Lit-Cast

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

Stranger Things Happen

From an AWP panel on Fairy Tales, moderated by Kate Bernheimer.

Kelly Link is the author of two collections, STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN and MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS. Gavin J. Grant and Link co-founded Small Beer Press in 2001. They publish the zine LADY CHURCHILL’S ROSEBUD WRISTLET, as well as editing the fantasy half of THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.

 Kelly Link - from Stranger Things Happen [8:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lear’s Imposter
Old Man Me
Blizzard

A retired federal employee and radio disc jockey, Moskovitz lives in the Midwest with a lady - a poem from God.
Moskovitz’s journey from the dawn of rock and roll through the payola scandals are documented in his Feast of the Purple Beast and other stories.

 Jack Moscovitz - 3 Poems [4:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Ghosts We Love

From Carrying the Torch. Brock’s work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Review, among others. He is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and Editor of the Cincinnati Review.

 Brock Clarke - The Ghosts We Love (excerpt) [13:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A Whirly-Gig Tale
The Beggarwoman
Merry, Ketzia, and Lucy
The Saltmarsh Tale of Lies
The Fox and The Geese*

The first three selections can be found in Kate’s latest book, The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, the last two in The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, available from the remarkable and innovative press FC2.

Kate Bernheimer is the author of two novels and editor of the essay collections Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor/Vintage 2002) and Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (forthcoming Wayne State University Press 2007). Editor of Fairy Tale Review, she lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama.

*Translated from the German, appearing in Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories, translated by Ralph Manheim (Anchor/NY 1977)

 Kate Bernheimer - 5 Stories [9:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

You can listen to a sample of the Rimsky-Kosakov Overture mentioned in Cappricio by clicking here (requires Windows Media Player).

St. Patrick’s Lament
A Night at the Opera
Capriccio
Mud Bugs

DONNA PUCCIANI has a Ph.D. in Humanities from New York University and has published approximately three hundred poems in the U.S. and U.K. Her chapbook of nature poems, THE OTHER SIDE OF THUNDER, was released by Flarestack (Britain) in 2006, and a full-length collection, JUMPING OFF THE TRAIN, is forthcoming from Windstorm Creatives in 2007.

 Donna Pucciani - 4 Poems [10:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Poetry Unit
Wincing at the Beautiful
At The Optometrist

Paul’s work has been featured in Shenandoah, Carolina Quarterly, Poetry East, New Delta Review, among others.

 Paul Hostovsky - 3 poems [6:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sons of the Rapture

Stay Tuned for more excerpts!
Todd Dills is the author of Sons of the Rapture, his first novel, and editor of THE2NDHAND, the Chicago-based home for new writing. “Love Is What You Want” was part of THE2NDHAND’s 21st issue, a summer 2006 special edition that announced Poetry magazine’s annual Chicago Printers’ Ball.

Visit THE2NDHAND’s website.

 Todd Dills - Sons of the Rapture, Chapter 1 [13:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Bastards

“Some friends walked me home from the bar the other night. We cut through a construction site to my neigborhood. Above the parked crane and creaking scaffolding, the sky opened wide; the ground crunched icily beneath out feet, and as I felt my friends’ company skid around me–my belly warm with beer–I was pretty certain that this was it. This was all that mattered. Snow crunching and intangible warmth.” Douglas Milliken lives and works in Portland, Maine.

 Introduction to Douglas Milliken [1:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 Douglass Milliken - The Bastards [8:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download