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A podcast about the humanities on the Great Plains and beyond featuring interviews, stories, people, and places.
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Oct 27, 2019
Oct 27, 2019
1hr 13 min
In this episode, three women of color—Linda Garcia Merchant, Jamaica Baldwin, and Claire Jimenez—share creative work and offer context for that work before engaging in a frank conversation about being both transplants to Nebraska and graduate students. For this episode, Linda Garcia Merchant also served as a producer. The complete title of this episode is taken from the prologue to Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: “Woman forever. My body, a living representation of other life older longer wiser. The mountains and valleys, trees, rocks. Sand and flowers and water and stone. Made in earth.”
Music on this Episode by Shadows on a River
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
44 min
In this episode, Professor Matt Cohen talks with poet, digital humanitarian, and English undergraduate extraordinaire Bianca Swift.
Music for this episode by Shadows on a River.
Oct 13, 2019
Oct 13, 2019
33 min
Jennine Capó Crucet discusses her recently published collection of essays, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, with her colleague and fellow author Hope Wabuke. They discuss the writing process, collegiality, and how their lived experiences inform their writing.
Music for this podcast by Shadows on a River.
Oct 6, 2019
Oct 6, 2019
32 min
Chigozie Obioma's most recent novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, is a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes awarded to books written in the English language. In this episode, he sits down with Guy Reynolds to discuss the novel and how his personal experiences have shaped his writing.