Alabama Arts Radio is a weekly program that airs on WTSU, Troy University Radio, broadcasting in the southeastern region of Alabama, WHIL in the Mobile area, and live on the Web. Click the headline to hear the interview.
Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Jessica Lacher-Feldman, curator of rare books and special collections at the University of Alabama’s Hoole Library. Lacher-Feldman discusses a number of cookbooks, recipes, and illustrations included in their Alabama Collection and the Lupton African American Cookbook Collection.
Augusto Soledade, artistic director of Brazz Dance Theatre, talks about his life, philosophy and choreographic process with arts in education program manager Diana Green. Soledade’s new work blends the styles and social implications of the Argentine Tango with American Hip-hop culture and Cordel, popular Brazilian folk poetry, as inspirations for the creation of this abstract contemporary dance.
Anne Kimzey, literary arts program manager with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, talks with Jim Hilgartner of Montgomery as he reads and discusses selections from his current works of short fiction. Hilgartner received a Literary Arts Fellowship Award from the State Arts Council in 2011. He serves on the English faculty of Huntingdon College where he also directs the Staton Center for Learning Enrichment.
This is a rebroadcast of a 2004 program of Joey Brackner interviewing University of Alabama professor Robert Halli about his book, An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals. The book is based upon the research of Byron Arnold who collected folk songs throughout Alabama during the late 1940s. Actual field recordings made by Byron Arnold are featured during the program.
7/31/11
Anne Kimzey, literary arts program manager with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews poet Dr. Virginia Gilbert of Madison about her work and her time serving in the Peace Corps in Korea.
7/13/11
Jeanie Thompson interviews poet Jake Adam York on the eve of the 2011 Alabama Book Festival.
6/23/11
Donna Russell, executive director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education, interviews Peggy Payne(pictured; original poem) and Youssef Biaz (recitation), winners of Alabama’s Poetry Out Loud program. Biaz also won the national finals.
5/22/11
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet, playwright, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez about her life and work.
3/27/11
Deborah Boykin interviews Gail Waller, co-chair of the 6th annual Alabama Book Festival , and Jeannie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writer's Forum, about the upcoming festival on April 16 in Montgomery's Old Alabama Town
2/13/11
Literature Program Manager Anne Kimzey interviews Cheryl Davis, an award winning writer and playwright about her work.
1/02/11
Randy Shoults, Community Arts, Literature and Design Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Priscilla Hancock Cooper about her literary works.
10/24/10
Council Executive Director Al Head interviews renowned Alabama author Rick Bragg about his upbringing in Alabama and his literary works.
10/10/10
Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, continues a conversation with professor Steve Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama.
10/03/10
Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews professor Steve Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama.
5/30/10
Joey Brackner interviews Ted Rosengarten about his literary works.
5/16/10
Diana Green, Arts in Education Program Manager interviews the 2010 Alabama State Champion of Poetry Out Loud, Youssef Biaz from Auburn High School, along with his English teacher and mentor, Davis Thompson.
5/9/10
Joey Brackner interviews Alabama poet laureate Sue Brannan Walker about her work and Negative Capability Press.
4/18/10
Joey Brackner interviews Mobile preservationist, historian, book reviewer and author John Sledge about his literary works.
4/4/10
Executive director Jeanie Thompson of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews Mary Kaiser, one of two recipients of a fellowship from the Alabama State Council of the Arts and a featured poet at the 5th Alabama Book Festival, April 17 in Montgomery, Ala.
3/28/10
Randy Shoults, program manager for literature at ASCA, talks with Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum and producer of two events for the 5th Annual Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery, Alabama on April 17 in Old Alabama Town.
3/14/10
Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, interviews Bob McClain, Executive Director of Old Alabama Town and Ashley Gordon about the 5th Annual Alabama Book Festival.
11/29/09
For this week's program Joey Brackner interviews Charlie Lucas and Chip Cooper about their new book, Tin Man.
8/9/09
Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviews Bill Ivey, Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University about his background and literary works.
7/19/09
Arts in Education Program Manager, Diana Green interviews Foster Dixon, creative writing instructor at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama
6/30/09
Jeanie Thomspon, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet and editor Sebastian Matthews about his literary works.
4/14/09
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet Jim Murphy about his literary works.
4/7/09
Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, interviews author Mary Ward Brown about her literary work.
