https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/writer-talks--5479840enArtsCopyright Pulse Radiohttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3edc499bf9fb55d847af7824243ca988.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/writer-talks--5479840Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:39:09 +0000Pulse RadioPulse Radiofeeds@spreaker.comAn audio series from the Messiah University English program featuring student writers - and special guests - reading and discussing their original writing in poetry and prose.cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-12-we-in-our-worship--62273092
When we lifted and levitated it, we
lost ourselves. We
opened and closed our mouths
the way we were always taught. We
killed our consonants with militaristic rhythm. We
coughed confused cacophony as we
grasped for something to hold on to. We
drowned in small but soaking streams of spotlight
and asked pardon for our past endeavors of paradise. We
lifted and levitated what we had lost:
that which lingers unanswered in our minds
that which makes us wonder if there is worth in the cost
of carrying the weight of ourselves and others
on frail shoulders and bones bent by the beat
of another year of headlines of wars
and pandemics and fires and earthquakes and
lonely students massacring other lonely students
and all the unwritten headlines hidden in our homes:
estranged sisters, and broken trust
how the church responded when a disease
sent antibodies attacking healthy brain cells,
another massacre of the innocent
because your faith was not enough
but we let loose a lark.
Lifted from wild depths like the waves
that return again and again and again to the shore
sometimes pounding, sometimes breaking,
sometimes slipping backwards
in an already-dissipating foamy tide,
we let loose a lark.
my neighbor asks does God really exist?
and moves on with his life,
like it’s a one-sided conversation
but we listen and we keep asking
until somehow from our limbs,
from our slowly dying organs
from us – we, the tossed seas –
the attempters of paradise –
we let loose a gentle lark.
While our hymnals were coffins
of limp and listless paper
somewhere in us - we let the lark loose
unfurrowed it, unbound it,
and fluttering free,
no strings clipping flight,
it left us with something
opened 
inside us.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62273092Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:00:02 +0000Pulse RadioJunior Evelyn Kelly joins Adam to discuss her Carrie A. Guhl prize winning poem! Transcript below:  When we lifted and levitated it, we lost ourselves. We opened and closed our mouths the way we were always taught. We killed our consonants with...
When we lifted and levitated it, we
lost ourselves. We
opened and closed our mouths
the way we were always taught. We
killed our consonants with militaristic rhythm. We
coughed confused cacophony as we
grasped for something to hold on to. We
drowned in small but soaking streams of spotlight
and asked pardon for our past endeavors of paradise. We
lifted and levitated what we had lost:
that which lingers unanswered in our minds
that which makes us wonder if there is worth in the cost
of carrying the weight of ourselves and others
on frail shoulders and bones bent by the beat
of another year of headlines of wars
and pandemics and fires and earthquakes and
lonely students massacring other lonely students
and all the unwritten headlines hidden in our homes:
estranged sisters, and broken trust
how the church responded when a disease
sent antibodies attacking healthy brain cells,
another massacre of the innocent
because your faith was not enough
but we let loose a lark.
Lifted from wild depths like the waves
that return again and again and again to the shore
sometimes pounding, sometimes breaking,
sometimes slipping backwards
in an already-dissipating foamy tide,
we let loose a lark.
my neighbor asks does God really exist?
and moves on with his life,
like it’s a one-sided conversation
but we listen and we keep asking
until somehow from our limbs,
from our slowly dying organs
from us – we, the tossed seas –
the attempters of paradise –
we let loose a gentle lark.
While our hymnals were coffins
of limp and listless paper
somewhere in us - we let the lark loose
unfurrowed it, unbound it,
and fluttering free,
no strings clipping flight,
it left us with something
opened 
inside us.]]>961cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-11-the-ethan-gregory-show--60047930https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60047930Wed, 15 May 2024 16:05:30 +0000Pulse RadioAdam welcomes Ethan Gregory to the studio to discuss sports writing and Ethan's new column "The Covered Bridge Cuisine"834cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-10-the-vicki-special--59585042https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59585042Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:00:05 +0000Pulse RadioAdam shares a recording of a Ted Talk style presentation by Vicki Swope where she shares her view on the work of English292cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stage-hearts--57654725https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57654725Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:30:02 +0000Pulse RadioStudent Writer Jack Swank joins Adam to discuss her Stage Hearts series905cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-new-era--56814257https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56814257Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:33:54 +0000Pulse Radio816cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lemonade--53644794https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53644794Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:00:02 +0000Pulse Radion this episode, experience a spoken word performance from Adam Carter and Nate's last episode as our host.958cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/terminally-online--53644483https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53644483Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:00:02 +0000Pulse RadioIn this episode, tune in to hear Nate and Caleb Stassel examine some of the depths of digital media.1679cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/boxing-club--52387194
*Parts of the conversation were time period specific.*]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52387194Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:59:06 +0000Pulse RadioAs promised, we'll spend time in prose. Check out Elizabeth Movinsky's Literary Nonfiction piece (recorded last semester). *Parts of the conversation were time period specific.*
*Parts of the conversation were time period specific.*]]>734cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wind-in-the-jug--52034564https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52034564Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:40:00 +0000Pulse RadioHere is an opportunity to learn about poet-potter Jack Troy's artistic philosophies.1121cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gold-washed-sky--51671516https://poets.org/2022-carrie-guhl-poetry-prize]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51671516Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:44:21 +0000Pulse RadioListen in to a discussion from Abby's Academy of American Poets' contest-winning poem. https://poets.org/2022-carrie-guhl-poetry-prizehttps://poets.org/2022-carrie-guhl-poetry-prize]]>545cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-llano-estacado--49401756https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49401756Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:28:39 +0000Pulse RadioJoin Nate for a conversation with Texas poet John Poch!1379cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-messaged-me-on-facebook-today--49090063https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49090063Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:45:38 +0000Pulse RadioSit down with host Nate and guest Nathan as he reads his poem "God Messaged Me on FaceBook Today"786cleanfull