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Poets Grace Schulman and Philip Schultz read from recent work. Recorded at Canios Books, Sag Harbor in August 2015.  Listen here (broad cast version)   Complete reading:  Philip Schultz introduced by Grace Schulman: Grace Schulman int rod uced by Philip Schultz: East End Ink Podcasts inc luding more readings by Grace Schulman and Philip Shultz are at http://soundcloud.com/wpkn895/sets/east-end-ink-on-wpkn

Today we present the poetry of the late Antje Katcher with Paul Genega and friends reading from her posthumous collection Catechism . Ms. Katcher was born in Kiel, Germany in 1948 and emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960’s.   She lived in New York and in East Hampton. She died in 2014.     Katcher worked as a financial analyst and translator, while continuing to write poetry.   She served as an editor at New York Quarterly.   She was active in poetry reading circles in New York and Long Island and she founded Three Mile Harbor Press , which published the work of area poets. Ms. Katcher was also a committed political activist who served as co-chair of the South Fork  chapter of the Long Island Progressive Coalition and she was a stalwart silent protester with East End Women in Black.  Catechi sm was edited by Paul Gane ga and published in 2015 by Three Mile Harbor Press.   This reading of Catechism was...

Carl Safina wrote: I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close.   This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Carl Safina talk ed about his latest book Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel at Canios Books, Sag Harbor.   He was introduced by Canio's Kathryn Szoka. Lis ten here Beyon d Words was published by Picador/ Macmillan in 2015   Carl Safina’s published work also includes:  A Sea in Flames - the Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout (Random House, 2011) The View from Lazy Point (Henry Holt, 2011) and Eye of the Albatross Henry Holt, 2002)  

The 21st annual Poetry Marathon at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum in Amagansett, New York was held on Sunday afternoons last summer.   In July 2015 playwright and poet Joe Pintauro read the work of the late Harvey Shapiro and his own work and India-born poet Meena Alexander read from her work.    Listen here: Playwright and poet Joe Pintauro was born in 1930 and died in May 2018.   Joe Pintauro is best known for his plays which include Raft of the Medusa , Heaven and Earth and Men’s Lives .   He received the 2005 John Steinbeck Literary Award. Mr. Pintauro read from A Momentary Glory: Last Poems by Harvey Shapiro published in 2014 by Wesleyan University Press.  Meena Alexander’s latest poetry collection Atmospheric Embroidery can be read at meenaalexander.com.  Her previous work includes Birthplace with Buried Stones - 2013  and Quickly Changing River - 2008, from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern U...

Tonight we present book critic Joan Baum with Go Set a Controversy, a talk about the two novels by Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set A Watchman  Joan Baum was recorded in February 2016 at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. Listen here

Tonight we dip into our archives to present Terry Sullivan, Sag Harbor's singing plumber, in a presentation of Irish history, song and poetry. Terry was recorded at Canio's Books, Sag Harbor in March 2008 and again in March 2009.    Listen here  

Each February The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor presents a  Read In of African American Literature in cooperation with Canios Books where our program is recorded.  Today's program reprises the February 2011 reading. It i ncludes a folk tale, the poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, and Etheridge Knight, an essay by James Baldwin and spirituals sung by local singers Terry Sullivan and Bill Chaleff.  The readers are Catherine Creedon, Carol Spencer, Mikal Gohring, and Pamela Kalamanis. Listen here Other East End Ink programs devoted to Black History include : "Lift Every Voice: Th e NAACP and the M aking of the Civil Rights Movement" Bob Moses on Education and Civil Rights   LISTEN HERE