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91.3fm WYEP: Prosody
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Prosody is WYEP's weekly show featuring the work of poets and writers. Each week, hosts Jan Beatty and Ellen Wadey sit down with writers as they read and discuss their fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Prosody has been a weekly show on WYEP since the early 90's.
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Michael Adams's latest book is Steel Valley (Lummox Press 2010). He has five earlier books of poetry and essays including Whistleblowers and Broken Hand Peak (Turkey Buzzard Press 2009, 2008). He is the winner of the 2007 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize.
Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and a chapbook of poems, Men in Groups. A new collection of poems, Appetite, is forthcoming in 2012.
Celeste Gainey's chapbook manuscript In the land of speculation & seismography is the runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize awarded by Seven Kitchens Press. Her poems have been anthologized in Long Island Sounds and Writing Outside The Lines.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of ]Open Interval[, the 2009 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Sherrie Flick is the author of Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press). A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, her work has been published in places including Norton’s anthology Flash Fiction Forward.
Denise Duhamel is the author of many books, most recently Ka-Ching! (U. of Pittsburgh, 2009) and Two and Two (2005). She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has been anthologized widely, including four volumes of The Best American Poetry.
Anne Marie Macari's most recent book is She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008). Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines.
Cynthia Hogue has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Or Consequence (2010), and When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (2010). Among her honors are a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Cheryl Dumesnil’s book In Praise of Falling won the Agnes Starrett Lynch Poetry Prize. Her poems have also appeared in Indiana Review, Calyx and Many Mountains Moving.
Bob Hicok's book This Clumsy Living (U of Pittsburgh, 2007) won the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, and two NEA Fellowships, his poetry has appeared in five volumes of Best American Poetry.
Margaret Bashaar's chapbook Barefoot and Listening was published by Tilt Press in 2009; Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel is forthcoming from Blood Pudding Press. Her poems have also been published in Caketrain and The Pedestal Magazine.
Recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, Edelman has had her poetry published in Cimarron Review, 5 AM, Prairie Schooner, and Poet Lore. She has published several works, including her first chapbook, A Girl in Water (Parallel Press, 2012).
The Winners of the 2011 Writers Café Contest are student writers from the University of Pittsburgh, reading their winning pieces of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, led by writer Ellen McGrath Smith.
Shirley Snodey is a member of the madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops at Carlow University. Her poems have been published in City Paper and Voices from the Attic. Her manuscript is entitled, Barefoot on Southern Soil.
Marilyn Donnelly has always lived, spoken, and written, with a stunning, indelible, original voice. Her poems, while often brief, plumb great depths of wisdom and wit. Her style of humor sweeps cobwebs and confusion far far away.
Derek Green's first book, New World Order, was selected to launch the Autumn House Pressfiction series. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the University of Michigan's prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in Creative Writing.
Kristofer Collins is the author of King Everything (2007) and The Litrugy Streets(Six Gallery Press). He served as managing editor of The New Yinzer for many years.
Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of No Eden (Mayapple Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets 2009, and The Journal. She was a Margaret Knight Sanford Creative Writing Scholar at Duke University.
Roberta Hatcher's poems have been published in Yawp, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Comstock Review. She was a 2009 finalist for the Patricia Dobler Award and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dave Newman has received over a dozen Pushcart Prize nominations, the Liquid Paper Chapbook Prize, the Andre Dubus Novella Award, among others. his chapbooks include Allen Ginsberg Comes to Pittsburgh, Club Boom, Better Business, and Truck It.