Line Break Shortwave
By T.D. Walker
The program is curated and hosted by T.D. Walker.
Line Break ShortwaveAug 14, 2023
Line Break Shortwave Episode 57: Gertrude Stein
Airdate: July 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-57-gertrude-stein/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 56: Deborah L. Davitt
Airdate: July 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-56-deborah-l-davitt/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 55: Laurie Kuntz
Airdate: June 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-55-laurie-kuntz/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 54: John Keats
Airdate: June 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-54-john-keats/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 53: Joanne Durham
Airdate: June 2023
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Line Break Shortwave Episode 52: Aldous Huxley
Airdate: June 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-52-aldous-huxley/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 51: Jane Muschenetz
Airdate: May 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-51-jane-muschenetz/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 50: Early Issues of Poetry Magazine
Airdate: May 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/08/14/episode-50-early-issues-of-poetry-magazine/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 49: Frank Oliver Call
Airdate: 11 May 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/05/15/episode-49-frank-oliver-call/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 48: The Language of Flowers
Airdate: 4 May 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/05/15/episode-48-the-language-of-flowers/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 47: P. G. Wodehouse
Airdate: 13 April 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/05/15/episode-47-p-g-wodehouse/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 46: Archibald Lampman
Airdate: 6 April 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/05/15/episode-46-archibald-lampman/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 45: Futuria Fanzine
Airdate: 30 March 2023
For more information on this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/05/14/episode-45-futuria-fanzine/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 44: Spring
Airdate: 23 March 2023
For more information about this episode, see the Line Break Shortwave Website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/03/23/episode-44-spring/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 43: G. L. Ford
Airdate: 9 March 2023
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Line Break Shortwave Episode 42: Rachel R. Baum
Airdate: 2 March 2023
For more information about this episode, visit the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/03/03/episode-42-rachel-r-baum/https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/03/03/episode-42-rachel-r-baum/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 41: Shannon Frost Greenstein
Airdate: 23 February 2023
For more information about this episode, visit the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/02/23/episode-41-shannon-frost-greenstein/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 40: Richard Aldington
Airdate: 16 February 2023
For more information about this episode, visit the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/02/16/episode-40-richard-aldington/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 39: Anthony David Vernon
Airdate: 2 February 2023
For more information about this episode, visit the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/02/02/episode-39-anthony-david-vernon/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 38: Nancy Cunard
Airdate: 26 January 2023
For more information on this episode, visit the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/01/26/episode-38-nancy-cunard/https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/01/26/episode-38-nancy-cunard/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 37: Leonie Adams
Airdate: 19 January 2023
For more information on this episode, visit the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/01/19/episode-37-leonie-adams/https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/01/19/episode-37-leonie-adams/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 36: William Carlos Williams
Airdate: 12 January 2023
For more information about this episode, visit the post at the Line Break Shortwave website: https://www.linebreakshortwave.com/2023/01/12/episode-36-william-carlos-williams/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 35: Winter
Airdate: 5 January 2023
For links to the poems, see the episode post on our website: Episode 35: Winter
Line Break Shortwave Episode 34: Todd Sullivan
Airdate: December 2022
Todd Sullivan currently lives in Seoul, South Korea, where he teaches English as a Second Language. He has had more than two dozen short stories, poems, essays, and novelettes published across five countries.
He currently has two book series through indie publishers in America. He writes for a Taipei web and play series that focuses upon black and African narratives. He founded the online magazine, Samjoko, in 2021, and hosts a YouTube Channel that interviews writers across the publishing spectrum.
Find out more about The Windshine Chronicles at http://mybook.to/WindshineChronicles
Line Break Shortwave Episode 33: Hazel Hall
Airdate: December 2022
Poems by Hazel Hall (all links go to the Academy of American Poets website):
Obituary in Poetry Magazine
Line Break Shortwave Episode 32: Jessy Randall
Airdate: December 2022
Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in Poetry, McSweeney’s, Nature, and Scientific American. Her new book is Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science.
Find out more at http://bit.ly/JessyRandall
Line Break Shortwave Episode 31: Alexander Posey
Airdate: December 2022
Poems by Alexander Posey (all links go to the Academy of American Poets website):
Line Break Shortwave Episode 30: David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Airdate: December 2022
David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a retired paleontologist, has been writing speculative poetry and fiction since the 1970s. He won the 2006 Rhysling award for best long poem (for a collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986).
He has edited Star*line, an issue of Eye To The Telescope, and several Rhysling anthologies, David C Kopaska-Merkel has served as president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association , and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems (more than 1200 of them) have been published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Night Cry, Kaleidotrope, and more than 200 other venues.
Some Disassembly Required, his latest collection of dark poetry, is out from from Diminuendo Press (available from the author and from Amazon). @DavidKM on twitter. Blog: https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/
Poems read by Diane Severson.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 29: Ivor Gurney
Airdate: November 2022
Ivor Gurney biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.
Poems read on this episode appear in Severn & Somme by Ivor Gurney, which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 28: Isaac Rosenberg
Airdate: November 2022
Isaac Rosenberg biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.
