East End Ink

"Easter 1916" W B Yeats' poem about the 1916 Rising, plus a tribute to James Connolly and other fallen soldiers of the defeated Irish rebellion.   Heard are Scott Chaskey, Kevin Coffey, Richard Lawless, Rob and Dylan Cleary - reading the Proclamation, and Terrance Sullivan with a song about the ris ing. Recorded in April 2016 at Canios Books, Sag Harbor. Listen here   Upcoming events on Irish History: Monday, December 5 at 6:30 p.m. a film screening of Michael Collins, first in a Canio’s Cinema Series on Irish History at the Hampton Library, 2478 Main St. Bridgehampton : Friday, December 9 at 6 p.m. A discussion of the film Michael Collins , led by Irish history buff, Richard Lawless, at Canios Books, 290 Main St. Sag Harbor.  

New Yorker copy editors Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris spoke about their work at Canios Books in Sag Harbor in September this year. An n Goldstein is the head of the editorial department at The New Yorker.  She is also known as the translator of Italian writers in cluding novelist E lena Ferrante and novelist and poet Primo Levi. Mary Norris is the author of the recent book Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. Listen here Ann Goldstein’s translations of the novels of Elena Ferrante including The Days of Abandonment, TheStory of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Lost Child were published by Europa. Mary Norris’ book Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen was published by W.W. Norton 

Literary critic and translator Daniel Mendelsohn presents the work of the Alexandrian Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.  This program was recorded in August 2012 at Canios Books, Sag Harbor. Daniel Mendelsohn was introduced by Canio’s Maryann Callendrille.  listen here   Daniel Mendelsohn’s work of translation: C. P. Cavafy: Complete Poems was published by Knopf in 2012. His other work includes: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million from Harper Collins, in 2013 and Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture , from New York Review of Books in 2012  

Cartoonist, playwright, illustrator and novelist Jules Feiffer talks about his work and writing his latest graphic novel, “Cousin Joseph”, set in the 1930s, but really about today. listen here More from Jules Feiffer: Jules Feiffer talked about his career and read from his work, collected in Out of Line , at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor in June 2015 .   listen here  

On May 21, 2016 Canios Cultural Cafe in Sag Harbor presented a marathon community reading of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass .  Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, Huntington Town, Long Island in May 1819. Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, and revised it several times before his death, in Camden, New Jersey in 1892.  W e present portions of the 8 hour reading from the so-called Deathbed version published in 1892. Part 1: The readers are Canio Pavone, Julie Sheehan, Karen Campbell, Sigrid Meinel and Jeanne Merkel.   Listen here:    Part 2:  Th e selections are from S on g of The Open R oad, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Europe, Drum Taps, and the final sections. The readers are Ellen Wright, Paul Battista, Davi d Margolick, Kathy Engel, Christine Morro and Scott Chaskey. Listen here:

We present Lorraine Dusky reading from Hole in My Heart ,  the story of her search for her daughter  15 years after giving her up for adoption,  their relationship, and Ms. Dusky's perspective on adoption. Ms Dusky spoke at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor in June 2015. She was introduced by friend and writer Kiana Davenport  Listen here   The full t alk introduced by Kathryn Szoka of Canio s Books (56 min) Listen here   Hole in My H eart was pu blished by Leto Media in 2015. A review by Evan Harris in the East Hampton Star is here Lorraine Dusky's previo us memoir Birthmark was published in 1979.  

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