Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Series produced by Words On A Wire
Interviews with Billy Collins, Ruben Martinez, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Philip Levine, Luis Alberto Urrea, Mathew Dickman, CD Wright, Mark Strand and Dorianne Laux.
Words on a Wire invites you to our best of series.
10 Pieces
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Billy Collins talks about seeing poetry come to life through animation, as he works with film-maker Julian Grey. He reads, "Revision" from his late...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Ruben Martinez discusses his latest book, "Desert America," as well as the desert at large. In this dense non-fiction work, the author fraternizes ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems.
Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Mathew Dickman talks about Mayakovsky's Revolver and language driven poetry. He reads "Gas Station" out of the same collection.
Sasha Pimentel sha...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:30
Dorianne Laux discusses the deconstruction of the alphabet as part of her creative process.
"What the Body can Say," is read as the poem of the we...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:05
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections.
Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry.
He...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:02
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:30
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:31