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For writers and readers who find solace in books, poetry, and essays, Word Carver explores the craft of writing. Host Cynthia Rosi gives insights into the life and craft of working writers,...

Terry Hill has hand-sold 6,000 books outside stores and stadiums in Washington State. Terry's story shows the reader what it's like to be gi...

This episode is devoted to a little-known Columbus author, Tonya Lynette Daniels, who was brutally murdered in February 2019. In researching...

Word Carver co-host Herbert Ndecki II interviews Oprah Book Club writer Imbolo Mbue about her novel Behold the Dreamer. Both Ndeki and Mbue...

In Word Carver 40, Cynthia Rosi and co-host Herbert Ndeki II explore poetry. Ndeki reviews Ahmadou Kourouma's "Allah is not obliged to be fa...

Herbert Ndeki II, a Cameroon native and American emigre, reads poems from Aimé Césaire's work Cahier D'Un Retour and analyses the translatio...

Herbert Ndeki reviews "How to Cook Your Husband the African Way" by Calixte Beyala, and Cynthia Rosi reads the short story "The Company" whi...

Herbert Ndeki reviews "How to Cook Your Husband the African Way" by Calixte Beyala. Heather Christle reads at Paging Columbus from her poeti...

Herbert Ndeki, a native-French speaker from Cameroon, reviews authors from the African canon. Hemu Venkataraman speaks about her work as an...

Flash fiction that coils back a spring and then packs a punch -- Sherrie was into flash before it had a name. We dropped into Grammercy Book...

Amy and Cynthia analyze poems they love and gossip about the writing life.

Master writer Lee Martin takes us behind the scenes in his new short-story volume The Mutual UFO Network, a book that took 16 years to craft...

Self-publishing is easy -- if you've spent 35 years as an engineer in product development like Charles O'Donnell. The discipline and pacing...

In The Husband , Aaron Daniel Behr explores the end of his marriage and debilitating anxiety. Behr reveals the roots of trauma in his life a...

Ronald Re|Gun -- a re-animated cyborg version of the dead President -- tries to take over the world. Only a tortoise from the Galapagos has...

Dustin Pearson and Hannah Stephenson speak about their poetry collections. Pearson's "Millennial Roost" uses the metaphor of the chicken yar...

Cold weather means hot chocolate and good books, so snuggle up and listen to the top picks. From Tayari Jone's Oprah Book Club winner to the...

Poet Steve Abbott discusses his poetry volume, craft, and the acceptance of melancholy with show host Cynthia Rosi.

Poet Maggie Smith of Good Bones, essayist Hanif Abdurraqib of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and novelist Nick White of How to Surviv...

Columbus-based poet Alexis-Rueal created The Path Not Chosen event to provide an artistic alternative to stigma and silence. The poems you'l...

Columbus native Hanif Abdurraqib talks about the themes running through his latest book, a collection of essays called "They Can't Kill Us U...

Hanif Abdurraqib reads from his new book of essays They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us at the latest Paging Columbus event. This event was...

The night before Halloween, Word Carver gathered with friends, family, and fans at Kafé Kerouac, one of our beloved local haunts (pun intend...

Deeply rooted in place, Sycamore Poems follows two conversations as filigree-fine as cloisonne beads: one with the long-lived sycamores of O...

Excellent professors like Dinty W. Moore teach at three levels: at Ohio University he lectures to undergraduates and graduate students, incl...

Maggie Smith's lasting and resonant poems live up to the wide popularity of the title piece "Good Bones." Smith discusses living in the plac...

Columnist Pat Snyder Hurley talks with show host Cynthia Rosi about her forthcoming book of poetry from Night Ballet Press entitled Hard to...

Paging Columbus founder Hannah Stephenson speaks with Word Carver reporter Amy Dalrymple at the OSU Urban Art Space. Paging Columbus moves t...

How many of you feel this alienation and discomfort almost as soon as you open the screen in your cellphone, dip into social media, answer e...

Minnecojou Lakota poet Trevino Brings Plenty discusses two poems from his volume Ghost River, as well as Native culture, writing, and the pr...

Nita Sweeney writes the blog Bum Glue and puts out Write Now Newsletter a comprehensive listing of writer and reader events in central Ohio,...

Nick White talks about ex-gay ministry and gay conversion therapy in light of his first novel How to Survive a Summer with show host Cynthia...

Word Carver host Cynthia Rosi talks with poet Zoe Brigley Thompson about the ekphrastic art and poetry show hung at Ohio State University. P...

For your writing enrichment this summer, the show recommends podcasts at Writers and Company and KCRW's Bookworm . That you subscribe to CRW...

The temptation while writing spiritual memoir is to focus only on the moment of transformation. This talk explores how the dark night of the...

Recently, I spoke at the Columbus Writer's Conference hosted by Columbus State in May. Be sure to put this free conference, with snacks prov...

In February, writers from across the country gathered in Washington DC for the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing P...

Today you will hear two immigrant voices speaking about the American Dream. The event at Wild Goose Creative was sponsored by Peace Catalyst...

Today Simon Hughes reads from Diary of the One Swelling Sea by Jill McCabe Johnson, a poet who lives in the San Juan Islands in Washington S...

Today you will hear a review of the craft book "The Way of the Writer," by author Charles Johnson. Columbus author Bryan Hurt reads from his...

Today you will hear Karen McClintock whose book My Father's Closet is out from Trillium, an imprint of the Ohio University Press which speci...