Andrew Miller, whose book If Only the Names Were Changed debuted in August, talks with Word Carver editor Cynthia Rosi, about turning addiction and a history of abuse into carefully crafted writing and beauty. WGRN-LP, Columbus on Saturdays at 12:30pm, 94.1-fm.

WordCarver, Andrew Miller, Memoir

Sommer Sterud talks about finding solace through poetry, and Trevor McMahon explore this weird spoken-word genre which arose from experiments with sound in Nazi Germany. Hosted by Editor Cynthia Rosi, and Assistant Editor Amy Dalrymple.

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Word Carver, Solace through poetry -- with Sommer Sterud

The show for people who shine a lens on the world through writing and reading.

Find solace in writing and reading poetry, essays and books.

Burns Night celebrates the Scottish poet who loved the lassies, Robert Burns. Salute the haggis, pass a dram of whisky, and enjoy the show!


Music: Rise and Shine by Seastock on Jamendo.

Rise and Shine

Word Carver, 1.27.2017

Diary of the One Swelling Sea by Jill McCabe Johnson, a poet who lives in the San Juan Islands in Washington State set in an audioscape by Simon Hughes. Following that, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, a writer and translator from Colombia, reads from her collection of essays, Don’t Come Back, a memoir about her girlhood in Colombia and subsequent migration to the United States.

Word Carver: Don't Come Back and Diary of the One Swelling Sea

Word Carver goes to AWP in Washington DC and hears editors' calls for submissions. Then, an interview with Eric Obenauf of Two Dollar Radio, a publisher which has won national critical acclaim, talking about The Incantations of Daniel Johnston, a graphic novel by Ricardo Cavolo and Scott McLanahan.

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