East End Ink

East End Poetry Workshop members Carol Sherman reading from “San Miguel Sketches” and Jean Kemper Hoffmann reading from “Storm Warning” both recorded at Canio's Books, Sag Harbor was broadcast on November 24, 2010 on WPKN and wpkn.org. Carol Sherman lives in East Hampton,New York, where she is a founding member of the East End Poetry Workshop. Ms. Sherman spends her winters in the Spanish colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where she participates in the San Miguel Writers Conference. Jean Kemper Hoffmann's latest volume of poetry is "Storm Warning" (2010) published by Three Mile Harbor Press, East Hampton.  Ms. Kemper's work has appeared in the New York Times and Long Island Quarterly. She lives in East Hampton. She read her work at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor in June 2010. Listen here

Louis Begley talks about the Dreyfus affair, how the French justice system worked to bring back the Jewish Army officer, wrongly accused of treason from Devil's Island prison.  He makes comparisons with US prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.   Why The Dreyfus Affair Matters, Yale University Press, 2009 Recorded at Canio's Books, Sag Harbor in May of 2010. Listen here (29 min) A more complete version of Mr. Begley's talk is here (50 min) .

Zachary Lazar reads from his memoir about his father's murder.  (Little, Brown & Co, Nov. 2009) Recorded at Canio's Books in November 2009.  Mr. Lazar is introduced by Maryann Calendrille of Canio's. Listen Here

Kathy Engel and friends, Poets for Haiti , read from “For the Crowns of Your Heads”,  a book  to raise funds to re-build the Bibliotheque du Soleil in Port-Au-Prince. Information about how you can obtain a copy of the book and  help with this project is available at www .poetsforayiti.org Listen here

Pulitzer Prize Poet Philip Schultz reads from “The God of Loneliness:  Selected and New Poems" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Recorded at Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor   in April 2010.  Listen here  __________________________________________ Also listen to Philip Schultz interviewed by Francesca Rheannon on Writers Voice    Listen here __________________________________________ Also: Philip Schultz is the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Failure".  Mr. Schultz read from that work on a previous East End Ink program <- click here .  He read the title poem from The God of Loneliness and Failure on that broadcast. 

Today's program is dedicated to the memory of Allen Planz.  a poet, teacher and fisherman who died at age 73 on March 23.  Allen Planz who lived in Sag Harbor for many years is associated with the literary scene here. Planz was the poetry editor of The Nation from 1969 to 1973. Jack Graves wrote in the East Hampton Star in 1975: “The fit combination of poet and fisherman  is embodied in Allen Planz: his compact, well-muscled frame and gnarled hands speak of the fisherman, and the language — sometimes reeled up as a fish from the depths, and at other times staccato — speaks of the poet,”  To honor Allen Planz we have assembled a group of Long Island poets, whose work was recorded for East End Ink.  Heard are Allen Planz, Grace Shulman,  Philip Schultz, Shinnecock elder Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile reading Olivia Ward Bush-Banks's Morning at Shinnecock, George Wallace, Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan,  Ju...

  Herstory  March 24, 2010 Today we present work from Herstory : Erika Duncan’s memoir writing project for women. “The Teller in the Tale” Beth Heyn’s story about a half-Jewish child in Nazi Germany and “Love Song at the End of the Day: A Journey into Alzheimers” Muriel Weyl tells about life with her Alzheimer’s afflicted husband. Recorded in November 2009 at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor Listen here! _____________________________________________ Stephen F. Cohen: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives   January 27, 2010 New York University professor of Russian Studies and History, Stephen F. Cohen talks about the crisis in US-Russian relations and his book Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War (Columbia Univ. Press.)  Recorded at Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor in August, 2009 Listen here! _____________________________________________ East End Ink - December 23, 2009 Poet Mark Doty read...