East End Ink

Poet, critic and novelist Carol Muske Dukes recorded in July 2010 at the Poetry Marathon held at the East Hampton Town Maritime Museum in Amagansett. Ms. Muske-Dukes is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and author of several collections of poetry including Sparrow from Random House in 2003 and Twin Cities   to be published by Penguin in June 2011. Carol Muske-Dukes’ novel Life After Death was published by Random House in 2003 .   She is a regular critic for the New York Times Book Review  and the  LA Times Book Review .  She is a former Poet Laureate of California. Here is Carol Muske-Dukes reading from her collections Sparrow and Twin Cities:    Listen here

Broadcast Date: December 29, 2010 Today we present the first part of a marathon reading of the poetry of Emily Dickinson conducted at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, New York this past spring.   Emily Dickinson was born in December,1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts.  As an adult she lived in virtual seclusion and died in Amherst in May of 1886.   She started writing poetry as a teenager but her first surviving poem is from 1850.  In today’s program we hear poems written in the 1850s and included in The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition edited by Ralph W. Franklin ( The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1999) ,  Franklin was the Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.   The readers are all from the Bridgehampton area and include poets, a farmer, librarians, a public official, a photographer and bookseller and other lovers of literature.   The marathon reading lasted most of a day....

 Broadcast December 22 at 6:30pm:   "O. Henry's Christmas Gift" - A reading in the style of radio drama with Diana Heinlein and David Houston. Featured are "The Cop and the Anthem" and "The Gift of the Magi", stories by O. Henry, the late 19th / early 20th century short story writer. O. Henry was one of America's greatest story tellers. His final collection was published in the year of his death, 1910. Recorded this month at Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library. Thanks to Yvette Postelle and Penny Wright of the library. More info about David Houston's dramatic readings performed at schools and libraries can be found at www.davidhouston.net/ Listen Here East End Ink will return with an extra on December 29 at 6:30pm . Part 1 of a marathon reading of the poems of Emily Dickinson with local poets, politicos, farmers and friends reading.  Recorded at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton in April 2010.

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