Recorded, edited and produced by Ken Cormier and J. Aaron Sanders.
Volume 1, Episode 01
September 6, 2005
Patrick Penta: "I Am Not a Female Drummer"
Marilyn Nelson: "Star Fix"
Adam Blackwell: "Poetic Language"
Amanda Cagle: "Christening"
Chris Dowd: "Something More Than Memory"
Musical Feature:
The Damien Pratt: "Kid Gloves," "I'm Electronic"
Volume 1, Episode 02
September 20, 2005
Phill Weber: "Ronald Reagan"
Chris Anderson: "On Hearing That Only 4% Of Sperm Are Viable"
Amanda Cagle: "An Elegy For Donna"
Joan Seliger Sidney: "Body of Diminishing Motion"
Aaron Bremyer: "A Note Toward A Mundane Fiction"
Sean Forbes: "Found"
Justin Sider: "Pavlov"
Musical Feature:
Low Beam: "Low Beaming," "Roses"
Volume 1, Episode 03
October 4, 2005
Marilyn Nelson: "The Sacrament of Poverty"
Andy Pfrenger: "They Always Come Home"
Patrick Penta: "Air Balloon"
Bobby Cormier: "Photographs of Pills"
Adam Blackwell: "It's and Its"
Lynn Kilpatrick: "The Ugly Friend"
Musical Feature:
Orange Cake Mix: "Goodbye Why," "Like the Sun"
Volume 1, Episode 04
October 18, 2005
Jennifer Lynn Holley: "The Secret"
Lauren Sarat: "Matinee"
Molly Horan: "Lobster Love"
Anthony Penta: "You Ruined Everything"
Doug Anderson: "Blues"
Musical Feature:
Happy Supply: "Camera Song," "Theme Song"
Volume 1, Episode 05
november 1, 2005
Phill Weber: "Dirty Deeds"
Pit Pinegar: "An Explanation For Much of What Went Wrong in the Latter Half of the 20th Century"
Amanda Cagle: "Gigging Frogs"
Doug Anderson: "Critical Theory"
Jennifer Lynn Holley: "Bob Barker in the Afterlife"
Joan Seliger Sidney: "Laps"
Musical Feature:
The Buzzrats: "Maybe Don't Go," "China Lu"
Volume 1, Episode 06
november 15, 2005
Molly Horan: "Channeling Dr. Atkins"
Lauren Sarat: "Condiments and Other Sundries"
Sean Forbes: "Found"
V.Penelope Pelizzon: "Elegy For the Public Phone"
Chris LaCasse: "Convoy"
Musical Feature:
Heatlamp: "Look What They've Done to the Sun," "I Need Your Help Darlin"
Volume 1, Episode 07
november 29, 2005
Chris Venter: "Five Times"
Aaron Mushengyezi: "When Idi Amin Undressed the Queen of England"
Jim Donahue: "August 4, 1997"
Pit Pinegar: "What Happens When You Come to Religious Education Too Late"
Margaret Gibson: "Transparent"
Musical Feature:
Wet Paint Forever: "Horseneck Beach," "Shipwrecked Eyes"
Volume 1, Episode 08
december 13, 2005
Sam Pickering: "Edinburgh Days"
Ann Charters: Introduction to "Kerouac"
Doug Anderson: "61"
Musical Feature:
The Damien Pratt: "I'm Waiting," "Underneath Ladders/Bob Keppel"
Volume 1, Episode 09
january 24, 2006
Lauren Sarat: "The Breakup Flowers"
Taylor Mali: "Because You Told Me"
Pit Pinegar: "Humane Letters: Teaching Creative Writing in Today's World"
Sam Pickering: "Buried Treasure"
Musical Feature:
KING RADIO: "Meet the Maker," "Busman's Holiday"
Volume 1, Episode 10
February 7, 2006
Heatlamp: "Baby Shampoo"
Molly Horan: "Tongue"
Michael C. Meyers: "I'm a Lucky Man"
Patrick Penta: "The Canal"
Annarose Fitzgerald: "Feasting"
Musical Feature:
LYS GUILLORN: "Impossible," "Little Wren"
Volume 1, Episode 11
February 21, 2006
Naomi Ayala: "Papa Roach"
Amanda Cagle: "At Lake Claiborne"
Jacob Overdurff: "Su Kawakha"
Joan Seliger Sidney: "Retreat"
Taylor Mali: "Black Suit to Kickbox"
Chris Anderson: "After Such Knowledge: A Conference on Poetry for the New Millennium"
Pit Pinegar: "Peace of Mind"
Annarose Fitzgerald: "For the Vatican Dress Code"
Aaron Mushengyezi:" A Dead Man's Funeral Song"
Jennifer Lynn Holley: "The Rubbing"
Musical Feature:
THE CAN KICKERS: "Cripple Creek," "Harvest Home," "East Coast Blues"
Volume 1, Episode 12
March 7, 2006
Regie Cabico: "Lucifer Does Stand-Up Comedy in the Garden of Paradise"
Wendy Pfrenger: "A Real Step Up"
Scott Bradfield: "Follow the Long and Revolutionary Road: The Last Ever Interview with Richard Yates"
Joan Cusack Handler: "Satan Comes In"
William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper"
Musical feature:
THE MINDERS: "Step Right Up," "Pass It Around"
Volume 1, Episode 13
March 21, 2006
**SPECIAL EPISODE**
GARETH reads the classics!
