Origins: The International Writing Program Podcast

About Origins: The International Writing Program Podcast

Origins: The International Writing Program Podcast is an interview series with writers from around the world addressing the origins of their creative works, the literary and social cultures in which they write, and the art of language.

Publisher

Origins: The International Writing Program Podcast

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jan 2017

Latest episode

15 Dec 2018

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Dec 2018

   Origins Episode 1: Julienne van Loon on Philosophy and Literature

   Host Christopher Merrill talks with Australian writer Julienne van Loon about her forthcoming collection of essays titled, The Thinking Woman, due out in March 2019 by NewSouth Books. Focused on six living, contemporary women thinkers, writers, and philosophers, van Loon engages with their work and their ideas on work, wonder, play, and much more. Van Loon also discusses her novel-in-progress, Instructions for a Steep Decline, and about how research can be a playful creative practice.

2. 

   15 Nov 2018

   Yoshimasu Gozo on the Embodiment of Creativity

   Host Kathleen Maris Paltrineri talks with Japanese poet Yoshimasu Gozo about literary translation and his recent collection from New Directions, titled Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo. They also discuss the relationship of touch, sound, color, and fragment in building creative worlds as well as the poet’s transcription of poet and philosopher Yoshimoto Takaaki’s poetry as a form of honoring his work.

3. 

   14 Oct 2018

   Dilman Dila on Filmmaking in Uganda

   Host Christopher Merrill talks with Ugandan science fiction writer and filmmaker Dilman Dila about his work in teaching storytelling to filmmakers. They also talk about how his disability propelled him into becoming an artist.

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