AWP Podcast
AWP's podcast episodes will feature recordings related to literature. These will include recordings from select events at our annual conference.
You can listen to it one episode at a time or subscribe to our feed which will be updated every time we add a new episode (using a program such as iTunes). You may also be able to listen to our podcast using the podcast widget here.
You can expect a new episode to be published about once a week. |
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Episode 4
Title: Conference 2007 Freedom to Write? Our Obligation to Protect Expression
Published: 7/11/07
Duration: 0:43:27
Recorded: Taped 3/3/07, Crystal Ballroom, Hilton Atlanta
Description:The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007 brings you Freedom to Write? Our Obligation to Protect Expression. Are writers being silenced around the world? Are our first amendment freedoms at risk here at home? How do current affairs affect the rights of writers to practice their craft? What is the role of self-censorship in a culture of real or imagined threats to freedom of expression? Join PEN America and PEN USA, the two United States centers of PEN for this discussion about the state of the Freedom to Write. International PEN has been defending the rights of writers around the world for eighty-five years.
Moderator: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Related info: For more information, please visit the following sites: PEN American Center & PEN Center USA
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Episode 3
Title: Conference 2007 Keynote Address
Published: 7/03/07
Duration: 0:35:49
Recorded: Taped 3/1/07, Grand Ballroom, Hilton Atlanta
Description:The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007's Keynote Address by Lee Smith: A Life in Books. Sponsored by Georgia College & State University/Arts & Letters/Flannery O'Connor Review
Speaker: Lee Smith
Related info: Look for this address to be printed in the September 2007 issue of The Writers' Chronicle
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Episode 2
Title: Conference 2007 Poetry Extravaganza part 2
Published: 5/30/07
Duration: 0:32:45
Recorded: Taped 3/2/07, Grand Salon, Hilton Atlanta
Description: The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007 brings you Poetry Extravaganza. Poetry Extravaganza was hosted by the Academy of American Poets. The Academy of American Poets presents a reading by four leading American poets. This recording (part 2 of 2) contains readings from Marilyn Hacker and Thomas Lux, and features a closing by Tree Swenson.
Readers: Marilyn Hacker, Thomas Lux
Related info: See podcast episode 1 for more of this event.
Find out more about The Academy of American Poets by visiting their website at: http://www.poets.org/
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Episode 1
Title: Conference 2007 Poetry Extravaganza part 1
Published: 5/22/07
Duration: 0:48:08
Recorded: Taped 3/2/07, Grand Salon, Hilton Atlanta
Description: The AWP Conference Atlanta 2007 brings you Poetry Extravaganza. Poetry Extravaganza was hosted by the Academy of American Poets. The Academy of American Poets presents a reading by four leading American poets. This recording (part 1 of 2) contains readings from David Bottoms and Cornelius Eady, and features an introduction by Tree Swenson.
Readers: David Bottoms, Cornelius Eady
Related info: See podcast episode 2 for more of this event.
Find out more about The Academy of American Poets by visiting their website at: http://www.poets.org/
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