

Diane Lockward’s second collection, What Feeds Us (Wind Publications), received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times and in such journals as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.

 Diane Lockward - 3 Poems [8:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Virus

Bio:

Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey and is currently receiving his MFA from the University of Alabama. His work has been featured in Swink and is forthcoming in the New Ohio Review.

From the Author:

Being a non-fiction writer, I struggle with the idea of memory in my writing, therefore I choose to frame the majority of his work in various computer viruses. I tend to envision the brain and the self as a machine, and feel as if memory is susceptible to the temptation of computer viruses (who wouldn’t want to click on something that promises to show Jennifer Lopez naked, or a surprising love-letter from a long-time friend?) The choice to have the computer “read” the piece came after having some difficulty reading my work in a public space as a lot of the works are highly visual. By having the computer read the work for me, I am able to portray the idea behind the piece as a whole (e.g. the use of repetition, jargon that would sound absurd if I read it) and have people hear it as it was intended.

 Standard Podcast [6:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Since I’m too busy to get the next Lit-Cast up, which can happen any day now, I’m posting this, this . . . deviation. Enjoy!

Aim

Valerie Vogrin, is author of the novel, Shebang, (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). Her short stories have appeared or will soon appear in, The Florida Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Currently assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, she is also prose editor of the highly-regarded literary journal, Sou’wester.

(Brief Announcement: Lit-Cast may be airing fewer stories in the coming months as I, Jason Rizos, have taken on a large project unrelated, sadly, to literature. I’m happy that so many of you are listening to our programs and I welcome your feedback! Feel free to send me an email with any questions or concerns, or post a comment on a story! -jmr)

 Valerie Vogrin - Aim [11:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Part II of II, RAVEN Benefit reading held at the Black Bear Bakery in St. Louis, MO.

The Collector
Desperate Measures

 David Clewell - 2 poems [11:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Part I of II, RAVEN Benefit reading held at the Black Bear Bakery in St. Louis, MO.

Vegetarian Physics
A Brief History of the Moon in 20th Century Song and Then Some

Clewell’s poems have appeared in Harper’s, Poetry, The Georgia Review, Yankee, TriQuarterly and many other magazines and journals, as well as four dozen anthologies. His collections of poetry include Blessings in Disguise, (a National Poetry Series winner), Now We’re Getting Somewhere, (Pollak Poetry Prize), Jack Ruby’s America (a book-length poem) and, most recently, The Low End of Higher Things. Clewell teaches writing and literature at Webster University.

 David Clewell - 2 poems [23:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Waiting for a Reply from God
Dark in the Light

(Titles separated by brief Lit-Cast audio)

Dark in the Light previously published by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa newspaper Ka Leo O Hawai’i. Bio Coming Soon.

 Introduction to Nam [1:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 Nam - Waiting for a Reply from God and Dark in the Light [5:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download