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KWH House Pick: Gerard Manley Hopkins

April 30, 2012

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In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ll be bringing you ‘House Picks,’ featuring poets most read as contributors’ ‘best-loved’ selection. Spring has Sprung in the Knox Writers’ House. This week we celebrate Gerard Manley Hopkins! Some of the best ‘audio experiences’ of these recordings were when the five writers below read Hopkins to us.  Though […]

KWH House Pick: Muriel Rukeyser

April 20, 2012

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In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ll be bringing you ‘House Picks,’ featuring poets most read as contributors’ ‘best-loved’ selection. We are celebrating Muriel Rukeyser. Listen here: The Road by Muriel Rukeyser read by Nicole Cooley of New York, NY and New Orleans, LA Waiting for Icarus by Muriel Rukeyser read by Rachel Eliza Griffiths of Brooklyn, NY Islands by […]

KWH House Pick: Muriel Rukeyser

April 18, 2012

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In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ll be bringing you ‘House Picks,’ featuring poets most read as contributors’ ‘best-loved’ selection. This week Muriel Mania! The Road by Muriel Rukeyser read by Nicole Cooley of New York, NY and New Orleans, LA Islands by Muriel Rukeyser read by Jan Heller Levi of New York, NY Waiting for Icarus by Muriel Rukeyser read by Rachel Eliza […]

KWH House Pick: Muriel Rukeyser

April 16, 2012

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In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ll be bringing you ‘House Picks,’ featuring poets most read as contributors’ ‘best-loved’ selection. This week we are celebrating Muriel Rukeyser, a patron saint of this project, whose work we recalled often while traveling around this country to record and while constructing our ‘map of voices.’ The fact that […]

KWH Pick of the Week: “Unconditional Love Song” by C.D. Wright, Chosen by Adam Clay

April 9, 2012

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Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 4/9/2012 Unconditional Love Song by C.D. Wright in Providence, RI Chosen by Adam Clay in Kalamazoo, MI who says: I’ve been sitting in the backyard listening to poem after poem from this amazing archive and considering the way in which hearing a poem without the print alongside of it is such an […]

KWH Pick of the Week: “The Inland Empire from Methland” by Nick Reding, Chosen by Chad Simpson

April 2, 2012

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Knox Writers’ House Contributor’s Pick of the Week 4/2/2012 The Inland Empire from Methland by Nick Reding in St. Louis, MO Chosen by Chad Simpson in Galesburg, IL who says: My Knox Writers’ House Pick of the Week is Nick Reding’s “The Inland Empire” from Methland. When you’re through with this, it’d be worth it for […]