East End Ink

East End Ink presents civil rights activist and educator Bob Moses in a talk about equality, race and education recorded in August 2009.  Although over 5 years have passed, themes of the talk such as voting rights and the need to fix the education system for minority children are still in the news. Moses, a leader of the 1960s struggle for racial equality, founded the Algebra Project that trains youth in the skills needed in the information age Bob Moses was field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee or SNCC in the 1960s. He was director of SNCC's Mississippi Project that organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.  That party challenged the Mississippi regulars at the 1964 Democratic Convention. From 1969 to 1976, he worked for the Ministry of Education in Tanzania, in East Africa, as chairperson of a school math department. After doctoral studies in Philosophy at Harvard he developed The Algebra Project which grew out of his w...

Civil rights worker Bob Zellner grew up in a Klan family in lower Alabama.   In The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement (New South Books, 2008),  he tells how he became a civil rights activist starting in his college days in Montgomery Alabama.  He later became a field secretary of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and  was beaten and arrested as he worked in the South.   Zellner eventually migrated to Southampton, New York where he taught at the former Southampton College of Long Island University.   He became active in the local NAACP branch and he defended members of the Shinnecock Nation as they protested the desecration of sacred land, for which he was arrested and injured by New York State Police. Bob Zellner spoke at Canios Books in October 2008, on the eve of the election that saw Barack Obama elected President. Bob Zellner was introduced by Canio's co-proprietor Kathryn Szok...

Today we present “A short talk on writing long” by the late novelist, poet and ad-man  Ed Hannibal.  The talk was recorded at Canios Books, Sag Harbor, in April, 2014. Ed Hannibal talked about his writing process and he read from  Chocalate Days Popsicle Weeks  published in 1971 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, A Trace of Red,  published by iUniverse in 2013,   a work in progress, and one of the series of "Feral Cat Poems" that appeared in the East Hampton Star. Canio’s Maryann Calendrille introduces Ed Hannibal: Listen here:

Today we present a reading of “Yabo”, a work of poetry and prose by Alexis De Veaux, a poet, playwright, short fiction writer, essayist and biographer.        She is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies  Emerita  at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The program was recorded at Canios Books, Sag Harbor in June 2014. Yabo was published in 2014 by Redbone Press. The readers are Ms. De Veaux, Ella Engel-Snow, and Kathy Engel who introduced the author. listen here

"The Cop and the Anthem" and "The Gift of the Magi", short stories by O. Henry, read in the style of radio drama with Diana Heinlein and David Houston. Recorded at Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library in December 2010. More info about David Houston's dramatic readings performed at schools and libraries can be found at www.davidhouston.net/ Listen here

Today we present poets Daniel Thomas Moran and Anne Sager.  They were recorded this past summer at the 20 th annual Poetry Marathon at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum in Amagansett, New York. Dr. Moran is a past Suffolk County, New York poet laureate.  He was also a Clinical Assistant Professor of General Dentistry at Boston University. Works by Daniel Thomas Moran include In Praise of August   (Canio’s Editions 1999),   From HiLo to Willow Pond   (Street Press   2002),  and The Book of Moran   (Asinine Poetry   2007) His latest collection is   A Shed for Wood , published this year by Salmon Poetry, County Clare, Ireland. The broadcast also includes Dr. Moran reading "Newtown" recorded by Salmon Poetry. Poet Anne Sager is also a photographer, whose work depicts a diverse world including migrant workers, Hamptons artists and the abstract quality of architecture. Poet Philip Appleman wrote “Anne Sager’s poems f...

Today we present Paul Greenberg talking about his book American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood  ( Penguin Press. ,   June, 2014)  .  Mr. Greenberg writes regularly for the New York Times and also contributes to National Geographic, Vogue, The Times of London and other publications.  He is a fellow of the Blue Ocean Institute. Paul Greenberg’s book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Penguin Press, 2010) . was a New York Times bestseller.. Mr. Greenberg spoke at Canios Books, Sag Harbor in July, 2014.    Listen here :