Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
Series produced by Deborah Begel
Poems and stories in small nests woven with emerging writers and actors of various ages and times. A lone instrument howls, growls and muses on the ground below.
Calling America is a parade of 21 spoken word modules that send rambunctious notes of thought, reflection, and action into the air, liberating topics as familiar as fun, dreams and fantasy, as deeply felt as love, place, and dreams, in places as varied as the Maine coast and the classroom, and introducing characters who run the gamut, from farmers and soldiers to family legends.
Lengths vary, from 2:42 to 4:00.
Writer Kim Stafford (Rural Voices Radio) is the host; sound design by Stephen Erickson.
The series is evergreen, timely all year round. Modules can be aired weekdays for a month or weekly for half a year with five rollovers.
Additional Files
- How Place Shapes Us: (caph01id.jpeg)
- Packets of Dreams: Dreams are often wrapped in very different packages. In this Calling America, we unwrap dreams. We float among kelp with dolphins, we climb out of a pink envelope to try out for supermodel. (caph2dreams.jpg)
21 Pieces
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:58
