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Archives - June 2007 to August 2008

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:19:20 -0400

Reading by Eric Lee and Steve Kistulentz at the Warehouse - August 5, 2008. Download Mp3

Reading by Bucky McMahon and Don Yeager at the Warehouse - July 15, 2008.
Bucky McMahon takes us to drug camp and Don Yeager takes us to Angola Prison with Warrick Dunn. Download Mp3

Reading by Ashley Harris and Samantha Levy at the Warehouse - July 8, 2008.
Ashley Harris takes us to rural Alabama for this hilarious tale, read in her south Alabama voice. Samantha Levy explores the currently relevant topic: polygamy. Hosts for the summer are Peter Kunze and Evan Peterson. Download Mp3

Kudzu Review Reading at the Warehouse - April 22, 2008.
Kudzu Review is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, written, edited and published yearly by English Department undergraduate students at Florida State University. This is a podcast of readings by some of the authors and staff of the 2008 Kudzu Review. Download Mp3

Reading by Scott Bailey and Peter Alvarez at the Warehouse - April 15, 2008.
A recent M.F.A. graduate from New York University, SCOTT BAILEY is pursuing his PhD in creative writing at Florida State University. He was a semi-finalist for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and a finalist for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He holds a M.A. in creative writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a contributing writer to the New York Quarterly. His poem ³Jail² has been nominated for the AWP Intro Award. His poem ³Why Should I Stand for Jesus² will be appearing in Harpur Palate as a Finalist for the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry.
PETE¹s the sexist, the realist, the most handsomest poet at FSU, the 2008 MVP of Poetry and co-founder of the Black Tarp Movement. Petey Pete a.k.a. Young Slimey a.k.a. Lyrical Chemist is about to blow up!!!!! No poet alive can kick Peter¹s ass and that¹s real. Download Mp3

Reading by Susan Finch and Brandy T. Wilson at the Warehouse - April 8, 2008.
A night of graduate student readings, featuring Brandy Wilson and Susan Finch. In fact, this is Brandy Wilson's--Doctor of Novels--farewell reading! She reads from her disertation novel The Palace Blues. Don't miss it! Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, SUSAN FINCH has an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. She is currently a PhD student at Florida State, where she is the Assistant Nonfiction Editor of The Southeast Review. Brandy T. Wilson received her PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University where she has twice received the George M. Harper Endowment Fund Award (once for an excerpt from the novel and once for critical essay "Lesbian Lingo in Context"). She was recently named as finalist in fiction for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award (for an excerpt from the novel) Brandy was awarded a work-study scholarship in fiction to attend the 2006, '07, and '08 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work is featured in Robert Olen Butler's From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (Grove Press) (short story "My Impossibles"), Feeling Our Way (Houghton Mifflin) (Essay cowritten with Rita Mae Reese, "We Teach Alone: The Lesbian Instructor in Academia's Lonely Groves"), GoNYC ("Ten in their 20s") and her essay "If She's A Boy, What Am I?" is forthcoming in Ninth Letter. Download Mp3

Reading by Stephen Dobyns at the Warehouse - April 1, 2008.
Stephen Dobyns was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1941. He graduated from Wayne State University and has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Dobyns has published ten books of poetry and twenty novels. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa and Boston University. Stephen Dobyns lives in Boston with his wife and three children. Download Mp3

Reading by Stephen Mills and Evan J. Peterson at the Warehouse - March 25, 2008. Download Mp3

WVFS Voicebox Show This show aired March 19, 2008, and features readings by Lissette Gonzalez, Roger Turnau, and B Smith-Seetachitt with hosts Evan Peterson and Jackie Attaway. Download Mp3

Reading by Jeanne Leiby and Rick Campbell at the Warehouse - March 18, 2008. Download Mp3

Reading by Steve Kistulentz and Eric Lee at the Warehouse - February 26, 2008.
Steve K. places two bottles of Dos Equis and one bottle of water on the side table, raises the mic-arm about 18 inches, and lets loose some poetic meditations on the greats, including but not limited to Evil Knievel, David Lee Roth and Rick Springfield. Eric Lee opts only for something amber in a tall class, to accompany his thoughts on Southern roadside diners, New Orleans, and childhood friends. Don’t miss the break-up poem featuring Godzilla, and stuff you never knew about Ghengis Khan. Download Mp3

Reading by Mark Jarman at the Warehouse - February 12, 2008. Download Mp3

Reading by Hal Crowther and Lee Smith at the Warehouse - February 5, 2008.
What did Hal Crowther say to the couple he found fornicating in his lawn chair in Key West? Did he ever play a game of pick-up basketball with Michael Jordon? What did young Lee Smith write during her first forays into journalism to send her hometown into uproar? A fun and conversational evening you don’t want to miss! Download Mp3

Reading by Sharon Heiny and Aaron Moore at the Warehouse - January 29, 2008.
Sharon Heiny reads from her novel in progress, Downsizing, in which Joey must cope with the absence of her father, and discovers a predilection for certain types of body are.
Aaron Moore observes, ‘Our love has become a Hickory Farms gift set,’ in this selection of poems and the story, “Thunderstruck Road.” Download Mp3

Reading by Julianna Baggott at the Warehouse - January 22, 2008.
Julianna Baggot debuts for the first time at the Warehouse, her alter-ego N.E. Bode. And she heckles a child. Stay tuned for the equally entertaining adult portion of the program and poems that pack a wallop. Download Mp3

WVFS Voicebox Show This show aired January 16, 2008, and features readings by Aaron Moore, Brandy Wilson, Rebecca Pennell and Evan Peterson with host Nicholas Clark. Download Mp3

Reading by Karen Abbott and Joshilyn Jackson at the Warehouse - January 15, 2008. Download Mp3

Reading by Katie Burgess and Allen Keller at the Warehouse - December 4, 2007.
What’s it like to go to “shy people class?” Katie Burgess tells us in her AWP Intro Award nominated essay, “The Situation in Bosnia.” Allen Keller reads words hot off the press from his short story—or maybe novella—“The Well Witcher.” Download Mp3

Reading by Jennifer L. Knox at the Warehouse - November 27, 2007.
Jennifer L. Knox reads works old and new…including the fan-club inspiring “Chicken Bucket.” Download Mp3

Writers Harvest with Barry Hannah - November 13, 2007. Download Mp3

Reading by Lynn Aarti Chandhok and Jane Springer at the Warehouse - November 6, 2007. Download Mp3

Reading by Valerie Wetlaufer and Dustin Atkinson at the Warehouse - October 23, 2007. Download Mp3

Reading by Enid Shomer at the Warehouse - October 16, 2007. An older woman finds she is growing younger by the day when Enid Shomer reads "Laws of Nature" from her recent collection of short stories Tourist Season. Download Mp3

Benefit for The Southeast Review at the Warehouse - October 9, 2007
Anecdotes, excerpts and interviews as Mark Winegardner, Barbara Hamby, and Robert Olen Butler take the stage to share their thoughts on the writing life. Moderated by Julianna Baggott. Download Mp3

Reading by Susan Vreeland at the Warehouse - October 2, 2007. Susan Vreeland discusses and reads excerpts from her work Luncheon of the Boating Party. A collection of short stories inspired by the works and lives of such artists as Monet, Cezanne, and Renoir. Download Mp3

Reading by Rose Bunch and Kara Candito at the Warehouse - September 25, 2007. Rose Bunch received an honorable mention from the Atlantic Review Non-fiction Contest for this haunting tale of…a haunting. It will make you believe in ghosts. Kara Candito reads poetry ranging from a "contemporary teen lesbian epic love poem set as a western" to work inspired by Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale. Download Mp3

Reading by B Smith-Seetachitt and Frank Giampietro at the Warehouse - September 18, 2007
At the end of this reading, you'll know that B doesn't like spiders, and you'll know that Frank…let's just say you'll know a few things about Frank--and also little too much about the dude with the lawn chair and the hand lotion. Download Mp3

Reading by Peter Meinke at the Warehouse - September 11, 2007
Poems, "Left Wing Poems," and a story of a man who dreams he is a murderer, and wakes to wonder if perhaps he is a murderer who has dreamt he was dreaming. Download Mp3

Reading by David Kirby, our own James Brown, at the Warehouse - September 4, 2007
Mysteries, duende, a dog with a lampshade around its neck, an older man looking in a window to see his younger self in despair over the illness of his infant son, and more things "tragic yet beautiful about life." Download Mp3

Reading by Rebecca Lehmann and Forrest Anderson at the Warehouse - July 7, 2007
Take Rebecca Lehmann's tour of her poetry collection, Maison, and stick around for an explosive ending to Forrest Anderson's short story "A Dying Breed." Download Mp3

Reading by Julianna Baggott at the Warehouse - June 26, 2007
Death lurks all around us, in many guises. A young Julianna and her mother avoid a brush with potentially fatal grocery store mop bucket only to face more dangers at home, in this hilarious and touching excerpt from a work-in-progress. Download Mp3

The Warehouse Reading Series -- Season 3

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:17:59 -0400

These weekly readings arranged by the FSU English Department feature graduate students as well as a diverse and distinguished group of visiting writers. All readings are held at the Warehouse (706 W. Gaines) at 8:00 p.m.

