Uindy's Potluck Podcast

In this episode of the UIndy Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479 students Savannah Harris and Hope Coleman interview the 2020 Whirling Prize winner in prose. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize each fall to two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2020 theme was the genre of Horror, and the student judges talk with Joe Laycock who edited the winning anthology, The Penguin Book of Exorcisms. Special thanks to Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. Joseph P Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University and a co-editor of the journal Nova Religio. He is the author or editor of several books about religion, including Speak of the Devil, Spirit Possession Around the World, and The Seer of Bayside, and has written for Quartz and The New Republic. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Pod

In this episode of the UIndy Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479 students Hope Coleman, Cassi Dillon, and Imani Gilbert interview the 2020 Whirling Prize poetry winner. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize each fall to two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2020 theme was the genre of Horror, and the student judges talk with poet Laurel Radzieski, author of the winning collection, Red Mother. Special thanks to Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. Laurel Radzieski is the Grant Writer for Lackawanna College and a Teaching Artist for the Arts in Education in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She is the author of Red Mother, and her poems have appeared in Rust + Moth, Atlas and Alice, SPLASH!,and other journals. In addition, her poems have been featured on roadsides and a street sign in Wisconsin. Laurel Radzieski has presented on-

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English majors and minors Jessica Marvel, Bre Nunn, and Moira Himes interview poet Paige Lewis, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. Paige Lewis is the author of Space Struck and multiple other titles. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Best New Poets 2017, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Paige currently lives and teaches in Indiana. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Lauren Wilkinson, an English Literature and Secondary Education major, talks with guests of Communiversity, UIndy English professors Leah Milne and Rick Marshall. They discuss Ivanhoe and Milne and Marshall’s lecture “Chivalry and Romance.” Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. 2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, a book Mark Twain blamed for starting the American Civil War! To celebrate this milestone, UINDY hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Lauren Wilkinson, an English Literature and Secondary Education major with a minor in History, talks with guest of Communiversity, Jonathan Evans, a professor of Philosophy at UIndy. They discuss Ivanhoe and Evan’s lecture “Ivanhoe and Integrity.” Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. 2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, a book Mark Twain blamed for starting the American Civil War! To celebrate this milestone, UINDY hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Scienc

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Lauren Wilkinson, an English Literature and Secondary Education major with a minor in History, talks with guest of Communiversity, Samuel Baker, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas--Austin. They discuss Ivanhoe and Baker’s lecture “Ivanhoe, Scotland, and Brittan.” Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. 2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, a book Mark Twain blamed for starting the American Civil War! To celebrate this milestone, UINDY hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Professor Jen Camden talks with Dr. Jim Williams, Dr. Molly Martin, and Dr. Chad Martin about their lecture “Jews, Templars, and Saxons: Ivanhoe’s Imaginary Past.” This interdisciplinary panel of experts, guests Communiversity, a free, online class, reflect on Ivanhoe, which students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s romance together. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. Jen Camden is the Beverley J Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Professor and Associate Chair of English.  She coordinates the Communiversity course and the lecture and performance series that accompanies the course. Jim Williams is the Executive Director of the Strain Honors College and Associate P

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English majors Savannah Harris and Dakota Kennebrew interview fiction writer Maurice Broaddus, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode’s audio. Maurice Broaddus’ work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Uncanny Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include Buffalo Soldier, Pimp My Airship, and The Usual Suspects. Learn more at MauriceBroaddus.com. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen Col

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, creative writing majors Bre Nunn and Tayah Eakle interview novelist Mira T. Lee, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Landen Howell for editing this episode’s audio. Mira T. Lee’s debut novel, Everything Here is Beautiful, was selected as a Top 10 Debut by the American Booksellers Association, and named a Best Fiction title of 2018 by Amazon, O Magazine, Real Simple, and the Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. It is also the 2018 UIndy Whirling Prize winner. Lee’s stories and essays have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Tin House, Real Simple, the Southern Review, Missouri Review, and Harvard Review. Lee works as a graphic designer, and in her