AARON SANDERS: "Flying with Kids"
Musical feature:
KEN CORMIER: "Everybody Kind," "Come Over," "Glittering," "Morning Paper"
Volume 1, Episode 14
April 4, 2006
Faith Vicinanza: "Wasilla, Alaska, December 12, 2001"
Doug Anderson: "Madonna"
Naomi Ayala: "A Si"
Heterodox: "An excerpt from his Reflections"
Brian Evenson: Afterword to "Altmann's Tongue"
Henry David Thoreau: from "Walden"
Musical feature:
Joey Interlande: "Little Step," "Missing Heugo"
Volume 1, Episode 15
May 2, 2006
Writers and Poets from Hartford Public High School
Megan Chenette, "If I Could"
Wesley Gordon, "I Am From"
Dajemi Rodriguez, "My Accidental Discovery"
Shawnette Brown, "Are You Listening?"
Amyris Boleran, "I Am From"
Antoine Adams, "Everyday"
Leisla Montanez, "Domestic Crimes"
Nathan Alvarez, "I Am From"
Megan Chenette, "I Write Because"
Lilliana Castro (read by Evelyn Infantas), "What is Happy?"
Shala Eugene, "I Am From"
"Group poem on HPHS": Jennifer Vasquez, Maria Torrez, Latoya Thomas,Kayla Valentin, & Ka-Yana Davis
Comments on "Why I Write": Antoine Adams, Dajemi Rodriguez , Iyana Murphy, Leisla Montanez, Shawnette Brown, Tina Beckman & Wesley Gordon
Musical feature:
Joey Interlande: "Richard Boone's Farm," "G.I.T."
Volume 2, Episode 01
September 5, 2006
LARRY SHUSHANSKY: "Chocolate Whoppers and Peanut M&Ms"
DECKY ALEXANDER: "On Love Deferred"
ERIK CAMPBELL: "Poem for Neil Postman"
CHRIS DOWD: "How To Have Kids without All the Fuss"
CHRIS ANDERSON: "Extra"
ANNAROSE FITZGERALD: "Frogs"
Musical feature:
THE TWIN ATLAS: "Sleep in Late Laugh All Night" and "Dog with Feathered Wings”
Volume 2, Episode 02
October 3, 2006
LYNN Z. BLOOM: "Teaching College English as a Woman"
Volume 2, Episode 03
October 17, 2006
MAX WESTLER: "The Miracle"
WAYNE KARLIN: "Altars"
FAITH VICINANZA: "Five Months Later"
CHRIS DOWD: "Tranquility Base"
STEPHEN CAMPIGLIO: "The Wellspring of the Urban Fissure"
Musical features:
JOE FRAWLEY: Sound Collage 2, Incidental Music
COLIN CLARY & THE MAGOGS: "Chiclets in a Frame"
THE YOUTH SOUVENIR: "The Last Boardwalk"
Volume 2, Episode 04
October 31, 2006
ERIK CAMPBELL: "The Subtle Again"
KAREN RENNER: from "Fun with Physics"
ALEXANDER TAYLOR: "Comedians"
PATRICK PENTA: "How To Fly Planes"
MAX WESTLER: "A Difficult Truth"
Musical feature:
SHORT PUNKS IN LOVE: "Gem Spa Reunion," "Hardluck Town"
Volume 2, Episode 05
November 14, 2006
The Poets and Writers of EO Smith High School
MADELINE HENNESSEY: "City Bus"
EMILY HANINK: "A Day at School"
BILL GREEN: "A World Concealed"
ADAM FERRARO: "Ode to Duncan"
JON ANDERSEN: "You Must"
DANIEL PHIPPS: "A Tale of Two Flies"
MICHELLE KETCHUM: "11:25"
SARAH REYNOLDS: "Afterglow"
EMMA DUDLEY: "This Showed..."
NINA HUNTER: "A Chance To Walk"
ZACKARY LEE: "Middle without a Beginning and End Would Be Preferred"
DENISE ABERCROMBIE: "Week Seven"
Musical features:
SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL: "Fire Drill in Winter"
SHORT PUNKS IN LOVE: "Rosie"
THE SMITTENS: "Momus Where Are You"
Volume 2, Episode 06
December 5, 2006
K. JAHI ADISA: "Indigo"
REGINA BARRECA: from Babes in Boyland
V. PENELOPE PELIZZON: "Seven Psalms"
ALEXANDER TAYLOR: "Mad Chatter "
KAREN RENNER: from "Fun with Physics"
Musical feature:
LYS GUILLORN: "Throne," "In Sleep"
Volume 2, Episode 07
January 23, 2007
SCOTT BRADFIELD: from "Poetry? Funny? Hah!"
CARA FORD: "You Are Special"
SARAH MCINTYRE: "Shake Your Sleeping Hands"
BOBBY CORMIER: from "Photographs of Pills"
Musical feature:
HATESTICK: "So Boring," "Kind of There"
Volume 2, Episode 08
February 6, 2007
WALLY LAMB: "Revisions and Corrections"
Musical feature:
THE BUZZRATS: "Belief," "Six Degrees"
Volume 2, Episode 09
February 20, 2007
JON ANDERSEN: "Soldier"
CHRIS LACASSE: "Mouse Trap"
PIT PINEGAR: "Compensations"
LYNN BLOOM: "Getting the Record Straight"
JOAN JOFFE HALL: "Drowning Dogs"
TAYLOR MALI: "Healing Orange"
Musical features:
THE DAMIEN PRATT: "Ghost of the Institution"
LYS GUILLORN: "Steel Pier"
Volume 2, Episode 10
March 20, 2007
KEN CORMIER: "The Secret Pianos of Manhattan": A Documentary
REX KRUEGER: "The Last Waltz"
Musical feature:
MOE TUCKER : "Crackin' Up "
PRESCRIPTION AMERICA: "Sloetown"
Volume 2, Episode 11
April 17, 2007
PHILLIS LEVIN: "Chalk and Ash"
CLAYTON ESHLEMAN: "An Enigmatic Signifier"
DONNA NICOLINO: "Useful"
PENELOPE PELIZZON: from "Flora"
STEPHEN CAMPIGLIO: "The Greased Pole"
JOAN JOFFE HALL: "Driver's License"
Musical features:
MARK MULCAHY: "Let the Cows Lead the Way"
RETSIN: "Land of the Lost"
Volume 2, Episode 12
May 1, 2007
The Lumberyard's second annual presentation of student poets from Hartford Public High School.
Allyson Rodriguez
Erica Hall
Michael James
Iesha Rivera
Dany Contreras
Jerry Santiago
Comments on writing poetry:
..-Ashley Anguita
..-Dany Contreras
..-Michael James
..-Erica Hall
..-Glynn Brown
..-Tina Beckman
Megan Chenette
HPHS Poetry Club:
..-Ashley Anguita
..-Dany Contreras
..-Shawnette Brown
..-Mickey Muniz
..-Harry Rivera
..-Iesha Rivera
Glynn Brown
Ashley Anguita
Jonathan Felix
Tina Beckman
Background music for the student comments on writing by Joey Interlande. Thanks to Andy Pitre and Calvin Saxton at WHUS for their help in the studio and to Melissa Rinaldo and the UConn Writing Center for
making the HPHS students' visit to the UConn campus possible.
Volume 3, Episode 1
September 25, 2007
CHRIS ANDERSON: "Finding a Photo of My Mother, Naked"
NAOMI AYALA: "Dusk Walk, You "
TOM NICOTERA: "Circus"
MAUREEN O'BRIEN: from b-mother
PHILLIS LEVIN: "Nativity with Mother, Child and Chair"
JENNIFER LYNN HOLLEY: "The Mirror Speaks"
Musical features:
TEAM TURNIP: "Photos of the Staff," "Maybe Tomorrow"
CHAINSAW PAWS: "Summer With"
Volume 3, Episode 2
October 9, 2007
PIT PINEGAR: "The Lesson"
PATRICIA SMITH: "Building Nicole's Mama"
NAEEM MURR: "Don Nelson Sings Elvis"
DANIEL DONAGHY: "Walking to First Grade"
Musical feature:
MATT SHEEHY: "Dangerous Thursdays," "Go Missing"
Volume 3, Episode 3
November 13, 2007
Each summer, the Connecticut Writing Project invites outstanding teachers from all disciplines and levels of instruction to participate in a Summer Institute on the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut. The CWP Summer Institute provides the opportunity for teachers to learn the most current theories in writing and writing instruction, to share their expertise, and to practice writing themselves.
