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Interview: Derek Mong
In the first installment of a new series of interviews on TMR, managing editor Michael Nye talked with Derek Mong, author of the poetry collection Other Romes(Saturnalia Press, 2011). Mong was the 2008 – 2010 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville, where he taught literature, creative writing, and hosted “The Soul That Grows in Darkness: The Axton Festival of Film and Verse.” From 2006 – 2007 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has previously taught at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Albany, and with young writer’s workshops at Kenyon College and Denison University, his alma mater. In the fall of 2010 he began a PhD in English Literature at Stanford University. Michael spoke with Derek from his home in Palo Alto.
New Podcast Episodes!
We are pleased to announce the relaunch of The Missouri Review Podcast! Check back every week for the latest episode, featuring web-exclusive interviews, readings, and audio content.
Audio Winners Series: First Place: Austin Bunn
On this episode of the Missouri Review podcast, we present the first place winner of our 2009 Audio Competition, “Basement Story,” by Austin Bunn.
Austin Bunn is a writer and performer, whose short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Zoetrope, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The New York Times Magazine, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Fantasy, and elsewhere. He’s performed at The Moth Reading Series, Highways Performance Space in Venice, CA, and the Riverside Theatre in Iowa City, IA. He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [2010]
TMR Podcast: Austin Bunn, "Basement Story" (2009 1st Place Winner) [ 9:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winner Series: Second Place: “Women of Troy”
In this episode of our podcast, we present our second place winner for 2009, “Women of Troy,” a work which was produced as part of the “In Verse” recording project, created by Ted Genoways and Lu Olkowski. In its full, multimedia incarnation, “Women of Troy” features poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, and producer Lu Olkowski as they document the lives of working mothers in Troy, New York. This version consists of two poems that Somers-Willett wrote for the project, paired with field recordings and audio from recorded interviews.
Contributors:
Lu Olkowski is a contributing producer to Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. Her work has also been heard on All Things Considered, Day to Day, Radio Lab, This American Life, and Weekend America. She has been honored by the American Women in Radio & Television; The Missouri Review; and the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Prior to a career in public radio, Lu was a creative director at Nickelodeon where she led a team of producers in exploring new ways of storytelling by using emerging technologies. [2010]
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett is the author of two books of poetry, Quiver and Roam, and a book of criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America.Her honors include the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award. Raised in New Orleans, she teaches English and Creative Writing at Montclair State University in New Jersey. [2010]
Brenda Ann Kenneally is an independent photojournalist whose photos of Troy, New York, appeared in the 2009 World Press Photo exhibition. A chronicler of coming-of-age in post-industrial America, her project, “Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City” was awarded first place at the World Press Awards for Daily Life Stories in 2009, and an honorable mention at UNICEF Photo of the Year. [2010]
TMR Podcast: "Women of Troy" (2009 2nd Place Winner) [ 10:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winner Series: Finalist: Rachel Yoder
In this episode of The Missouri Review podcast, we present another finalist from our 2009 Audio Compeition, a documentary essay called “The Thing at the Foot of the Bed” by Rachel Yoder.
Rachel Yoder has written for The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Opium Magazine, Kenyon Review Online and elsewhere. She is an Arts Fellow in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. [2010]
TMR Podcast: Rachel Yoder "The Thing at the Foot of the Bed" (2009 Finalist) [ 11:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winner Series: Finalist: Hillary Frank
On this Missouri Review podcast, we present “Lucy and the Bike Girl” by Hillary Frank, a finalist in our 2009 Audio Competition. Lucy, a 28-year-old with cystic fibrosis, meets the “Bike Girl,” who has the same disease, in an internet chat room. They are both, against the advice of friends and doctors, trying to get pregnant. They quickly become friends but can never meet in person, because the Bike Girl carries a bacteria in her lungs that is toxic to anyone with cystic fibrosis. This piece is an experiment in combining fact and fiction. The interview tape is all from a real interview; the narration is semi-fictional.
Hillary Frank is a freelance writer and radio producer, whose work has aired on This American Life, Weekend America, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Day to Day, Studio 360, Marketplace, and Chicago Matters. She has won awards for her radio stories from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Association for Women in Communications, and the National Mental Health Association. She is the author and illustrator of the novels Better Than Running at Night, I Can’t Tell You, and the forthcoming The View from the Top. [2010]
TMR Podcast: Hillary Frank "Lucy and the Bike Girl" (2009 Finalist) [ 11:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winner Series: Narrative Essay: Judith Sloan
On this Missouri Review podcast we conclude our presentation of the winners of our 2008 Audio/Video competition with Judith Sloan’s “Dayenu,” the winner in the Narrative Essay category.
Judith Sloan is an award-winning actress, oral historian and documentary audio artist, whose multi-character solo performances combining humor, pathos and a love of the absurd include Denial of the Fittest, Responding to Chaos, and A Tattle Tale: eyewitness in Mississippi. Her audio pieces include radio documentaries that have been produced for National Public Radio and New York Public Radio, audio sound pieces for exhibitions, and audio sound and music pieces for her collaborative award-winning multimedia project Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America (W.W. Norton & Co). Her plays, commentaries, and essays have been published by Second Story Press, the Forward, and the New York Times. Sloan is a member of the faculty at the Gallatin School at NYU where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary art, oral history, theatre and community projects. You can visit her on the web at www.earsay.org and www.crossingtheblvd.org. [2009]
TMR Podcast: Judith Sloan "Dayenu" (2008 Narrative Essay Winner) [ 7:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winners Series: Documentary: Lauren Kirby
In this episode of The Missouri Review podcast, we present the winner of the “Documentary” category of our 2008 Audio/Video Competition, “Love Triangle” by Lauren Kirby.
