Listen "Epic, Personas, and Writing Across Disciplines: L. S. McKee"
Episode Synopsis
Poet and educator L. S. McKee tells us about poetry and personas, the joys of secret venues, writing across science and art curricula, and even relics. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Joan Crawford holding mask of herself (cropped). Photoplay, 1932. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and music!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Elizabeth Arnold The Reef Ingeborg Bachmann Elizabeth Bishop Anne Carson Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Rachel Carson Silent Spring Paul Celan "Death Fugue" Tyler Childers Julio Cortázar Blow-Up: And Other Stories Julio Cortázar Hopscotch Julio Cortázar The Winners Kurt Gödel Frédéric Gros The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation Gruppe 47 Luke Harding "'It's the new normal': in Kiev's newest book store, readers fear how Ukraine's story will end" Hugh Haughton, ed. Second World War Poems Zbigniew Herbert "The Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito" Homer The Iliad (transl. Emily Wilson) Homer The Odyssey Hope Jahren Lab Girl: A Memoir Hope Jahren The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here Brad J. Kallenberg By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering Jack Kerouac Yusef Komunyakaa Benjamín Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World T. E. Lawrence Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook Primo Levi "The Molecule's Defiance" in A Tranquil Star: Stories Primo Levi The Periodic Table Janna Levin A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Christopher Logue War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad Georg Lukács The Theory of the Novel L. S. McKee "Alva Watches the Previous President Fly Away" L. S. McKee Creature Wing Heart Machine Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Maggie Nelson On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint George Oppen New Collected Poems William Shakespeare Jonathan Sumption The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God Greta Thunberg The Climate Book Alan Turing Jesmyn Ward James Wright Isabel Zapata In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
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