The Last Word, WLFR

Since fall of 2011, I’ve been interviewing or recording readings by writers from South Jersey and the Tri-State area on a radio show called The Last Word. The show originates from Stockton College’s radio station Lake Fred Radio 91.7 WLFR FM Pomona NJ. You can listen to the show broadcasting during the school year on wlfr.fm at 11AM Wednesdays (new time!).

Looking for someone’s podcast? They were posted in this order from most recently played to oldest:

Academic Year 2012-2013

Stockpot 2012
Eric Baus and Dorothea Lasky
Emily Abdendroth and the Anti-Prison Movement
Christine E Salvatore
Terri Adamczyk
Nathan Long
J. Michael Martinez
Stephanie Cawley

Academic Year 2011-2012

Southern Humanities Conference Panel: Jenna McCoy, Deb D’Anastasio, Kimone Hyman.
Stephen Dunn
Bud Cole
Kathy Graber
Emari DiGiorgio
Judy Copeland
Brigid Sadorf
Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
Chris Laferty
Scott Oliver
Peter Murphy
The Gilda’s Club of South Jersey: Barb Daniels, Katie Rah and Emari DiGiorgio
Maxine Patroni
Walt Whitman/Darrel Blaine Ford

Future interviewees include Sommer Browning, Kate Greenstreet, the Stockpot literary reading from spring of 2012, and other visitors in and from our Visiting Writers Series.

Folks have been asking for this show to be made available in podcast form. Bob Heinrich in Stockton’s computer services office and I have been trying to get the podcast to the iTunes directory and server for a couple of weeks. All the shows are there, but not yet searchable in the directory. Sign up for The Last Word’s Facebook page to get an update on when the podcasts are ready there. Until then, I hope you enjoy listening to them from this site.

Thanks,

Cynthia King
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Literature Program
Stockton College

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. His publications include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), The To Sound (Verse Press, 2004; Winner of the 2002 Verse Prize, selected by Forrest Gander), and the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis), A Swarm In The Aperture (Margin to Margin), and Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press). He edits Minus House chapbooks, and currently lives in Denver.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, etc. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, Columbia University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Heath Elementary School, and Munroe Center for the Arts and has done educational research at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Project Zero.

They read together at the Penn Book Center on Oct 27th, 2012 in Philadelphia. Click below to hear their reading and an interview with them about their friendship.

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Christine E. Salvatore received her MFA from The University of New Orleans. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at Rosemont College, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Egg Harbor Township High School. Her poetry has recently appeared or will appear in The Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Prime Number Magazine and in The Edison Literary Review. She is the recipient of a 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts and a Dodge Poet.

To listen to her podcast, click below.

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Emily Abendroth is a poet, teacher and participant in several anti-prison organizations and coalitions. She lives in Philadelphia. In this podcast she discusses the system for prisoners to receive continuing education and participate in reading and writing activities in Pennsylvania and what citizens of rural areas such as South Jersey can do with regards to the prison system.

Emily reads from the words of prisoners for whom she advocates, here. She reads her own poetry here.

To listen to the podcast complete, click below.

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On October 24th, listen in to hear Terri Adamczyk read on The Last Word. She’ll also appear at the TRLC for the Living Learning Communities event from 2-4 on Sunday October 28th. Stockton Professor Jeremy Newman will present a documentary he made about Terry’s life called “The Amnesiac’s Birthday” and Terri will be present to read poems. Please attend and tune in to get a preview of Terri’s work.

To listen to her podcast, please click below.

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Nathan Long, associate professor of creative writing at Stockton College has stories and essays in over fifty journals, including Glimmer Train, Tin House, The Sun, Story Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Crab Orchard Review, Camera Obscura, and Indiana Review. His chapbook is available from Popular Ink Press. His work also appears on NPR and in the anthologies Mother Knows (Washington Square Press), Philadelphia Stories Anthology II (PS Books), The Way We Work (Vanderbilt Press), Boyhood (U. of Wisconsin Press), The Fire in Moonlight (White Crane Press), Queer View Mirror II (Arson Pulp Press), and Stripped (PS Books).

