This program was supposed to air in August, but in a strange coincidence it was postponed until now. The last of the pieces was actually recorded the morning of Septmeber 11th as the buildings were being attacked. The works of these four New Hampshire writers represent to me, what would have normal?American Life? right up to that moment.
RICK AGRAN
?Cigar Box?
?Black Umbrellas?
As poet, editor, and educator, Rick explores the love of image-making in poetry and fine art. He?s taught artist to write at a variety of schools: Boston?s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, NH Institute of Art, and Heartwood College of Art. He?s also worked at New England College, UNH, and the College for Lifelong Learning.
His Poems are published in Crow Milk (oyster River Press, 1997) and in 1999 he co-edited Under the Legislature Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets. His poems have also appeared in Cimarron Review, Northern New England Review, Lowell Review, and the anthology American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). Garrison Keillor has read poems a half a dozen times from Crow Milk on The Writer?s Almanac.
Rick Agran lives on the edge of the White Mountains and teaches on the writing faculty at Plymouth State College.
ragran@mail.plymouth.edu or http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ragran
JIM COLLINS
?Beating the Cold to Katahdin?
Jim Collins has been a writer and editor at Yankee magazine for 16 years, the last one and half years serving as the magazine's editor. A former editor of Dartmouth College's alumni magazine, he has written for Outside, Reader's Digest, Glamour and other national publications. For one glorious year he worked in the White Mountains as part of the Appalachian Mountain Club's fabled trail crew. A lifelong resident of the state, he lives with his daughter Ursula and wife, Kristen Laine, in the shadow of Mount Cardigan in Orange, New Hampshire.
Email Jim Collins at whatsyourstory@nhpr.org
HOWARD MANSFIELD
Excerpt from- ?The Same Ax Twice: restoration and renewal in a throwaway age?
Writing about preservation, architecture and American history, Howard Mansfield has contributed to The New York Times, American Heritage, The Washington Post, Historic Preservation, Yankee and other publications. Mansfield has explored issues of preservation in three of his previous books, including In the Memory House.
Researching his most recent book, The Same Ax, Twice, Mansfield immersed himself deeply in the search for restoration. He traveled with Civil War re-enactors to help recreate the Battle of Antietam; he enrolled in auctioneer school to observe the endless recycling of artifacts, and he compared the process to the sterile preservation of these same objects in displays and museums; he toured 18th century houses that have been variously restored to their ?original? condition or stripped to their essence; he observed the ever-ongoing work of preserving the USS Constitution, ?Old Ironsides,? a ship
which has been replaced over the years board by board.
Howard Mansfield is on the advisory board of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College, and chair of the local Library Trustees, and an occasional guest on radio and TV shows commenting on issues of historic preservation.
To read more about Howard Mansfield and his books, visit his web page,
www.authorwire.com.
KATHERINE MIN
?The Brick?
Katherine Min teaches in the Undergraduate and graduate programs at Plymouth State College in Plymouth, N.H. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Three Penny Review and Prairie Schooner, and has been widely anthologized. One of her short stories won a Pushcart Prize in 1998: and another was listed in The Best American Short Stories 1997: and another was included on NPR?s Selected Shorts.
Katherine was awarded and NEA grant in 1992, and a New Hampshire Sate Council on the Arts fellowship in 1995. She has also been four times a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H. She lives with her family in Plymouth, N.H.
Email Katherine Min at whatsyourstory@nhpr.org
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