2/10/09
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet Kathleen Driskell about her literary works.
1/6/09
ASCA folklorist Joey Brackner interviews preeminent Alabama historian Dr. Wayne Flynt about his literary works.
12/2/08
Joey Brackner interviews linguists Dr. Thomas Nunnally and Dr. Catherine Davies about their latest literary work.
11/18/08
Yvette Daniel interviews actress and playwright Ella Joyce about her literary works.
11/11/08
Jeanie Thompson, Executive Director of the Alabama Writers' Forum interviews ASCA Literature Fellowship Recipient in Poetry, Jennifer Horne about her literary works.
8/5/08
Steve Grauberger interviews actor and playwright Dr. Billie Jean Young, in Yantley Alabama, about her play Oh Mary Don't you Weep: The Margaret Ann Knott Legacy.
Steve Grauberger interviews Stanley Smith, John Etheridge, and Bill Aplin, elected officers of the Sacred Harp Book Company
6/3/08
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet and Gadsden, Alabama native Jake Adam York, about his collection A Murmuration of Starlings, recently published by Southern Illinois University Press.
5/20/08
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews two writers who participated in the 3rd Annual Alabama Book Festival on April 19: Kate Gale, founding editor of Red Hen Press of Los Angeles, California, and Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt and The Soul of Creative Writing.
5/13/08
Yvette Daniel interviews Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Chief Operating Officer Michael Vigilant about upcoming events and his new play Bear Country and Elyzabeth Wilder about her new play Furniture of Home.
4/8/08
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews Ace Atkins and Rheta Grimsley Johnson about their literary works.
3/25/08
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews Montgomery author Kirk Curnutt about his literary works.
3/4/08
Executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum Jeanie Thompson interviews Sena Jeter Naslund about her literary works.
5/15/07
Diana Green, Arts in Education Program Manager, interviews Jazzmin Almaz Franklin and Khadijah Ameerah Robinson, winners of the Poetry Out Loud competition.
4/17/07
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews Jay Lamar, director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, about the upcoming Alabama Book Festival.
4/10/07
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum interviews Marlin Barton, 2007 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship Recipient, about his literary works.
3/20/07
Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture interviews Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, about various aspects of the grant programs he manages.
3/6/07
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews William Cobb about his literary works.
2/13/07
Anne Kimzey interviews Joey Brackner about his newly published book Alabama Folk Pottery.
1/30/07
Steve Grauberger interviews playwright and screenwriter Elyzabeth Wilder about her play Gees Bend, produced by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
8/22/06
Alabama Writers' Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson interviewing teaching writer Marlin Barton and Department of Youth Services teacher Sandra Whatley-Washington about the innovative Writing Our Stories: Anti-Violence Creative Writing Program,
7/18/06
Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet Peter Huggins about his literary works.
5/30/06
Alabama Writers' Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson interviews poets Greg Pape and Frank X. Walker about their literary work.
4/18/06
Alabama Writers Forum Director Jeanie Thompson interviews Conner Henton of the Alabama Center for the Book about the upcoming Alabama Book Festival.
3/7/06
Jeanie Thompson, Director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, talks with Anita Miller Garner, 2006 Artist Fellowship recipient in literature, about her literary works.
10/25/05
Randy Shoults interviews Auburn University professor and author Charlie Rose about his literary works.
8/9/05
Alabama Writers' Forum executive director Jeanie Thompson interviews 2005 Harper Lee Award-winning poet Andrew Hudgins about his literary works.
7/15/05
Steve Grauberger interviews storyteller, writer, and 50-year veteran radio personality Bob Sanders of Auburn’s WAUD about his publication Friends, Family and Frontier Country: Growing Up in West Alabama.
7/5/05
Steve Grauberger interviews storyteller, writer, and 50-year veteran radio personality Bob Sanders of Auburn’s WAUD about his publication Friends, Family and Frontier Country: Growing Up in West Alabama.
11/30/04
Joey Brackner interviews University of Alabama professor Robert Halli about his book An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals.
6/29/04
Randy Shoults interviews poet Tony Crunk about his literary works.
4/27/04
Randy Shoults, Community Arts, Literature and Design Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Jim Hilgartner and Donna Estill about the 2004 Alabama Writer's Symposium event held each year in Monroeville.
7/22/03
Joey Brackner interviews Joe Dan Boyd about his book on Judge Jackson.
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