Poems read on this episode appear in Poems by Isaac Rosenberg, which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 27: Wilfred Owen
Airdate: November 2022
Wilfred Owen biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.
Poems read on this episode appear in Poems by Wilfred Owen, which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 26: Vera Brittain
Airdate: November 2022
Vera Brittain biography on the Poetry Foundation’s website.
Poems read on this episode appear in Vera Brittain’s Verses of a V.A.D., which can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 25: Edgar Allen Poe
Airdate: October 2022
Poems by Edgar Allen Poe (all links go to the Academy of American Poets website):
Line Break Shortwave Episode 24: Ars Poetica
Airdate: October 2022
Ars Poetica discussion at the Academy of American Poets' website: poets.org/glossary/ars-poetica
Line Break Shortwave Episode 23: Miguel O. Mitchell
Airdate: October 2022
Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD is a Black speculative poet, science fiction and fantasy author, visual artist, and retired chemistry professor living in the metro DC area. Two of his poems, “A Descendant’s Gift” and “Becoming,” were nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award in the Long Poem category by members of SFPA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.
In contrast to the generally serious tone of his poetry and prose is his mostly lighthearted paperback book of illustrated poems, Periodic Table of Alien Species (Elements 1-86), available from Barnes and Noble.
To find out more about his speculative poetry and visual artwork, visit his website: miguelmitchellsart.com
Line Break Shortwave Episode 22: Autumn
Airdate: October 2022
- “October Evening” by Robinson Jeffers: link to the poem at the Academy of American Poets website
- “Autumn” by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: link to the poem at the Academy of American Poets website
- “Merry Autumn” by Paul Laurence Dunbar: link to the poem at the Academy of American Poets website
- “Autumn” by Alexander Posey: link to the poem at the Academy of American Poets website
Line Break Shortwave Episode 21: Amelia Gorman
Airdate: September 2022
Amelia Gorman is a recent transplant to Eureka, California and you can usually find her walking her dogs or foster dogs in the woods or exploring tide pools.
Read some of her recent poetry in New Feathers, Vastarien, Star*Line, and Penumbric. Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, Best of the Net, and included in Ellen Datlow’s long list of the best horror of the year.
Her fiction has appeared in the World Fantasy Award Winning anthology She Walks in Shadows from Innsmouth Free Press and the Nightscript series
Her first poetry chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. It is currently a nominee for the Elgin Award and was recently chosen by Sundress Academy for the Arts website as part of their The Wardrobe/Best Dressed feature.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 20: Wendy Van Camp
Airdate: September 2022
Wendy Van Camp is the Poet Laureate for the City of Anaheim, California. Her work is influenced by cutting edge technology, astronomy, and daydreams. A graduate of the Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Workshop, Wendy has won Honorable Mention at the Writers of the Future Contest, is a twice nominated finalist for the Elgin Award, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award. She is the poet and illustrator of The Planets: a scifaiku poetry collection. Find out more at her website: https://wendyvancamp.com/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 19: Dorothy Parker
Airdate: September 2022
A bio of Dorothy Parker at the Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dorothy-parker
Dorothy Parker’s collection Enough Rope at Project Gutenberg
Line Break Shortwave Episode 18: T. S. Eliot
Airdate: September 2022
A bio of T. S. Eliot at the Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/t-s-eliot
Line Break Shortwave Episode 17: Katherine Mansfield
Airdate: August 2022
A bio of Katherine Mansfield at the Poetry Foundation Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/katherine-mansfield
“Voices from the Air” at the Poetry Foundation Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47379/voices-of-the-air
Full text of Katherine Mansfield’s Poems at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59276
Line Break Shortwave Episode 16: Holly Lyn Walrath
Airdate: August 2022
Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer, editor, and publisher. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. She is the author of several books of poetry including Glimmerglass Girl (2018), Numinose Lapidi (2020), and The Smallest of Bones (2021). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. In 2019, she launched Interstellar Flight Press, an indie SFF publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented genres and voices. As a freelance editor, she provides editing services for writers and organizations of all genres, experiences, and backgrounds, but enjoys working with new writers best. Find out more at her website: http://www.hlwalrath.com/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 14: Beatriz F. Fernandez
Airdate: August 2022
Beatriz F. Fernandez is the author of The Ocean Between Us (Backbone Press, 2017) and Shining from a Different Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2015) which she presented at the Miami Book Fair International. She has read her poetry on WLRN, South Florida’s NPR news station and was the grand prize winner of the 2nd annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Falling Star Magazine (2014 Pushcart nomination), Star*Line, Strange Horizons, Thirty West Publishing House (2017 Pushcart nomination), Fiolet & Wing: an Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry (2020 Pushcart nomination) and Mom Egg Review. Twitter: @nebula61; IG: @nebula4291 Website: www.beasbooks.blogspot.com
Line Break Shortwave Episode 15: Deborah L. Davitt
Airdate: August 2022
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her prize-winning poetry has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her prose has appeared in venues such as Analog and Galaxy's Edge. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never and Bounded by Eternity, please see www.edda-earth.com.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 13: LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Airdate July 2022
Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a Pushcart Prize, Rhysling Award, and Dwarf Stars nominee, is a member of SFPA, The British Fantasy Society, and The Dramatists Guild. Elgin Award winner "A Route Obscure and Lonely," "Concupiscent Consumption," "Women Who Were Warned," and "Messengers of the Macabre" by Nat. 1, L.L.C. [Fall 2022] are her latest poetry titles.