Lauren Kirby is a freelance radio producer whose work has appeared on Voice of America and on the programs Weekend America and Making Contact. She is currently working on editing an audio diary she made about the 9-week teacher training course at Bikram Yoga in Palm Springs, CA. [2009]
TMR Podcast: Lauren Kirby "Love Triangle" (2009 Documentary Winner) [ 9:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winners Series: VO Nonfiction: Rachael Hanel
On this episode of The Missouri Review podcast, we’ll be listening to Rachael Hanel’s “Smoke Rings,” the winner of the Voice-Only Creative Nonfiction category of our 2008 Audio/Video Competition.
Rachael Hanel is a writer and college instructor in Madison Lake, MN. Her memoir-in-progress, We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down, is about growing up as a gravedigger’s daughter in Minnesota. [2009]
TMR Podcast: Rachael Hanel "Smoke Rings" (2008 VO Nonfiction Winner) [ 4:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winners Series: Voice-Only Poetry: Douglas Collura
On this episode of The Missouri Review podcast, we’ll be hearing “Living the Life of the Great Buster Keaton,” by Douglas Collura, the winner of the Voice-Only Poetry category in our 2008 Audio/Video competition.
Douglas Collura is a Manhattan-based writer and author of the spoken word CD The Dare of the Quick World and the book Things I Can Fit My Whole Head Into. His work has appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, Eclipse, Lips Magazine, The Cynic, Long Island Sounds Anthology, and can also be read and listened to at his website, www.douglascollura.com. [2009]
TMR Podcast: Douglas Collura (2008 Voice-Only Poetry Winner) [ 7:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAudio Winners Series: Voice-Only Fiction: Ann Rosenquist Fee
In this TMR podcast, we present the first place winner in the Voice-Only Fiction category of our 2008 Audio/Video competition, “The Annunciation of the Baby Jesus One Block North of Riverfront Drive” by Ann Rosenquist Fee.
Ann Rosenquist Fee’s fiction appears in the collections Frenzy and Never Have the Same Sex Twice (Cleis Press 2008), Stonecoast Lines (Warren Machine Company 2008), and The Blueroad Reader (Blueroad Press 2006). [2009]
TMR Podcast: Anne Rosenquist Fee (2008 Voice-Only Fiction Winner) [ 7:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAn Introduction to Seth Fried’s “Loeka Discovered”
In this Missouri Review podcast, we talk with editor Speer Morgan and author Seth Fried about Fried’s story “Loeka Discovered,” which appeared in our Winter 2008 issue.
Seth Fried is twenty-five years old. His stories are currently forthcoming in McSweeney’s 30 and in Vice magazine’s annual fiction issue. [2008]
TMR Podcast: Introduction to Seth Fried's "Loeka Discovered" [ 3:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAn Interview with Alex Grant
Seth Graves interviews poet Alex Grant. Grant’s poems appeared in TMR 31.4.
Alex Grant’s book Chains & Mirrors (NCWN/Harperprints) won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award (Best North Carolina poetry collection). His second collection, The White Book, was released in 2008 by Main Street Rag Publishing. His full-length manuscript, “Fear of Moving Water,” has been a recent finalist for several major poetry prizes, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies, including Arts & Letters, Best New Poets 2007, the Connecticut Review, Nimrod and Seattle Review. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Tristi, his dangling participles and his Celtic fondness for excess. He can be found on the web at:www.redroom.com/author/alex-grant. [2008]
Peden Prize Reading: Molly McNett, “Quichè Lessons”
On October 20th, 2008, the Missouri Review presented our annual Peden Prize to Molly McNett, whose story “Quichè Lessons” appeared in our summer 2007 issue. As part of the evening, Molly read an abridged version of her story. We’re happy to present on this podcast our recording of that reading, introduced by Associate Editor Evelyn Somers. This recording was produced by Caitlin Garing.
Molly McNett’s first publication appeared in The Missouri Review in 1997. Others have appeared in the New England Review, Black Warrior Review, Other Voices, and elsewhere. [2007]
C.K. Hutchins, “Interregnum” (Poem of the Week)
On this Missouri Review podcast, we’re pleased to feature a selection from our ongoing project to produce audio editions of each of our issues. Today, we present “Interregnum” by Christina Hutchins, which was selected as our Poem of the Week for the last week of July. It originally appeared in our Spring 2008 issue. Christina Hutchins has recent poems in The New Republic, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Southern Review, Southern Indiana Review and Sycamore Review. She has worked as a biochemist and a Congregational minister, and she now teaches Whitehead’s philosophy at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Her unpublished manuscript, Interregnum, has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, New Issues Poetry Prize, Fordham’s Poets Out Loud, Utah State’s May Sarton Award, and the Colorado Prize.
Christina Hutchins reads her poem. This recording was made possible with the help of the studios of KQED in San Francisco.