East End Ink

Tonight, we present author Joe Dolce talking about his book, Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis published by Harper Collins in October, 2016. Dolce spoke last November at Canios Books, Sag Harbor. Here is Kathryn Szoka of Canios to introduce the program:   listen here:

East End Ink presents Irish–born actress Kate Mueth, Southampton Press Executive Editor Joseph Shaw and East End Beacon Editor Beth Young in Bloomsday , a tribute to James Joyce’s Ulysses.  The program was recorded June 16, 2016 at Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor.   Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of its hero, Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, June 16, 1904.  That date is celebrated every year around the world with readings from the book. It was celebrated last June in Sag Harbor at Canios Books.    We couldn’t wait for another June to bring it to you.  Listen here The program was edited for broadcast.   A complete version of Ms. Mueth's readin g   is  here .

This is East End Ink              T onight we present nine east end poets recorded in August 2016 at the Poetry Marathon in Amagansett. Last summer’s Marathon was dedicated to Sylvia Chavkin and Bebe Antell who organized the marathon for 22 years at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum.  The 2016 event was organized by Springs poet Dee Slavutin. The readers were: Carol Stone, Jo Carney, Rosalind Brenner, Walter Donway, Pauline Yeats,  Virginia Walker, Daniel Hayes, Michelle Murphy, and Dee Slavutin. Listen here : Here is more information from the East Hampton Star Next Wednesday March 29 we present Bloomsday 2016 with actress Kate Mueth, journalists Beth Young ( East EndBeacon ) and Joseph Shaw ( Southampton Press ). 

Here are some short audio segments celebrating Black History and Culture.  They are part of WPKN Radio's celebration of Black History Month.   Mo st were r ecorded at Canio's Books and the John Jermain Library in Sag Harbor: Listen here:  1: JoAnne Carter reads Langston Hughes - recorded Feb 2012    2: Mikhal Gohring - the life and work of Etheridge Knight  3: Zohra Neale Hurston and Etheridge Knight     4: Sag Harbor Poets Beverly Wiggins-Wells and Barbara Whitehead Brewster        5: Bob Zellner - A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement: Family History     6: Alice Walker reads Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman" Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States - introduced by the late historian Howard Zinn.    7: James Baldwin - The Price of The Ticket produced by California Newsreel 8: Yale Historian David Blight on Fredrick Douglass ...

Star Black and Rosalind Brenner, two poets who are also visual artists, read their work.   Recorded at Canios Cultural Café in Sag Harbor in April 2012.  Ms. Brenner’s work includes:  All That’s Left: Poems and Paintings published by Art House Press  and  Omega’s Garden , a compendium of women’s voices from Finishing Line Press   Star Black’s collection “ Veliety’s Shade ” . was published by Saturnalia Books.  listen here Listen to earlier East End Ink program podcasts at:  https://soundcloud.com/wpkn895/sets/east-end-ink-on-wpkn

On Sunday January 15  writers   across the U.S. gathered to speak out in a program called Writers Resist At the Southampton Campus of Stony Brook University on Long Island 12 area writers read their work and the work of others  in a program  organized by the poet and teacher Julie Sheehan. the readers and their readings were: Part 1   Listen here:  Roger Rosenblatt:   Don't Love Thy Neighbor              Listen here:  Adrienne Unger:   Impounded - Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images  of Japanese-American Internment and her poem Impounded Listen here:  Ursala Hegi :  Michelle Obama's advice and excerpt from her work Stones from the River     Listen here:  Afua Ansong :    poems by Lucille Clifton and her own  Listen here:   Megan and Scott Chaskey : writings by Oren Lyons, Native-American Faithkeeper,  Robert Kenned...

"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.