Up next: a tombstone-heavy collection in hardcover by Beacon Books.
She has been leading a poetry critique group for two years.
Her Texas Guinan film won "Best Feature Documentary" at N.Y. Women's Film Fest (Dec. 2021).
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https://linktr.ee/LindaAnn.LoSchiavo
Twitter: @Mae_Westside
LindaAnn Literary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
Line Break Shortwave Episode 12: Lisa Dordal
Airdate July 2022
Lisa Dordal is a Writer in Residence in the Vanderbilt University English Department and is the author of Mosaic of the Dark, which was a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, Water Lessons (April 2022), and Next Time You Come Home (forthcoming 2023), all from Black Lawrence Press.
She is a Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Robert Watson Poetry Prize, and the Betty Gabehart Poetry Prize.
Her poetry has appeared in The Sun, Narrative, Image, The New Ohio Review, Best New Poets, Greensboro Review, RHINO, Ninth Letter, and CALYX. Her website is lisadordal.com.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 11: Donna Glee Williams
Airdate July 2022
About Donna Glee Williams: "I was born in Mexico, the daughter of a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas Aggie large-animal veterinarian. I’ve been a lot of places; now, I make my home in the mountains of North Carolina, but the place I lived the longest and still call home is New Orleans. After graduating from Newcomb and Charity Hospital School of Nursing, I earned an MFA and PhD from LSU. This year, I was blessed to receive a 3-month poetry residency in Paris, during which time I was able to write by Baudelaire’s grave, walk Van Gogh’s route between Auver-sur-Oise and Pontoise, and drink a glass of Moet on the top of the Eiffel Tower. My poetry has appeared in The Bellingham Review, The New Orleans Review, The New Laurel Review, The New Delta Review, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Maple Leaf Rag, Writing from the Inside, The Beltane Papers, Mesechabe, The Fly, Star*Line, and Friends Journal. My short fiction has received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize, finalist status multiple times in Writers of the Future, Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois’s Best Science Fiction of the Year anthology, and performance onstage in Hollywood as a finalist in SCI Fest LA, as well as at the Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC. The imagined pre-industrial societies of my fantasy novels The Braided Path, Dreamers, and The Night Field owe a lot to the time I’ve spent wayfaring across 4 continents. These days I earn my crumb by helping others give birth to their own writing in workshops or through editing, private mentoring, and dreamwork, but in the past I’ve done the dance as turnabout crew (aka, “maid”) on a schooner, as a librarian, as an environmental activist, as a registered nurse , as a teacher, and for an embarrassingly long stint as a professional student."
Line Break Shortwave Episode 10: Akua Lezli Hope
Airdate June 2022
Akua Lezli Hope uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments, and peace. She wrote her first speculative poems in the sixth grade and has been in print every year, since 1974 with over 400 poems published.
Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer’s Digest book award winner), Them Gone, Otherwheres: Speculative Poetry (2021 Elgin Award winner), and Stratospherics (a micro-chapbook of scifaiku available at the Quarantine Public Library). A Cave Canem fellow, her honors include the NEA, two NYFAs, an SFPA award, and multiple Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations, among others. She has won Rattle’s Poets Respond twice. She created Speculative Sundays, an online poetry reading series.
She is the editor of the record-breaking sea-themed issue of Eye To The Telescope #42, and of NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the history-making first BIPOC speculative poetry anthology, from Sundress Publications (2021). She won a 2022 New York State Council of the Arts grant to create Afrofuturist, speculative, pastoral poetry. She is coeditor of the forthcoming anthology Speculative Cats and editor of the anthology Arboreal Dreams, both from ArtFarm Press (2023).
A third-generation New Yorker, she exhibits her artwork regularly. She sings songs from her favorite anime in Japanese, practices her soprano saxophone, and prays for the cessation of suffering for all sentience from the ancestral land of the Seneca, the Southern Finger Lakes region of New York State.
For more information about Akua Lezli Hope, visit her website: https://akualezlihope.com/
Line Break Shortwave Episode 9: Christina M. Rau
Airdate June 2022
Christina M. Rau is the author of What We Do To Make Us Whole, the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts, and two poetry chapbooks. She serves as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) and was 2020 Walt Whitman Birthplace Poet of the Year. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals. When she's not writing, she's teaching yoga or watching the Game Show Network.
Find her online at http://www.christinamrau.com and @christinmrau on all social networks.
Line Break Shortwave Episode 8: Ameen Rihani
Airdate: June 2022
A biography of Ameen Rihani at The Academy of American Poets website
Poems by Ameen Rihani read on this episode: