Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

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Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast episodes

October 16, 2014 Justin Martin, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists -- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan -- rightly considered America' original Bohemians. Besides a young Walt Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and the brazen Adah Menken, who achieved worldwide fame for her "Naked Lady" routine. Author Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture -- imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon -- seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day.
Justin Martin is the author of three previous books, most recently Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Recorded On: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
49 min
October 16, 2014 Justin Martin, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists -- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan -- rightly considered America' original Bohemians. Besides a young Walt Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and the brazen Adah Menken, who achieved worldwide fame for her "Naked Lady" routine. Author Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture -- imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon -- seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day.Justin Martin is the author of three previous books, most recently Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted.
49 min
October 14, 2014 Joseph Chamberlin, A Doctor Dies and Other Stories
An eclectic collection of 16 short stories whose characters build a world of ordinary heroes, held together by a common thread -- loss. But amid all this loss, there's humor and hope.
Joseph Chamberlin is the author of Our Father Frank. He is a professional mediator, working internationally with nonprofit organizations and businessses to develop constructive work relationships.
Recorded On: Thursday, October 9, 2014
54 min
October 14, 2014 Joseph Chamberlin, A Doctor Dies and Other Stories
An eclectic collection of 16 short stories whose characters build a world of ordinary heroes, held together by a common thread -- loss. But amid all this loss, there's humor and hope.Joseph Chamberlin is the author of Our Father Frank. He is a professional mediator, working internationally with nonprofit organizations and businessses to develop constructive work relationships.
54 min
October 09, 2014 Poetry & Conversation: Julia Wendell, Melanie McCabe, & Shelley Puhak
Julia Wendell's new poetry chapbook is Take This Spoon (Main Street Rag, 2014). Her previous publications include The Sorry Flowers (WordTech Editions, 2009), Dark Track (WordTech Editions, 2005), Wheeler Lane (Igneus Press, 1998), and An Otherwise Perfect History (Ithaca House Press, 1988), as well as the chapbooks Restalrig (Finishing Line Press, 2007), Scared Money Never Wins (Finishing Line Press, 2004), and Fires at Yellowstone (Bacchae Press, 1993). An equestrian athlete and owner of a horse farm, Wendell also authored Finding My Distance: a Year in the Life of a Three-Day Event Rider (Galileo Books, 2009),a book that is part memoir, part poetry collection. She has received Yaddo Colony and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowships.
Melanie McCabe is a high school English and creative writing teacher in Arlington, Virginia. Her second book of poems, What The Neighbors Know, was published in 2014 by FutureCycle Press. Her first book, History of the Body, was published by David Robert Books in 2012. Her poems have appeared on Poetry Daily, as well as in Best New Poets 2010, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, Bellingham Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and numerous other journals. Her work also appears in the latest editions of Bedford/St. Martin’s Poetry: An Introduction and The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing.
Shelley Puhak is the author of Guinevere in Baltimore, selected by Charles Simic for the Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser, 2013). Her first collection, Stalin in Aruba, was awarded the Towson Prize for Literature. Puhak’s poems have appeared in many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, FIELD, Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter. Puhak is the Eichner Professor of Writing at Notre Dame of Maryland University.
Read poems by Julia Wendell here and here.
Read poems by Melanie McCabe here and here.
Read poems by Shelley Puhak here.
Recorded On: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
1 hr 10 min
October 09, 2014 Poetry & Conversation: Julia Wendell, Melanie McCabe, & Shelley Puhak
Julia Wendell's new poetry chapbook is Take This Spoon (Main Street Rag, 2014). Her previous publications include The Sorry Flowers (WordTech Editions, 2009), Dark Track (WordTech Editions, 2005), Wheeler Lane (Igneus Press, 1998), and An Otherwise Perfect History (Ithaca House Press, 1988), as well as the chapbooks Restalrig (Finishing Line Press, 2007), Scared Money Never Wins (Finishing Line Press, 2004), and Fires at Yellowstone (Bacchae Press, 1993). An equestrian athlete and owner of a horse farm, Wendell also authored Finding My Distance: a Year in the Life of a Three-Day Event Rider (Galileo Books, 2009),a book that is part memoir, part poetry collection. She has received Yaddo Colony and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowships.Melanie McCabe is a high school English and creative writing teacher in Arlington, Virginia. Her second book of poems, What The Neighbors Know, was published in 2014 by FutureCycle Press. Her first book, History of the Body, was published by David Robert Books in 2012. Her poems have appeared on Poetry Daily, as well as in Best New Poets 2010, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, Bellingham Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and numerous other journals. Her work also appears in the latest editions of Bedford/St. Martin’s Poetry: An Introduction and The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing.Shelley Puhak is the author of Guinevere in Baltimore, selected by Charles Simic for the Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser, 2013). Her first collection, Stalin in Aruba, was awarded the Towson Prize for Literature. Puhak’s poems have appeared in many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, FIELD, Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter. Puhak is the Eichner Professor of Writing at Notre Dame of Maryland University.Read poems by Julia Wendell here and here.Read poems by Melanie McCabe here and here.Read poems by Shelley Puhak here.
1 hr 10 min
October 08, 2014 Michael Ross, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Michael Ross offers the first full account of the June 1870 abduction of seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby, an incident that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations.
Mollie was kidnapped from in front of her home in New Orleans. This was at the height of the Reconstruction, and race tensions were high. Nervous white residents fearing impending chaos pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe now that slavery had ended and the South had been "Africanized." The case was sensationalized in papers across the country, and Afro-Creole detective Jean Baptiste Jourdain became the first black detective to make national news.
Michael Ross is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and the author of the prize-winning Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era.
Recorded On: Tuesday, October 7, 2014
47 min
October 08, 2014 Michael Ross, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Michael Ross offers the first full account of the June 1870 abduction of seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby, an incident that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations.Mollie was kidnapped from in front of her home in New Orleans. This was at the height of the Reconstruction, and race tensions were high. Nervous white residents fearing impending chaos pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe now that slavery had ended and the South had been "Africanized." The case was sensationalized in papers across the country, and Afro-Creole detective Jean Baptiste Jourdain became the first black detective to make national news.Michael Ross is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and the author of the prize-winning Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era.
47 min
October 07, 2014 Talking About Race: Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
Race, more than any other demographic factor, determines levels of individual educational achievement, health and life expectancy, possibility of incarceration, and wealth in the United States. And we need to talk about it.
Join us for a screening of Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity and a community dialogue with filmmaker and racial justice educator Shakti Butler.
Recorded On: Monday, October 6, 2014
2 hr
October 07, 2014 Talking About Race: Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
Race, more than any other demographic factor, determines levels of individual educational achievement, health and life expectancy, possibility of incarceration, and wealth in the United States. And we need to talk about it.Join us for a screening of Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity and a community dialogue with filmmaker and racial justice educator Shakti Butler.
2 hr

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