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<title>Giving Voice: Chase Twichell</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 31, 2008) Poet Chase Twichell is the founder of Ausable Press and author of six collections of poetry. The most recent is Dog Language, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2005. Dale Hobson talked with the author on a broadcast of Open Studio before a live audience in Keene Valley, NY. They discuss poetry of place, and the author reads her poem &quot;The Paper River.&quot; [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11815/20080731/giving-voice-chase-twichell">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Michael Czarnecki</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 24, 2008) Michael Czarnecki is a rare animal—a poet who makes a full-time living through his art. From his home base in the Finger Lakes, he spends many days each year on the road, reading his work and conducting workshops. His company, Foothills Publishing, has brought forward the work of countless other poets in more than twenty years of collections and anthologies. He will be in the North Country next week, holding workshops and readings in Canton and Tupper Lake. Dale Hobson talked with him by phone to see how he does it all.Michael Czarnecki will be at the Canton Free Library on Tuesday, April 29. As part of the Brown Bag Luncheon series, he will conduct a Palm of the Hand Memoir Writing Workshop at noon, followed at 7 pm by a reading of his Travel Works poetry and non fiction. On Wednesday at 7 pm, he will be at the Goff-Nelson Library in Tupper Lake for a reading of his travel writing, followed the next day at 7 pm by a Palm of the Hand workshop. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11315/20080424/giving-voice-michael-czarnecki">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Editing Old Poems is Like a Cuban Taxi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 27, 2008) Giving Voice goes green this month on the theme of &quot;Repair, Reuse, Recycle.&quot; We repair to the Readers &amp; Writers archive from April 2006 to reuse a poem of Dale Hobson&apos;s about recycling old poems into new ones: &quot;Editing Old Poems is Like a Cuban Taxi.&quot; [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11150/20080327/giving-voice-editing-old-poems-is-like-a-cuban-taxi">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Matt Frank</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 28, 2008) Matt Frank is a recent arrival in the North Country, coming here via Illinois, Alaska and Phoenix. A poet and a food writer, he teaches English and creative writing at Jefferson County Community College, and makes his home in Alexandria Bay. For our Giving Voice series, Dale Hobson talks with him about his writing, and about the sometimes painful process of growing as a writer. He reads the poem &quot;The Dressmaker&apos;s Dummy&quot; from his collection, Sagittarius Agitprop. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11149/20080228/giving-voice-matt-frank">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Loose Ends</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 27, 2007) Dale Hobson&apos;s New Year&apos;s resolutions are all &quot;continuing resolutions.&quot; Here is a new poem for the New Year: Loose Ends 2007. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11148/20071227/giving-voice-loose-ends">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: John Berbrich</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 25, 2007) Russell poet John Berbrich spent a rowdy youth growing up on Long Island. Many years later the stories and characters of his childhood and teen years have elbowed their way to the front of his poetic imagination. He stopped by the studio this week to read a few of his poems, and to talk with Dale Hobson about what makes a good story, and what makes a good poem. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11147/20071025/giving-voice-john-berbrich">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Three Adirondack Poets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 27, 2007) Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe and Mary Sanders Shartle come together from their respective parts of the Adirondacks to make poetry within a tradition of Adirondack women writers that is old as the hills. Their collaborative chapbooks, Notes From the Fire Tower and Glacial Erratica have won the Adirondack Center for Writing’s award for Best Book of Poetry two years running. Dale Hobson talks with the authors about their work and their traditions at Marilyn McCabe’s get-a-way along Clifford Brook in the Town of Keene. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11146/20070927/giving-voice-three-adirondack-poets">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: SLAP poets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 26, 2007) It was a sweltering night in the Fields coffeehouse in Potsdam, with a loud buzz of traffic, fans, ice-grinders and table talk competing for the microphone—but that didn’t deter folks from coming out to hear a group reading by members of SLAP, the St. Lawrence Area Poets. Dale Hobson sat down with SLAP member JeanMarie Martello to find out more about the new writers’ group. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11145/20070726/giving-voice-slap-poets">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice podcast: Downstream into Stone Valley</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 28, 2007) Rather than find someone to talk to on the topic of poetry and the outdoors, Dale Hobson decided to actually go outdoors and to write himself a new poem. In this Giving Voice we follow Dale downstream into Stone Valley in the Town of Colton. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9691/20070628/giving-voice-podcast-downstream-into-stone-valley">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice podcast: Maurice Kenny on Ray Fadden</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 31, 2007) Poets are often asked “Where do you find your inspiration?” Sometimes the answer is a person—a mentor or teacher whose words and example are life-changing. In this Giving Voice, we hear poet Maurice Kenny talk about the century-old Mohawk elder, teacher, storyteller, activist and naturalist Ray Fadden, and hear a few of the poems he inspired. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9692/20070531/giving-voice-podcast-maurice-kenny-on-ray-fadden">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Live poetry jam on Open Studio</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 27, 2007) This Giving Voice segment was recorded live before a studio audience in the Winston Room of the St. Lawrence University Student Center in Canton NY. Host Dale Hobson leads a poetry jam with readings by poets Robert Strong, Helen Condon, Peggy Mooers, Mary Beth Kikel, and Jacalyn Gniewek. The theme is poetry about the arts and the creative process. