TABLE OF CONTENTSChronology for Michigan Writers Series List of Recordings Inaugural Writers Series: Lev Rapahel and Loren D. Esteleman January 22, 1999 Laura Kasischke February 5, 1999 Gordon Henry February 19, 1999 |
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Title: | Collected recordings of the Michigan Writers Series, Spring 1999 | |
Collection Dates: | 1999 | |
Quantity: | 76 digital electronic audio files. Recordings were originally produced in the United States. |
The Michigan Writers Series is a series of public events sponsored by MSU's Division of Libraries, Computing & Technology and held at the MSU Main Library. The series began in January 1999 and typically includes five or six Friday night events during each semester. Each event includes one or more Michigan-based authors reading from their work and discussing it with the audience. The purpose of the series is to showcase the work of Michigan authors and to provide opportunities for MSU students, faculty and community members to meet and talk with Michigan authors. Invited authors are chosen by Peter Berg. In addition to the public event, each author is interviewed by Jane Arnold, Collection Development Coordinator for the Humanities at the MSU Libraries.
Fall 1999 | The series included Poet Anita Skeen and Novelist Pamela Ditchoff. |
Spring 2000 | Novelist Peter Levine, Poet and Novelist F. Richard Thomas, Poets Margo Lagattuta and Katherine Fishburn, Poet and Short Story Writer Jim Daniels, and a Student Authors Night. |
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The Spring 1999 series included Mystery Writers Lev Raphel and Loren D. Estleman, Poet and Novelists Laura Kasischke and Gordon Henry, Poets Linda Nemec Foster and Judith Minty, and Short Story Writer Keith Taylor. Each eveining constitutes a series and the inaugural evening with Estelman and Raphael is divided into three subseries reflecting their individual readings and an interview componant of the evening with both authors.
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All the recordings are available for listening in the Michigan State University Library. Selected recordings are also available on the web in RealAudio format where noted.
The web-accessible recordings may be freely used with acknowledgment of the Vincent Voice Library.
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Index Terms |
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The following terms may be useful for searching the MSU Library online catalog (MAGIC) for related sources. | ||
Names: | ||
Arnold, Jane (NA) | ||
Daniel, Jim | ||
Fishburn, Katherine, 1944 | ||
Estleman, Loren D. | ||
Foster, Linda, 1961 | ||
Henry, Gordon | ||
Kasischke, Laura | ||
Levine, Peter | ||
Minty, Judith, 1937 | ||
Raphael, Lev | ||
Root, Robert L. | ||
Taylor Keith, 1952 | ||
Thomas, F. Richard | ||
Wakoski, Diane | ||
Sheehan, Mark (NA) | ||
Steinberg, Michael (NA) | ||
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Michigan State University. MSU Libraries. Michigan Writers Series | ||
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Authors | ||
Authors, American -- 20th Century | ||
Authors, American | ||
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews | ||
Fiction -- Authorship | ||
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Inaugural Writers Series: Lev Rapahel and Loren D. Esteleman January 22, 19999 recordings | |||||||||||||
This is a recording of the Spring 1999 Michigan Writers Series with subseries for each of six evenings. The Inaugural event had two speakers and that sub series is further divided to reflect that. | |||||||||||||
Lev Raphael 4 Audio Recordings |
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Introduction - Mike Steinburg. |
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Lev Raphael discusses his writings and preambles the reading. Discussion of the setting of the Nick Hoffman series. Both of the following excerpts are Nick's dealings with SUM administrators. |
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Lev Raphael reads part 1 from The Death of a Constant Lover: |
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Lev Raphael reads part 2 from The Death of a Constant Lover: |
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Loren D. Esteleman 3 Audio Recordings |
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Introduction Bob Root. |
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Loren Estleman reads part 1 from Jitterbug current installment of the Detroit Series. Introduction and reading selection. |
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Q. & A. |
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Interview section 2 Recordings |
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The interview section of the veening conducted by Jane Arnold, of the Michigan State University Library. |
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Part 1. Interview beginning with questions for Lev Raphael and then for Loren Estleman. |
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Part 2, Questions for both of the writers. |
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Laura Kasischke February 5, 19999 Audio Recordings |
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15 min., 12 sec. |
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Interview. |
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4 min., 50 sec. |
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Introduction by Mark Sheehan, and Laura Kasischke's preamble. The first three readings are from her current novel "White Bird in a Blizzard" about a teenage girl through four Januarys. The remainder are a selection of poems. |
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1st January of "White Bird in a Blizzard." |
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2nd January of "White Bird in a Blizzard." |
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3rd January of "White Bird in a Blizzard." |
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"I Love You, You Love Me" - Barney Poem. |
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"The Baby Learns to say Baby." |
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"What I Hear in Your Hair." |
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"Do Not Leave Baby Unattended - Manufacturer's Warning." |
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Gordon Henry February 19, 199916 Audio Recordings |
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1 min, 1 sec. |
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How did the title of The Light People come about?, |
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"Playing with words…is that because you are a poet?" |
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"Could you comment on storytelling in the Native American Community?" |
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"Different voices in each chapter…" |
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"Describe the episode where the bird is trained to recite the Constitution" |
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New work called The Golden Arrow. |
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Suggested Native American Writers. |
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Introduction by Michael Steinburg. |
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Acknowledgements, Dedication, and "Sleeping in Rain." |
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The Light People (2 excerpts). |
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"I will not tell you..." |
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From: Art not history not art :Dreamcatchers. |
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From: Art not history not art: Sperm Bank. Questions/Discussion |
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Thoughts on writing, and "Dodem Dream Song." |
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Linda Nemec Foster March 26, 199919 Audio Recordings | |||||||||||||
An Evening with Linda Nemes Foster including and Interview with Jane Arnold, and selected readings from her work. | |||||||||||||
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Talks about title of "Living in the Firenest." |
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You teach a poetry workshop? |
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What kind of poems can be exhibited? |
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Were you told the Baba Yaga stories as a child? |
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Dedication in "The Bowels" |
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What are you working on now? |
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10 min., 21 sec. |
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Introduction by Diane Wakoski |
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"Postcard" |
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"History of the Toenails" |
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"History of the Hand" |
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"Heat Lightning" |
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Movie Poems: "History of the Legs," "Absurdity is a Sweet Life," "Jean de Florette." |
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Ars Poetica |
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"The Therapeutist Asks Magritte" |
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"The Rain in Bijosko," Nocturn Opus 9 - Chopin Poem |
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"The awkward young girl approaching you" |
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"In my grandmothers house" |
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"After the war.../Auschwitz" |
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Keith Taylor April 9, 199916 Audio Recordings |
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How did you end up in Michigan? |
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Where are you a bookseller? |
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Discuss being a Canadian-Michigan writer. |
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Prose "Life Science and Other Stories" as the work of a poet. |
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Autobiographical nature of work. |
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Where can we get your work? |
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What do you read for pleasure? |
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"Innocent Confusion" |
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"Creation Story " |
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"Guilty at the rapture" |
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"The footwashing" |
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"Resurrection" |
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Judith Minty April 23, 19997 Audio Recordings |
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Poem "A Sense of Place" |
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Do you think your ethnicity effected your poetry? |
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What are you writing right now? |
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