The Last Word: Conversations with Writers
The Last Word: Conversations with Writers
Podcast Description
Are you an aspiring author, do you hope to write your memoir one day? Do you have a story bursting to be told? Or do you just simply love to curl up with a good book, a beloved volume of poetry, or a thrilling page turner? What do writers think? What do writers really do? Find out – listen to THE LAST WORD: Conversations with Writers every Thursday at 5:30 pm with host, Carly Newfeld.Carly is the 2022 recipient of the “Book In Hand Award" from the New Mexico Book Association for her work on The Last Word.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores diverse themes such as memoir writing, children's literature, investigative journalism, poetry, and personal narratives. Episodes feature discussions around significant works like Marcia Butler's 'Dear Virginia, Wait for Me' that delves into whimsical storytelling and Caroline Starr Rose's 'The Burning Season', which is poetry prose attractive for middle school readers, while addressing larger environmental themes presented by guests like Mariah Blake with her book on forever chemicals.
Are you an aspiring author, do you hope to write your memoir one day? Do you have a story bursting to be told? Or do you just simply love to curl up with a good book, a beloved volume of poetry, or a thrilling page turner? What do writers think? What do writers really do? Find out – listen to THE LAST WORD: Conversations with Writers every Thursday at 5:30 pm with host, Carly Newfeld.
Carly is the 2022 recipient of the “Book In Hand Award” from the New Mexico Book Association for her work on The Last Word.
Two Cherokee Nation sisters join me today to honor their Great-Great Aunt, poet and Native American Rights activist Ruth Muskrat. Together they have written and illustrated a gorgeous book, Ruth Muskrat and The So-Called Indian Problem. Jen Loren’s gifted storytelling and Rebecca Lee Kunz’ superb illustrations accurately detail their Aunt’s lifelong courage and passion during the time that Native peoples all across the country were being marched off their own land and forced to assimilate. Muskrat’s most well-known poem, The Trail of Tears, chronicles this wretched time. Her tireless work resulted in meeting with President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, beginning the push to give Native peoples the vote, though that did not complete until 1965.
Rebecca Lee Kunz and Jen Loren will be launching Ruth Muskrat and The So-Called Indian Problem at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts on Cathedral Place at 3:00 pm Saturday November 14.
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