East End Ink

Tonight, we present a celebration of women who made a difference. The program was recorded at Canios Book, Sag Harbor in March 2017. The speakers were Tippy Fortune, Barbara Moss, Gloria Primm Brown, Sigrid Meinel and Tinka Topping Listen here the complete program as recorded at Canio's will be posted here soon

We present the work of the late poet Bill Knott, read by poets Star Black and Bill Zavatsky and Maryann Calendrille of Canios Books in Sag Harbor, where the program was recorded in April, 2017. Here is Maryann Calendrille introducing the work. Listen here Star Black is a poet, photographer, and artist.  She has authored six collections of poetry and  currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony  Brook Southampton. Her most recent collection is Velleity's Shade    with art work by Bill Knott – (Saturnalia Books  2010) Bill Zavatsky, a Bridgeport native, is a poet,  journalist, jazz pianist,and translator. His most recent poetry collection is  Where X Marks the Spot , Hanging Loose Press, 2006 A complete recording of the Canio's reading is here "The collection of Bill Knott's work  I Am Flying into Mysel f, edited by the late poet  Thomas Lux, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017." We ...

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