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Poet Ross White reads from his new chapbook, “How We Came Upon the Colony” (Unicorn Press, 2014). The conversation travels from White’s imagined 14th colony of the New World to his foundation in imporv comedy.

 

Podcast Notes:

 

Ross White, Poet, Executive Director of Bull City Press: http://www.rosswhite.com/

•How We Came Upon the Colony by Ross White

http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/White-How-We-Came-Upon-the-Colony.html

 

Awards from:

Bull City Press, Durham, NC: http://bullcitypress.com/

Best New Poets: http://bestnewpoets.org/

Poetry Daily: http://poems.com/

The New England Review: http://www.nereview.com/

Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Ripton, VT: http://www.middlebury.edu/bread-loaf-conferences/bl_writers

 

DSI Theater, Improve Comedy, Chapel Hill, NC: http://www.dsicomedytheater.com/

 

Warren Wilson MFA Program and Faculty Supervisors:

Website: http://www.wwcmfa.org/

C. Dale Young: http://www.cdaleyoung.com/

Mary Leader: https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/mary-leader

Heather McHugh: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/heather-mchugh

A. Van Jordan: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/van-jordan-0

 

Other mentioned poets:

Michael McFee: http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/mcfeem

Weldon Kees: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/weldon-kees

Donald Justice: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/donald-justice

W. S. Merwin: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-s-merwin

W. H. Auden: http://audensociety.org/index.html

 

See also:

The Grind Daily Writing Series: http://rosswhite.com/2012/04/08/how-napowrimo-inspired-the-grind/

tatestreet.org Three-Sentence Reviews: http://tatestreet.org/category/reviews/three-sentence-reviews/

 

Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning

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