SoundPages Podcast

Blending nature themes and rustic imagery, Annette Spaulding-Convy has created a collection of poems that brings the past to life. Her work delves into family history and tells the story of a lost ancestor. With grace and force, Spaulding-Convy pays tribute to a forgotten individual.

Music by Sean Osborn, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Debra Jarvis‘s humorous and personable writing invites readers to pull up a chair. Her connection to both people and animals is felt in her fluid narrative. Meet her therapy dog Max and fall in love.

Music by Jes Raymond, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Louise Spiegler lets her imagination take the reins to lead readers through life in early Rome. In her novel, history is intermingled with an engaging plot that’s suitable for both young and adult readers. Her careful research and original characters make for entertaining reading.

Music by Sean Osborn, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Through her use of expressive language, Denise Calvetti Michaels creates poignant snapshots of her own experiences and those of others. Her writing takes different forms in order to capture the scene and the sentiment she’s depicting. Translating memories to poetry, Michaels gives voice to beautiful personal stories.

Music by the St. Helen’s Quartet, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Inspired by magical realism, Amber Flame ventures into new territory with her Jack Straw project, creating vignettes that take the reader into the heart of the desert. Her vibrant imagery and earthy tone, make her colorful stories tangible.

THIS PODCAST CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE.

Music by Johanna Kunin, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Roberto Ascalon writes instinctually. He reaches into the core of his subjects and exposes raw emotion. His poems, which flow like essays, reveal an unspoken history, surprising and powerful.

THIS PODCAST CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE.

Music by Seattle Experimental Opera, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Michael Dylan Welch explores haiku and longer poetry, as well as his own spirited take on the traditional Japanese haiku. He uses Allen Ginsberg’s haiku-derived form of American Sentences to record his family’s witticisms, and he’s written hundreds of haiku-like “neon buddha” poems as “a surreal sort of personal mythology.”

Music by the St. Helens String Quartet, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Through her writing, Marjorie Manwaring explores her fascination with the tiny. Keenly observant and uniquely funny, Manwaring creates a sense of nostalgia for gumball machines and tiny dolls. Her short poems lead listeners into the often overlooked world of miniscule things.

Music by Matt Weiner and Del Rey, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Poignant and painful, Esther Altshul Helfgott documents the Alzheimer’s experience through poetry. Her writing fragments play a somber melody, both moving and beautiful. While her Jack Straw project focuses on illness, her writing covers a broad range of subject matter, with a penchant for history.

Music by Tamara Friedman, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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Martha Clarkson writes with humor and an element of surprise. Her unique ideas come to life in short, sharp pieces. Original subject matter and clever delivery make Clarkson’s work widely appealing.

Music by Christopher Roberts, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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