Reading by Eric Lee and Steve Kistulentz at the Warehouse - August 5, 2008.

Reading by Bucky McMahon and Don Yeager at the Warehouse - July 15, 2008.
Bucky McMahon takes us to drug camp and Don Yeager takes us to Angola Prison with Warrick Dunn.

Reading by Ashley Harris and Samantha Levy at the Warehouse - July 8, 2008.
Ashley Harris takes us to rural Alabama for this hilarious tale, read in her south Alabama voice. Samantha Levy explores the currently relevant topic: polygamy. Hosts for the summer are Peter Kunze and Evan Peterson.

Kudzu Review Reading at the Warehouse - April 22, 2008.
Kudzu Review is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, written, edited and published yearly by English Department undergraduate students at Florida State University. This is a podcast of readings by some of the authors and staff of the 2008 Kudzu Review.

Reading by Scott Bailey and Peter Alvarez at the Warehouse - April 15, 2008.
A recent M.F.A. graduate from New York University, SCOTT BAILEY is pursuing his PhD in creative writing at Florida State University. He was a semi-finalist for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and a finalist for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He holds a M.A. in creative writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a contributing writer to the New York Quarterly. His poem ³Jail² has been nominated for the AWP Intro Award. His poem ³Why Should I Stand for Jesus² will be appearing in Harpur Palate as a Finalist for the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry.
PETE¹s the sexist, the realist, the most handsomest poet at FSU, the 2008 MVP of Poetry and co-founder of the Black Tarp Movement. Petey Pete a.k.a. Young Slimey a.k.a. Lyrical Chemist is about to blow up!!!!! No poet alive can kick Peter¹s ass and that¹s real.

Reading by Susan Finch and Brandy T. Wilson at the Warehouse - April 8, 2008.
A night of graduate student readings, featuring Brandy Wilson and Susan Finch. In fact, this is Brandy Wilson's--Doctor of Novels--farewell reading! She reads from her disertation novel The Palace Blues. Don't miss it! Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, SUSAN FINCH has an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. She is currently a PhD student at Florida State, where she is the Assistant Nonfiction Editor of The Southeast Review. Brandy T. Wilson received her PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University where she has twice received the George M. Harper Endowment Fund Award (once for an excerpt from the novel and once for critical essay "Lesbian Lingo in Context"). She was recently named as finalist in fiction for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award (for an excerpt from the novel) Brandy was awarded a work-study scholarship in fiction to attend the 2006, '07, and '08 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work is featured in Robert Olen Butler's From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (Grove Press) (short story "My Impossibles"), Feeling Our Way (Houghton Mifflin) (Essay cowritten with Rita Mae Reese, "We Teach Alone: The Lesbian Instructor in Academia's Lonely Groves"), GoNYC ("Ten in their 20s") and her essay "If She's A Boy, What Am I?" is forthcoming in Ninth Letter.

Reading by Stephen Dobyns at the Warehouse - April 1, 2008.
Stephen Dobyns was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1941. He graduated from Wayne State University and has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Dobyns has published ten books of poetry and twenty novels. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa and Boston University. Stephen Dobyns lives in Boston with his wife and three children.

Reading by Stephen Mills and Evan J. Peterson at the Warehouse - March 25, 2008.

WVFS Voicebox Show This show aired March 19, 2008, and features readings by Lissette Gonzalez, Roger Turnau, and B Smith-Seetachitt with hosts Evan Peterson and Jackie Attaway.

Reading by Jeanne Leiby and Rick Campbell at the Warehouse - March 18, 2008.

Reading by Steve Kistulentz and Eric Lee at the Warehouse - February 26, 2008.
Steve K. places two bottles of Dos Equis and one bottle of water on the side table, raises the mic-arm about 18 inches, and lets loose some poetic meditations on the greats, including but not limited to Evil Knievel, David Lee Roth and Rick Springfield. Eric Lee opts only for something amber in a tall class, to accompany his thoughts on Southern roadside diners, New Orleans, and childhood friends. Don’t miss the break-up poem featuring Godzilla, and stuff you never knew about Ghengis Khan.

