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Margaret Atwood: 09-12-1979
(1979-09-12)Margaret Atwood, an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist, begins the interview by reading her poem “You Begin.” She continues by discussing the oral experience of poetry as well as outlining the distinction between the ... -
Margaret Walker: 04-05-1978
(1978-04-05)The poet and novelist Margaret Walker discusses her work in an interview recorded April 5, 1978. -
Marilynne Robinson: 02-23-1989
(1989-02-23)In an interview conducted on February 23, 1989, Marilynne Robinson reads from her novel Housekeeping and discusses her characters Ruth, Lucille, and Sylvie. She recalls writing the novel while teaching in France, and her ... -
Mary Oliver: 07-14-1981
(1981-07-14)The poet Mary Oliver discusses her work in an interview recorded July 14, 1981. -
Mary Oliver: 7/14/1981
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Michael Horovitz: 05-12-1978
(1978-05-12)In a recording made May 12, 1978, Michael Horovitz reads from The Wolverhampton Wanderer, The New Departures Anthology, and Growing Up: Selected Poems & Pictures. Poems read include “Highland Rhapsody,” “Western Train,” ... -
Miller Williams: 10/15/1969
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Mitchell Jackson: 2/26/2020
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Molly Haskell: 03-10-1977
(1977-03-10)Molly Haskell, film critic for the Village Voice and author of From Reverence to Rape discusses the ways women are portrayed in both film and television. Haskell describes how culture and male influence shape that portrayal ... -
Nadine Gordimer: 01-24-1986
(1986-01-24)Gordimer calls herself a "natural writer" and speaks about the influence that growing up in a South African mining town had on her writing. She responds to questions about voice, rhythm, audience, narrative techniques, and ... -
Nadine Gordimer: 02-22-1972
(1972-02-22)Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature, discusses her work in an interview recorded February 22, 1972. -
Natasha D. Trethewey: 2/12/2003
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Nicholas Meyer: 10-31-1979
(1979-10-31)Nicholas Meyer is a screenwriter, producer, director, and author, and a graduate of the University of Iowa. He is the author of the screenplay the Seven Per Cent Solution and co-author of The Black Orchid. He begins the ... -
Patricia Goedicke: 12/4/1968
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Peter Benson: 4/21/2021
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Ping Wang: 10/30/2019
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Ray Gonzalez: 03-10-2004
(2004-03-10)The author Ray Gonzalez begins the interview by reading the poem "A Tiny Clay Doll with No Arms" from his book The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande. The interview continues with a discussion of The Underground Heart, a collection ... -
Richard Howard and Carolyn Kizer: 4/4/1974
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Richard Wilbur: 03-13-1969
(1969-03-13)In an interview recorded March 13, 1969, Richard Wilbur discusses oratorical qualities in American poetry. Wilbur cites Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and three political works of his own to compare, as interviewer Wiliam Heyen ... -
Rion Amilcar Scott: 5/5/2021
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