UIndy's Potluck Podcast Etchings Press

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Desteni Guidry, Aaliyah Hughes, and Ethan Thurston interview poet Erin Belieu, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Mikayla Crider for editing this podcast.

Born in Nebraska, Erin Belieu earned an MA from Boston University and an MFA from The Ohio State University. Belieu’s work focuses on gender, love, and history, filtering wide-ranging subject matter through a variety of theoretical frameworks. She often addresses feminist issues and uses poetic conventions and street talk. Belieu is the award-winning author of many books of poetry, including Come-Hither Honeycomb; Slant Six; Black Box; One Above, One Below; Belieu coedited, with Susan Aizenberg, the anthology The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Desteni Guidry, Sierra Durbin, and Sophia Atkinson interview poet, Natasha Rao, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Mikayla Crider for editing this podcast.

Natasha Rao is a poet and educator from New Jersey. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is the author of the collection, Latitude, and her work appears in Poetry Northwest, The American Poetry Review, Narrative, The Offing, and elsewhere, and she was a finalist in Narrative’s 30 Below Contest. She is a managing editor of American Chordata and lives in Brooklyn.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Desteni Guidry, Emma Knaack, and Sophia Atkinson interview novelist Matt Bell, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Thanks to the Department of Music, Dr. Brett Leonard, and audio editing students Mikayla Crider and Jesse Wallace for editing this podcast.

Matt Bell is the author of the New York Times Notable Book Appleseed and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Desteni Guidry, Emma Knaack, and Sophia Atkinson interview writer, Elissa Washuta, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to Music Technology majors Mikayla Crider and Jesse Wallace for editing this episode’s audio.

Elissa Washuta is a Native American author from the Cowlitz people of Washington State. She is the author of White Magic, My Body Is a Book of Rules, and Starvation Mode. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. Washuta is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of the UIndy Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGLISH 479 students Sophia Atkinson, Abby Bailey, Sierra Durbin, Desteni Guidry, Sam Jackson, Alex Philips-Hedge, Ethan Thurston, and Dylan Torres interview the 2022 Whirling Prize winner. Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, awards The Whirling Prize in Prose to a book that demonstrate an excellent and compelling response to a theme selected by students. The 2022 theme was Young Adults Exploring the Mysterious, and in this podcast, the student judges have a conversation with novelist Donna Gordon, author of the winning book, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me. Special thanks to Music Technology majors Jesse Wallace and Mikayla Crider for editing this episode’s audio.

Donna Gordon is a fiction writer and visual artist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to her debut novel What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Boston Globe Magazine, Story Quarterly, and other magazines. Her work with former political prisoners culminated in “Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience,” exhibited at Harvard’s Fogg Museum.

We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, English majors, Sam Jackson, Brandon Hickey, and Olivia Cameron, interview poet Curtis Crisler, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. Special thanks to Music Technology major Jesse Wallace for editing this episode’s audio.



Curtis Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He currently teaches at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Crisler is a prolific, award-winning poet. Some of his collections that UIndy students engaged with are Tough Boy Sonatas, Black Achilles, Wonderkind, Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy, Don't Moan So Much (Stevie): A Poetry Musiquarium, "This" Ameri-can-ah, and most recently, Indiana Nocturnes, which he co-authored the collection with Kevin McKelvey. You can find his poems in many publications with a quick Internet search! Crisler has been nominated for the Eliot Rosewater Award and the Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award, and has won the Library Scholars Grant Award, the Indiana Arts Commission Grants, Eric Hoffer Award, and the Sterling Plumpp First Voices Poetry Award. 



We thank you for listening to UIndy's Potluck Podcast, which is hosted by students and faculty of the University of Indianapolis. We would like to thank our guests and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about UIndy's Potluck Podcast and hear other episodes, please visit etchings.uindy.edu/the-potluck-podcast. Thank you for your support.