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HoCoPoLitSo is digitizing the archive of The Writing Life episodes and providing them for online viewing on the HoCoPoLitSo YouTube channel. More than 250,000 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:
- Marie Arana
- Amiri Baraka
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Saul Bellow
- Robert Bly
- Eavan Boland
- Taylor Branch
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Carrie Brown
- Sterling Brown
- Michael Cirelli and Kim Addonizio
- Lucille Clifton
- Mark Doty
- Rita Dove
- Paul Durcan
- Martín Espada
- Carolyn Forché
- Mary Gordon
- Donald Hall
- Hugo Hamilton
- Joy Harjo
- Robert Hass
- Terrance Hayes/Tara Betts
- Donna Hemans, Helen Elaine Lee and Thrity Umrigar, part 1
- Donna Hemans, Helen Elaine Lee and Thrity Umrigar, part 2
- Ed Hirsch
- Jane Hirshfield
- Edward P. Jones
- Claire Keegan
- Carolyn Kizer and Lucille Clifton
- Sheila Kohler
- Stanley Kunitz
- Li-Young Lee
- David Levering Lewis
- Phil Levine
- Laura Lippman
- Colum McCann
- Frank McCourt
- Alice McDermott
- Paula Meehan
- W.S. Merwin
- David Mura
- Julie Otsuka
- Grace Paley
- Edith Pearlman
- Reynolds Price
- David Mura
- Mark Strand
- Sekou Sundiata
- Manil Suri
- Hilary Tham
- Colm Tóibin
Select editions of “The Writing Life” are available at Howard County Public Library or the Howard Community College (HCC) Library. Each month, an individual debut or encore episode is featured on the HCC website at www.howardcc.edu/twl. Episodes are also available for purchase from HoCoPoLitSo, contact hocopolitso@yahoo.com for more information.