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9171/20070427/giving-voice-live-poetry-jam-on-open-studio">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Rev. Max Coots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 3, 2007) There’s a long tradition in English literature of preachers who are also poets. Our guest on Giving Voice, the Rev. Max Coots of Canton, is a fine example of the type. His well-crafted sermons are collected in the volume Leaning Against the Wind, and his meditative poetry can be found in Seasons of the Self, and View From a Tree. Unlike many writers—who come to poetry early, and carry on throughout life—Coots’ poetry grew out of his experience in ministry. And on retirement, his creative spirit moved on to other outlets. He talked with Dale Hobson about how poetry came into his life, and how it went out again. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8965/20070403/giving-voice-rev-max-coots">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Poetry for Peace at SLU</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 22, 2007) There has been poetry of war through all of history, celebrating glory, valor and conquest, sanctifying the sacrificed. But as modern warfare has become more mechanized and indiscriminate, modern poets have increasingly turned their pens toward themes of peace. At St. Lawrence University, poets, readers and listeners—both town and gown—gather monthly before a fireplace in huge overstuffed chairs to share their own work—or anything else that has caught their ear. While some in February’s gathering touched on the politics of the current war, Dale Hobson was struck by how broad the landscape of peace becomes, when filtered through poetic imagination. The next Poetry for Peace reading takes place March 7, at 4:30 pm, in the Winston Room of the Student Center at St. Lawrence University. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8800/20070222/giving-voice-poetry-for-peace-at-slu">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Country Music, Allen Hoey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 25, 2007) Poet Allen Hoey left the region many years ago, but in his new collection, Country Music, he revisits his old North Country stomping grounds. He talks with Dale Hobson about remembered landscapes, and about writing and health. Allen Hoey&apos;s book, Country Music, is the next selection in NCPR&apos;s Books by Email serial. A few words of strong language are used in one poem. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8799/20070125/giving-voice-country-music-allen-hoey">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: Irate Primates</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 19, 2007) Hip-hop is the current hot spot in the melting pot of American culture, where art forms collide. Poetry, beats, music, found sound—it all comes together for Dominic Pirozzi and Carlos Moses, the duo Irate Primates. Jill Breit talked to them following their UpNorth Music recording session in Malone. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8599/20070119/giving-voice-irate-primates">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: How to do a poetry reading</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 18, 2006) To the extent that poets can be said to have work to be going off to, a main part of the job description is public performance. It’s a curious kind of show biz—“the poe-biz” as one of tonight’s guests calls it. Dale Hobson decided to talk with some area poets to get their best advice on how to do the deed. Participants in this master class are Duriel Harris and Albert Glover of St. Lawrence University, Robert Strong from SUNY Canton, Joe Duemer from Clarkson University, and Maurice Kenny from SUNY Potsdam. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8448/20061218/giving-voice-how-to-do-a-poetry-reading">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>Giving Voice: Making The Magic Wood</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 31, 2006) On this edition of Giving Voice, we hear from composer Peter Schickele, host of the public radio program Schickele Mix, talking about his music for Baptism, an album of poems he recorded with Joan Baez in 1968. His setting for the Henry Treece poem “The Magic Wood,” has a marvelously spooky flavor, perfect for the Halloween season. Dale Hobson asks the composer to pull back the curtain a little, and tell us how to make music “creepy.” Our thanks to Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group company, for permission to use Joan Baez&apos;s recording of &quot;The Magic Wood&quot; from Baptism in the Giving Voice podcast. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8234/20061031/giving-voice-making-the-magic-wood">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Giving Voice: On the River: poetry and visual art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 4, 2006) The connection between poets and musicians goes back to the roots of both art forms, but for almost as long, poets and visual artists have also found inspiration in each other’s work. Dale Hobson talks with Clayton wood engraver, Greg Lago, and Potsdam printer, Jim Benvenuto, about the creation of On the River, a suite of prints celebrating the St. Lawrence River in all its seasons. Dale reads the Fall poem from the collection, &quot;The Poachers,&quot; and the Winter selection, &quot;Ice.&quot; Thanks to Chris Turner for the roadhouse harmonica solo, recorded live at the Red Tavern in St. Regis Falls. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/8091/20061004/giving-voice-on-the-river-poetry-and-visual-art">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>Giving Voice: Poet Duriel Harris</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 5, 2006) Poet Duriel Harris teaches at St. Lawrence University in Canton NY, and is one of many artists exploring &quot;do-it-yourself&quot; studio technology as a way to deepen the impact of her work. In this edition of Giving Voice she creates richly-textured soundscapes of music, sampled sound, and vocal effects to amplify the power of her words. She characterizes her work as po-mo funk, po-mo for post-modern, and funk for-–well—funk. We’ll listen to two of her studio compositions, “Living Body,” from her collection Drag, and “Self Portrait at the Millennium,” as well as a sample from a live performance. Host Dale Hobson talks with the poet about working in new media, and about working in collaboration. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7955/20060905/giving-voice-poet-duriel-harris">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>Giving Voice: &quot;Voices in the Mountains&quot; Concert</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 27, 2006) The poetry of the young often has a direct and sincere simplicity that lends itself to musical arrangement. In this edition of “Giving Voice,” Todd Moe talks with young poets and professional musicians at a special concert in Saranac Lake. The Gregg Smith Singers perform choral arrangements of “I Wonder,” “Dreaming,” and “First Love”—poems by three of the winners in the Great Adirondack Young People’s Poetry Contest. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7779/20060727/giving-voice-quot-voices-in-the-mountains-quot-concert">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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