Nathan grew up in a cabin in rural Maryland and studied Literature at the University of Maryland (BA) and Carnegie Mellon (MA); he received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has hiked in the Himalayas, biked along both U.S. coasts, studied at a Thai monastery, lived on a commune in Tennessee, and for ten years cooked for a Buddhist meditation retreat in Oregon.

Nathan has taught creative writing and Literature at various institutions, including Middle Tennessee State U., University of Richmond, and Virginia Union University. He is just returning ti teaching from sabbatical at The Richard Stockton College of NJ, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing; Literature; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He also teaches creative writing through the Mount Airy Learning Tree and various writing conferences.

Nathan lives in the Germantown area of Philadelphia, PA, with his partner Courtney. His dog Gracie (featured in the “This I Believe” essay found in the “Select Essays” page) passed away last year.

Click here for the complete podcast.

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Michael Martinez was born and raised in Greeley, CO. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado and received an M.F.A. from George Mason University. His poems have appeared in New American Writing, Five Fingers Review, The Colorado Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others, and the anthology Junta: Avant-Garde Latino/a Writing. He is the recipient of the 2006 Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize and is co-editor and co-founder of Breach Press.

In 2009, Martinez’s collection Heredities was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, and will be published by Louisiana State University Press. Martinez is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Michael will read on Thursday October 11th at 8PM in F-111.

To hear his podcast, click here.

Stephanie Cawley is a poet and teacher who graduated from Stockton College in 2011. Her work has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Used Furniture Review and other journals. She’s taught creative writing at Mighty Writers and tutored in the Writing Center at Stockton. She also participated in Stockton’s Postcolonial Projects and is applying to graduate schools this fall. On her podcast, she talks about David Lynch, obsession and a couch surfing East Coast project she did for the Distinguished Student Fellowship she won at Stockton. This is the first podcast of the academic year 2012-2013.

To hear her podcast, click below on the player.

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In February of 2012, Stockton Professor Judy Copeland organized a panel of undergraduates Jenna McCoy, Deb D’Anastasio, and Kim Hyman to read their creative non-fiction at the Southern Humanities Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The panel was called, “Of Cramps, Coffins, and Free-Radical Chemistry: Exploring Body and Being through Creative Nonfiction.” Judy Copeland writes: “The three students read excerpts from their essays about trekking in the Himalayas, planning funerals, and studying chemical bonding; then they led the audience in a stimulating discussion of the disconnects/connections between the objective science of human bodies and the more complex definition of self that plays out in the world of human emotions. Their presentation was made possible by a student travel grant from the Provost’s Office.”

Jenna McCoy majored in English and Anthropology at Stockton and edited the 2011-2012 edition of the Stockpot, Stockton’s literary magazine. She recently won the Polaris literary prize and published work in Curbside Quotidian and other magazines. Currently, she teaches high school English in North Jersey.

Deb D’Anastasio, a former tutor in the writing center, majored in Language and Culture with a minor in Writing at Stockton. She completed a Semester at Sea program where she lived on a ship for four months with 500 other American students. While taking classes on the ship, she circled the globe, stopping in nine countries along the way (Spain, Morocco, Ghana, South Africa, Mauritius, Vietnam, India, China, and Japan). A resident of Ocean City, she has had an op-ed piece published in the Press of Atlantic City.

Kim Hyman studied Biology and Literature at Stockton. You can read about her here.

To hear the recording of their panel, click here.

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In 1939, Stephen Dunn was born in New York City. He earned a BA in history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School Writing Workshops, and finished his MA in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing.

Dunn’s books of poetry include What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 (W.W. Norton, 2009); Everything Else in the World (W. W. Norton, 2006); Local Visitations (2003); Different Hours (2000), winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (1996); New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994); Landscape at the End of the Century (1991); Between Angels (1989); Local Time (1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1984); Work & Love (1981); A Circus of Needs (1978); Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976); and Looking For Holes In the Ceiling 1974. He is also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (BOA Editions, 2001), and Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (1998).

Dunn is the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College and lives in Frostburg, Maryland, with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.

To listen to his podcast interview, click here.

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