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Lindsey Henderson interviews poet Jessica Rae Bergamino, winner of the 2019 Whirling Prize in Poetry, which is an annual international literary prize that recognizes books of distinction in response to a theme selected by students. The 2019 theme was Space. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast’s Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major John Miley for editing this episode’s audio. Jessica Rae Bergamino is the author of Unmanned, winner of Noemi Press’ 2017 Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbooks The Desiring Object or Voyager Two Explains to the Gathering of the Stars How She Came to Glow Among Them (Sundress Publications), The Mermaid, Singing (dancing girl press), and Blue in All Things: a Ghost Story (dancing girl publications). Individual poems have appeared in publications such as Third Coast, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, and Gulf Coast. She is a doctoral candid

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Tayah Johnson and Social Work major Tylyn Johnson interview essayist Ella Frances Saunders, winner of the 2019 Whirling Prize in Prose, which is an annual international literary prize that recognizes books of distinction in response to a theme selected by students. The 2019 theme was Space. Special thanks to English major Hope Coleman for voicing our podcast's Intro and Outro, and Music Technology major Oliver Valle for editing this episode's audio. New York Times bestselling author Ella Frances Sanders is the writer and illustrator of two previous books, Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World and The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World, which have both been translated into eight languages. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, English major Bre Nunn and Electronic Media Communications major Taylor Woods interview poet and memoirist Randall Horton, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Randall Horton is the author of the poetry collections Pitch Dark Anarchy, The Definition of Place, and The Lingua France of Ninth Street, and author of the memoir, Hook. Horton is an associate professor of English at the University of New Haven. He is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders which recently received the 2018 American Book Award in Oral Literature. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more abo

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy Finance and Professional Writing major Kara Wagoner interviews independent scholar and disability rights activist Amy Sekhar, a guest of Communiversity. They talk about The Moonstone from the perspective of disability literature. 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, a book T.S. Eliot described as “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels, in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe.” To celebrate this milestone, UINDY hosted Communiversity, a free, online class. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the broader community were invited to explore this classic detective novel. In this episode,  We thank you for listening to the UIndy Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about the Potluck Podcast and hear

In this episode of UIndy's Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, Creative Writing and Professional Writing major Shauna Sartoris interviews fiction writer John Jodzio, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings.  John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collections, Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy students Creative Writing Major Tayah Eakle, Finance and Professional Writing Major Kara Wagoner, and Professional Writing Major Sara Perkins interview the 2018 Whirling Prize winning poet. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize each fall to two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2018 theme was disability, and the student judges talk with Christine Stewart-Nuñez about her winning collection, Bluewords Greening.  Christine Stewart-Nuñez, a Professor of English at South Dakota State University, writes at the intersection of experience and research. She’s the author of four poetry books: Untrussed (University of New Mexico Press 2016), Bluewords Greening (Terrapin Books 2016), Keeping Them Alive (WordTech 2010), and Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008). Her work has appeared in Arts & Lette

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy students Creative Writing Major Jessica Marvel and Nursing Major Erin Pool interview the 2018 Whirling Prize winning novelist. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at the University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize each fall to two books that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2018 theme was disability, and the student judges talk with Mira T. Lee about her winning novel, Everything Here Is Beautiful. Mira T. Lee's work has been published in numerous quarterlies and reviews, including The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Harvard Review and Triquarterly. She was awarded an Artist's Fellowship by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2012, and has twice received special mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is a graduate of Stanford University, and currently lives with her husband and two young sons in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Everything Here Is Beaut

In this episode of the Potluck Podcast, where UIndy hosts conversations about the arts, UIndy English professor Barney Haney interviews creative nonfiction writer Angela Palm, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings.  Angela Palm is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, which won the 2014 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Short-listed for the Vermont Book Award and the Indiana Author Award/Emerging Author Award, Riverine was also noted for being an Indie Next selection, a Kirkus Best Book of 2016, and a Powerful Memoir by Powerful Women selected by Oprah. She was part of the 2018 Kellogg Writers Series’ Indiana Writers Spotlight. We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To lear