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    • Margaret Atwood: 09-12-1979 

      Atwood, Margaret; Fitz Gerald, Gregory; Crabbe, Katharyn (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 

      Walker, Margaret (1978-04-05)
      The poet and novelist Margaret Walker discusses her work in an interview recorded April 5, 1978.
    • Marilynne Robinson: 02-23-1989 

      Robinson, Marilynne; Rubin, Stanley Sanvel (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 

      Oliver, Mary (1981-07-14)
      The poet Mary Oliver discusses her work in an interview recorded July 14, 1981.
    • Mary Oliver: 7/14/1981 

      Oliver, Mary (1981-07-14)
    • Michael Horovitz: 05-12-1978 

      Horovitz, Michael (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 

      Williams, Miller (1969-10-15)
    • Mitchell Jackson: 2/26/2020 

      Jackson, Mitchell (2020-02-26)
    • Molly Haskell: 03-10-1977 

      Haskell, Molly; Higashi, Sumiko; Rubin, Stanley Sanvel (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 

      Gordimer, Nadine; Rubin, Stan Sanvel; Kitchen, Judith; Marchant, Peter (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 

      Gordimer, Nadine (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 

      Trethewey, Natasha D. (2003-02-12)
    • Nicholas Meyer: 10-31-1979 

      Meyer, Nicholas; Rubin, Stan Sanvel; Fitz Gerald, Gregory (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 

      Goedicke, Patricia (1968-12-04)
    • Peter Benson: 4/21/2021 

      Benson, Peter (2021-04-21)
    • Ping Wang: 10/30/2019 

      Wang, Ping (2019-10-30)
    • Ray Gonzalez: 03-10-2004 

      Gonzalez, Ramon (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 

      Howard, Richard; Kizer, Carolyn (1974-04-04)
    • Richard Wilbur: 03-13-1969 

      Wilbur, Richard P.; Fitz Gerald, Gregory; Heyen, William (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 

      Scott, Rion Amilcar (2021-05-05)