Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

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Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast episodes

February 20, 2013 Bernice L. McFadden and Courttia Newland
Two well-known authors read and talk about their
novels, newly published by Akashic Books.
Bernice McFadden's classic novel, Nowhere Is a Place,
isabout a young woman's journey of self-discovery and a road trip
with her mother, told from the young woman's and the mother's point of view.
McFadden is the author of eight novels including Sugar, Gathering of Waters,
and Glorious.
Courttia Newland's new novel, The Gospel
According to Cane, tells the story of a woman torn apart by the abduction
of her son and the dissolution of her marriage. Years later, once she has pieced
together what is left of her life, a young man claiming to be her son follows
her wherever she goes.Courttia Newland is the author of six novels including
Music for the Off-Key and A Book of Blues. He is coeditor of
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain.

Recorded On: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
1 hr 6 min
February 19, 2013 Shirley Sherrod
Shirley Sherrod, former U.S.D.A. Georgia State
Director of Rural Development, was fired from her job in July, 2010, after a
conservative blogger published clips from a speech she had made several months
earlier that were misconstrued as reverse racism. In her memoir, Sherrod shares
what it was like to be in the center of a very public debate and how growing up
in segregated Georgia during the Civil Rights movement helped prepare her for
the firestorm.
Shirley Sherrod lectures nationally on issues of importance
to middle class families, the poor and small communities. She promotes
empowerment strategies for economically and socially disadvantaged people and
runs educational projects for struggling farmers.
Marc Steiner of WEAA-FM
leads the conversation with Shirley Sherrod.

Recorded On: Sunday, February 17, 2013
1 hr 24 min
February 19, 2013 James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire
New York actor and editor Charles Reese brings famed American writer and civil
rights activist James Baldwin to life. Reese will perform selected excerpts
from the book which he edited, James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire.
Charles Reese is a professional performance artist, educator and
consultant in television, independent film and theater. He is currently a
series regular on the hit comedy web series, "WHO" (available on
www.ajakwetv.com).
www.JamesBaldwinASoulOnFire.com

Recorded On: Saturday, February 16, 2013
1 hr 30 min
February 13, 2013 Wenonah Hauter
Wenonah Hauter is executive director of Food &
Water Watch, a watchdog organization focused on corporate and government
accountability as it relates to food, water and fishing. She also runs an
organic family farm in northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to
more than 500 families in the Washington, DC area as part of the Community
Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
As one of the nation's leading
healthy food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not
enough to solve America's food crisis and the public health debacle it has
created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the massive
consolidation and corporate control of food production, which prevents farmers
from raising healthy crops and limits the choices that people can make in the
grocery store.
Recorded On: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
1 hr 3 min
February 13, 2013 Adam Robinson and Chris Mason
Adam Robinson is the author of Say
Poem and Adam Robison and Other Poems, which was nominated for
the Goodreads Choice Award. He is the founding editor of Publishing Genius, a
small press that focuses on poetry and experimental fiction, and he writes
about it for HTMLGIANT. On Twitter he is @pubgen.
Chris
Mason is a poet and a member of three bands, The Tinklers, Coocoo
Rockin Time, and Old Songs, the last of which translates archaic Greek poetry
and puts it to music. He is the author of three books of poetry: Hum Who
Hiccup, Click Poems, and Poems of a Doggy. A chapbook,
Where To From Out, is forthcoming.
Read poems by Adam Robinson
here and
here.
Read
poems by Chris Mason here
and here.

Recorded On: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
1 hr 8 min
February 07, 2013 Emily Raboteau
At twenty-three, Emily Raboteau traveled to Israel to visit a childhood friend who'd found a place to belong. As a biracial American woman, Raboteau couldn't say the same for herself. After meeting black Jews in Israel, she sought out other black communities that had left home in search of a Promised Land, from Africa to Jamaica to the American South. In Searching for Zion, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place and patriotism, displacement and dispossession, citizenship and country in an honest and brave take on the pull of the story of Exodus.
Emily Raboteau is an associate professor of English at City College of New York; the author of the novel, The Professor's Daughter; and a recent recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts award.

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
1 hr 8 min
February 07, 2013 PNC Bank Presents: How Baltimore Small Business Owners Are Facing a Challenging Economy
PNC Bank is making many efforts to provide small business owners and those interested in starting a small business with information on how to do so successfully.

This panel discussion was hosted by Ramsey Harris, Business Banker for PNC, interviewing Anthony McCarthy, Principal of McCarthy Group, Jessy Mejia, CEO Estragica, and Y. Maria Welch Martinez, CEO Respira Medical; all business owners represented are also associated with Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore.

The conversation is focused on current issues facing business owners doing business on both a local and national level. A discussion of the library's role in the business community is discussed as well.

Recorded On: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
1 hr 12 min
February 05, 2013 Ronald S. Coddington
A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. During the Civil War, 200,000 African American men enlisted in the Union army or navy. Some of them were free men, some escaped from slavery, and some were released by sympathetic owners to join the war effort. African American Faces of the Civil War tells the story of the Civil War through the images of men of color who served as servants, laborers, enlisted men, and junior officers.
Ronald Coddington is assistant managing editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has appeared in USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the San Jose Mercury News. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times "Disunion" series and writes a monthly column for The Civil War News. He is author of Faces of the Confederacy and Faces of the Civil War, also published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Recorded On: Thursday, January 31, 2013
1 hr 13 min
January 31, 2013 Sue Ellen Thompson and Kathleen Hellen
Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Golden Hour, and the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. In 2010 she received the Maryland Author Award, given to a poet every four years by the Maryland Library Association. Ms. Thompson has taught at many universities—among them Middlebury, Wesleyan, Binghamton University and the University of Delaware—as well as The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and Annapolis and at the Academy Art Museum in Easton. Her work has been included in the Best American Poetry series, read on National Public Radio by Garrison Keillor, and featured in U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated newspaper column.
Kathleen Hellen is a poet and the author of Umberto’s Night and The Girl Who Loved Mothra. Her poems are widely published and have been featured on WYPR’s The Signal. Awards include The Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers' Publishing House as well as poetry prizes from the H.O.W. Journal, the Washington Square Review, the Thomas Merton Institute, and the Appalachian Writers Association. Her work has earned individual artist grants from the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council. She is senior editor for the Baltimore Review and teaches creative writing at Coppin State University.
Read poems by Sue Ellen Thompson here and here.
Read poems by Kathleen Hellen here and here.

Recorded On: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
1 hr 14 min
January 30, 2013 Taylor Branch
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch has selected eighteen essential moments from the Civil Rights movement as presented in his "America in the King Years" trilogy and has written new introductions to set each passage in historical context. "For nearly 25 years, since publication of Parting the Waters," says Taylor Branch, "teachers have pressed upon me their need for more accessible ways to immerse students in stories of authentic detail and import. The goal here is to accommodate them and others by careful choice."
Taylor Branch is the author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68; and The Clinton Tapes. In addition to the Pulitzer, he has won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Presented in partnership with Open Society Institute - Baltimore.

Recorded On: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
1 hr 30 min

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