WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Writers?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ Forum is hosted by Dr. Betty Parker Duff and is a new program at WERU designed to bring you the voices of Maine writers from all over the state but especially from the coastal region.
Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topics: How to get started in a writers group. How everyday things offer chances for writing materials. Why do we write? Local writers discuss these topics and read from their work.
Guests: Writers Amy Miller, Cher Jones, Joe Tassi and Wendy Watson
Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
A tribute to coastal Washington County poet, M. Kelly Lombardi. Members of her Salt Coast Sages poetry workshop will discuss her influence on them, and read some of her work.
Lombardi, who died on September 9, 2008, was the founder and leader of the Salt Coast Sages in Machias. She taught poetry, specializing in international poets, particularly contemporary Irish poets, in Sunrise Senior College at the University of Maine in Machias, and facilitated poetry workshops. She also lectured on antique roses and raised close to 50 varieties herself.
Each year she traveled to Ireland to refresh her music and poetry interests, and to Italy where she stayed at a 12th century Augustinian monastery to “write and write.” “Ireland,” she said, “is my ancestral home; Italy my spiritual home, coastal Maine is my home harbor.”
Guests: “The Salt Coast Sages” from Washington County–Gerald George, Sharon Bray, Don Crane, Grace Sheridan and Philip Rose.
Producer/Host: Betty Duff
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topics: Poetry, writing, haikus, writing groups, personal experiences
Where to find the book “Stone in My Pocket”, how writer’s groups work, who are the Moody Mountain Writers?
Guests: Moody Mountain Writers: Selkie O’Mira, Mary Jane Martin, Debbie Mitchell, Janet Smith
Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Topic: Miriam Colwell’s books “Young” and “Contentment Cove”, and F. Benjamin Carr’s “The Story of Bustins” . A discussion with the authors
How different Maine Coastal communities deal with interests of long-term residents and new-comers thru fiction and non-fiction. Why writers should never give up or become discouraged. How to begin writing the history of a particular place?
Producers/Hosts: Joan Clemons and Betty Duff
Topics: Information about Belfast Poetry Festival. The process of writing poetry. How to submit to Off the Coast and Bangor Metro
Guests: Annaliese Jakamides, Valerie Lawson, Chuck Smith
Producers/Hosts: Betty Duff and Joan Clemons
Topic: Adam The King by Jeffrey Lewis & Full Fathom Five: A Daughter’s Search by Mary Lee Coe Fowler
What is the state of American fiction today? What are the problems of publicizing books today? What is the inspiration for today’s books?
Guests: Jeffrey Lewis, author, Meritocracy Quartet ; Mary Lee Coe Fowler, author, Full Fathom Five: A Daughter’s Search
FMI: jefflewis@earthlink.net; maryleecoefowler.com, mlfowler@maine.rr.com
Producer/Host: Dr. Betty Duff
Topic: Co-authoring mysteries
How do you co-author? Where do you get ideas for characters? How does poetry help in the writing process?
Guests: Ross Erwin, Carolyn Page
Producers/Hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons
Topic: Poetry Inspiration for
National Poetry Foundation. Local writing groups. Barbara workshops / poetry themes / history in literature
Guests: Barbara Maria, Jennifer Moxley, Megan London