Reading by Mark Jarman at the Warehouse - February 12, 2008.

Reading by Hal Crowther and Lee Smith at the Warehouse - February 5, 2008.
What did Hal Crowther say to the couple he found fornicating in his lawn chair in Key West? Did he ever play a game of pick-up basketball with Michael Jordon? What did young Lee Smith write during her first forays into journalism to send her hometown into uproar? A fun and conversational evening you don’t want to miss!

Reading by Sharon Heiny and Aaron Moore at the Warehouse - January 29, 2008.
Sharon Heiny reads from her novel in progress, Downsizing, in which Joey must cope with the absence of her father, and discovers a predilection for certain types of body are.
Aaron Moore observes, ‘Our love has become a Hickory Farms gift set,’ in this selection of poems and the story, “Thunderstruck Road.”

Reading by Julianna Baggott at the Warehouse - January 22, 2008.
Julianna Baggot debuts for the first time at the Warehouse, her alter-ego N.E. Bode. And she heckles a child. Stay tuned for the equally entertaining adult portion of the program and poems that pack a wallop.

WVFS Voicebox Show This show aired January 16, 2008, and features readings by Aaron Moore, Brandy Wilson, Rebecca Pennell and Evan Peterson with host Nicholas Clark.

Reading by Karen Abbott and Joshilyn Jackson at the Warehouse - January 15, 2008.

Reading by Katie Burgess and Allen Keller at the Warehouse - December 4, 2007.
What’s it like to go to “shy people class?” Katie Burgess tells us in her AWP Intro Award nominated essay, “The Situation in Bosnia.” Allen Keller reads words hot off the press from his short story—or maybe novella—“The Well Witcher.”

Reading by Jennifer L. Knox at the Warehouse - November 27, 2007.
Jennifer L. Knox reads works old and new…including the fan-club inspiring “Chicken Bucket.”

Writers Harvest with Barry Hannah - November 13, 2007.

Reading by Lynn Aarti Chandhok and Jane Springer at the Warehouse - November 6, 2007.

Reading by Valerie Wetlaufer and Dustin Atkinson at the Warehouse - October 23, 2007.
Reading by Enid Shomer at the Warehouse - October 16, 2007. An older woman finds she is growing younger by the day when Enid Shomer reads "Laws of Nature" from her recent collection of short stories Tourist Season.

Benefit for The Southeast Review at the Warehouse - October 9, 2007
Anecdotes, excerpts and interviews as Mark Winegardner, Barbara Hamby, and Robert Olen Butler take the stage to share their thoughts on the writing life. Moderated by Julianna Baggott.

Reading by Susan Vreeland at the Warehouse - October 2, 2007. Susan Vreeland discusses and reads excerpts from her work Luncheon of the Boating Party. A collection of short stories inspired by the works and lives of such artists as Monet, Cezanne, and Renoir.

Reading by Rose Bunch and Kara Candito at the Warehouse - September 25, 2007. Rose Bunch received an honorable mention from the Atlantic Review Non-fiction Contest for this haunting tale of…a haunting. It will make you believe in ghosts. Kara Candito reads poetry ranging from a "contemporary teen lesbian epic love poem set as a western" to work inspired by Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale.

Reading by B Smith-Seetachitt and Frank Giampietro at the Warehouse - September 18, 2007
At the end of this reading, you'll know that B doesn't like spiders, and you'll know that Frank…let's just say you'll know a few things about Frank--and also little too much about the dude with the lawn chair and the hand lotion.

Reading by Peter Meinke at the Warehouse - September 11, 2007
Poems, "Left Wing Poems," and a story of a man who dreams he is a murderer, and wakes to wonder if perhaps he is a murderer who has dreamt he was dreaming.

Reading by David Kirby, our own James Brown, at the Warehouse - September 4, 2007
Mysteries, duende, a dog with a lampshade around its neck, an older man looking in a window to see his younger self in despair over the illness of his infant son, and more things "tragic yet beautiful about life."

Reading by Rebecca Lehmann and Forrest Anderson at the Warehouse - July 7, 2007
Take Rebecca Lehmann's tour of her poetry collection, Maison, and stick around for an explosive ending to Forrest Anderson's short story "A Dying Breed."

Reading by Julianna Baggott at the Warehouse - June 26, 2007
Death lurks all around us, in many guises. A young Julianna and her mother avoid a brush with potentially fatal grocery store mop bucket only to face more dangers at home, in this hilarious and touching excerpt from a work-in-progress.