This week's episode of The Lumberyard features writing from participants in the 2007 CWP Summer Institute.
DENISE ABERCROMBIE: "Rita's Got No Higher Power"
STEVE PRINGLE: "WSF in Control"
JOANNE PELUSO: "Words and Food"
CHRIS LA CASSE: "Highway 66"
Musical feature:
THE SHAKY HANDS: "Summer's Life"
Volume 3, Episode 4
January 15, 2008
This week The Lumberyard presents poets and writers recorded at The Soul Mountain Retreat in East Haddam, CT. Founded and directed by poet Marilyn Nelson, Soul Mountain encourages and supports emerging and established poets, especially those belonging to traditionally underrepresented racial or cultural groups, by offering brief guest residences. This episode of The Lumberyard is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts .
MARILYN NELSON: "The Sacrament of Poverty"
PATRICIA SMITH: "Siblings"
CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW: "Pickpocket"
ORLANDO WHITE: "Lowercase i and j"
AMY UYEMATSU: "Looking"
DANTE MICHEAUX: "Apples"
TRAVIS HEDGE COKE: "December: Echo" (from "The Subtonic Calendar")
HARRYETTE MULLEN: "We Are Not Responsible"
BAKAR WILSON: "In Christ, Drowning"
JENNIFER FOERSTER: "California"
Musical features:
THE SHAKY HANDS: "Soul"
THE OWLS: "All Those in Favor"
Volume 3, Episode 5
January 29, 2008
This week The Lumberyard presents student poets and writers from the Bristol Public School system in Bristol, CT. Student writers from two middle schools, Northeast and Chippens Hill, and two high schools, Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern, were recorded at the studios of WHUS in the spring of 2007. Special thanks to John Ryan, Gale Dickau, the Bristol Board of Education, and the Bristol Gifted Program for making this week's episode possible.
PETER MUNN: "Portrait"
BRITTANY WHITE: "The Story of Emma R."
MATT SCZURAK: "Morning Dawn"
KELLY MCDONALD: "In a Moment"
AMANDA JACOBSEN: "Vertigo"
SARAH ZIOMEK: "Birds"
KATIE O'NEIL: "Rain"
Musical features:
OH NO! OH MY!: "The Party Punch"
IRON & WINE: "Boy with a Coin"
Volume 3, Episode 6
April 8, 2008
This week on The Lumberyard we remember the life and works of ALEXANDER "SANDY" TAYLOR--poet, publisher, and educator--who died in December 2007 at the age of 76. Taylor was the founder and co-director of Curbstone Press.
This week, we'll hear Sandy reading poems from his book Dreaming at the Gates of Fury, published by Azul Editions, as well as clips from a conversation recorded at WHUS in August 2006.
Musical features:
LYS GUILLORN: "When I Was a Tiger Lily"
THE BOWERBIRDS: "Human Hands"
CHAINSAW PAWS: "summerwith"
Volume 3, Episode 7
July 29, 2008
NORIE NEUMARK: Shock
Volume 3, Episode 8
August 4, 2008
DAD'S NAUGHTY PICTURES: A Documentary
TALK ABOUT THE TAURUS: A Documentary
Musical features:
THE WATSON TWINS: "Just Like Heaven"
EARLIMART: "Song For"
Volume 3, Episode 9
September 16, 2008
AARON SANDERS: "Be a Man"
SARAH RASHER: "To Thine Own Self Be Whatever"
DAVYNE VERSTANDIG: from "A Suite of Longing"
PAUL PINES: from My Brother's Madness
Musical features:
THE WOMBATS : "Let's Dance to Joy Division"
THE WAILING WALL : "Hospital Blossom"
Volume 3, Episode 10
September 23, 2008
JOHN SUROWIECKI: "Lunch with My Cat"
WANDA COLEMAN: "Moon Cherries"
SAM HAMILL: "Eyes Wide Open"
JAMES SCULLY: "There Is No Truth to the Rumor"
JENNIFER FOERSTER: "Song of Magdelene 2"
JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY: "Poker"
Musical features:
PORT O'BRIEN: "I Woke Up Today"
CALICO HORSE: "Father Feed Me"