Category: Writers Forum

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.

Writers Forum 10/8/15

Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: John Greenman

Program Topic: Writing in Maine

Key Discussion Points:
a) haiku, senryu, haibun, and other Japanese forms
b)Bangor Haiku Group – Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:30 p.m. Moonviewing at the Bangor waterfront
c) choosing haiku over other writing

Guests:
Catherine Lee, nautical.dreamer@gmail.com
Bruce Ross, dr_bruce_ross@hotmail.com

Writers Forum 6/11/15

Producer/Host: Nancy Tancredi
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Maine writers

Program Topic: Maine voices from the past and in the present

Key Discussion Points:
Poem written in 1800 – read and discussed; Ray Beal’s spiritual and nature poetry; Jenna Beal’s poetry about the past, the present and future.

Guests:
Ray Beal, poet and photographer; Jenna Beaulieu, poet, blogger, and photographer.

Writers Forum 5/14/15

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary & Nancy Tancredi
Engineer: John Greenman

(Note: Due to a recording error, this archive starts with the show already in progress)

Program Topic: Writing in Maine

Key Discussion Points:
a) poetry readings
b)Maine Humanities Council
c) Venus Remembered by Phil Wormuth
d) Salty Liquor by Gary Rainford
e)introducing the new host, Nancy Tancredi

Guests:
Phil Wormuth, cuskagency@gmail.com
Gary Rainford, GaryRainford.com

Writers Forum 4/9/15

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Writing

Program Topic: Poetry

Key Discussion Points:

a) April – National Poetry Month
b) the Aurorean, poetry literary journal, Encircle Publications
c) Off the Coast, poetry literary journal
d) ekphrastic poetry – the crossing genres art
e) Nature’s Grace sculpture in Eastport Maine

Guests:
A) Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, www.encirclepub.com
B) Michael Brown, http://www.off-the-coast.com
C) Valerie Lawson, http://www.off-the-coast.co