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HoCoPoLitSo has digitized its archive of The Writing Life episodes and provided them for online viewing on the HoCoPoLitSo YouTube channel. More than 550,000 times, people around the world have watched HoCoPoLitSo’s programs. These half-hour shows are studded with such gems as Gwendolyn Brooks reciting her “We Real Cool” poem, Frank McCourt reading from Angela’s Ashes about receiving communion, Joy Harjo playing her Native American flute and reciting her poetry and Emma Donoghue reading in her 8-year-old protagonist’s voice from her novel Room. The Writing Life series is a writer-to-writer talk show, with distinguished writers interviewing featured guests, asking questions about craft and process. Critic Geoffrey Himes says, “(One) comes away with the privileged feeling of having eavesdropped on a private conversation between two artists talking shop.”

Full episodes currently available online feature (alpha sort by last name):

• Marie Arana
• Amiri Baraka
• Madison Smartt Bell
• Saul Bellow
• Robert Bly
• Eavan Boland
• Taylor Branch
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Carrie Brown
• Carrie Brown and John Gregory Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2j9XpnEMA (2017)
• Sterling Brown
• Ashley Bryan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPPkjdNf9k
• Ciaran Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWxWhNba9w
• Ann Caston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Gtwnhd9Zc
• Marilyn Chin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TedlYis6fY&t=8s
• Michael Cirelli and Kim Addonizio
• Lucille Clifton (1991)
• Michael Coady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmKV-W9IDK0
• Michael Collier, Elizabeth Spires, David Yezzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVCay45A3c
• Ann Darr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFMK0jFX7JA
• Ann Darr, E. Ethelbert Miller, Hilary Tham, and Henry Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2eHdoaLMCA
• Toi Derricotte (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFImJJ3DsWI
• Michael Dirda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbITsPw_U7c
• Emma Donoghue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0bA5kHehA
• Mark Doty
• Rita Dove
• Rita Dove (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk56x2OUeXI
• Paul Durcan
• Ann Enright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTl96_AOdfo
• Daniel Mark Epstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPgVLeL1VvE
• Martín Espada
• Siobhan Fallon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEYKtdcoG70&t=1s
• Beth Ann Fennelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH5cZSmkj5g&t=1s
• Roland Flint (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8mkqtivx9I
• Roland Flint (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ySRz5jogRg&t=2s
• Carolyn Forché (1993)
• Carolyn Forché (2016) https://youtu.be/GpI498pkoRk
• Laurie Frankel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z18eHzcZQLc
• Barbara Goldberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6HOgxQcsM
• Mary Gordon https://youtu.be/8V5fGNESXp0
• Eamon Grennan (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHcrEj2Zqk
• Eamon Grennan (2016): https://youtu.be/vgTbGapvheQ
• Vona Groarke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZDldxhDlk
• Donald Hall
• Hugo Hamilton
• Joy Harjo
• Robert Hass
• Terrance Hayes/Tara Betts
• Seamus Heaney (1988): https://youtu.be/GpdzarVGOfs
• Donna Hemans, Helen Elaine Lee and Thrity Umrigar, part 1
• Donna Hemans, Helen Elaine Lee and Thrity Umrigar, part 2
• Ed Hirsch
• Jane Hirshfield
• Horsing Around with Henry Taylor and Maxine Kumin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7i1oc0wBw

• Marie Howe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfMre6iL4Y&t=1s
• Israeli Poems of War and Peace (Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqeEBEEyvA
• Josephine Jacobsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZdqQphVEMQ
• Josephine Jacobsen memorial (with Michael Collier, Lucille Clifton and Elizabeth Spires) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhUG1hOv4k
• Tyehimba Jess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phYEo6UXHU8
• Edward P. Jones
• Claire Keegan
• Carolyn Kizer and Lucille Clifton
• Sheila Kohler
• Maxine Kumin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YavtOAvHpg8
• Stanley Kunitz
• Li-Young Lee
• David Levering Lewis
• Phil Levine
• Laura Lippman
• Michael Longley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9De2yjj0Y8k
• Taylor Mali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ymwKVgR20
• Mary O’Malley (2004) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU320-bDDOQ
• Maryland Poets Laureate: Reed Whittemore, Roland Flint, Lucille Clifton and Linda Pastan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ARQ5YkI9c
• Colum McCann
• Colum McCann (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-l9WsAoWs
• Mike McCormack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgpifpLLXQ&t=1s
• Frank McCourt
• Alice McDermott
• John McGahern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t74XXQZEDk
• Belinda McKeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ckrXwdLwo
• Paula Meehan
• Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bGi1lb-pI
• W. S. Merwin
• Ethelbert Miller (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IOSdPOkPP8&t=1s
• Ethelbert Miller (1996) https://youtu.be/WOem8Hv89mI
• David Mura
• Edna O’Brien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBVYp6W_zGk
• Nuala O’Faolain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OoUpOft-0g
• Julie Otsuka
• Grace Paley
• Linda Pastan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCd4CvY1II
• Edith Pearlman
• Reynolds Price
• Jason Reynolds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otZAmCBm7p4&t=7s
• Joseph Ritsch and Khalid Long on Dominique Morrisseau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvacUFurcs
• Rives and Rachel Eliza Griffith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsm4gG6cy1k
• Joseph Ross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DuiVD8NdI&t=27s
• Jeannette Seaver: The Golden Age of Publishing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npBdUoeCboo
• Jeanette Seaver: Grove Press and the Freedom to Read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PkpeCgSwuU
• Andrei Sergeev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZsm435sM_w
• Edgar Silex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQrehDrFE8o
• Patricia Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_0jorU4sw&t=1s
• Elizabeth Spires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxxnQ9QR3sA
• Mark Strand
• Sekou Sundiata
• Manil Suri
• Hilary Tham
• Colm Tóibin (2013)
• Colm Tóibín (1999)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw2M3On9gbA&t=41s
• Mona Van Duyn https://youtu.be/rJ-Beqj_gD0
• William Warner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1XDASebiFY
• Richard Wilbur on Molière (with actors) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTAnpr-gd4
• Richard Wilbur on translations (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPBVPsXmgI&t=5s
• Richard Wilbur and Linda Pastan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WhJRWtu9VM
• Terrence Winch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KlSHhETYY

Select editions of The Writing Life are also available at Howard County Public Library or the Howard Community College (HCC) Library.