Steve Healey and William Waltz Reading
Steve Healey reads selections from his collection of poetry entitled Earthling. Waltz then reads selections from his own collection of poetry entitled Zoo Music.
During a brief question and answer session, Waltz discusses how his interest in politics and economics feeds into his poetry. Healey discusses the joys and challenges of teaching creative writing to prison inmates in Minnesota, pointing out that the inmates deal with issues such as race and social class in their poetry. The two men go on to discuss the magazine which Waltz founded, Conduit. Both men serve as editors for Conduit, and they explain how the magazine has truly been a labor of love for many years.
In: "Live from Prairie Lights" Audio Archive | Poetry
Authors: Steve Healey , William Waltz
Date Recorded: February 15, 2005
Works Read: "Shirts vs. Skins", "Small Winter", "Where Spring Is", "Interview with a Piece of Smoke", "I Do Not Know Onesies", "Airport Bowl", "Asshole of the Imminent", "Tilt"; all from Earthling by Steve Healey "A Little Blood", "Huron Slumber", "Zoo Music", "Theory of Scars", "Natural Selection Pt. 3", "Emerson in Vegas", "Runaway Vectors", "I'll Be the One Wearing Tiny White Boots", "Calculus Accumulates Among the Mightly Cuspids", "Wild Beating Heart"; all from Zoo Music by William Waltz
Program: Live From Prairie Lights
Format: reading
Contributors: Introduction by host Julie Englander.
Topics: poetry, prison education, Conduit magazine