2008 archive
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

JUNE 30
Members of the PEN Prison Writting Committee read the works of the winners of this year's PEN Prison Writing Award. Readers include Jackson Taylor, Marie Ponsot, Michael Keck, Claudia Menza, Ennis
Smith
and Sapphire. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
June 9, 2008
 
 
  RADIO BLOOMSDAY:
A CELEBRATION OF JAMES JOYCE
Monday June 16th 7 PM-4 AM • Listen to part 1
Our yearly commemoration of Leopold Bloom's walk through Dublin includes readings from "Ulysses" and other works in the Joyce canon, as well as excerpts from Beckett and Irish song. With Alec Baldwin, Anne Meara, Alvin Epstein, Bob Dishy, Kate Valk, Jim Fletcher, Aaron Beall, Brian O'Doherty, Emily Mitchell, John O'Callahan, David Pincus, Zeroboy, Judy Graubart, Janet Coleman, David Dozer, Kate O'Brien, playwright Richard Maxwell and director Caraid O'Brien as Molly Bloom. Produced by Peabody Award winner Larry Josephson for WBAI.
 
     
  A TRIBUTE TO PETE SEEGER
A celebration of the great folk artist inspired by the updated re-publication of David King Dunaway's biography, "How Can I Keep from Singing: The Ballad of Pete Seeger." Hosted by Janet Coleman. Monday March 31, 10-11pm
 

  Janet & David

Your hosts: the people who have brought you Poisoned Arts; the CCCP; Mushroom Cloud Theater; and The Coffehouse Yeares of Dig Rezod, and the Atlantica Radio Empire among other things. Read all about them here, here and here.

 
 

A Tribute to Michael Goldberg (1924—2008) in the Brooklyn Rail, New York, NY, USA by Janet Coleman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, and Lucio Pozzi. My mental snapshots of Michael Goldberg start circa 1968 on an Easthampton bay beach...

 

 
January 20, 2005
WBAI's Inauguration Coverage Hosted by Robert Knight
The following series was produced by WBAI Arts Director Janet Coleman, recorded in LA by David Adelson for the LA Sound Posse, and edited in NY by Christopher Zguris:
May 30, 2004
May 23, 2004
Fundraising Special
April 18, 2004
March 28, 2004
February 22, 2004

2008
Sunday June 15 11AM — Noon

Janet and David ponder questions of Fathers' Day. Does Father Nature know best?.

Sunday June 8 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew captain the ship.

Sunday June 1 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday May 4 11AM — Noon

Comedian and social/political oracle, Reno, holds forth on life and economics.

Sunday April 27 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday April 20 11AM — Noon

Theatres Against War (THAW) presents live excerpts from "Dirt," "The Fifth Column," and "Rapsida" (A play from a Rwandan theater group that uses theater to educate people about HIV/AIDS). Hosted by Joanie Fritz Zosike and Suzanne Hayes.

Sunday April 13 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists, Andrew Andrew, host

Sunday April 6 11AM — Noon

Hugh Seidman hosts poets Michael Heller, Harvey Shapiro, & John Taggart to discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George Oppen on the centenary of his birth.

Sunday March 30 11AM — Noon

Theatres Against War (THAW) hosts an hour of anti-war theater, poetry and dramatic readings including a performance from "The Conscientious Objector" (now playing on Theatre Row); an excerpt from "The Wall"(a play by THAW Scholarship winner Al Harah Theater from the West Bank); the words of Paul Robeson and others.

Sunday March 23 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt hosts the Easter Bunny. Harvey Shapiro.

Sunday March 16 11AM — Noon

Poet Hugh Seidman hosts a poetry reading with fellow poets Elizabeth Macklin, D. Nurkse and Harvey Shapiro.

Sunday March 9 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday March 2 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew host.

Sunday January 27 11AM — Noon

Poet Hugh Seidman hosts fellow poets D. Nurkse and Lawrence Joseph in readings of poems about war. (Encore presentation.)

Sunday January 19 11AM — Noon

Author Elizabeth Nunez hosts this hour with special guest poet Linda Susan Jackson.

Sunday January 13 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday January 6 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew hold forth.

December 2007 pre-December 2007
Sunday December 30 11AM — Noon

Author/actor/raconteur Malachy McCourt hosts his brothers Frank, Alf and Mike in what has come to be an annual McCourt family radio reunion.

Sunday December 23 11AM — Noon

Satirists Paul Krassner, Sean Kelly, Janet Coleman and David Dozer talk about gooseberries and related holiday issues.

Sunday December 16 first hour Second hour 11AM — 1PM
 

A CELEBRATION OF NORMAN MAILER
Join us for a celebration of the long, protean and dazzling life and work of the late great American author, Norman Mailer, in this two-hour special. With Mailer family members Norris Church Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer, Michael Mailer and Peter Alson; Mailer's editor Jason Epstein; novelist/ journalist and Mailer's mayoral runningmate Jimmy Breslin, and esteemed fellow writers Joyce Carol Oates, Frank McCourt and Paricia Bosworth. Hosted by Janet Coleman.

PHOTO:WILLIAM COUPON

   
For The Next Hour Audio Archives 2005-2006, 2007

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SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005: The PEN Prison Writing Committee hosts this hour celebrating the 2004 Awards for contributions from incarcerated writers. Featuring Felipe Luciano, Susan Rosenberg, Michael Keck, Eric Watters and Belle Chevigny.
PEN's Prison Writing Program American Center invites you to tune into the celebration of our 32nd annual literary contest for incarcerated men and women nationwide.

Former contest winners, writers,and actors will read from a selection of winning manuscripts. These poems, plays, and stories shed powerful light on the experience of the 2.1 million behind bars, a nation hidden in our midst. Thirty-six winners, incarcerated in eighteen states, were chosen from 1100 manuscripts submitted to the competition.

As seven winners are imprisoned in Texas--which boasts the largest prison system in the country--we will offer a special segment on that state. You will hear work by writers protesting Texas' restrictions on free speech and a surprising essay, "Live! From Texas Death Row."
The program will also feature the monologue of a gay man at his father's deathbed, the fanciful autobiography of a fetus, an astonishing love story, and writings about the incarcerated mentally ill and the hazards of release.

The event was produced by PEN Prison Writing Committee Chair Bell Chevigny in collaboration with PEN member and WBAI Arts Director Janet Coleman

 



LIVE FROM COOPER UNION:
State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings
 
 

WBAI's live August 4, 2004 broadcast from The Great Hall at Cooper Union...where the PEN American Center presented a distinguished literary forum to anticipate the Republican Convention and to re-affirm our core freedoms. With readings by Laurie Anderson, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Don DiLillo, Ariel Dorfman, Eve Ensler, A.M. Homes, Margo Jefferson, Edward P. Jones, Walter Dean Myers, Francine Prose, Salman Rushdie and Monique Truang, with contributions from Francisco Goldman and Norman Mailer. Produced and hosted by Janet Coleman, with Peter Cedric Smith on audio mix. PEN is a fellowship of writers working for more than eighty years to advance literature, to promote a culture of reading, and to defend free expression.

 

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