East End Ink

Listen here In his new book Let Us Dream , Pope Francis describes a vision of a more just society, and environmentally, post-pandemic. Professor Thomas Petriano, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at   St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue examines the Pope’s work in a talk recorded by Canios Books, Sag Harbor in March 2021. Pope Francis’ book Let Us Dream – a vision of a just society post pandemic  was written in collaboration with the Pope’s biographer, Austen Ivereigh.             It was published by Simon and Shuster In December, 2020.

We present Jim Marquardt reading from his book   True Stories of Old Sag Harbor: Whaling Adventures, Indians and Colonists, Wars, Shipwrecks, Writers and Artists Recorded in December 2018 at Sag Harbor's Canios Books.  The book was published by Harbor Electronic Publishing in December 2018.  Listen here

We present three poets from publisher 4 Way Books . They were presented virtually by Canio’s Cultural Café of Sag Harbor in February of 2021. The poets are Andrea Cohen , Rodney Terich Leonard and Angela Narciso Torres . Their books are Everything , Sweetgum & Lightning , and What Happens is Neither Listen here the complete recording will be available here  ----------------------------------------------------- note: east end ink was first broadcast in 2008 on wpkn radio.   Podcasts of earlier programs are here  

We celebrate Black History Month with the work of African and African-American Writers read by members of the Sag Harbor community. The annual Read-In is sponsored by the Black Caucus of The National Council of Teachers of English. It was produced by the John Jermain Library, the Eastville Community Historical Society and Canios Books all of Sag Harbor. The readers are Catherine Creedon director of the John Jermaine Library, Sag Harbor artist Michael Butler, Gloria Brown and Nancy Meyers. Heard are an African folk tale "If People Could Fly", and “ Talking Drums, a Selection of Poems From Africa South of the Sahara, James Baldwin’s “ Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation ”, from The Fire Next Time . and Let America be America Again by poet Langston Hughes. Listen here More: Jacqueline Marks reads a portion of the short story Sweat (1926) by Zora Neale Hurston Listen here  

W e present poet, and creative consultant, Pauline Yeats, reading Burnt Norton, the first of the Four Quartets by  T S Eliot. Eliot’s Four Quartets were written from 1935 to 1942, during Hitler’s rise and Word War Two. This was the first of four programs presented this month by the East Hampton, New York library listen here: East End Ink - 27 January - T.S. Eliot - Quartet 1 - Burnt Norton Videos courtesy the East Hampton Library: Thanks to the Library's Steven Dino Spataro Quartet 1: Burnt Norton Quartet 2: East Coker Quartet 3 Dry Salvages Quartet 4 ... coming soon  

  We present poets Grace Schulman and Jill Bialosky recorded by Sag Harbor's Canios Books.   Grace Schulman started by reading a poem by Emily Dickinson   and she read from her latest collection "The Marble Bed"    Next - Jill Bialosky reads from her poetry collection "Asylum" and also a poem by Emily Dickinson listen here (revised) The poets read their work and discussed each others work in the complete recording - to be posted here soon. Grace Schulman's collection "The Marble Bed" was published by Turtle Point Press in 2020. Ms. Schulman is the editor of Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty published in 2019 by New Directions.   Grace Schulman’s earlier work includes the poetry collections Without a Claim - 2013, The Broken String – 2007, and a work of criticism "Maryann Moore: The Poetry of Engagement"- 1986   Jill Bialosky's   "Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sec...