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Circle Anthology Poems-Susan Neville pt. 2

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city.We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at circlespark.org.

Circle Anthology Poems- Susan Neville

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city.We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at circlespark.org.

Circle Anthology Poems-Natalie Solmer

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city.We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at circlespark.org.

Circle Anthology Poems-MLH Douglas

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city.We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at circlespark.org.

Circle Anthology Poems-Brianna Pike

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city.We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at circlespark.org.

Circle Anthology Poems-Ashley Mack Jackson

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city.We paid all the poets for creating this new work that you can also read and hear at circlespark.org.

Radio Free Book Club -Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

Join the Radio Free Book Club team—novelist Dan Barden, award-winning author Susan Neville, smart reader and NFL official Steve Woods, and host Ken Honeywell for a no-holds-barred discussion of the provocative novel - Julia May Jonas' Vladimir

Radio Free Book Club is a radio show book club produced monthly at 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis. We talk about contemporary novels, with an alternating cast to book club members. Yes: There will be spoilers. We hope you’ll join us!

Dear Black Girl: A Discussion ft. Tamara Winfrey Harris

A special presentation from A public reading and discussion at The Tube Factory Artspace featuring Ta,ara Winfrey Harrisand her book "Dear Black Girl" Letters from Your Sisters About Stepping into your Power.

Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersect with race and gender. She says, “I want to tell the stories of Black women and girls, and deliver the truth to all those folks who got us twisted—tangled up in racist and sexist lies. I want my writing to advocate for my sisters. We are better than alright. We are amazing.”

Create Hear: 1000 Words’ Chris Smith and Greg Rose

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this episode Shauta Marsh sits down with Chris Smith and Greg Rose of 1000 Words.

Words and Music Episode 6: Jean Garrigue and Roger Mitchell

Words and Music on WQRT is a series of audio programs highlighting the lives and work of Indiana Writers. The series — produced by Big Car Collaborative and first heard on our FM radio station, 99.1 WQRT and streaming at wqrt.org — is made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities.

In this episode, Indianapolis-based writers Susan Neville and Jim Walker talk with poet Roger Mitchell about his deep interest in preserving the legacy of Indiana-born poet Jean Garrigue. Mitchell, now retired from Indiana University, ran the school’s MFA program. He lives in upstate New York and now spends much of his time researching and writing an in-depth exploration of Garrige’s life and work. Mitchell, the author of numerous books of poetry and a work of nonfiction himself, hopes to see this project soon become a published biography of Garrigue — someone he never met before her death in 1972.

Audio production for this episode, including music, by Jim Walker. Poetry read by Shauta Marsh.